"The Middle Class anchored to the Bottom!" (the new) "What Now Cartoon"

In 1974 the steady rise of American workers wages that had been underway since the end of WWII. Twenty five years of prosperity suddenly came to a screeching hault.  No one realized it then, but that was just the beginning of a 40 year slump that sadly is still underway.  Globalization, the decline of unions, consolidation leading to an age of monopolies we have not seen since 1929 have contributed to this Middle Class decline.  At the same time the fortunes of the 15 have taken a sharply different upward turn. Are the forces of Globalization inevitably going to raise the incomes of the few and depress the incomes of the many?

We need a new vibrant Union Movement, before it's too late.

"Fair Trade, Not Free Trade!" ( A Labor Day ) " What Now Cartoon"

CEO Pay Now Exceeds Pre-Recession Levels, Like The Crash Never Happened

"Corporations Are sitting on a Mountain of Cash and Not Hiring!"

How would you like to pay only a quarter of the real estate taxes you owe on your home? And buy everything for the next 10 years without spending a single penny in sales tax? Keep a chunk of your paycheck free of income taxes? Have the city in which you live lend you money at rates cheaper than any bank charges? Then have the same city install free water and sewer lines to your house, offer you a perpetual discount on utility bills--and top it all off by landscape your front yard at no charge?  Fat chance. You can't get any of that, of course. But if you live almost anywhere in America, all around you are taxpayers getting deals like this. These taxpayers are called corporations, and their deals are usually trumpeted as "economic development" or "public-private partnerships." But a better name is corporate welfare. It's a game in which governments large and small subsidize corporations large and small, usually at the expense of another state or town and almost always at the expense of individual and other corporate taxpayers.

"Reversing 70 years of labor Gains!"

It's A class war economy, there's a shocking transfer of wealth out of the pockets of working people and the poor and into the overstuffed bank accounts of the super-rich.   And it's happening side-by-side with falling wages, sinking family income, evaporating pensions, forclosures and a failing health-care system.

im Bunning Repeatedly Blocks Unemployment Benefits Extension, Tells Dem 'Tough Shit'

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits

Turning Bombs into High Speed Rail?"

President Obama wants to bulk up high-speed rail, and scale down defense spending. FDR converted peace-time manufacturers into a dominating wartime production system. Why can't President Obama make the bold move to convert our defense contractors into builders of our peacetime future?

"We Want To Get Back To Work Mr. President!

 America needs jobs. Our nation was built on the muscle of manufacturing.  Before all this outsourcing  we were  an industrial giant of the world, where jobs were available to those who wanted to work.  The future of the economy depends on a working America, and the people want their voices heard. We must return to a country where our focus is once again on industry, and begin to build not only the economy, but morale. The only way to do that is by putting people back to work.