I get it. You're really really angry. The white working class is having a hard time. The white middle class is contracting. The white working poor are slipping even further into crushing poverty. We know this because rates of suicide, drug addiction and alcoholism are up all ...read more
You may have missed it among the tweets and various scandals, but the Trump administration has featured a series of "theme weeks" to highlight various parts of the White House agenda. Past weeks, featuring things like infrastructure and energy, have largely been disasters, and ...read more
Barack Obama took office in January 2009 amidst one of the greatest economic challenges the country had faced since the Great Depression. He and what would be a short-lived Democratic majority in Congress went to work to try and get things back on track, passing a stimulus bill ...read more
Donald Trump came into office promising to bring back jobs to America. But so far neither he nor the Republican Congress has done anything about jobs other than talk about them. When job growth in February exceeded expectations Trump was quick to take credit. In March the jobs ...read more
Ford Motor Company announced on Tuesday that they are cancelling plans to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in Mexico. Instead, the company says it will invest some $700 million to expand a plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Small car production will still move south of the border, ...read more
There's a small but distinct difference between a magician and a con man. Both seek to distract while performing a sleight-of-hand-type move. But while a magician does it to entertain, a con man performs his trickery for personal gain. Many of his followers might consider ...read more
One of the cornerstone promises made by president-elect Donald Trump during the campaign was the return of American jobs. Trump pitched his hardline stance on immigration to audiences of working class Americans with the notion that undocumented workers are taking jobs that ...read more
Given we're heading into the Republican presidential debate this Thursday and Donald Trump is the leading candidate in the field, the media is pretty much obligated to cover him whether we like it or not. Regardless of his idiocy, Trump is the man to beat so both Republicans and ...read more
On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest mortifying statistics on President Barack Hussein Obama's war on jobs, which showed that in February, the unemployment rate ticked down to 5.5 percent, while the economy added 295,000 jobs. Even with the jobs ...read more
Here's a fantastic example of how Fox News Channel operates. The Department of Labor released the January jobs numbers, showing a slight uptick in unemployment from 5.6 percent to 5.7 percent; 257,000 jobs were added, topping estimates; and wages increased a notch. The overall ...read more
(Cartoon: IBD, Michael Ramirez) By now you're probably aware of the fact that many of America's best-known fast food corporations are owned and operated by Christian conservatives. In and of itself, fine. But since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka. "Obamacare," the ...read more
Unless you enjoy looking really stupid, you can't logically blame the president for the $1.4 trillion deficit in 2009 and then refuse to give him credit for reducing the deficit to $500 billion at the end of this year. Likewise, you can't shout, "Where are the jobs, Mr. ...read more
There really is nothing like watching a tweet, hashtag or meme get hijacked by the very people it was intended to challenge. Thus, we get this to bring us a little amusement at the end of the day: a tweet from John Boehner that he, or his people, probably now wish had never been ...read more
“In the 80’s I saw what was happening with money. I was watching it shift very quickly. I was watching the middle class go away, and I was a twenty-three year old maniac but I got it. That’s when I realized you better get Plan A,B,C,D,E,F, and G otherwise you’re gonna starve ...read more
In South Carolina on Monday, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) called on the unemployed to "step up" and get themselves into the work force. Telling an audience in Charleston that those without jobs are kept unproductive by Obama because "we have become a dependency state," King ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab from Huff Post: Despite constant budget fights in Washington, the U.S. economy managed one of the best months for job gains in the past year in February, driving the unemployment rate to its lowest level in more than four years. But the job ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post: The U.S. House of Representatives will convene on Sunday in a last-minute effort to avoid the steep spending cuts and tax cuts scheduled to take effect at the end of the year. But Sunday will already be too late for long-term ...read more
By Bob Cesca: The formerly hilarious comedian and satirist Dennis Miller endorsed and stumped for Mitt Romney at a rally in Virginia yesterday. I have to say, even though Miller flipped to the dark side long ago and, as such, ceased to be funny, the guy can still put together an ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From The AP: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years and giving President Barack Obama a potential boost with the election a month away. The ...read more
