Today is International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is Choose To Challenge – A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create …
Tag: Economics
Mar 23 2020
Krugman: Say NO To Corporate Slush Fund
New York Times Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman has a lengthily tweet thread slamming the corporate “slush fund” that Republicans are pushing in the two trillion dollar bail out bill. First, beware analogies with 2008. There are some parallels, but this time the epicenter of crisis is NOT in the financial sector — and the …
Mar 08 2020
International Women’s Day 2020
Today is International Women’s Day with thei year’s theme of “Each for Equal.” The campaign isn’t just one day but runs all year providing a unified direction to guide and galvanize continuous collective action. An equal world is an enabled world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every …
Mar 08 2018
International Women’s Day 2018
On March 8 in 1911, International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. It is a major day of global celebration …
May 03 2017
Please define what a good government shutdown means?
Little Donnie got his feefees hurt by Democrats. The spending bill that will fund government until December was a loss for him, or at least that’s what he heard the other morning on Fox and Friends. So Donnie went on a Twitter tear, threatening to shut down the government if he doesn’t get his way. …
Apr 26 2017
Groundhog Day
“Groundhog Day,” one of ek hornbeck’s favorite movies, is about a man caught in a time loop doomed to repeat the same day over and over until he examines his life and changes. Like Bill Murray’s character in the movie the US seems to be unable to move on from the bad tax policies that …
Mar 08 2017
International Women’s Day March 8, 2017
On March 8 in 1911, International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. It is a major day of global celebration …
Nov 22 2016
The Insanity Will Continue
The majority who didn’t vote for the psychopathic narcissist are going to have to sit through another round of voodoo economics, also known as trickle down economics. From one of my favorite reality based news sites, The F@#*king News. GOP Readies Sweeping Jobs Plan To Create Millions of New, Angry Trump Voters By Sweeping Away …
Apr 14 2016
Who Needs Panama When We Have Delaware
The recent release of the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million confidential documents exposing the hidden wealth of world leaders, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, has caused little ripple here in the US. Why? Well, who needs Panama when America’s wealthy have Delaware. States like Delaware and Nevada have …
Apr 12 2016
The Three Digit Number That Can Destroy Your Life
Credit Reports can be a boon or a bane for someone looking to get a job, buy a car or a house. It’s three numbers that effect your life and the government has made sure that you have free access at least once a year to check it, especially for errors. When an error on …
Mar 08 2016
International Women’s Day March 8, 2016
On March 8 in 1911, International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. It is a major day of global celebration …
Sep 30 2015
Elizabeth Warren Said What We Needed To Hear
In an address at Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, established by her late predecessor, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) got to the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement and what everyone should be doing to end racial inequality.
Transcript for the speech as it was written can be read here