The next short paragraph at the bottom of the 14th Amendment states that Congress shall have the power to enforce the amendment. Our Founding Fathers never thought that Congress itself would take leave of their minds and play chicken with the future of the American people. The Constitution was...
Here's a fact for your useless information file: Ronald Reagan is the only US president in modern times not to have raised the minimum wage. It stayed at $3.35 throughout his eight year presidency. He did however manage to decrease the top marginal tax rate to 28%. We've been paying for it...
Our country has been commiting slow-motion economic suicide for twenty- five years. It's pointless to blame Obama. He is irrelevant to what is happening now. Our unemployment rate stays stubbornly high because our economic problems are systemic and permanent. The politicians, regardless of...
To: Wry Catcher
I'm not sure that the Republicans are deliberately trying to sabotage our economic recovery. It's more likely that they just don't care. People making less than $100K a year, which is most of us, don't contribute much to their reelection campaigns. The GOP has always...