What's Wrong With the Economy?

By Bill Fletcher
09/16/2016
Why are so many people unhappy and angry? Why is the electorate turning to populist candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump? Why are they so mad at the Washington D.C. establishment? What’s the problem? Perhaps the biggest problem is the low growth of the economy leading to fewer job opportunities and little or no...

TAGS: affordable care act, economy, education

Unions Have Buyers Remorse Over Affordable Care Act

By Dave Bego
06/05/2014
In last year’s blog, The Devil is in the Details: Buyer’s Remorse over Obamacare, Except for SEIU, Big Labor’s dissatisfaction with Obamacare was exposed. The exception being the SEIU, who was allowed to be the architect of the Affordable Care Act as repayment for its role in the President’s 2008 Election. There has been little written...

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Obamacare Provides Unfair Advantage to Unions

By Dave Bego
12/30/2013
Virtually unnoticed and ignored by the media is the fact that big labor benefited tremendously from the deal struck last week to avoid the “catastrophic” fiscal cliff. The President abandoned his own concept of fairness, which of course is nothing more than a hypocritical one way street, in order to reward his big labor buddies...

TAGS: affordable care act, big labor, Obamacare

Ideological Battles Divide Both of America's Major Political Parties

By Bill Frezza
12/02/2013
To our progressive friends, it seemed like a century of advocating for government-sponsored universal health care reached fruition when the Affordable Care Act became the law of the land. But triumph turned to tragedy when Progressivism’s signature accomplishment blew up on the launch pad. Not only did this make a shambles of our wounded president’s...

TAGS: affordable care act, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Obamacare, Tea Party