Living On the Diagonal

Senator Bernie Sanders (D) Vermont along with nine other co-sponsors in Congress has introduced legislation to end the constant attacks by the Republican Presidential Candidates to either offer sweeping changes or an end to the "solemn promise" to the American Public of the retirement safety net that 94% of American workers have contributed and through years of 30, 40 years or more of their income into the program. They have earned it! This is not a handout or Federal Welfare to the American worker but one that finds its birth in reaction by FDR to counter the fact that at lest 40% of aging workers did not have a retirement plan or pension. Please support the "Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act." One of the most significant change will affect the top personal income earners that will erase the $106,800 cap on Social Security contributions. Should this rather simple action is enacted, the additional revenue generated by the top 6% of wage earners will giv

The President stood tall before an audience with eyes filled with skepticism and disdain from the Republican side of the aisle.  He remained calm, focused and firm as he laid out a real jobs plan.  The delivery some perceive may define this, his first term in office.  President Obama presented to a gridlocked Congress The American Jobs Act . It is one history may describe as a “Moment Speech.”  Few presidents rarely face this magnitude of crisis, urgency and challenge.  I listened more intently than watched.  In a matter of moments the tone and strength of his voice I easily came to visualize his address more like that of a Heavyweight Championship Fight!  Here is the Commander-in-Chief executing with decisive precision a surgical strike, targeted toward many Republican  and Tea Party  members. Often in the past, he has been labeled as indecisive.  However, the President with the same bold resolve in taking it to Osama Bin Lade now was prepared to take on the enemy of opposing po

Detroit, September 5, 2011 Today marks the celebration of a National recognition of the working class of men and women who built the strength our economy, the standard of living we enjoy and the sacrifices of those who fought for the established Labor Unions we have come to know over several decades. Nowhere is Labor Day celebrated by working class Americans than the City of Detroit.  Further, nowhere has more blood been shed to first reform the unfair and dangerous practices of the corporations of the period of 1940 until the present day. Organized labor has over the years established the standard 40 hours work week, payment of overtime, elimination of inherent dangers sanctioned or ignored by employers. Unfortunately, most of those who followed the "Greatest Generation" of Americans, from the Baby Boomers through the newest generation of those children who came of age after that horrible day of 9/11/01.  Most treat Labor Day as another holiday, free from a grueling day