Ray Medeiros

The Last 30 years Of Economic Growth Came Via Credit Card

The Last 30 years Of Economic Growth Came Via Credit Card

We need to tie wages to productivity again, the way it was before the conservatives started taking control of the…

11 years ago

Australia Proves Republicans Wrong With a Growing Economy and a High Minimum Wage

If the Republicans are correct and high minimum wage hurts the economy, the Australian GDP should be in a recession…

11 years ago

Jobs Report Was Good Even Though Unemployment Ticked Up

It turns out that the tick up in unemployment was merely statistical, participation didn't really increase but November and December…

11 years ago

Obama Should Appoint Scott Brown To A Position In His Administration

There has been a lot of talk about another special election in Massachusetts where Scott Brown may make a come…

11 years ago

Economic Update Before The Election Looks Good For Obama

While radical Republicans keep saying how bad the economy is, the actual numbers coming out this week tell the story…

11 years ago

The United States Is On Course To Be The World’s #1 Oil Producer In 8 Years

Despite the absolutely ridiculous Republican claims, the United States may soon be the world's largest oil producing nation, overtaking Saudi…

11 years ago

Obama’s Job Approval Jumps To Highest Point Since 2011

According to Gallup, President Obama's job approval rating has jumped to 53% since the third presidential debate. This is Obama's…

11 years ago

The Federal Deficit Will Be Cut By 40% By The End Of This Fiscal year

When President Obama took office, the federal deficit was $1.413 trillion dollars. Three years later, at the end of fiscal…

11 years ago

Gallup Poll Shows Unemployment Down To 7.3%

Gallup's 30 day moving average poll finds unemployment has dropped to 7.3%. This obviously correlates to the recent BLS numbers…

11 years ago

The Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists Who Attack Job Numbers Are Pathetic

The drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% has gotten the radicals on the right all twisted and spouting pathetic…

11 years ago

Obama’s Healthy Economic Path Would Create a Million More Jobs Than Romney 2013

Most Republicans would rather we completely forget how bad the economy was in 2008, yet have nominated someone who will…

11 years ago

Michigan’s Economy Explodes To Highest Point In A Decade

The problem for Mitt Romney and the Republicans is the reality of the economy is not fitting into the rhetoric…

11 years ago

Republicans Don’t Want The Federal Reserve To Help The Economy

The question regarding whether or not the GOP wants the economy to improve was answered today when they criticized the…

11 years ago

Lyin’ Paul Ryan Applied For Obamacare Funds To Help A Family Planning Facility

Paul Ryan has been hypocritically denouncing ObamaCare while trying to extract the benefits of it for his constituency, while also…

11 years ago

Canada Proves Conservatives Wrong by Cutting Corporate Taxes By 30% and Still No Jobs

Canada has cut corporate taxes by almost 30% in 6 years, and their economy is doing no better than that…

11 years ago

An 18 Point Swing in Economic Optimism Powers Obama Over Romney

Buried in the latest results of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is an 18 point swing in economic optimism…

11 years ago

Hey Tea Party, In 2003 Economists Predicted Our Current Deficit!

Well back in 2003, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities was concerned and they predicted perfectly that due to…

11 years ago

The Tea Party Doesn’t Care About Obama

The tea party may enable an Obama win. They just do not care about the presidency this time around, and…

11 years ago

Obama Passes Promises Kept Scorecard With Flying Colors

PolitiFact has just issued their Obama Scorecard and Obama is passing with flying colors, with 74% of his promises listed…

11 years ago

Adidas Closes Their Chinese Plant As Workers Demand A Raise

Chinese workers at Adidas' wholly owned plant are shocked. The German company is closing its doors forever, because workers demanded…

11 years ago

Wall Street Journal And AEI Throw The Tea Party And GOP Under The Economic Bus

Remember when President Obama said the private sector is doing fine, and all the conservatives poked at that comment? Well,…

11 years ago

Over 100 US House Democrats Propose Raising Minimum Wage To $9.80 An Hour

Do you hear it? I do, it's the shrieks of horror by the House GOP, Boehner and Cantor! How dare…

11 years ago

Republicans are Using the Poverty They Created Against Obama

How stupid do Republicans think Americans are? You can not blame President Obama for rising poverty, that is just stupid.…

11 years ago

Workers At Bain Owned Plant Plead With Romney To Step In To Save Their Jobs

As a candidate for president Mitt Romney can step in and use his bully pulpit to stop this recent outsourcing…

11 years ago

Romney Might Release Tax Returns After The Republican Convention

Once Republicans are stuck with him as their nominee, Mitt Romney may decide to release more years of tax returns.

11 years ago

Romney Privatized The Gains and Socialized The Losses of Bain Capital

Republicans love socialism, as does big business, but they only love socialism that helps them, not the little people that…

11 years ago

New Documents Show Romney’s Bain Lies are Piling Up Sky High

Romney is hiding something. He doesn't want to release his tax returns and he seems to be not telling the…

11 years ago

Republican’s Latest ‘Outsourcing’ Attack Against Obama Fails And Dies

The Republican Party has crashed and burned as their attempt to use outsourcing jobs against Obama has miserably failed.

11 years ago

Jobs Hypocrite Romney in 2006: It takes Awhile To Get Things Turned Around

What Romney said in 2006 is completely different than what he is saying about the economy in 2012.

11 years ago

Like A Good Progressive, Obama Sues China Regarding Trade On Autos

President Obama is once again taking on bad trade practices of China.

11 years ago

ObamaCare Gives $1.1 Billion in Cash Back to the American People

Hidden behind the right's propaganda about a massive tax hike is the fact that Obamacare is forcing insurance companies issues…

11 years ago

Oil Prices Are Dropping Thanks To President Obama

Since April oil prices are down 21% and it mostly, if not all has to do with President Obama's policy…

11 years ago

States With No Income Taxes Are Not Economically Better Than Those With High Income Taxes

There goes one of the BIGGEST economic talking points the Right has. A new report has concluded that states with…

11 years ago

GOP Reality Check: Reagan Added Public Sector Jobs During a Recession

This is a huge reason for the stubborn unemployment! President Obama doesn't have the benefit of adding public workers to…

11 years ago

Americans Are Getting Screwed Out of the Fruits of Their Labor

From 1977 -2007, 89% of income growth has been kept by the top 10%. That leaves only 11% for the…

11 years ago

Over 75% Of Americans Want New Healthcare Reform If SCOTUS Strikes Down ObamaCare

A new poll found more than three-fourths of Americans do not want their political leaders to leave the health care…

11 years ago

Republicans Wrong Again: Over 50% Of Small Businesses Want To Keep ObamaCare

Contrary to what Republicans say, only 30% of small businesses want the healthcare law overturned while 50% want it to…

11 years ago

I Like To Fire People: Romney Made $20,000 For Every Worker He Laid Off

Mitt Romney has profited handsomely by laying off people for his own personal gain. In fact he made, $20,000 per…

11 years ago

If Obama is Bad for Business Why Are Foreign Investors Flocking To The United States?

If President Obama is so bad for business, why are foreign investors be coming to the United States to invest…

12 years ago

Jeb Bush Tells It Like It Is, ‘Reagan Would Not Win In Today’s GOP’

Jeb Bush has stated the obvious. Due to his record of raising taxes and bipartisanship, Ronald Reagan could never survive…

12 years ago

The Slow Recovery Is Due To Americans Paying Down Personal Debt

Once the American people feel more comfortable with their personal debt level, the economy will begin to take off. They…

12 years ago

President Obama Shows America The GOP Economic Plan Doesn’t Work

Just to prove a point, President Obama may have just opened the Republican economic plan to ridicule during this campaign…

12 years ago

In 1994 Romney Praised His Mom For Championing Abortion Rights Before Roe v Wade

In 1994 Romney praised his mother for running for U.S. Senate well before Roe V. Wade. She was championing the…

12 years ago

Two Glimmers Of Hope In the Dismal Jobs Report

The May jobs report was absolutely deplorable, but here are some signs of hope and that is in healthcare, which…

12 years ago

The Real Job Creator: Obama Nearly Doubles Bush’s Jobs Numbers

Facts are not on the conservatives' side, as the numbers reveal that Obama has created nearly double the amount of…

12 years ago

Obama Is The Most Fiscally Responsible President In a Generation

Obama is slowing the growth in spending better than any other President in 60 years! The federal budget has grown…

12 years ago

Right Proven Wrong: Lack of Consumer Demand Not Regulations Causing Slow Growth

In a business survey, over 51% of businesses say lack of growth in sales is restraining their hiring, while taxes…

12 years ago

Fellow Businessmen Prefer Obama Over Romney On the Economy

Even Mitt Romney's fellow businessmen aren't buying the kind of economic leadership that he's selling.

12 years ago

Banksters Are Stifling Manufacturing’s U.S. Comeback

Manufacturing companies based in the United States are realizing an increase in demand for their products and want to expand,…

12 years ago

Hypocrite Mitt Romney Created Prosperity Through Debt

Republicans have told the American people that you can not create prosperity by going into debt. The problem with their…

12 years ago

March Can’t Stop Obama From Trouncing Bush In Job Growth

Bottom line is when comparing jobs numbers in the first terms President Obama beats President Bush by approximately 700,000 jobs.

12 years ago

According To American Executives China Is More Regulated Than the US

Before 2007, American corporations left the United States and relocated to higher tax and higher regulated countries. This proves that…

12 years ago

A Rebuttal To Stupid Republicans Who Believe Obama Halted Domestic Oil Production

The right wants you to believe that Obama has halted domestic oil production, but the truth Obama production levels have…

12 years ago

Slam Dunk: U.S. Employment Numbers Explode

The long awaited job numbers came out today and exceeded expectations! Total non-farm employment increased by 227,000. The biggest kicker…

12 years ago

Unions Betray Their Economic Self-Interest By Supporting Brown Over Elizabeth Warren

There was a time when union members voted in their own economic self-interest. Unfortunately, this seems to be changing in…

12 years ago

Get Ready For A Huge Obama Backed Manufacturing Surge

If the country continues on Obama's path of investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, it is expected that economy recovery will…

12 years ago

New Hampshire GOP’s War On Lunch Breaks Shows Why We Need Unions

For those of you who believe that unions are no longer needed, take a look at the proposal by New…

12 years ago

Obama Is Presiding Over The Fastest 6 Month Drop In Unemployment Since 1984

As jobs continue to be added to the economy, President Obama is presiding over the fastest six month decrease in…

12 years ago

Democracy On Life Support: How Citizens United Won Florida For Mitt Romney

Thanks to Citizens United, Mitt Romney was able to buy a victory in Florida, instead of winning it.

12 years ago

USA! Industrial Companies Are Confident In Obama And The Economy

In a shot across the bow of the Republicans' attempt to deem President Obama ineffective, US industrial companies have increased…

12 years ago

Unconventional Wisdom: Gingrich Is More Dangerous To Obama Than Romney

The conventional wisdom is a Romney nomination would give President Obama a run, while a Gingrich candidacy would ensure an…

12 years ago

What The Hell Happened To The Republican Party?

In 1956 the GOP ran a campaign based on extending Social Security, unemployment benefits, increasing the minimum wage. What the…

12 years ago

Setting The Record Straight: Correcting The GOP Lies About Obama’s Oil Record

We have all heard the lie, that President Obama is the worst domestic energy President ever. Unfortunately, the facts have…

12 years ago

Unlike Ronald Reagan Obama Doesn’t Use Government Hiring To Create Jobs

If the public sector was hiring as it did under Reagan, unemployment may be 8% or less today, rather than…

12 years ago

GOP Proven Wrong Again As ObamaCare Created 23,000 Jobs In December

Obamacare continues to prove the GOP wrong by creating jobs. In December, 23,000 private sector healthcare jobs were added to…

12 years ago

ObamaCare’s Hidden Trigger Paves The Way For Single Payer

A hidden trigger in ObamaCare may very well pave the road to single payer health insurance system or Medicare for…

12 years ago

Drilling The Big GOP Lie: The US Exports More Gasoline Than It Imports

The GOP claims more drilling will achieve energy independence, but for the first time in 50 years, the US exported…

12 years ago