About Jim Vogas
Texas A&M Aggie, Retired aerospace engineer, former union member, Vietnam vet, Demcratic Party organizer, husband and father.
The Superrich Have Grabbed Nearly Everything While Many Suffer – As seen in the graph below, the top 1% of earners are doing just great, the top 20 % are doing OK, and everyone else is losing ground. [more … Continue reading →
Yes, there are so many Bad Deeds that it took two installments today. Law Firm for U. S. Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America Planned Dirty-Tricks Campaign Against Journalists and Unions – Two weeks ago, 71,000 emails created … Continue reading →
Wisconsin Governor Uses Middle-East Tactics; Blocks Website – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker partially blocked a left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally protesters as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol. The website, www.defendwisconsin.org could not be accessed in … Continue reading →
Wisconsin Governor’s Plan Allows for the Selling of Energy Assets With No Bids – The fight in Wisconsin is over Governor Walker’s 144-page Budget Repair Bill. The parts everyone is focusing on have to do with the right to … Continue reading →
Congress Says They Want to Reduce the Deficit, But They Keep Funding Military Programs That the Pentagon Doesn’t Want – With deficit hawks looking for spending areas to cut, the Airborne Laser would appear to be an easy target. … Continue reading →
Republicans Trying to Make Legal Representation Available Only to the Rich – The Republican party’s “Spending Reduction Act of 2011” includes elimination of the Legal Services Corporation. The Congress of the United States authorized the Legal Services Corporation Act, … Continue reading →
Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan, but Not for Us – Ronald Reagan made big government bigger; he never submitted a balanced budget; and his deficits piled up more government debt than in all the United States’ prior history, due precisely … Continue reading →
No Money for Texas Teachers; Plenty for Football – A $60 million football stadium is being built at Allen High School, near Dallas, Texas. Residents voted 63 percent in favor of a bond issue in May 2009. This is … Continue reading →
A Simple Fact: Dangerous People Can Easily Get Guns – Two weeks after the tragic shootings in Tucson, undercover investigators went to a gun show in Phoenix, Arizona and purchased guns – no background check, no questions asked. In … Continue reading →
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Lies About Use of Nazi References on Fox News – Fox News’ Megyn Kelly claimed last week that her network doesn’t use Nazi references. Since that’s just flat out wrong, the ball was in Jon … Continue reading →
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