Editorials & Other Articles

The Great Depression may have started in 1929, but the Smoot Hawley tariff bill passed in 1930 made things far worse than they could have been. It devastated international trade and caused more job losses and factory closings.

And that was back when most US manufacturing was done here in the US, not outsourced abroad.

Right-wing lurkers should take heed. Our country’s economic policies are being dictated by a cable of economic ignoramuses headed by a con-man who’s way over his depth. Maybe you all should start looking after your own interests instead of voting for guys who want to make billionaires even richer and endorsed by Holy Joes and Praying Janies who think that the world is ending the day after tomorrow.

Even if you don’t like liberals and think that the End-timers are onto something, you and your family still need to have food on the table, clothes to wear, and shelter from winter’s blast and summer’s heat until the days, weeks, months, and YEARS until it actually DOES end.