Volkswagen

My Evolving Disenchantment with Capitalism

Like many undergraduate students who came from a working class background I went through a stage wherein I adopted many of the values espoused by my “left” leaning professors. I have to admit I was also profoundly influenced by a book titled Sweden: the Middle Way by Marquis Childs that was touted to be the way of the future by many leading intellectuals in the academic world.

For How Long Should Volkswagen Be Barred From Doing Business In America?

When Trump mentioned that he thought grasping, greed-driven hedge-fund managers and banksters should pay their fair share of taxes, the grasping, greed-driven hedge-fund managers and banksters doubled down on sabotaging his campaign. They are getting slime-ball lobbyists, like  Grover Norquist  and the Club for Growth, to "work on" the congressmembers the banksters own or rent.

That UAW Defeat Wasn’t as Bad as It Looked

By now everyone has heard the disappointing news (among the adjectives used to describe it are “devastating” and “disastrous” and “crushing”) out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where workers at a Volkswagen plant voted, by a margin of 712-626, to reject membership in the United Auto Workers (UAW).  Volkswagen management remained neutral throughout the organizing campaign.