Obama’s Mexican Payoff

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  April 9th at 11:00 AM  | 

Fresh on the heels of his appearance at the G-20, Barack Obama next week ventures to Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas. Prior to that he’ll stop in Mexico to try to improve damaged relations with that country. As I’ve written elsewhere, Obama triggered a low-level trade war when he kowtowed to the Teamsters and canceled the program that formerly allowed some | Read More »

The UAW & ‘Shared Sacrifice’

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  March 30th at 04:49 PM  | 

Former RSer Pat Cleary has been checking up on the United Auto Workers and has some thoughts on the need for shared sacrifice. He also observes that the UAW no longer seems so proud of the great deal it got for its members in 2007; in fact, they’ve sent their press release down the memory hole: So 6 months ago we moseyed on over to | Read More »