Articles and Writings: George W. Bush and the attack on jobs, wages, healthcare, social security, pensions, and civil liberties.

Jack Rasmus, copyright 2008
Explains the origins of the current financial crisis from the subprime mortgage collapse through the end of 2007 and its spread to other credit markets. Compares the present financial crisis with events of the 1920s and 1930s and explains how the present crisis is increasingly more like those events than like less severe financial instability during the 1980s and 1990s.

Jack Rasmus, copyright 2008
Continues the analysis of the origins, consequences and evolution of the financial crisis from January 2008 through March, and explains how the crisis and massive credit contraction is leading to the deepest and longest recession in the U.S. since the 1930s.

Jack Rasmus, copyright 2007
How the big three auto companies are dumping their health care funds and $50 billion of liabilities on the autoworkers and their union–the new ‘pattern’ for health care benefit negotiations in the U.S. and the final chapter in employer-negotiated health care insurance.

Jack Rasmus, copyright 2007
Traces the history of the rise and fall of employer provided health insurance plans in the U.S. from the late 1940s to the present

Jack Rasmus, copyright 2007
How to finance $1.6 trillion a year to pay for universal health care, by eliminating insurance companies and middlemen, restoring the tax system to pre-1980 levels, and cutting the payroll tax for social security by 7.7% and taxing capital incomes

Jack Rasmus copyright 2007
‘Z’ Magazine, February (Part 1), April (Part 2), May (Part 3) 2007

How more than a $trillion a year is now being shifted from 90 million working/middle class families in America today to the wealthiest 1% households and corporations, as a result of two decades of corporate-government policies radically restructuring jobs, tax system, free trade, health benefits, pensions, social security and other policies. How income distribution in the U.S. is now super concentrated at ‘the top’ and back where it was in 1929 on the eve of the Great Depression.

Jack Rasmus copyright 2006
‘Z’ Magazine, December 2006

How 44 million workers in America now no longer have regular full time permanent jobs; how nearly 60 million or roughly 40% of the work force are either unemployed, part time employed, temporary or contract labor, and how this radical structural change in job markets in the U.S., driven by corporate America, is behind stagnating hourly wages and tens of million uninsured.

Jack Rasmus copyright 2006
“Z” Magazine, October 2006

How the Pension Act of 2006, U.S. court, and Government Agencies together are working to bring about a collapse of defined benefit pensions that will require a massive taxpayer bailout of a $1 trillion in the next two years.

copyright 2006 by Jack Rasmus
‘Z’ Magazine, July-August 2006

A new structural proposal for reunifying the AFL-CIO and Change To Win unions that creates a new union membership concept and closer integration between labor and community allies.

copyright 2006 by Jack Rasmus
‘Z’ Magazine, April 2006

How corporate managers in America raised their pay from 35 times to 500 times the average pay of the average worker in their company between 1980 and 2005, a 350% increase, while 100 million American workers got a 1.2 cents per hour per year raise the past 25 years.

copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
ILWU ‘Dispatcher’ October 2005

About to pass Congress, Bush’s latest proposed cuts in Estate Taxes for the wealthiest 1% will mean another $700 billion minimum handout for the rich

coyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
‘Z’ Magazine, November 2005

After $4 trillion in tax cuts for the rich in his first term, Bush continues to beat the drum for $trillions more for the wealthy with a radical restructuring of the entire tax code

copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus

Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans laid bare the growing class divisions in America. In its wake, Corporate America is poised to reap super-profits in the aftermath.

copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
‘Z’ Magazine, September 2005

What are the real organizational causes of the recent split in the AFL-CIO?

“CAFTA and THE LEGACY of FREE TRADE”
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
“Z” Magazine, July 2005

This past April debate began in Congress on the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. Currently pro-Free Trade forces, notably …

“CRASH LANDING: United Airlines Ditching of its Pensions
May Well Precipitate a National Crisis“
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
“In These Times” Magazine, June 2005

On May 10, 2005 a federal court announced United Airlines could pocket $3.2 …

“UNITED AIRLINES’ PENSIONS GO BUST”
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
The ILWU “Dispatcher", May 2005

On May 10, 2005 a federal court announced United Airlines could pocket $3.2 billion of contributions it owed its 134,000 workers’ pension plans, …

“WHO BENEFITS–THE BIG WINNERS
OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS”
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
“In These Times” Magazine, March 2005

George W. Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security has nothing to do with enhancing workers’ retirement income. Rather, …

“MEDICAL MT. ST. HELENS: HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN AMERICA”
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
“Z” Magazine, March 2005

In America, the richest county in the world, millions of workers and their children face the human and economic …

“STEALING SOCIAL SECURITY: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE”
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
“Z” Magazine, December, 2004

With Bush’s recent election victory, privatizing Social Security is once again on the agenda—in fact high on the agenda! If not …

“THE ROAD BACK TO 1929”
copyright 2005 by Jack Rasmus
“Z” Magazine, November, 2004

For the first time since 1929, more jobs were lost than created under a sitting President. Officially, more than a million jobs disappeared …