Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

What Clinton wants is to enforce trade policy, she wants to triple the number of trade enforcement officers, which will really matter in trying to level the playing field with South Korea and China and other countries that don't play it straight.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

First of all, a president of the United States can't unilaterally impose a tariff on another country. It takes an act of Congress, and that would never pass Congress. But that's not the way to fix trade policy, to do unilateral tariffs on other countries.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.