Tag: politics
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/08 ‘Despite the GOP’s ideological claptrap about corporate executives being “job creators,” it’s ordinary Americans who actually create jobs.’ See this Amp at http://bit.ly/nUhfE9
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via i.imgur.com Sounds about right …. via Reddit Politics
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via thinkprogress.org The bottom line is that the United States continues to run 2+ wars and be policemen to the world while conservatives insist that we must not have millionaires spend a dollar more in taxes to pay for any of that. At the same time, the real long-term threat…
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via commons.wikimedia.org Reagan had been backed by Wall Street in his run for the White House and they, along with right-wing Christians, wanted to restructure America and turn back the tide that President Franklin D. Roosevelt started — a tide that was intended to make life better for the average…
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via democracynow.org Many of the toughest sentencing laws responsible for the explosion of the U.S. prison population were drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which helps corporations write model legislation. Now a new exposé reveals ALEC has paved the way for states and corporations to replace unionized workers with…
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via theatlantic.com Any discussion of the causes of America’s public-debt problems, or any discussion of the solutions to it, that is “spending only,” and excludes the role of revenues — for instance, the discussion that raged through Congress last week — is a pointless and unrealistic discussion. It is historically…
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http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/?layout=&playlist_cid=&media_type=video&content=6BFSG00KK3KWVG48&read_more=1&widget_type_cid=svp In Bill Maher’s final New Rule of the night, he suggested that if tea partiers get to control the Republican party and act like hostage negotiators, the Democrats should have their own branch party that would be just as ridiculously partisan as the tea party, because the only thing…
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Making More, Contributing Less Millionaires’ Tax Rates Have Declined While Everyone Else Contributes to Deficit Reduction SOURCE: iStockphoto The final budget deal struck this week won’t ask America’s millionaires to contribute a single dime. That’s unfortunate because they certainly can afford it. Not only have their incomes been skyrocketing but…
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If It’s August, The Tea Party Wants To Take Away Your Health Care In August of 2009, the Tea Party tried to run the health care bill off the rails. Flash forward two years and the Tea Party is at it again, but this time they are dead set on pushing…
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With the debt limit bill complete, Washington is now turning its focus to job creation. This issue is expected to heighten even further when a leading government agency that measures the nation’s employment statistics releases its monthly jobs report tomorrow. 1st collector for Washington Turns its Attention to Job Creation…
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http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=300872-1 With the debt limit bill complete, Washington is now turning its focus to job creation. This issue is expected to heighten even further when a leading government agency that measures the nation’s employment statistics releases its monthly jobs report tomorrow. Shortly after the Senate passed a bill on Tuesday,…
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With the wealthy, Big Oil, and other corporations asked to contribute nothing in the first round of the austerity plan President Obama signed today to avoid a catastrophic default on our nation’s obligations, there is little for progressives to celebrate. At the same time, the deal sets up a new “super committee” to identify…
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URL: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HouseSessionPart270/… Why are the majority of Democrats seemingly the only sane people in congress (with the exception of a few Senate Republicans)? This is no way to run a country. Instant runoff voting in elections and a parliamentary congressional system would help, I think. See this Amp at http://cs.pn/qm1SMt
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