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The BowlesSimpson Medicine Show Is Back in Town
When millions of dollars are being pumped into Washington by anti-government and anti-tax ideologues, you're bound to find Democrats willing to play along. And when your Washington press corps can't be bothered to get even the smallest details right - well, that must mean the Bowles/Simpson Medicine Show is back in town.
It's here, folks. Journalists are still cooing over a failed proposal they're calling "moderate" and "centrist," based on the radical and unpopular plan put forward by two individuals named Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.
Another budget, one that's both economically sound and more politically popular, was summarily dismissed by the same media as 'partisan' and extreme.
Another Homerun for the Walloping Wealthy
Behind this week’s record-smashing $2 billion-plus sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich
Progressive Budget Voted Down But The Fight Continues
The Progressive Caucus Budget for All, the embodiment of the progressive vision for rebuilding the economy, was voted down overwhelmingly on the House floor Thursday.
The 1% Strike Back
In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1 percent of Americans captured a staggering 93 percent of all income growth, while the incomes of most Americans stagnated.
Ninety-three percent. Occupy that. The 1 percent are back.
Open Letter From Europe Against American Labor Intimidation Practices
“EMPLOYEES OF U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OF GERMAN COMPANIES, ESPECIALLY T-MOBILE USA, SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXERCISE THEIR UNRESTRICTED RIGHT TO OPT FOR ORGANIZED REPRESENTATION IN THE COMPANY WITHOUT FEAR.”
Progressive Breakfast - 3/29/2012
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: House Republicans Fiddle While Bridges Crumble
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: House Republicans Fiddle While Bridges Crumble
Republican Budget For Billionaires The Impact
The new Republican budget (called the "Ryan Budget" by DC insiders) reflects current electoral reality: billionaires and corporations now finance candidates, and we get government of, by and for billionaires and corporations. The rest of us no longer matter, except as "the help" and, at least to the extent we haven't been entirely fleeced, a flock to harvest.
Progressive Breakfast - 3/28/2012
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: Vote For The "Budget For All"
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
