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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: 3 Medicare Time Bombs In GOP Budget
Tariffs On Chinese Solar Might Help Prevent The Next Solyndra
You have probably heard about a solar-energy company named Solyndra, but probably what you have heard is a bunch of negative, conspiratorial, anti-alternative-energy, anti-Obama stuff from the corporate/conservative spin machine. The real story is that our government is trying to help us capture some of the new green energy industry that will create the jobs of the future. But China is, too.
Tell The SEC To Make Corporations Reveal Their Political Donations
End Secret Corporate Campaign Cash. From CAF:
Progressive Breakfast - 3/21/2012
MORNING MESSAGE: House Republican Budget Would Crush The American Dream
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: House Republican Budget Would Crush The American Dream
On Foreclosures Too Little But Not Too Late
The Obama administration and states around the country have taken important steps in recent months toward putting American homeownership and financial security back on track. But it’s clear that more ambitious solutions are needed.
Ryan Budget Would Crush the American Dream
The Republican budget – released by House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan – is a remarkably revealing document. The budget document says it is time for America to choose. And with this document, Republicans choose to be the tribunes of the 1 percent, willing to destroy basic elements of the American dream in service of that cause.
Consider:
Ryan GOP Unveil Suicide Pact Today Rejecting American Majority
On Tuesday House Republicans, led by Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan, will unveil a suicide pact in the form of a new budget that ignores the clear views of the majority of Americans – and which, if they embrace it almost unanimously, as they did last year’s similar Ryan Budget, will put a gun to the head of Republican attempts to keep control of the House – and then pull the trigger.
Reminder March 22 Verizon Day Of Action
On March 22, workers from the Communication Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will be joined by thousands of supporters to rally around the country to stand up to corporate greed, and in support of good jobs for the 99%. The rally will also support the U.S.
The So-Called JOBS Act Crowdfunding Good Deregulation Bad
The Senate is considering the House-passed, typically-misnamed "JOBS Act." This act dramatically cuts regulations and disclosure requirements for companies that want to sell stock. As written it opens the door to the usual scammers, fleecers and fraudsters that feast on deregulation.
