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Mother America Always Loved Manufacturing Most
There’s just something about manufacturing.
Progressive Breakfast - 2/28/2012
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: Why The Public Option Fight Mattered
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: Why The Public Option Fight Mattered
GE Breaks Law Avoids Taxes Gets Billions From Govt Avoids Taxes Gets White House Post -- Ah You Know the Rest
GE paid an effective tax rate of 2.3 percent or less over the past ten years. What did the government do for GE while it was paying little - and often no - taxes? Let's see:
The government let it off with just a slap on the wrist - more than once - after it repeatedly broke the law.
Too Big to Fail An Executive Suite True-Life Tale
If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus.
Were A Country Deal With It
Again and again (and again and again) we hear -- and learn the hard way -- that our "keep government out of it" approach to economic and manufacturing policy is hurting us.
Non-Aggression Tack
EJ Dionne thinks that Democrats should be wary of getting too cocky because the Obama lead is fragile and the Republicans might just decide to be sane before the election:
9 Crazy Things Mitt Romney Believes
I believe for every drop of rain that falls,
A flower grows.
Tom Jones
Mitt Romney’s economic address at Ford Field in Detroit received more attention for the empty seats in the cavernous field than for the similarly vacant words in his address.
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: CEOs Too Big To Fail
Progressive Breakfast - 2/27/2012
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.
