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Devastating Job-Killing Socialist Regulations
Conservatives, their movement funded by big oil and king coal, constantly complain about "job-killing regulations." They say that the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing "socialism" because it wants to lower the amount of pollution that energy companies pump...
What the GOP Really Wants But Hasnt Gotten (Yet)
The sausage is nearly made. The deal is almost done. Shutdown has been averted. Again. For now. The process wasn't pretty, and progressives are justifiably disappointed that Democrats gave up on the millionaire's surtax — which had overwhelming public support, even...
Who Protects Info You Give To Offshored Call Centers
Companies are always looking for ways to reduce the number of people they employ, and for ways to reduce the pay and benefits for the ones they keep. One way they have been doing this is to send jobs out of the country to places where the people don't have the...
Ron Wydens Revenge
In case you were wondering whether the Village would be dizzy with excitement over the Ryan-Wyden plan, here's NBC's First Read: *** Wyden gives Romney cover: When he was asked about the new Paul Ryan (R)/Ron Wyden (D) Medicare proposal at last night’s debate, Romney...
Did American Workers Get What They Deserved
What did people expect would happen when they voted for Reagan, Bush and other conservatives, or supported their policies? In the Holland (Michigan) Sentinel community columnist Ray Buursma writes, American workers got what they deserved. Some of the things he says...
Why We Must Take Back The Capitol
Keith Chatterton, a 61-year-old former salesman for a building components company, recently told the Syracuse Post-Standard that he hasn't had a steady job since 2008, even with "days scouring the Internet for openings, attending job fairs and support groups, trying...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/16/2011
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: Privatizing...
Romney Jobs Plan Latest Attempt To Copy Bush The Worst Jobs President Since Hoover
Today, presidential candidate Mitt Romney outlines his "jobs" plan in USA Today, by asserting that: "All too often ... government gets in the way. The past three years of unparalleled government expansion have retaught that lesson all too well." Funny that Romney's...
On Social Security Romney Just As Dangerous As Other GOP Candidates
No matter how fatigued the rest of the country is with the endless Republican debate schedule, Mitt Romney must be looking forward to tonight’s face-off in New Hampshire. Despite reports that he is losing ground in some states to Herman Cain and others, Romney knows...
Romney Tax Plan Would Require Slashing Social Safety Net Says Romney Economic Adviser
Last Thursday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, "the people who need the help most are not the poor, who have a safety net." Two days later, his economic adviser Gregory Mankiw wrote in the New York Times, "To maintain current levels of taxation, we will need...
