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After The Supercommittee Round Two
The supercommittee is down for the count, and everyone from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and even Grover Norquist is credited with throwing the knockout punch. It's tempting to do a victory dance, but we'd better make it a short one. Don't get me wrong. We've...
Giving Thanks for the Occupation Election Demonstrations
I want to thank you, thank you Thank you, thank you, Thank you, thank you, Thank you, thank you. ~ Natalie Merchant, “Kind and Generous” This week’s holiday mandates giving thanks. For many Americans, that is complicated by the harsh years since 2008. There’s the...
Giving Thanks - For the Occupation For the Intensity For the Innocence
It's like the old-timers always said: Don't quit before the miracle happens. While the Arab Spring showed that people can still accomplish the impossible, Our political debate was frozen in corporate cynicism. Now everything has changed. For the United States, spring...
No Super Committee Deal Good Now Focus on Jobs—Best Way to Lower Deficit
The reason members of the Super Committee didn’t reach an agreement is that Republican members insisted on damaging cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicare – AND they wouldn’t budge from their refusal to roll back tax cuts for the richest 1% of Americans. If...
Reporting From The Edge Of Catastrophe
There's lot's of economic stuff this morning worth sharing. First, the view that austerity is bad for us is starting to make it beyond the pages of obscure blogs and Krugman's column. Here's one from a historian in Bloomberg News: ...“common sense” tells us that...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/28/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: Tax Avoidance Alchemy OurFuture.org's Sam Pizzigati: "America’s mega rich are actually taking in much more in income, [Bloomberg] shows, than their tax returns indicate. Hundreds of millions more. And this hidden income has reduced their effective tax...
Rogues Gallery CNNs Ideologically Rigid Scandal Tainted Ethics-Investigation-Haunted GOP Debate Panel
The story just won't die. People keep commenting on the near-Stalinist level of ideological purity displayed by CNN"s selection of "expert" questioners for last week's Republican national security debate. As soon as it was duly convened, the network's Neocon Politburo...
The Alchemy of Our Awesomely Affluent
Today's super rich can't turn tin into gold. But they can get Uncle Sam to loan them free money. At the expense, of course, of America's bottom 99 percent. How much money is pouring into the pockets of America's richest 1 percent? How much of this income are America's...
From Alexandria to Zuccotti Park Theyve Been Destroying Books For 2000 Years
Fahrenheit 451: The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. They're back. But then, they've never gone away. The Book Killers have always been with us. Before recorded history they were with us, murdering the scholars and storytellers and mystics of...
Tax the Rich In Fact Lets Double Their Taxes
Conservatives say they want to "bring back" the old USA, the one that existed during those decades of the twentieth century they only seem to see through a gauzy golden haze. Whatever its problems, that country was a place where Republicans and Democrats agreed on two...
