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Meet the One Percent And the 99 Percent
Being in the 99 percent, and living in Washington, DC, is to live and work in close proximity to the 1 percent. (Especially if you work in Capitol Hill.) When you do so on a daily basis, it's easy to forget that — as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote — "The...
No Deal Is The Best Deal
I'll just let Bernie Sanders explain it to Wolf Blitzer, who appears to be extremely confused by the fact that someone might have liberal principles. In fairness, it's not something he hears every day. Usually, it's a Democrat explaining that he or she is more than...
Grover Norquist Was The Super Committees Lex Luthor And Other Stories
Originally posted a Capital Gains and Games. Two things if you're at all surprised that the anything-but-super committee is going to announce today that it has been unable to agree on a deficit reduction plan and so is going out of business. First, you weren't reading...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/21/2011
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: America's Affluent...
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: America's Affluent...
Americas Affluent and the New Bunker Down
Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today's rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm's length — and more. How many neighborhoods have you ever seen with oodles of rich...
Finally a Constitutional Amendment for the 99
Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) offered the strongest constitutional amendment introduced in either House of Congress so far to rectify the imbalance of power between the corporations and the people in our democracy. As the struggle in the streets intensifies,...
Well-Behaved Movements Seldom Make History
Almost since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, everyone from pundits to the person-in-the-street have offered their $0.02 on what the OWS movement "should" do next. The number of columns and blog posts offering such advice naturally increased after the midnight...
Supertrouble
There's also this, from a must-read article in The Nation by George Zornick [T]o listen to most media coverage of the deficit debates—and too often, the rhetoric thrown about by Republicans and some Democrats—one comes away thinking the only way to get the fiscal...
Buck Up Deficit Hawks Congress Already Passed Deficit Reduction (Its Called ObamaCare)
Assuming the "Super Committee" fails to forge a deficit reduction compromise, those who proclaim to be "deficit hawks" will respond will sadness and anger. They will decry the inability of Congress to function. They will alarm us that we are on a fiscal path to...
