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Progressive Breakfast - 10/21/2011
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: Five Outrages Over...
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: Five Outrages Over...
Get a Job Get a Clue
"Get a job!" It's the right-wing's favorite retort to protesters on the left. It goes back at least as far as the 1960's and 1970's, and implies that only "dirty hippies" who are too lazy to work — and would rather mooch off the government and be subsidized people in...
Senate Conservatives Fine Saying No To Jobs
As the Senate prepares for a vote on a $35 billion bill to support hiring of teachers and first responders around the country, conservative are pillorying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a bit of inartful truth-telling. After all, it is so much easier for Senate...
The GOPs Joke of a Jobs Plan
Telling people to "Get a job!" on one hand, while telling businesses to "Stop creating jobs!" on the other, and then blaming the unemployed for their jobless state sounds more than a little contradictory. If an individual person managed all three,...
A Word from Wall Streets Bartender
It was a jaw-droppingly, mystifyingly obtuse, callous moment in an administration that's given us enough of them to fill what would have to be the world's most depressing bloopers reel. It also brilliantly captured a president and an administration who don't feel...
Tea Party to Businesses Stop Hiring
Just when I think conservatives can't surprise me any more, they surprise me with another jaw-dropper. And, no, I'm not talking about the recent Republican debate — though that yielded some real stunners, both from the candidates and the studio audience. I'm talking...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/20/2011
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: Captured...
Captured Government’s Increasing Irrelevance Shows #Occupy’s Importance
Our captured political institutions make themselves increasingly irrelevant by not addressing the problems of the 99%. Each day we see more examples of our government being "captured" by and serving the interests of the top 1% against the rest of us. Even as more and...
Starving The Schools Of The 99
Last week's release of the report Starving America's Schools: How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates Are Hurting Our Nation's Students set the stage for this week's chorus line calling for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill to fund teachers' jobs across the country. We know...
