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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...
Tom Friedman Naively Waffles on Chinas Currency Manipulation
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has long been a cheerleader for globalism, and has led the charge for "free trade." One could say that his naive enthusiasm for the offshoring of U.S. manufacturing has contributed to lost manufacturing jobs in the U.S....
Go Newt Go Gingrich Slams Super Committee During GOP Pageant - I mean Debate
To say there's a lot that's wrong about Newt Gingrich's campaign is putting it mildly. (For one thing, its candidate is Newt Gingrich.) But he was right on the money last night when it came to the so-called "Super Committee." There was little else said of substance at...
61 House Republicans Co-Sponsored China Currency Bill Now Side With China
Last week, in These Are The House Republicans Blocking The Crackdown On China Currency Manipulation. Call Them. I named 61 House Republicans who had co-sponsored the China currency bill, but who now side with China by refusing to help force a vote on the bill. The...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/19/2011
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: GOP Debate: Seven...
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: GOP Debate: Seven...
Republican Debate Seven Dwarfs Too Small For America
What a mean group of people! But, then again, you knew that. Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate was often more caffeinated than usual, but aside from that it was the usual. All of the Republican candidates have one thing in common: They want to make...
Higher Taxes On The Working Poor and Middle Class Why Conservatives Have Lost Their Minds And The Public
Over the weekend, NYTimes.com featured a Bloggingheads.tv discussion I had with Kristen Soltis of the Independent Women's Forum about the conservative response to the "We Are The 99%" mantra of the Occupy Wall Street protests: "We Are The 53%." After hearing the...
Balanced Budget Amendment is Nothing More Than Fiscal Prohibition
Originally published on Capital Gains and Games. If you watched any one of the three episodes of “Prohibition,” Ken Burns’ excellent PBS series about the attempt in the early part of the 20th century to ban alcoholic consumption in the United States, it’s impossible...
