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Rep Bachmann Announces Support For Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle-Class [VIDEO]
Today on ABC's Good Morning America, House Tea Party Caucus founder Rep. Michele Bachmann explicitly voiced what many conservatives only mutter under their breath. She's for raising taxes ... just only on the poor and the middle-class. When asked by ABC's George...
State Legislators Continue Holding The Unemployed Hostage
The following was originally published at UnemployedWorkers.org Legislators in several states have recently displayed a shameful eagerness to hold unemployment benefits hostage as a means of enacting measures to advance an anti-middle-class agenda and undermine key...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/20/2011
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: GOP Rings Up...
Why Trump Gets Traction From Trade
Donald Trump is getting traction. He is talking about trade, jobs, China, manufacturing, China, jobs, China and China -- and it is resonating with a public sick of being told to ignore what they can see in front of their faces. "Nobody, other than OPEC, is ripping off...
Ryan’s Assault on Medicare Would Unravel the Value of Social Security Benefits
Amidst the furor over Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal, advocates for strong retirement programs appear to be in a bind. On one hand, Ryan subjects Medicare and Medicaid to scathing cuts and a restructuring agenda so radical that they could no longer be called...
The American Dream Deferred Pt 2
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? … ~ Langton Hughes, "Harlem" Whose Dream? Since Hughes wrote "Harlem" in 1951, literary critics have tried to identify the dream Hughes...
House Votes To Add 19 Trillion To The Debt Then Threatens To Ban Treasury From Paying It Off
Some House Republicans, like Rep. Michele Bachmann, are opposed to raising our debt limit under any circumstances. Others, including Speaker Boehner, says they will refuse to raise the debt limit unless the White House and Senate accept their proposed painful cuts on...
Bipartisan Senators Indict Wall Street Media Yawns Six Guys Push Stale Deficit Hype Media Goes Wild
It should have been the lead story from coast to coast: A bipartisan panel of senators, including some of that body's most conservative members, released a damning report that slammed bankers, regulators and ratings agencies—and they made it clear that they'd like to...
Sarah Palin The Koch Brother’s Union Maid
Tax Day was approaching and the righties were out to denigrate government workers and government spending. Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, who quit her job in 2009, headlined a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, bought and paid for by the front-group [[Americans for...
Sen Warner’s Claim of Rapidly Shrinking Worker-to-Retiree Ratio Based on Misleading Numbers
On Face the Nation this Sunday, Sen. Mark Warner was asked by host Bob Schieffer why his ‘Gang of Six’ would take on Social Security reform in their forthcoming budget proposal. His response reflected a commonly-held myth about Social Security’s history that greatly...
