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Shock Happens II
Earlier today I wrote that External Shock Happens, and "we should be shoring up our public structures, our infrastructure, our protections and empowerments. That is what government is and what it does, and we need it." I just came across a post, Black Swans, 100 Year...
American Jobs Made Here
You wouldn't know it from looking around you but this country has grown much richer over last 30 years. We have a vastly higher GDP, higher average income, much more wealth... But American workers haven’t shared in it. It is all captured by a few billionaires and...
Will The Chamber Spend Anything To Pass The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bank Bill
This week, an actual jobs idea garnered bipartisan support. Sens. John Kerry (D), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) and Mark Warner (D) teamed up to introduce "The BUILD Act" which would create a $10 billion "infrastructure bank" to provide loans and loan guarantees for...
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: Will Chamber Spend...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/17/2011
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: Will Chamber Spend...
Music For Madison Steve Earle Steps Up (With a Digression About the Fall of Communism)
Steve Earle, who's hands-down one of the best songwriters of our time, has re-released two union-themed songs on iTunes to support the Madison protesters. “Harlan Man” and “The Mountain” are being issued as a special "2-track digital single" (I didn't know you could...
Center Right Nation Say What
The following caught my eye: It is today's distillation by Anzalone Liszt Research drawn from recent national polls: For first time in history, more Americans support gay marriage than oppose it: The General Social Survey shows that for the first time in history, more...
The Movement To Get Rand Paul A Working Toilet Explodes
Earlier this week, I offered advice to America's highest-ranking libertarian Sen. Rand Paul how he could find a working toilet, and dispel his belief that the federal government will not allow him one. Soon after, Grist's David Roberts, dismayed at the Senator's...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/16/2011
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: Beware The "Adult"...
The Soaring Deficits of Conventional Wisdom
What's striking in the debate over America’s budget deficits isn’t the stridency of the anti-government Right. That’s expected and they don’t deviate from script. No, most impressive is the steely strength of a conventional wisdom that is flat out wrong. In its...
