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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...
For Adults Only
God save us from sentences like this one: "Don't look now, but an adult conversation has begun on the federal budget deficit." If we've heard this cliché once, we've heard it a thousand times, so we hope we'll be forgiven for the blunt talk that follows. Let's face...
Rick Smith Show Interview Wisconsin Bank Protests M & I Bank Executives and Moving Your Money
Talked with Rick Smith about this piece on M & I Bank (" ") on his radio show last night. Here's the audio (it's about ten minutes long - just enough to listen to while you're clearing the paperwork off your desk): RickSmithMar142011-podcast (click on the link to...
America Waking Up To Value Of Unions
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." When you put enough dots in front of people sooner or later they will connect the dots....
How Koch Front Groups Influence Laws
Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to continue tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies. Every Republican voted to support the tax breaks and subsidies. Thursday House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation to prevent the Environmental Protection...
Karl Rove Group Runs Ads Explaining Benefits Of Unions
Karl Rove's corporate front-group Crossroads GPS is spending $750,000 to run ads explaining that unionized workers make 42% more than non-union workers. From the Politico story about the ad buy, Crossroads GPS is airing the ad on national cable. The buy is $750,000...
Youve Got To See This Video From Wisconsin
You just have to watch this video of a farmer named Tony Schultz in Wisconsin talking to the crowd about what is happening at his local schools and to his own community because of the governor's tax-cuts-for-corporations, budget-cuts-for-the-people budget: I found it...
Time For The People To Tell The Story [VIDEO]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Yesterday on MSNBC, Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Robert Borosage previewed today's "Defend The Dream" rallies, organized by MoveOn.org and a broad coalition of progressive...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/15/2011
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: What "Free" Trade...
