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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...
Whistling Past the Ruins The Education Moment
The President went to Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Virginia to deliver a speech on education, calling on Congress to fix and reauthorize No Child Left Behind by the fall. The speech was a carefully modulated discussion of education reform that echoed themes...
What Free Trade Has Cost The World
If you take a job away from someone who is paid a reasonable wage because they enjoy the protections and prosperity of democratic government, move it across a border, and give it to someone living under a thugocracy, forced to work for pennies with no protections...
