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The Founding Fathers Supported Socialized Medicine
Those pesky founding fathers. You'd think guys who so long ago shuffled off that old mortal coil would find it harder to surprise us. With them safely dead for so long, you'd think we could easily appropriate and their past and politics in support of our own, without...
The Chamber Wants Infrastructure Prove It
Last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a joint statement with the AFL-CIO supporting President Obama's call for increased public investment in infrastructure, which read: Whether it is building roads, bridges, high-speed broadband, energy systems and...
Were Better off Than Egypt -- Right Lets Take a Look
A tourist who was interviewed last night from Cairo spoke for millions of his fellow Americans when he said he couldn't imagine living a country like Egypt. It is hard, isn't it? Imagine: A government run by and for the rich and powerful. Leaders who lecture others...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Chamber Wants...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/31/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Chamber Wants...
Making America the Best Place on Earth to Work
Not the wars. Not greenhouse gasses. Not even the deficit. The issue most important to Americans is jobs. Despite that, jobs failed to make an appearance in the State of the Union address. The talk was all about business. Business was doing better. Business needed...
Campaigned As Social Securitys Protectors Legislating As Privatizers
Republicans are caught between what their ideology calls for -- getting rid of Social Security, Medicare and much of the rest of government -- and what the public will accept. The American people hate what they propose so they use tricks and schemes to get what they...
The Tax That Turned Ronald Reagan Right
With the centennial of our 40th President's birth fast approaching, how about a shout-out for the soak-the-rich tax rates that he so despised — and more civic-minded Hollywood stars so enthusiastically embraced. Did Ronald Reagan change history? Well, we all change...
Life at the Top An Endless Bowl of Bonuses
The latest figures on Wall Street compensation reveal a recovery that starts — and stops — at America's economic summit. Back in the Great Depression, even at the height of America’s misery, some people made quite a bit of money. Chase National Bank...
The Wall Street Empire Strikes Back
The FNinancial Crisis Inquiry Commission describes the housing bubble as the "spark" that ignited the 2008 inancial crisis, but suggests it only became a firestorm because of misguided ideology and reckless behavior.
