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Progressive Breakfast - 7/16/2010
Obama, Democrats Pass Historic Financial Reform The Senate has sent to Obama the most sweeping financial reform since the Great Depression: "The Senate on Thursday voted 60-39 to approve the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system since the...
Are Our Bosses Becoming Meaner?
The staggering gap between CEO and worker pay, new research from three business scholars suggests, has left America's workplaces still more nasty, brutish, and short. We have today in academia, after 30 years of rising CEO pay, a vast scholarly literature on CEO...
Scott Brown Votes for Reform-- After Selling Out to Wall Street
Wall Street reform passed Congress today, with three Republicans voting "yes," among them Scott Brown of Massachusetts. But Brown's vote came with a high price tag: he insisted on both hammering ordinary citizens with new taxes, instead of imposing them on the...
The World's Craziest Conservatives?
It would be funny, if only it wasn't reality. That's what I thought when I came across this while perusing videos on my iPhone recently. It's a pretty good compliation of the recent insanity. It's good political satire. If it was an obvious parody, I could laugh. But...
Wall Street Reform Clears Final Filibuster
Good news: The Senate just secured 60 votes to proceed on Wall Street reform, clearing the way for the legislation's final passage today or Saturday. The legislation garnered the votes of every Democrat except Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who argued that the bill was...
Progressive Breakfast: Conservatives: Yes To Tax Cuts, No To Unemployment Benefits
Conservatives Say Yes To Tax Cuts, No To Helping The Jobless The GOP says no to helping the unemployed, but yet to tax cuts for the wealthy: "Republicans almost unanimously oppose spending $33.9 billion for extended unemployment benefits for some 2.5...
Drill, Gamble, Loot, Starve: The Chamber of Commerce, The GOP, and the Politics of Plunder
The United States Chamber of Commerce has released an "open letter" to the President, Congress, and the American people which lays out its blueprint for our political future. It lays out the current Republican playbook in stark terms, and it reads like the battle plan...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/15/2010
Conservatives Say Yes To Tax Cuts, No To Helping The Jobless The GOP says no to helping the unemployed, but yet to tax cuts for the wealthy: "Republicans almost unanimously oppose spending $33.9 billion for extended unemployment benefits for some 2.5...
Why Corporate Tax Cuts Won't Put People to Work
Conservatives have reverted back to calling for corporate tax cuts to stimulate the economy and put people to work. Consider this mindless reflex rather than policy. Corporations are sitting on $1.7 trillion in cash, yet not hiring people. A furious argument is waged...
Who Gets US Out of the Hole We Are In?
Voters are in a surly temper. The economy stinks. Jobs are scarce. Wages are under pressure. One in 4 homes with mortgages is underwater. Retirement savings have been butchered; pensions are at risk. Bailed out bankers are paying themselves record bonuses; the oil...
