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Progressive Breakfast - 7/28/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bipartisan Deal Drops Public Plan, Adds Regressive Tax AP reports Baucus bipartisan compromise will lack public plan and employer mandate: "After weeks of...
Why I Am Pro-Corporate
I am pro-corporate. I’ll go a step further with that and proclaim that I believe that there are no bad corporations, and that I haven’t seen any corporations do anything wrong. I see the way you are looking at me. I’d better explain. The reason I say there are no...
How Should We Talk About Industrial And Manufacturing Policy?
The phrase “industrial policy” sounds so Walter Mondale, 1970s, smokestacks and brick factory old-fashioned. I suspect the subject turns people off, eyes glaze over, hands reach under the table for iPhones and Blackberries… But this is SO important. China has an...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/27/2009
House Renews Health Care Talks As August Battle Brews Reformers and obstructionists gear up for August battle. Politico: "A White House official said the administration is still in the process of making plans for the recess, but labor leaders and other administration...
Have Average Taxpayers Become Freeloaders?
Opponents of the proposal for a 5.4 percent health care reform surtax on America’s wealthy seem to be getting a bit desperate. They've even turned their fire onto middle-income Americans. Friends and fans of privilege have been striking their indignant pose the...
Workers Rights Are Civil Rights
This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar’s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum...
The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard From
One of the big differences between the 1993 Hillarycare debate and our current conversation is that we're hearing a lot more fact and lot less fiction about how other countries' systems actually work. Thank the Internet. Back in 1993, the "Harry and Louise" ads...
Findlay, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce Kills Buy America Parade Because Unions Backed It
The Chamber of Commerce--that's the U.S. Chamber of Commerce--proved once again how anti-American it is when it comes to supporting U.S. industry. In Findlay, Ohio, unions had been organizing a parade and all-day event for this Saturday to highlight American-made...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/24/2009
Dems Play Down Senate Health Care Delay August to be dominated by fierce attacks and counterattacks. W. Post's The Fix: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to postpone a final vote on President Obama's health care proposal until September sets up a one-month...
Will The Birthers Kill Health Care Reform?
The Weekly World News reports this week: "The official copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate was stolen this week by Republicans wishing to halt his health care reform ... A growing movement among conservatives known as 'Birthers' believes Barack Obama was actually...
