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TPP Would Further Emasculate America
As America’s tool makers and freight car builders are furloughed, their factories shuttered and offshored, America is wasting. Ill-conceived free trade deals, like the proposed TPP, are reducing it to a nation of stooped shoulders.
Progressive Breakfast
NH Votes Politico lays out where the votes are for NH Dems: "About 30 percent of the potential voters in the state are different people than in 2008," ... explained Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center ... Voter-rich and filled with...
Why Hillary Clinton's Five Words On Social Security Matter
Her most declarative statement to date on the issue of where she would stand on various proposals to "reform" Social Security and ensure its long-term solvency comes in the context of a disconcerting history.
Why We Must Try
Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” I understand their defeatism. But here’s the problem. There’s no way to reform the system without rocking the boat.
Political Poison
The Flint lead disaster exposed the callousness of people like Michigan’s governor, who blame the poor for all of their misfortune.
Is Clinton Bought By Wall Street? There Is A Test For That
People are questioning Hillary Clinton over millions in speaking fees and contributions from Wall Street. There are specific steps she can take now, and pledges she can make about what she will do if elected. Will she?
Progressive Breakfast
NH Gets Heated For Dems Sanders defines his agenda as mainstream. W. Post quotes: "It is not a radical idea to say that public education should go through college ... We can afford these programs because we’re going to transfer some of that wealth back." Democratic...
Inequality Against Democracy: 10 Facts About the 1 Percent
Here are 10 facts about the 1 percent – but they’re not just statistics. They’re a paint-by-numbers picture of an economy, and a democracy, in urgent need of change. (With video.)
Wingnut Week In Review: Everybody Hates Ted
Meet Ted Cruz, the Republican winner of the Iowa caucuses. He’s a liar, a jerk, and nobody who knows him remotely well — including his fellow Republicans and, quite possibly, his own family — appears to like him much.
Enormous, Humongous December, And Record Yearly, Trade Deficit
The continuing trade deficit means that jobs, wealth and the economic ecosystems that enable a country to thrive (or at least make a living) are disappearing.
