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USA Today Sides With the Public Pension Wrecking Crew
USA Today offers the latest entry in the race to punish public-sector workers for successfully retaining the benefits that used to be broadly available to private-sector workers.
The Blank-Sheet Congress
If your main goal is to repeal laws and not pass them, and then you have a draft a positive agenda for your next campaign, here's what ends up on that sheet of paper...
For Workers, GOP Knows Best – NOT
Recently, Republicans openly displayed their contempt for CEO decision-making. They ridiculed executives who encouraged their workforce to unionize and sued to stop companies from remaining neutral during union organizing campaigns.
Pledge to Tell Congress: End The Sequester
Sign a promise to join the Campaign for America’s Future and eight other groups representing millions of Americans in a campaign to get rid of the sequester on December 12.
Progressive Breakfast
Nobody Wants Grand Bargain "Grand bargain" stalled because neither side really wants what it's demanding, concludes NYT: "...many Republicans are no more interested in voting to reduce Medicare and Social Security benefits than Democrats are, lest they threaten their...
Filibusters Continue: This Is Obstruction And Nullification Of Democracy
The strategy is clear: obstruct everything, make government fail, then run against failure. Cause the problem and present yourself as the solution to the problem.
“Values, Not Just Math”: Why Warren’s Social Security Speech Matters
This week Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gave an important speech in which she joined a small but growing cadre of American leaders committed to building, rather than cutting, Social Security.
Elizabeth Warren on Social Security: “It’s Values, Not Math”
On the Senate floor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren placed the Social Security debate in the context of a broader “retirement crisis” for the middle class, and condemns The Washington Post for pitting seniors against hungry children.
While Swiss Limit CEO Pay, We Can't Even Enforce Our Pay Laws
In America who is the boss of who? Are company CEOs the boss of We the People? In Switzerland the voters made it clear. Here we can't even enforce a law requiring companies to disclose the ratio of CEO to worker pay.
Is Chris Christie Conservative or Moderate? (Check the Video)
What we see is a politician who does not believe in paying public workers what they worth, but instead wants them to work more for less compensation. He has a fundamental disgust for public investments while eagerly offering the "candy" of tax cuts.
