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Public Banking: Yes, We Can Have Banks That Work For the People
We all know the banking system is broken. It's easy to become pessimistic in the face of corporate and political corruption, but the system can be changed. We've done it before, and we can do it again. One pathway to genuine reform is "public banking": the...
The Right Time vs. The Right Thing
"The Time is always right," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "to do the right thing." Unfortunately, that's not always true in Washington. Courage and conviction is too often in short supply in Washington. Those with the power to set in motion the kind of change that...
Bill O'Reilly And President Obama On The Same Page?
It would seem so: Speaking to Megyn Kelly about the Supreme Court's hearing on Proposition 8, O'Reilly--who has previously compared gay marriage to bestiality--appeared to have "evolved" on the subject. He said he didn't "feel that strongly" about gay marriage "one...
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MORNING MESSAGE: Austerity Lovers In D.C., Austerity Haters At Home OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "They cry for cuts, cuts, cuts. When the cuts happen in their districts they cry for cuts somewhere else ... Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-WI) decries government spending but...
Austerity Lovers In D.C., Austerity Haters At Home
In Washington, austerity-hungry Republicans called the sequester's "across the board" spending cuts a "victory" – until their districts feel them. Then they complain about the cuts, but still demand cuts somewhere else and add new demands that someone ELSE decide what...
Surprising Studies Find DC Does What Wealthiest Want, Majority Opposes
A new study, Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans, by Professors Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright and Larry M. Bartels sought to gauge the political and policy priorities of the wealthy, and how these concerns contrast with the concerns of the...
Conservatives for States Rights ... Until States Go Green
Republicans are always warning us of the scourge of federal power and glorifying the genius of the states – aka the laboratories of democracy. On clean energy standards, conservatives have been getting their way. While Republican obstructionism has prevented the...
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MORNING MESSAGE: The Rip Off That Bankrupts America OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The International Federation of Health Plans has depicted our ridiculous health care system in 21 graphs. We don’t get more health care; we just pay more — much more. And this...
Health Care Costs: The Rip Off That Bankrupts America
The International Federation of Health Plans has depicted our ridiculous health care system in 21 graphs. We don't get more health care; we just pay more -- much more. And this entirely accounts for the scary long-term deficit projections. If we paid what every other...
