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Two New Fraud Deals Show Wall Street's Washington Insiders At Work
It must've been like old home week when the old gang of Wall Street and Washington insiders finalized a couple more cushy settlements last week. Everybody knew the drill: Ignore the potential criminal charges and agree on settlement figures they think the public will...
ANOTHER Report On Jobs Lost To China "Trade"
In DC the geniuses are busy with the billionaire agenda, fighting the things We, the People do to make our lives better. Meanwhile, in the real world yet another report is out that shows how one-sided trade deals with China and others are killing off our jobs and factories and industries and economy. And while DC's geniuses work themselves into a frenzy over the budget deficit -- money that we Americans mostly to each other -- they ignore the real problem: the trade deficit, and hundreds of billions of our dollars continue to bleed out of our country, year after year.
The Tax Legacy of George W. Bush: It Lives!
The Bush years gave America's rich new and unprecedented preferential treatment at tax time. The fiscal cliff deal enacted in the early moments of 2013 leaves that preferential treatment in place. Who won the New Year’s eve standoff over the “fiscal cliff”? In one...
The Big Squeeze
It turns out, hacking away at government's budget cuts off growth. Gee, who could have predicted? Add to that a huge loss in wealth from the stock market and housing crashes and a truly terrible job market and you've got yourself a real problem on your hands. But let's not have that stop us from going forward with a plan to cut programs from the oldest and the sickest among us, provide no relief for crushing student debt burdens as well as fire public employees, bust unions and basically squeeze everyone who is a member of the middle, working and poor classes allegedly because we might have some problems two decades from now.
Make A Call To Help End Republican Filibuster Obstruction
Senate Republicans have been using filibusters to block ... everything. You might not even know it, because the filibuster is no longer the talk-all-night event that most people expect. Democrats are trying to fix this by restoring the old "talk all night" rules. They only need two more votes. Make a call to add your voice to the pressure.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or We’ll Kill The Economy. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or We’ll Kill The Economy. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or We’ll Kill The Economy. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or We’ll Kill The Economy. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and...
GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or we'll kill the economy. Americans say NO to both.
Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, within the next two months we will throw the US economy back into recession - by refusing to allow the US raise the debt ceiling and pay our bills - or by pushing the economy over another fiscal cliff of deep spending cuts and tax increases - or by shutting down the government by refusing to pass a continuing budget resolution.
