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The ‘Self-Made’ Myth and Our Hallucinating Rich
In real life, working hard only takes you so far. Those who go all the way — to grand fortune — typically get a substantial head start. So documents an entertaining, baseball-themed new analysis of the Forbes 400.
More of the 47 Percent Responds
Yesterday, I posted a compilation of the responses of 47-Percenters to the now infamous Romney
Romney's Backers, Romney's Brain: The Money, The Thinking, The Plan
In a 1994 science-fiction novel called Interface, a Presidential candidate has an electronic chip in his brain that links his mind to real-time polling data. His words, deeds, even his thoughts are immediately responsive to the public mood. Mitt Romney seems a lot like that - except that Romney's chip is connected to money.
Pentagon Spending: Politics and Profit Trump National Security
By: Stephen Miles and William Hartung
(Crossposted at The Huffington Post and Win Without War)
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: 4 Reasons Romney Might Win
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: 4 Reasons Romney Might Win
Four Reasons Why Romney Might Still Win
The following was originally published at RobertReich.org.
Can Romney possibly recover? A survey conducted between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16 by the Pew Research Center — before the “47 percent victim” video came to light – showed Obama ahead of Romney 51% to 43% among likely voters.
Republicans Vote On Welfare Reform Lie
Republicans won't abandon the Obama's-gutting-welfare-reform lie, no matter how often it is discredited.
Today Republicans took the lie to the House floor, in the form of a resolution that would block the implementation of a Health and Human Services memorandum that would give states more flexibility in how they move welfare recipients into meaningful jobs.
The 47 Percent Responds
Bloggers and pundits have completely picked apart what Mitt Romney had to say about "the 47 percent" in that secret video leaked by Mother Jones magazine. As I posted yesterday, we know that nearly 47 percent of Americans don't pay federal income taxes, because they don't earn enough to owe federal income taxes. We know that those 47 percent of Americans pay plenty of other taxes: local and state taxes, payroll taxes, and sales taxes. Some pay up to nearly 25% of their income those taxes.
We know what Romney was talking about when he reached out to donors. We know what he got right and wrong, according to the numbers. But what may cause serious and lasting trouble for the Romney campaign is that millions of Americans now know who Romney was talking about, behind the safety of closed doors. They know he's talking about them and their loved ones — and they don't like it. Not one bit.
Public Opinion And "Elite" Opinion Differ Widely On China
Let's look at some simple stats...
U.S. manufacturing employment in January 2000: 17,292,000
U.S. manufacturing employment in January 2012: 11,860,000
