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House Considers 'No More Competing With Oil Companies Act'
Republicans in the House have introduced a bill called the "No More Solyndras Act." It may as well be named the "No More Competing With Oil Companies Act" or the "Hand Our Economy To China Act."
The "No More Solyndras Act"
Rebuild The Middle Class With Jobs For Veterans
There's one thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, "10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class": We already know how to rebuild the middle class. We've done it before. One way we built the middle class was to "Give unemployed job seekers a real, fresh start," which is one of the ten steps in the report, "10 Ways To Rebuild The Middle Class For Hardworking Americans." Back then, those unemployed job seekers happened to be in uniform, and America gave them a real fresh start with something called the GI Bill.
Today, a chance to give unemployed veterans a real, fresh start is stalled out in the Senate and going nowhere in the House.
10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class
The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering. Our economic crisis is one half of a vicious cycle in which it and the unemployment crisis feed and perpetuate one another, hollowing out the middle-class in the process.
Middle-class wages are their lowest in 17 years. Too many workers are toiling in jobs that don’t pay enough to support families, and too many can’t find work at all. Meanwhile, the jobs that will grow the most in the next decade are expected to be low-wage and stripped of benefits. What passes as America's economic "recovery" is awash in low-wage jobs.
Sick Money: How Mitt Romney's Bain Investments Are Exploding the Deficit and Harming Our Health
Few individuals or organizations have been as influential as Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in worsening our runaway healthcare costs, causing unnecessary suffering, or accelerating our government's long-term deficit problem. Their highly leveraged investment strategy puts healthcare companies under enormous pressure to increase revenue.
If Politicians Think Teachers Have It So Easy, Why Do They All Become Bankers?
This week a lot of Democrats and "liberals" are attacking Chicago teachers for what they tell us are their extravagant and "unreasonable" demands. It's funny: If they think teaching's such a gravy train, why have they all become bankers instead?
Who Can Democrats Trust About The Chicago Teachers Strike?
"So much for Democratic harmony," is the way Herold Meyerson chose to start his op-ed in The Washington Post analyzing the ramifications of the current Chicago teachers strike on the well being of
Chicago Teacher Strike Not About Money
Teachers in Chicago are on strike. You will hear from the usual anti-government, anti-union crowd that this is another instance of greedy public employees trying to get more money, but that is just wrong and here's why.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class
OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class
OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering.
I Smell John Bolton
To those still wondering if Romney might be a kinder, gentler foreign policy president, think again:
Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did we know the kitchen sink would include -- on the anniversary of 9/11 -- one of the most over-the-top and (it turns out) incorrect attacks of the general-election campaign . Last night after 10:00 pm ET, Romney released a statement on the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. After saying he was “outraged” by these attacks and the death of an American consulate worker, Romney said, “It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
Yet after learning every piece of new information about those attacks, the Romney statement looks worse and worse -- and simply off-key. First, Romney was referring to a statement that the U.S. embassy in Egypt issued condemning the “efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” But that embassy statement, which the White House has distanced itself from, was in reference to an anti-Islam movie and anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones, and it came out BEFORE the embassy attacks began. Then this morning, we learned that the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and others died in one of the attacks.
He doubled down this morning, anyway:
