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On Wednesday, Fight For A Fair Transportation Bill
It's about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill.
Cranking Up The Old Scandal Machine
Bleeding heart liberal rag Forbes does some important journalism and investigates the Fast and Furious pseudo scandal. It turns out that the basic facts the wingnuts are presenting --- that the ATF was engaged in a gun-walking sting operation, is false. Well, waddaya know?
Here Is Why Our Elites Are Not Fixing The Economy
When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are just fine.
Why Can't Romney Tell The Truth About His Outsourcing?
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 1M Jobs or 2M Layoffs?
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 1M Jobs or 2M Layoffs?
Wall Street's City Bid-Rigging Racket: Who Ran It? How Many Billions Are Missing? Where's the Investigation?
A recent court case proves what many of us have long suspected: Big banks have been ripping off this nation's towns and cities for years in an old-fashioned racketeering scam. We ran some numbers to see how much this criminality might have cost the American people.The answer? Billions.
Verizon Workers STILL Struggling, Turn To Board Members, Find More Greed
What a complex web we weave, when our lives are ruled by greed. Verizon is an example of what corporate greed (the 1%) is doing to our middle class and vulnerable (the 99%). It is a highly profitable company, just gave its CEO a huge raise, but dodges its taxes (schools, roads, police, firefighters for the 99%), and to top things off is asking its workers to take cutbacks.
America Realizes It Likes Federal Spending After All
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
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.
