by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 18, 2012 | Blog
The old robber barons exploited workers and gouged consumers. Today's robber barons are making millions off a new class of victims: average American taxpayers. Our nation’s tax code has become an incredibly powerful enabler of bloated CEO pay. Boeing makes airplanes....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 18, 2012 | Blog
A look at one of Bain Capital's first deals shows a get-rich-quick-at-everyone-else's-expense pattern forming: borrow heavily, gut assets, cut wages, cut safety, crush unions, restructure for tax avoidance and sell with a sweetheart, insider deal. That pattern...
by Roger Hickey | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog
At a campaign stop in south central Virginia this past Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden said to a relieved coffee shop patron that, "Number one, I guarantee you, flat guarantee you, there will be no changes in Social Security. I flat guarantee you." Join Social...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog
As I've noted before, we have a saying in the south that often applies to national politics: "A hit dog will holler": A hit dog will holler: when a group of folks find themselves in a troublesome situation, more often than not, the troublemaker speaks up first to...
by Bill Scher | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney whipped out a whiteboard yesterday primarily to simplify and amplify his brazen lie that President's Obama health care law cuts benefits for seniors -- literally putting "$716B Cut" next to the word "Seniors", when in fact Obama saves $716 billion in the...