CEO Pay And SEC Delay
Earlier this week I wrote about Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site tracks the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average employee. Something many people don’t know is that the Wall...
View ArticleNotably Rare Exceptions
At least Bush kept us safe. With notably rare exceptions. Like 9/11, massive deficits, torture, economic collapse, Iraq war, sending 50,000+ factories and 5 million manufacturing jobs to China and...
View ArticleIn Honor Of The George ‘W’ Bush Legacy-Rehabilitation Discussion
The pundit world is busy rehabilitating the reputation of George ‘W’ Bush. Somehow in today’s America killing hundreds of thousands of human beings illegally invading a country, torture, corruption and...
View ArticleDid You Really Think It Was Ideology?
Or was it maybe about getting a $15 billion wealth gain since 2010? Newsflash at Think Progress’ ClimateProgress blog: FORBES: KOCH BROTHERS NOW WORTH $50 BILLION, Forbes estimates that Tea Party...
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Sequester Closes Cancer Clinic Doors, Congress Does Nothing
Affluent business flyers inconvenienced by delays = national emergency that Congress immediately fixes. Cancer clinics closing = Congress does squat, goes home. This is just one more story of our...
View ArticleNext Week’s Opportunity To Get Our Labor Board Operating Again
President Obama has nominated five people to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Two are Republicans. All are waiting for confirmation by the Senate. Let your Senators know these nominees should...
View ArticleWhy Government Only Does Things For The Wealthy & Big Corporations
One reason is because everyone understands that there is a big check waiting for them later if they “play ball.” Example: Ex-Obama Aides Attended Oil Industry-Sponsored Azerbaijan Conference, Jim...
View ArticleIs IRS “Scandal” Hype An Attempt To Stop Investigations Into Blatantly...
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a 501(c)(4) group. This special tax status allows the organization to hide its donors from the public. But this also means it is prohibited by law from engaging in...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline To Sell Canadian Tar Oil To China
Step back and see what this is. A Canadian oil company wants to cross our country with a pipeline so they can sell oil to China. A political party and the Tea Party are working, for-hire, as the agents...
View ArticleOld Economy Coming Back
Borosage, in Democrats Must Overcome Clinton Nostalgia, The sad fact is that the old economy is coming back. Austerity continues to starve public investments vital to our future. The banks emerged from...
View ArticleCorruption
Tim Geitherner is getting paid huge “speaking fees” by the big banks he helped while in his government jobs… Geithner joins top table of public speakers with lucrative appearances, … receiving about...
View ArticleConservative Is Not An Ideology – It Is Corruption
I should do a series… Is keeping the minimum wage low really part of an ideology? Or is it really just big companies paying legislators to keep their profits high at the expense of We, the People? It...
View ArticleMust-Read: Banknado
Absolute must-read: Richard Eskow at Campaign for America’s Future, Banknado. “Our leaders stand motionless, one hand covering their eyes and the other outstretched for cash.” Why isn’t Richard writing...
View ArticleGonna Go Make Some Money
There is a phrase I hear from DC people a lot: He/she is going to “go make some money.” Usually this means that someone in government is going to take a job for a corporation, likely on Wall Street,...
View ArticleGovernment Hands $1 Trillion+ To Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion
While our government is laying off hundreds and hundreds of thousands and cutting services in the name of cutting deficits, a new report exposes that taxpayers are handing more than $1 trillion a year...
View ArticleInsider Trading
If I had knowledge of what the Republicans were going to do with the government shutdown and the debt ceiling, and when they were going to do it, I could make billions on the stock market. And if I was...
View ArticleWe Aready Know No One WIll Go To Jail
Because no one on Wall Street ever does. Special Report: Pimco shook hands with the Fed – and made a killing, * In December 2008, the Fed hired Pimco, along with three other big Wall Street firms, to...
View ArticleDoes Tanking Economy Really Hurt Republicans?
Hey if you knew Friday what Republicans were going to do over the weekend you could place bets on the stock market, and make millions.
View ArticlePlease Watch, Explains Blatant Campaign Corruption
Thom Hartmann asks if the Koch Brothers are the New “Copper Kings?” PS Also explains why we hear so much about the Keystone pipeline.
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Economic Sabotage: Republicans Obstruct Infrastructure Work
There is consensus across the (sane) spectrum that the country absolutely needs to repair and modernize our infrastructure. There is widespread agreement this will help the economy now and in the...
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