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Category Archives: GOVERNMENT
Can We Stop the Charade and Just Cut To The Chase: THE U.S. IS HEADED FOR A DEPRESSION
With a nod to Third Voice (for those who remember it) … but without the cool interface CIO! = burgundy (a step up from red) GDP: U.S. Economy Grows Only 1 Percent In Spring, Increasing Recession Fears by Christopher S. … Continue reading
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Rick Perry’s and Wall Street’s Scheme to Profit from Teacher Deaths
All they (Perry’s administration) had to do was convince retirees to let UBS buy life insurance policies on them. When the retirees died, those policies would pay out benefits to Wall Street speculators, and the state, supposedly, would get paid … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT, GREED, Health, POLICY
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21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor
In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit. By Rania Khalek AlterNet There is one group of American workers so disenfranchised that corporations are able to get away with … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT
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Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse
By Robert Reich We now live in parallel universes. One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The … Continue reading
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The Deficit is Not Default of Obama
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama, by: Greg Palast, Truthout | News Analysis, Thursday 21 July 2011 Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt ceiling.” From 2001 to 2008, a … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY, RESOURCES
Tagged austerity, capitalism, corporate capitalism, debt ceiling, Democratic Leadership, Eric Cantor, GOP, Greg Palast, Obama
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GOP Senator: Obama Will Cave On Debt
By Michael McAuliff HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Republicans are willing to push President Obama to the wall with their budget-slashing bill to raise the debt ceiling because they are convinced he will capitulate on his veto threat and sign it, … Continue reading
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Who Suffers Under The Gang of Six Deficit Reduction Scheme: Seniors, Students, Working families
Social Security benefits would be reduced, and there are also cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Students and the disabled would lose some federal government support By George Zornick The Nation President Obama endorsed the Senate’s Gang of Six deficit reduction … Continue reading
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Go Gang of Seventy … and the People’s Budget
By Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation With too much fanfare, the contours of a “grand bargain” on the budget have emerged with a proposal offered by the Senate’s Gang of Six. It’s a deal that looks a helluva lot more … Continue reading
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74% of Americans want a single agency to focus on protecting consumers from financial organizations
By James Sunshine HUFFINGTON POST As of Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is open for business. And many Americans have already expressed their support. The agency, first conceived of by Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, was created under last … Continue reading
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Petition against Gang of 6 debt ceiling bill which cuts Social Security and threatens Medicare and Medicaid: from Dennis Kucinich
The Raw Deal? by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 “A Big Deal.” That’s what the White House has been fighting for the past few weeks in negotiations over raising the debt ceiling. It was a search for a … Continue reading