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I have an op-ed in today's San Jose Mercury News: Opinion: Why America needs to go back to taxing the wealthy. Here is a bit of it:
While America has always been a place where a person could get rich, it used to be that you got rich a bit more slowly, and everyone benefited in the process. ...
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Rich Lowry
Ed Gillespie
The Johnsons have two cell phones and a landline. Pretty much the only calls we get on the landline are telemarketing calls, but for some reason we keep it around.
It would be nice if the government kept a database of people who do not want to be called at home by telemarketers. Maybe they... ...
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This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
The country needs a jobs program and needs it right now. Cash for Caulkers would be a good start. A new Civilian Conservation... ...
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In two weeks the first wave of unemployed who qualified for COBRA health insurance subsidies under the "stimulus plan" will start losing their health insurance, and Congress has not acted.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will start losing their health insurance each month as their COBRA... ...
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Health care
Stimulus Plan
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
President Obama is visiting Asia, and is blasted over and over about America's supposedly "protectionist" policies.
"China ...
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Washington, D.C
Everyone thinks this huge deficit is Obama's doing. For example, a letter in today's San Jose Mercury News,
Deficit story should have been Page 1
The brief Associated Press story "October federal deficit is a record'' (Page 9A, Nov. 13) should have been front-page news. And the headline ...
White House
Barack Obama
Paul Rosenberg nails it: Open Left:: The "Entitlement Problem": Racing ourselves to the bottom
But to a very large extent, the culture wars are a war of constructed tribal identity, fronting for elite corporate interests, and their primary historical achievement has been to ...
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Rich Lowry
In the intro to tonite's NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, led with "Sarah Palin's Book, you can't get it yet, but we've got it."
The second segment of the "news" broadcast was entirely Palin and her book. It started with all the "buzz' about the book, just a huge puff piece, calling it a... ...
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Sarah Palin
Food for thought: Attention Lloyd Blankfein: The Public Purpose of Banking,
... WHO controls the banks is ultimately less important than HOW we control the banks’ activities. Oversight is all very nice, but at times it pays to get back to first principles. What on earth is the public purpose ...
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Bush's last budget year wrapped up last month, leaving us a deficit of over $1.4 trillion. But everyone blames Obama because the right's noise machine has repeated over and over that Obama is "spending" -- and no one shows up to explain the truth.
A New York times analysis of this deficit...
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Barack Obama
On the NewsHour the moderator just said "new taxes slows down the economy at a time when people are hurting." This is in a discussion of how to fix state budgets. The panelist responds, "That's exactly right."
This is just absolute nonsense. This shows what happens when something is ...
White House
This is what "externalizing" pollution costs looks like: Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush
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This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
Here is another story about Wall Street’s war on the real economy.
US Steel was planning to invest $1 billion in building ...
White House
Organizing For America
I just came across this: How Wall Street bought Tim Geithner -- DailyFinance.
Have you ever wondered why Wall Street was able to get $23.7 trillion from the federal government after making some bad bets that wiped out $30 trillion in stock market value worldwide and helped throw 15.1 ...
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Timothy Geithner
Michael Bloomberg
Barack Obama
In James Boyce: Chamber Me This. some guy named James Boyce writes about the head of the Chamber of Commerce and their climate-denial efforts to prevent us from reducing CO2 emissions.
Did you know that Tom Donahue, head of the Chamber of Commerce, is on the Board of Union Pacific, which ...
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Have you ever been required to click that you agree to an agreement before you can register a domain name, use software, etc?
This is a scam.
I am willing to bet that no human has ever read one of these agreements -- and the companies requiring you to agree know this. For example I just... ...
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In other countries the government's exist for the public good. The understand that health care is a human right, and provides health insurance, paid for by taxing companies and the wealthy.
America's health care "reform" bill solves the problem of people not having health insurance - and...
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Health care
I'm waiting and seeing. I see that right-wing blogs are in an intense anti-Muslim hate frenzy.
This is a terrible tragedy.
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Republicans are blocking everything, Dems seem unable to do anything. Here is a really good idea for changing the rules.
Of course, the weak Dem leadership won' want to rock the boat. They prefer "bipartisanship" with extremists over actually getting things done for the people.
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Democratic National Committee
ABCE: American Businesses For Clean Energy
American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) is a forum for leading U.S. businesses to register their support for swift Congressional action on clean energy and climate legislation.*
The ABCE mission is simple: Demonstrate large and small business... ...
