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How Austerity Is Ushering in a Global Recession
Not only is the United States slouching toward a double dip, but so is Europe. New data out today show even Europe’s strongest core economies – Germany, France, and …
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The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas
It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a …
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“Governor Supercuts” for President?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, greets 100-year-old Mary Canfield of Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the Black Hawk County GOP dinner at the Electric Park Ballroom in …
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Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way
Against a Congress where zealously rich people-friendly conservatives hold the upper hand, how much can a President of the United States committed to greater equality realistically hope to accomplish? …
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GOP Mission Accomplished
Tea Party Republicans showed what stubbornness and working on behalf of organized money can accomplish as they forced President Obama and the Democrats to knuckle under on the debt …
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Austeridiocy: Budget Cuts Take Money Out of the Economy
"The patient is sicker so we have to apply more leeches." Countries that are trying to fix deficits with spending cuts are finding out that taking money out of …
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Higher Retirement Age? Lower Benefits? The President Says You Won’t “Notice“
Back in my corporate days I sat in a boardroom with one of the most powerful and fearsome CEOs in the country. He had called in the executives that …
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Downgrade of US Credit Rating Is Baseless – Âand Outrageous
(Image: Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Standard & Poor’s has gone ahead with the threatened downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. It’s …
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Straw Poll Winner – Obama
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) thanks her supporters after winning the Iowa straw poll of Republican presidential candidates in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2011. Bachmann's high-intensity, Tea …
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Want to See How the Kochs Are Ending Public Education?
The Koch brothers have more than $42 billion to make public policy out of their anti-government ideology, and their assault against public education epitomizes their tactics to remake our …