Via Rumproast… MA Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren: I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.”—No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory...
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Huge U.S. Job Losses To China Renew Push For Currency Action
The fact that the United States lost a staggering 2.8 million jobs in the last decade due to its huge trade imbalance with China puts fresh pressure on President Obama and Congress to deal with China’s undervalued currency, a top labor leader says. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington released a report Tuesday, which finds an alarming impact of the growing trade deficit on American workers since China’s ascension to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. According...
Oh Noes! I missed ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ Day!
“They’re not gonna hide from us. Everybody’s gonna be asked questions. The easy way is, come in, good lighting, we’ll give you a doughnut, we’ll have a nice conversation. The hard way is, Waters is standing in your driveway at 7 in the morning. You know? It’s your choice.” Some would call that journalistic thuggery. “I don’t care; I couldn’t care less,” O’Reilly says. “My job is to bring information to the people. If they wanna think I’m...
With His Deficit And Tax Plan, Obama Pleases Critics On Left
By insisting on tax increases on the wealthiest Americans — and promising to veto any deficit-reduction plan that cuts federal benefits without such a tax hike — President Obama won over at least two of his most high-profile and influential critics on the left. Obama laid out his position in a fiery speech Monday delivered from the White House Rose Garden. “This is a new Barack Obama. This is a feisty president who is in an election year contest...
The Mugging of SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants may be hazardous to your mental development—if you’re a four-year-old. At least that’s what two psychologists at the University of Virginia claim, based upon a study they conducted that may have as many holes as the average sponge who lives under the sea. In the first paragraph of an article published last week in the academic journal Pediatrics, Angeline S. Lilliard and Jennifer Peterson set up their study with a pick-and-choose somewhat slanted view of television. According...
Kara Kennedy Dies at 51
Sad news… The oldest child of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, Kara Kennedy, died at a Washington-area health club. She was 51. “She’s with dad,” Patrick Kennedy said. Their father died in 2009 at age 77 after battling a brain tumor. Kara Kennedy had herself battled lung cancer: In 2003, doctors removed a malignant tumor. Patrick Kennedy said that his sister loved to exercise, but that he thinks her cancer treatment “took quite a toll on her and weakened...
Capitol Idea: Just Who is Destroying the Institution of Marriage, Exactly?
Religious conservatives love to pontificate about “traditional marriage,” claiming to defend it. Now we know better. One of the religious right’s champions, Pat Robertson, told a caller to his national television program this week that it is okay to divorce an ailing spouse. Just don’t tell that to Ron Wallen. Divorce wasn’t even in the 77-year-old California man’s mind when his spouse was dying of cancer, even though those were “four years of pure hell, with more hospitalizations than...
Progressives — Yes, Progressives — Offer Medicare Cuts
While those on the left are better known for defending key federal programs from falling victim to a budget knife, a prominent group of progressive Democrats say they have found a way to cut Medicare in the name of deficit reduction — without harming benefits to those who rely on the federal healthcare program. “Congress can shave $1 trillion from the deficit by closing the loophole in Medicare Part D, which prohibits the government from negotiating lower prescription drug...
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