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Friday, February 13, 2015
Did the GOP Just Give Away $130 Billion of Public Property? In December, two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, pushed Congress and the President into giving away what could amount to over $130 billion in public property. That's enough to provide every single unemployed American a minimum-wage job for an entire year. And yet the GOP big-shots call themselves "fiscal conservatives"! "Fiscal conservatives," my you-know-what.
Friday, February 13, 2015Did the GOP Just Give Away $130 Billion of Public Property? In December, two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, pushed Congress and the President into giving away what could amount to over $130 billion in public property. That's enough to provide every single unemployed American a minimum-wage job for an entire year. And yet the GOP big-shots call themselves "fiscal conservatives"! "Fiscal conservatives," my you-know-what.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
What Made America Famous Many Americans believe that the top 1% is responsible for the rising tide of inequality in America, which is swamping and drowning the other 99%. Professor Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley says that they are wrong. The top 1% is not the problem, he says. The top 0.1% is the problem.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 299847 views)
Sunday, May 18, 2014What Made America Famous Many Americans believe that the top 1% is responsible for the rising tide of inequality in America, which is swamping and drowning the other 99%. Professor Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley says that they are wrong. The top 1% is not the problem, he says. The top 0.1% is the problem.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 299847 views)
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Who Benefits from Keystone XL? All of the oil that passes through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline has to be sold in the United States. Why not the same rule for the Keystone XL Pipeline? But instead, we allow a tax-free zone, to facilitate Chinese energy independence at the expense of our own. Why does Uncle Sam have to be Uncle Sucker?
Friday, February 28, 2014Who Benefits from Keystone XL? All of the oil that passes through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline has to be sold in the United States. Why not the same rule for the Keystone XL Pipeline? But instead, we allow a tax-free zone, to facilitate Chinese energy independence at the expense of our own. Why does Uncle Sam have to be Uncle Sucker?
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
You Can't Do Nothing About Nothing A few weeks ago, the Republicans unveiled their 2014 agenda, and it was . . . nothing. I kid you not. Many people saw the absence of an agenda as a problem. I think that it understates the problem. My concern is that the Republicans don't know where to go, not that they don't know how to get there.
Sunday, January 5, 2014You Can't Do Nothing About Nothing A few weeks ago, the Republicans unveiled their 2014 agenda, and it was . . . nothing. I kid you not. Many people saw the absence of an agenda as a problem. I think that it understates the problem. My concern is that the Republicans don't know where to go, not that they don't know how to get there.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
How To Destroy An Entire Country From a recent 188-page report by the World Health Organization come these ghastly and appalling factoids: Suicide rates rose 40% in the first six months of 2011 alone. Murder has doubled. 9,100 doctors in Greece, roughly one out of every seven, have been laid off.
Saturday, December 14, 2013How To Destroy An Entire Country From a recent 188-page report by the World Health Organization come these ghastly and appalling factoids: Suicide rates rose 40% in the first six months of 2011 alone. Murder has doubled. 9,100 doctors in Greece, roughly one out of every seven, have been laid off.
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
Should Only Seniors Be Allowed to Drive on the Highways? | Rep. Alan Grayson We want a public option. We need a public option. And that public option already exists -- we just need to open it up, to all Americans.
Sunday, December 1, 2013Should Only Seniors Be Allowed to Drive on the Highways? | Rep. Alan Grayson We want a public option. We need a public option. And that public option already exists -- we just need to open it up, to all Americans.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Drone Survivors Speak at Congressional Briefing Called by Rep. Grayson Brave New Foundation and Rep. Alan Grayson's Congressional briefing on the drone crisis. Rafiq's story is one of several depicted in Robert Greenwald's upcoming documentary UNMANNED: America's Drone Wars. Sign up to see this daring, investigative film, available for FREE starting Oct. 30th for a limited time.
Thursday, October 31, 2013Drone Survivors Speak at Congressional Briefing Called by Rep. Grayson Brave New Foundation and Rep. Alan Grayson's Congressional briefing on the drone crisis. Rafiq's story is one of several depicted in Robert Greenwald's upcoming documentary UNMANNED: America's Drone Wars. Sign up to see this daring, investigative film, available for FREE starting Oct. 30th for a limited time.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Congressional oversight of the NSA is a joke. I should know, I'm in Congress Edward Snowden's revelations demonstrate that members of Congress who are asked to authorize these programs are not privy to the same information provided to junior analysts at the NSA, and even private contractors who sell services to foreign governments. The only time intelligence committees disclose classified information to us, your elected representatives, is when it serves the purposes of the "intelligence community."
Friday, October 25, 2013Congressional oversight of the NSA is a joke. I should know, I'm in Congress Edward Snowden's revelations demonstrate that members of Congress who are asked to authorize these programs are not privy to the same information provided to junior analysts at the NSA, and even private contractors who sell services to foreign governments. The only time intelligence committees disclose classified information to us, your elected representatives, is when it serves the purposes of the "intelligence community."
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
This Literally Has Nothing to Do With Us As the debate regarding a U.S. military attack on Syria shifts to Congress, Congressman Alan Grayson was back on national TV on Sunday, forcefully arguing against war
Tuesday, September 3, 2013This Literally Has Nothing to Do With Us As the debate regarding a U.S. military attack on Syria shifts to Congress, Congressman Alan Grayson was back on national TV on Sunday, forcefully arguing against war
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Friday, August 30, 2013
We Are Not the World's Policeman A possible U.S. attack on Syria is in the news, and on people's minds today. Here is what Congressman Alan Grayson had to say about it, in an interview on national radio this morning. Bombing Syria is a bad idea. If you agree, sign our petition at DontAttackSyria.com.
Friday, August 30, 2013We Are Not the World's Policeman A possible U.S. attack on Syria is in the news, and on people's minds today. Here is what Congressman Alan Grayson had to say about it, in an interview on national radio this morning. Bombing Syria is a bad idea. If you agree, sign our petition at DontAttackSyria.com.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Aaron Swartz, R.I.P. For some of us who rock the boat, we end up losing our property. For some of us who rock the boat, we end up losing our freedom. For some of us who rock the boat, we end up losing our families. And in Aaron's case, his life. And yet, he was willing to face the facts, and to let that happen. To keep striving, to keep struggling, to keep trying to shake things up.
Saturday, February 23, 2013Aaron Swartz, R.I.P. For some of us who rock the boat, we end up losing our property. For some of us who rock the boat, we end up losing our freedom. For some of us who rock the boat, we end up losing our families. And in Aaron's case, his life. And yet, he was willing to face the facts, and to let that happen. To keep striving, to keep struggling, to keep trying to shake things up.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Legislation Constipation There has been nothing in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives even remotely resembling a line-by-line vote on whether each one of those spending cuts and tax increases, individually, is good or bad. Just John Boehner holding his breath until the Democrats "agree" to extending tax breaks for the rich, and cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
Friday, December 28, 2012Legislation Constipation There has been nothing in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives even remotely resembling a line-by-line vote on whether each one of those spending cuts and tax increases, individually, is good or bad. Just John Boehner holding his breath until the Democrats "agree" to extending tax breaks for the rich, and cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Great 'Dictator' Hate TV/Radio isarguing that by taking executive action, the president supposedly is assuming the power of a dictator, in deciding what law he will enforce or not enforce.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012The Great 'Dictator' Hate TV/Radio isarguing that by taking executive action, the president supposedly is assuming the power of a dictator, in deciding what law he will enforce or not enforce.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
I Won't Close the Lemonade Stands I would like to assure my opponent, and all other right-wing paranoid crackpots, that I will neither eliminate children's lemonade stands, nor triple the price of gasoline, nor outlaw guns and ammunition. If I have a secret plan to do any of those things, it's so secret that even I don't know about it. It's like I'm the Manchurian Candidate, or something.
Sunday, July 22, 2012I Won't Close the Lemonade Stands I would like to assure my opponent, and all other right-wing paranoid crackpots, that I will neither eliminate children's lemonade stands, nor triple the price of gasoline, nor outlaw guns and ammunition. If I have a secret plan to do any of those things, it's so secret that even I don't know about it. It's like I'm the Manchurian Candidate, or something.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Dumb Rich People Since 1929, $10,000 invested in the stock market under Democratic Presidents (over 40 years) had become $300,671. Meanwhile, $10,000 invested in the stock market under Republican Presidents (over 35 years) had become only $11,733.
Friday, May 25, 2012Dumb Rich People Since 1929, $10,000 invested in the stock market under Democratic Presidents (over 40 years) had become $300,671. Meanwhile, $10,000 invested in the stock market under Republican Presidents (over 35 years) had become only $11,733.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Unemployment: Why Excellent article by Congressman Alan Grayson about how to end our man-made economic disaster & supports George Soros' statement "You can't cut your way out of a recession. You have to grow your way out of a recession." Spot on!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012Unemployment: Why Excellent article by Congressman Alan Grayson about how to end our man-made economic disaster & supports George Soros' statement "You can't cut your way out of a recession. You have to grow your way out of a recession." Spot on!
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Myths That Are Killing Us No Republican candidate seems to have the clarity or the courage to face the destructive stupidities they claim they believe.
Thursday, March 1, 2012The Myths That Are Killing Us No Republican candidate seems to have the clarity or the courage to face the destructive stupidities they claim they believe.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I'm Maxing Out to Dennis Kucinich & Grayson are primary targets for every I-Don't-Owe-Anybody-Anything Republican in the country. Every true progressive should be "maxing out" for both of them.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012I'm Maxing Out to Dennis Kucinich & Grayson are primary targets for every I-Don't-Owe-Anybody-Anything Republican in the country. Every true progressive should be "maxing out" for both of them.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Labor Is a Perishable Good Because of high unemployment we are being denied the benefit of the goods & services that the unemployed would be providing to us, if they could.
Sunday, February 12, 2012Labor Is a Perishable Good Because of high unemployment we are being denied the benefit of the goods & services that the unemployed would be providing to us, if they could.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Rick Santorum Is Wrong Thousands die in America for lack of health care & many times more endure unimagineable suffering while Santorum & his Repblicans deny it all.
Thursday, January 5, 2012Rick Santorum Is Wrong Thousands die in America for lack of health care & many times more endure unimagineable suffering while Santorum & his Repblicans deny it all.
