(5 comments) SHARE The Money Party fails at everything it tries. Look at the past decade and it one monumental epic fail. They couldn't have done a better job of driving the country down if they tried (and maybe they did).

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(12 comments) SHARE The renewal of the Patriot Act seems assured. Gone are the guardians of the Constitution, Senators Byrd and Feingold. Can the current members of Congress even begin to comprehend what they're doing by renewing this? Have they even read and studied the act?

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(6 comments) SHARE Two critical forces behind the Egyptian Revolution are missing from the front pages, or any pages, of the corporate media.. They are the critical role of Egypt's union movement and the universal desire of all people to live in peace,

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(13 comments) SHARE Indulging oppressive leaders simply because they are convenient for the ownership of brand democracy is wrong. In addition, oppressive leaders are highly inconvenient to those who choose to ally with them. We're finding that out every day in Egypt.

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(4 comments) SHARE Thus a false dilemma is created for the public: support the right of people to determine their own fate or protect your safety and the current standard of living, as it were.

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(11 comments) SHARE Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich say that states should declare bankruptcy. What about the obligations to the people. They don't care, they don't have to. But we do and there are alternatives.

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(6 comments) SHARE Before it ever arrived at the president's desk for signature, the health reform act contained a fatal poison pill that would devastate the self-employed.

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(58 comments) SHARE The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords raises the bar for political lies and hate to a new level. Previously, incendiary political lies stopped just short violent imagery. Now the door is open for full on violent threats if nothing happens to restrain Palin and the other purveyors of hate.

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(5 comments) SHARE The best thing about 2010 is that it's over. As Mark Fiore described it, 2010 was "the year that wasn't." 20 to 30 million citizens are out of work and the impact of that is rarely mentioned.

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(6 comments) SHARE In early 204, right after Susan Lindauer offered to testify at congressional oversight hearings about the real chance for peace with Iraq instead of invasion, she was arrested on bogus charges, then thrown into a mental institution to discredit her and keep her story under wraps. In her new book, evidence abounds to prove her claims and teach us just how menacing the government can be.

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(26 comments) SHARE We need our "heroes." Without them, we might realize that we're entirely on our own in the fight against the wholesale theft of the peoples' hard work and wealth.
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(4 comments) SHARE In 2011, we will have a president, who wouldn't even fight for Social Security when he had a majority in Congress, with a House of Representatives with a veto proof majority that won't repeal any tax cut. The citizens have been betrayed by the smoothest con artists around for the benefit of the ultra rich, with the ultimate demise of Social Security assured by a rock solid majority of Republican extremists waiting in the wings

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(28 comments) SHARE A temporary cut to the Social Security payroll tax will turn into a permanent cut and thus doom the program. Brought to you by that bipartisan coalition known as The Money Party.

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(24 comments) SHARE Obama accomplished what no Republican could do. Social Security and every other program that benefits the people are now in real peril.

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(4 comments) SHARE What do you get when you cross Tim Geithner and Peter Peterson? Barack Obama; who would rather help the big banks and "balance" the budget than offer a helping hand for struggling homeowners. (

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(3 comments) SHARE The peoples' oligarch Warren Buffett just wrote a thank you letter to "Uncle Sam" published in the New York Times. It is the height of cynicism.

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(10 comments) SHARE How did we get to the point of full body scans at airports, the massive personal intrusion that represents, and the tens of millions spent for machines that irradiate us as a consequence of merely flying from here to there?

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(35 comments) SHARE (Washington) President Barack Obama has confided his plans to become a registered Republican some time before the end of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. Speaking to his inner circle, he lamented failing to bring the two major parties together. One of his confidants reported Obama saying, "It's really just one party anyway."

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(5 comments) SHARE Think of the Social Security Trust Fund (trust fund) as the most lucrative retirement fund in the country, the ultimate pot of gold, and you'll immediately understand why it is that for decades, big business has plundered the trust fund. How does this happen?
Series: The Money Party (34 Articles, 80317 views)

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(3 comments) SHARE Neil Barofsky, the TARP Special Inspector General, just released a report that makes clear Wall Street got everything and Main Street ended up worse off than before the big bailout started.

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