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Wealth Distribution in America
Wealth Distribution in America The average American has to work more than one month to make what a CEO makes in one hour. Wake up America. Thanks to an enlightened son-in-law for pointing out this...
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Save $4 billion by stopping oil subsidies. No brainer
Looking for ways to cut unnecessary spending or, um, tax loopholes? Here’s one big line item that adds $4 billion to the government’s bottom line the moment the subsidy ends. How do you justify...
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Lowlights From the Sunday Morning Shows
In 2007 when he was FL House Speaker, Mark Rubio supported gun sale background checks, but today he says they aren’t effective because they can’t be enforced. So what was he thinking in 2007? Was he...
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13 Mind-blowing Facts About America’s Tax-Dodging Corporations | Alternet
Mind-blowing is not overstatement. The $8 billion tax break Wells Fargo received, corporate profits at a 60-year high while corporate tax rates near a 60-year low are a few nuggets that will cause many...
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Walk the walk, talk the talk.
Now here’s a U.S. politician we can all be proud to say we elected. They say history will improve the image he had during a stormy time in office. His history has arrived.Filed under: basic human...
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Be a Responsible Voter: Know details, don’t believe GOP mythology
If you blindly believe what the GOP is saying about Detroit‘s bankruptcy, you aren’t doing your homework. You aren’t getting the full story. You shouldn’t pass if this were a class or you shouldn’t get...
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“I Don’t Know How to Fix This.”
US Navy 060302-N-5387K-050 USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Executive Officer, Jeffrey C. Amick, reads a Dr. Seuss book to a 2nd grade class at Sullivans Elementary School (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are...
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U.S. Employment Picks Up
U.S.Employment Picks Up No matter how it gets spun throughout the weekend news cycle, the U.S. job market is improving, and that is great news. If you or a loved one have benefited from this,...
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Education Equity — Truth is in the Facts
http://www.upworthy.com/5-myths-about-our-schools-that-fall-apart-when-you-look-closer-6?c=upw1 For those who complain about our public education system and the taxes spent toward it or quickly blame...
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Who Would’ve Thought: You can be happy about spending time, money, energy?!
Happiness is a common topic around the first of the year, what with resolutions and all. So are time and money. I came across a quote I loved so much I wrote it with a marker above my bedroom...
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For those who STILL don’t get the value of new healthcare act
$3200/mo. insurance for med school grad and teacher Before the Affordable Care Act, this couple was looking at $3200/month for insurance. A medical school graduate and an adjunct writing teacher ― not...
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Learning to Elect to Care
Getting people to even consider changing the way they think about issues affecting others’ daily lives despite facts, common sense and logic is asking a lot. My colleague and I who created Elect2Care...
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Scott Brown For Sale in the New Hampshire
Scott Brown wants the New Hampshire senate seat, and he gets his allowance from the Koch Bros. After telling Politico that Jeanne Shaheen’s ads attacking his votes to support Big Oil tax breaks are...
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Koch Bros: Free Booze to College Campuses if they DON’T sign up for...
Can’t make this stuff up. Who would believe it? Excerpted in part from Organizing for Action: This should humiliate anyone who’s ever been associated with the Koch Bros. or has pride in our country:...
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Supreme Court Reels Right, Women Left Out
It’s almost impossible to process the Supreme Court’s decision allowing certain corporations to impose its religious beliefs on health care and, therefore, not cover the cost of birth control as...
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The Right Wing Strategy of Lies!
Here is a great article on the issue of whether having a gun in the house really makes people safer. The evidence is pretty clear that the risks far outway the rewards, so to speak. But that hasn’t...
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What Democrats Should Have Been Talking About!
The economy continues to improve. Yes, it is still giving more to the rich than the average person, but it is improving for everyone. More jobs. More pay. Less people losing jobs. And the best sting of...
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Obama’s “Wrecked” Economy
Shortly after Barack Obama was elected as our 44th President, Republicans and the right started warning about how he would wreck the economy. As if the last guy hadn’t already wrecked it. And every...
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Obama’s Auto Industry Vision Realized
Times were bleak. The US economy was in the dumps. The stock market was continuing to crash with no bottom in site. Americans were not buying cars. The big three auto manufacturers were in serious...
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I Can’t Wait For Trump To Fix This
Trump is going to fix all our problems. America is currently an awful place but he can make it great again. No really. That’s what he tells us. Sure. He’s short on specifics. And I know he’s a bit of a...
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