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Labor Day: Team America, Including Workers, Built That

September 4, 2012

The GOP, the party of exclusion – no gays seeking marriage allowed, also no Hispanics, no black people, no poor people who are on or ever were on welfare, and no women who are on or ever were on birth control – yeah, that private party spent last week taking sole credit for America's greatness, saying in speeches, announcing on signs and even chanting: We built it.

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Making America the Best Place on Earth to Work

By Leo Gerard

January 31, 2011

Not the wars. Not greenhouse gasses. Not even the deficit. The issue most important to Americans is jobs.

Despite that, jobs failed to make an appearance in the State of the Union address.

The talk was all about business. Business was doing better. Business needed taxpayers to help pay for research and innovation. Business will get government help to eliminate pesky regulations. more »

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2044: The Novel Comes True

By Eric Lotke

June 26, 2009

Remember a while ago I wrote about my new novel, 2044? 2044 starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace. more »

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Voters want a new balance of power. To achieve significant change, voters see a need to rearrange the balance of power in Washington. Business interests, in particular, need to be challenged. Not only does business have too much money and power, described previously, it is not using its power wisely. more »

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Pew Research Center, “Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007,” adults, December 12, 2006 - January 9, 2007. http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/312.pdf. Pew Research Center, “Economic Discontent Deepens as Inflation Concerns Rise Adults,” January 30 to February 2, 2008. http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=395

Tax Breaks Sweeten Purchase of Subprime Lender

From washingtonpost.com

January 15th, 2008

washingtonpost.com — For purchasing subprime giant Countrywide Financial, Bank of America will get half a billion in tax breaks over five years.

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Deliberately and maliciously, conservatives have been dismantling the checks, balances and transparency that made our country great. From suspect campaign contributions to illegal junkets, government now serves the wealthy few, not the American people as a whole. more »