""We hope to buy as much debt as we can and, more fundamentally, to get people asking why it is that debt can be so cheap to everyone except the debtor. Remember: you are not a loan, and you are not alone."

Radical Dude! :-).... Can They Do That?...

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Robert Borosage was quoted in an article in the Miami Herald about the debate to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. more »

Some interesting ideas and tactics from across the pond, please pass on to any OWS people you might know :-)

"The Occupy movement continued to acquire momentum on Saturday as protesters from camps across the country converged in London to begin shaping a national campaign."

MONDRAGON, the World’s Largest, astonishingly successful, Worker-Owned Cooperative

Is this the cultural and economic firebreak against the degenerate civilisation Banksters and a few Billionaires would have us all live in?

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America's corporate tax rate is 35 percent.

But 115 companies on the S&P500 pay less than 20 percent in taxes, according to a study the Capital IQ and The New York Times. That's not even counting 37 companies like Citigroup and AIG that received more in tax credits than they paid.

Hope, change, faith, fairness and equal opportunity.

Simple ideas that drove Obama's election to the Presidency. As an independent progressive, neither right nor left, these are values I cherish.

This headline is numbing. The implications are profoundly disturbing.