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Tax Cuts: Wall Street’s Gain Main Street’s Pain
Sources:
Mother Jones: Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked
Corporate profits: Bureau of Economic Analysis
Unemployement rate: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gov. Scott Walker Gets Checked, Mic Checked!
The beauty of this is the witnessing of the involuntary transfer of authority by the right-wing reactionaries, and the priceless look on their faces upon realization that their authority had just been stripped from them. That was pure poetry in motion!
Occupy Wall Street — “We Are What Democracy Looks Like!”
It’s called Occupy Wall Street for a reason: it’s about the MONEY, stupid! The money that has put profits before people and left human values to be measured by price alone. The money that (with the complicity of the Supreme Court) has replaced votes (one for each of us) with dollars (one for the 99 and 99 for the one!) turning democracy into plutocracy. . . Look at the process, which is a bold attempt to embody a “horizontal” paradigm of participatory engagement as an alternative to “vertical” big league moneyball democracy.
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Wall Street Traders Have Profited More Under Obama Than In Eight Years Under Bush
Wall Street banks experienced years of unprecedented growth under President Bush, at least until the crisis of 2008. But in the two-and-a-half years since President Obama took office, the largest Wall Street banks have grown even larger, and profits at banks and trading firms have risen even faster than they did under Bush, the Washington Post’s Zachary Goldfarb reports:
Wall Street firms — independent companies and the securities-trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They earned more in the first 2 1/2 years of the Obama administration than they did during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, industry data show. […]
Top 1% Average Income vs. Bottom 90%
The Big Banks are Terrified – We are Winning
We have had enough – and we’re not going to take it any more. It is up to us to go back on November 7th, and November 8th and every day after that. Already, Move Your Money on Nov 5th, has morphed into Move Your Money Mondays. It is a terrifying prospect for the banks. They will tell you that all of this doesn’t matter. After all, they don’t need no stinking customers. They are sitting on an unprecedented mountain of cash. They don’t make money off deposits. This can’t hurt them, this won’t hurt them. They are lying:
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Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder
Publication November 15th 2011
• 160 pages with b/w illustration throughout paperback ISBN 978-1-935928-49-2
• ebook ISBN 978-1-935928-50-8
http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/who-killed-che/
Saving capitalism? The price could be democracy
Right now everyone seems to be getting terribly excited about saving capitalism. Which is fair enough, in the face of global meltdown. However, it seems to me that the price of saving capitalism is increasingly likely to be “democracy”. Which would be a shame as I’m a big fan of democracy. On the whole, I think it’s a good thing.
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Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons.
Always Question Authority 