By William A. Collins | Otherwords.org
The health industry is about making money, not healing. Not much system
To our care;
Can’t find treatment
Anywhere.
It’s great living here in our rich country, as long as you’re rich yourself. Take our health care system. Unlike other wealthy countries, our nation’s [...]
By Rep. Alan Grayson | Interview
“Because Walmart underpays them, the taxpayers end up paying for their Medicaid. Because Walmart underpays them, the taxpayers end up paying for their food stamps. In fact, each Walmart associate costs the taxpayers over $1,000, and it is time to end that.” Following the Thanksgiving protests at Walmart, CNN [...]
By Scott Klinger | Otherwords.org
Beware of wealthy CEOs who are lecturing the rest of us about tightening our belts. While America’s CEOs are fretting about the government’s so-called “fiscal cliff,” millions of American workers face a financial disaster that gets much less media attention. There’s a half-trillion-dollar deficit in the nation’s worker [...]
By Gardner | Blog
The rhetoric behind the “consumer-choice-based” CPI is just smoke and mirrors. Today, we all know that “American” corporations have sent more and more American jobs overseas in order to take advantage of the much lower labor costs and the practically non-existent safety and environmental regulations in many third world nations. As [...]
By Rep. Alan Grayson | Comment
In state after state, the largest group of Medicaid recipients is WalMart employees. I’m sure that the same thing is true of food stamp recipients.
I did not spend Thanksgiving evening with my wife and my five children. I spent it, instead, handing out turkey sandwiches to workers in [...]
By Gardner | Blog
Can we do anything except pray that Democrats will negotiate a Grand Bargain that does not bring more pain to working and middle class Americans?
On November 6th, 2012, we dodged a bullet, a bullet that was fired at our basic governmental social programs, a bullet that was aimed with clear and [...]
By Chipotle and Coalition of Immokalee Workers |Press Release
Chipotle becomes the 11th company to join the CIW’s Fair Food Program, which is designed to create a sustainable tomato industry through respect for the rights and concerns of all involved. DENVER, October 4, 2012 – Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Coalition of [...]
By Bill Maul | Blog
Mitt Romney and the 1 percent were saved by Mr. and Mrs.Tax Payer, who saw the federal budget redistribute wealth to the 1 percent on an unprecedented scale. It appears that Mitt Romney may have hit a few speed bumps on the 2012 campaign trail. One of them was at [...]
By Diana Robinson-Bardyn | Blog
Mon dieu! Paul Ryan fired up the fact checkers, and Former President Bill Clinton was named “Secretary of Explaining Stuff.”
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” And what about 11 years ago? For the next few weeks Americans will be thinking about these questions and [...]
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Quotable Quotes
The good man understands what is right,
the bad man understands profit.
—Confucius
“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds — where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough — a modest living— and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”
–Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
'He leaves us a lesson, which is to never accept any injustice.'
–The French President, François Hollande, speaking of Stéphane Hessel, dead at age 95.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…”
–Thomas Jefferson
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"The laws, Cicero wrote in the days of the Roman Republic, “are silent in time of war.” But what if the war has no end, no defined enemy, no defined territory? How can markets work if the financial behemoths are too big to fail and too big to jail? If the national security state has the power of life or death above the law, and Wall Street has the power to plunder beyond the law, in what way does this remain a nation of laws? " --Katrina van HeuvelRead it on WP
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"It is the killing, it is the permanent war, it is our deranged national priorities. It is the system we live under which requires the serial deaths of all those innocents to maintain our economic health that should appall us. We sup upon the blood and bonemeal that is the byproduct of the idea that is America, and we sleep. And we sleep." -William Rivers PittRead it on Truthout
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By William A. Collins | Otherwords.org
There are certain minimum standards that any president, regardless of party, should be required to meet.
Lesser evil
Ain’t enough,
Back someone
Who’s got the stuff.
It’s hard for me to vote against an incumbent Democratic president — especially after those eight [...]