A listing of events on the umbrella group Trea Party Patriots’ website for Monday and Friday showed a total of 145 events — the same listing shows 638 events on tax day 2010. From The Party’s Over? Can we stop pretending the Tea Party movement is something other than the republican base with funny hats?
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70% of Tea Partiers oppose Ryan plan?
How lethal is the Ryan budget plan? 80% of voters oppose Medicare Phase-Out and 70% of Tea Partiers oppose it. In fact, the poll in question doesn’t even refer to full Medicare Phase-Out. It only refers to “cuts”. From How Lethal? | Talking Points Memo Tea party sticks to its guns in opposing a government take over of… Continue reading 70% of Tea Partiers oppose Ryan plan?
Congress Readies To Mobilize In Favor Of Wasteful Medicare Spending
the very same members of congress who voted this month to privatize Medicare in 2022 and enact draconian cuts throughout the 2020s and 2030s are here in town right now defending health care providers’ right to charge the government high prices for services that don’t work. Indeed, as recently as 2009 no less a figure… Continue reading Congress Readies To Mobilize In Favor Of Wasteful Medicare Spending
The Psychology of Cheating
“Cheating is especially easy to justify when you frame situations to cast yourself as a victim of some kind of unfairness,” said Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the use of prescription drugs to improve intellectual performance. “Then it becomes a matter of evening the score; you’re not… Continue reading The Psychology of Cheating
The Power of Mockery
Otpor’s strategy mirrors one promoted by a rumpled Boston academic named Gene Sharp, who is little known in America but inspires tremors among dictators abroad. Sharp’s guide to toppling despots has been translated into 34 languages so far and was widely circulated in Egypt last year in Arabic. After Otpor toppled Milosevic, it began to… Continue reading The Power of Mockery
Productivity Only Causes Persistent Unemployment If Policymakers Fail To Provide Adequate Demand
the point is that when you take the long view it’s not as if steadily increasing productivity leads to steadily declining employment—what it leads to is higher average output and rising living standards. But it only accomplishes that if the policymakers charged with macroeconomic stabilization use fiscal and monetary policy to ensure that there’s a… Continue reading Productivity Only Causes Persistent Unemployment If Policymakers Fail To Provide Adequate Demand
Spitzer to Holder: Prosecute Goldman Sachs or Resign
SPITZER: Senator, I’m going to take a leap. I’m going to say it out loud. Very directly. Goldman Sachs, you lied to the public. You lied to your clients. You’ve got a problem. You come on the show. Sue me. I don’t care. You lied to the public, you should be prosecuted. I’m going to… Continue reading Spitzer to Holder: Prosecute Goldman Sachs or Resign
Let’s Not Be Civil
Whenever there’s something the G.O.P. doesn’t like — say, environmental protection — Heritage can be counted on to produce a report, based on no economic model anyone else recognizes, claiming that this policy would cause huge job losses. Correspondingly, whenever there’s something Republicans want, like tax cuts for the wealthy or for corporations, Heritage can… Continue reading Let’s Not Be Civil
Paul Ryan Refuses To Answer Obama’s Open Mic Critiques. Why Did He Vote For Two Unfunded Wars And Unfunded Bush Tax Cuts?
Ikea’s Third World outsourcing adventure — in the U.S. – How the World Works – Salon.com
Ikea seems to be treating its American workers at a furniture plant in Danville, Virginia a good deal worse than it does its Swedish workers back at home. The workers are trying to unionize; in response Ikea has hired the famous union-busting-specializing law firm Jackson-Lewis. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary for American labor relations… Continue reading Ikea’s Third World outsourcing adventure — in the U.S. – How the World Works – Salon.com