Archive for the 'Corporatism' Category
If you aren’t opposed to this health care bill, with no pressure on you and no reason to compromise, WHAT KIND OF PROGRESSIVE ARE YOU? You and I are private citizens. Who is pressuring us to sell out our ideals? Why can’t we oppose this bill and be angry? If people who care about achieving universal health care can’t even hold the line against the insurance industry in their own personal opinions, how can we possibly expect our representatives to stand firm for progressive ideas?
Senator Joe Lieberman has refused to support Healthcare reform in the Senate if it includes any provision that actually reforms healthcare. Cue the outpouring of liberal grief… and then the resigned helplessness of better-this-watered-down-bill-than-nothing that will inevitably follow. Listen guys, I hate Joe Lieberman as much as the next guy but if you’re upset about [...]
The irony of the “bailout compromise” that is expected to pass Congress this week is that the largest-ever robbery of the US Treasury is actually being committed by banks. And like the rest of the lawbreaking overseen by this Administration and Congress, laws are furiously being re-written to make it legal. At least this time, [...]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the US House of Representatives. First elected in 1982 from a solidly middle class Catholic district in Toledo, Ohio, Kaptur has maintained a remarkably progressive voting record in her 26 years in Congress. She is enormously popular in her district, winning 60-80% of the vote in most [...]
Dear Friend, The U.S. government has been turned into an engine that accelerates the wealth upwards into the hands of a few. The Wall Street bailout, the Iraq War, military spending, tax cuts to the rich, and a for-profit health care system are all about the acceleration of wealth upwards. And now, the American people [...]
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