It’s a First! Most unemployed Americans attended at least some college, for the first time ever

What will you achieve if you take out student loans, go to college, improve your skills and get ahead of your competition? For the first time in US history, you’ll most likely get a ton of student loan debt and join your competition in a place on a very long unemployment line. But the affluent [...]

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America’s Middle Class Tax Morality

Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! Guess what? Taxes are a way of paying government services, but they’re also a way of voicing group solidarity. A study shows the truth of this. Click on the link below. America's middle-class tax morality

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The Evidence is In: Tax Cuts for the Rich Do Not Create Jobs, They Destroy Jobs

The one percent richest Americans are drowning in money. Corporate earnings are at a fifty year high. The fortune 500 saw an increase in their 2011 profits 16 percent higher than in 2010. The top one percent took 93 percent of all US income growth for the last two years, leaving the 99 percent with [...]

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Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman Says Republican Budget is a “Blood-letting.”

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Warren Buffett, American Patriot, Urges Shared Sacrifice

At an annual meeting for shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett, the world’s third richest person said, “When we are asking for shared sacrifice from the American people, I would at least make sure that the people with these huge incomes get taxed at a rate that is commensurate with the rate [...]

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Jefferson Smith for Mayor of Portland

Jefferson Smith should be the next mayor of Portland, Oregon. Why? The developers that run city hall don’t like him, so he can’t easily be purchased like a can of tomatoes, such as his rivals Charlie “Wall Street” Hales and Eileen “Loves Developer’s Boondoggles” Brady. Mr. Smith is against the new Columbia River Crossing Bridge, [...]

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What would Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith Say About Raising Taxes on the Rich? I.E. The Buffett Rule

The following is a letter from former congressman, Alan Grayson. “I don’t know what Founding Father and President Thomas Jefferson would have thought about TV, cars, spaceships, cellphones, skyscrapers, computers or nuclear weapons. But I do know what Jefferson would have thought about the Buffett Rule. He would have liked it. The Buffett Rule is [...]

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Boycott the Oregonian newspaper, A Propaganda Conduit of the One Percent

The Oregonian newspaper is the primary propaganda organ of the one percent in the state of Oregon. The newspaper reported today that the Beaverton School District is going to lay off 344 employees. The district is the third largest in the state. What is conspicuous is what the Oregonian chose not to mention; much of [...]

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Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke warns jobs recovery may be ‘out of sync’ with economic picture. But What Is He Not Saying?

Bernanke said he believed the jobs problem (lack of job creation) in the USA is a “cyclical” rather than a “structural” problem. What is he really saying? It’s simple. The redistribution of income and wealth from the 99 percent to the one percent is not part of the problem. Of course, he’s lying. It doesn’t [...]

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Tax the Super Pacs

When the traitorous and corrupt Koch Brothers wing of the US Supreme court ruled in favor of personhood for corporations, allowing unlimited spending on political campaigns in its anti-constitutional ruling in the Citizens United Case, it destroyed the remains of honest government. Now Super Political Action Committees rule the political landscape. People don’t. Now somebody [...]

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