Bernie Sanders: Congress spends day and night worrying about the wealthy

At a congressional summit Wednesday about the Citizens United decision, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the U.S. Congress was only concerned about the “wealthy and powerful” because of the influence of campaign contributions. Click here for Bernie Sanders Says Congress worries….

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US Political Corruption Extends to the Department of Justice

DOJ failed to issue key wiretap reports during Bush’s second term. It’s difficult to say why, or why congress didn’t demand it, although the report is required by law. Perhaps it’s because DOJ failed to get warrants. According to the corrupt corporate wing of the supreme court, the US government can send its agents to [...]

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Can Congress and the euro could derail the so-called US economic recovery?

President Obama has been lucky the weak American economy hasn’t gone back into recession, at least not so far. Under Obama’s watch, the economy has even managed to create jobs, although at a pace that any previous business expansion beats, except for the dismal record of George W. Bush. But can the so-called business recovery [...]

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Four arrests blemish peaceful ‘Occupy Congress’ rally

OccupyCongress kicked off its first large, coordinated protest on Capitol Hill in several months today, but the first of two big events did not pass without controversy. They came to fight corruption in all three branches of the government: the corrupt corporate wing of the supreme court, both houses of congress and the presidency. They [...]

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Growing wealth widens distance between Corporate Drone lawmakers and real people

BUTLER, Pa. — One day after his shift at the steel mill, Gary Myers drove home in his 10-year-old Pontiac and told his wife he was going to run for Congress. The odds were long. At 34, ­Myers was the shift foreman at the “hot mill” of the Armco plant here. He had no political [...]

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Super-Committee Meltdown-What You Can Do To Save Social Programs, like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare

By Shawn Sorenson You’ve probably heard the news. The supercommittee negotiations have broken down. On the one hand, this is good news for progressives because we have avoided massive cuts to vital programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. On the other hand, we know that the supercommittee was unable to reach a deal for [...]

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The Super-Committee Has Failed! How’d We Get Here? Was It a Failure of Presidential Leadership? See the Video of A Great President of the People and a Mercenary Of Wall Street President

The super-committee has failed, which is good. The failure of the committee is a symptom of the corruption of our government at all levels, from congress to the president to the Koch Brothers/Corporate/Wall Street/Big Oil wing of the Supreme Court, which might be the most corrupted in the history of the United States. Any way, [...]

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Congress is Getting Rich Off of Wall Street

In the Spring of 2010, a bespectacled, middle-aged policy wonk named Peter Schweizer fired up his laptop and began a months-long odyssey into a forbidding maze of public databases, hunting for the financial secrets of Washington’s most powerful politicians. Schweizer had been struck by the fact that members of Congress are free to buy and sell stocks in companies whose fate can be profoundly influenced, or even determined, by Washington policy, and he wondered, do these ultimate insiders act on what they know?

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Warren Buffett Says Raise my Taxes

From the New York Times, Op-Ed Contributor Stop Coddling the Super-Rich By WARREN E. BUFFETT Published: August 14, 2011 Editorial: The Truth About Taxes (August 7, 2011) OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were [...]

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