At a townhall in Cincinnati, Republican Congressman Steve Chabot decided that people should not be allowed to videotape the event and had a police officer seize the camera of citizens recording the public event of a public figure inside of a public building: What is even worse is the excuse given by Chabot’s spokesman: Schwartz […]
While corporations are sitting on records amount of cash and still refusing to hire we have the reality absent GOP pushing for more tax cuts for these people. They consider to insist that their almost 30 year old failed experiment in economics is the way to go, that some how corporations will create supply without […]
An op-ed that Eric Cantor wrote for yesterday’s Washington Post is very interesting, to say the least: But the politics of division have reared up, fueled by efforts to incite class warfare. For example, though he often talks about millionaires, billionaires and corporate jet owners paying their “fair share,” behind closed doors the president admits […]
A new article in Bloomberg talks about the biggest banks getting $1.2 trillion in help: Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. […]
I’m sure this will cause some heads to explode: In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is “less popular than much maligned groups like […]
The man of “yes we can” seems more and more like “ehh I really don’t care”. That’s the feeling you get when you hear today’s big news from the campaign trail, in which President Obama rolled out his new “rural job initiative”: At the White House Rural Economic Forum in Peosta, Iowa, Tuesday, President Obama […]
Warren Buffett has a great op-ed in today’s Times, in which he says it is time for Washington to extend the “shared sacrifice” we hear so much about to the rich, including himself: OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends […]
This right here is a big doozy when it comes to the hypocrisy of Tea Party politicians: Tea Party aligned Georgia Rep. Tom Graves (R), who castigates Washington for fiscal irresponsibility, reached an out of court settlement Wednesday after he was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million loan — which his attorney argued is […]
Rick Scott, another darling of the Tea Party, gets some really cheap health care: Gov. Rick Scott, a critic of the federal health care overhaul, is paying less than $400 a year for health insurance for himself and his wife. While Scott is accepting no salary for his job as governor, the multimillionaire and former […]
Apparently a majority of Americans. In 23 polls conducted asking if tax hikes should also be included to help reduce the deficit, a vast majority said “yes”. An average of 65 percent of respondents to be exact. That’s almost 2/3 of this country. The responses ranged from 56%-76%, with the low number being attributed to […]