RATIONAL RESISTANCE
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Biden is the clear choice when it comes to compassionate and decent leadership. In a battle of heart, mind, and character Joe Biden wins by a landslide. We n...
What’s The Deal With Trump Followers?
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Five years ago when Donald Trump road that escalator and announced his candidacy, everyone including most people who are now Trump-for-lifers, believed it was a stunt, and he was clearly unqualifie...May 16, 2013
Apparently we demand more from others than we do of ourselves. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have good paying jobs need to do a lot less critiquing of those who work low paying – and necessary — service jobs.
May 15, 2013
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on Tuesday showing a rapidly shrinking federal budget deficit. The CBO estimates the 2013 federal deficit at $642 billion. That is down from 2012 where it was just over $1 trillion.
April 26, 2013
The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed little change in long-term unemployment in March, with 4.6 million Americans being tossed away like garbage. These are people who want a job but cannot find one, and their elected representatives are doing nothing about it. Republicans, particularly congressional Republicans, have shown very little concern for the unemployed. They reject any attempts to stimulate the economy, and when the long-term unemployed try to get by on unemployment benefits, Republicans try to snatch that from them as well.
April 15, 2013
The Atlantic has put together a collection of 14 charts showing how we pay our taxes and where those tax dollars go. All of the charts are both interesting and informative, but I think it’s the first chart that deflates the Republican logic bubble on taxes.
April 14, 2013
“The whole idea that the government is like a family — completely fallacious.” – Mark Blyth
April 2, 2013
It might only be four years and change since the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked at corporate profits of late. In the 3rd quarter of 2012, corporate profits hit an all-time high of 11.1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is at the same time that the unemployment rate is still nearly 8%, and wages are stagnant or worse.
March 31, 2013
I was glad to see today’s Melissa Harris-Perry (MHP) show focus on the real takers in society, big corporations and their obscenely rich executives. As Americans gather with family today with plates overflowing (as Americans do on just about any holiday), we should remember that tens of millions of Americans rely on food stamps for their next meal.
March 10, 2013
It’s remarkable to me that any Republican could say with a straight face that Obama is a divider when you look at the track record of the Republican Party. After all, it was the GOP candidate for president who divided the country into makers and takers – the infamous Romney “47%” video.
March 5, 2013
With all the recent talk of doom from Democrats and the White House about the negative impact of the “sequester” cuts, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) decides it’s going to favor Republicans.
March 5, 2013
Occupy Wall Street focused our attention on growing wealth inequality in America. The Occupy movement may no longer be in the headlines, but inequality in America has not gone anywhere. The following video demonstrates this imbalance in easy to understand graphical form.