September 24, 2012
Stories You Should Be Reading, September 24, 2012
Union of Concerned Scientists says Fox News misleads its viewers on climate change. — Say it ain’t so?
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September 20, 2012
What Precisely is Wrong with Obama’s “Redistribution” Statement?
With increasing desperation, Mitt Romney, his campaign and his conservative supporters are trying to find a way to deal with all the political carnage. The past few weeks have not been kind to Mittens.
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September 17, 2012
Mitt Romney is a Rich Entitled Ass
“I’ll never convince them [47% of Americans] they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” -Romney
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August 27, 2012
Do Liberals and Democrats Demonize Wealth?
A recent Left Call commenter said, “What I totally don’t understand about you liberals, and Democrats in general, is how you so easily demonize the wealthy. I just don’t get it. You think that the Republican Party is just for the wealthy? That Conservatives are rich people alone?”
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August 12, 2012
Romney’s Choice of Paul Ryan as VP Sends a Clear Message
Mitt Romney’s selection of Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) sends a clear message to:
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August 9, 2012
7 “Facts” Conservatives & Republicans Repeat that Are Not True, Do Not Work, and Do Not Make Sense
There is a lot of nonsense bouncing around the conservative echo chamber. Below I present “facts” that conservatives love to repeat over and over even though they have no grounding in reality. And while this is clearly far from a complete list, it offers a glimpse into the fact-starved void that is the conservative bubble.
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August 1, 2012
You are poor because you aren’t working hard enough
Yeah, I said it. You are poor because you aren’t working hard enough. You find yourself in poverty because you lack the work ethic of the rich and successful. You are a freeloader if you are on food stamps or unemployment insurance. Why don’t you get off your ass and find yourself a job already? I’m tired of your whining. I’m tired of my tax dollars being used to support your sorry ass. Stop being a drain on society and make something of yourself. You live in America, home of the American dream. If you aren’t wealthy, you only have yourself to blame.
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May 26, 2012
Video: ‘Death Spiral Of Falling Demand’ – Venture Capitalist Nick Hanauer On Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer explains why people create the demand which then creates the jobs. He says he makes 1000 times more than the average worker but that doesn’t translate to 1000 times the consumerism of the average worker. He can’t makeup the difference. So with more wealth accumulating within a small pool of wealthy people, that means less wealth spread across the rest of the country. It means less purchasing power and less demand for products and services from tens and hundreds of millions of Americans. This is why supply side (trickle down) economics doesn’t work. We’ve tried it for 30 years. How many more years do we need to continue failed economic policy before we wake up and realize it will never work?
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May 25, 2012
Supply Side (Trickle Down) Economics Doesn’t Work. Can We Move On Now?
This topic will never die on The Left Call, at least not until people stop believing the lie that is trickle down economics. This idea that we need to give rich people more money in the form of tax cuts before they will create more jobs would make for a nice laugh if it wasn’t so damaging to the country and to the prospects of income and wealth equality. And when I say equality, I don’t mean totally equal, I’m talking about getting back to something more reasonable, a time when CEOs only made 30 times the average worker instead of 300 times.
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May 1, 2012
Stephen King Scribes Tirade Against Right-Wing Anti-Tax Idealogues
In a Daily Beast op-ed, author Stephen King blasts the anti-tax crowd that controls the Republican party. King believes it is the patriotic duty of the rich to contribute more and if inequality is not addressed the rich, and their bought politicians, may ultimately face an unpleasant backlash.
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