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Our dying Empire
Welcome to the Asylum | Chris Hedges — On the endemic political cynicism of dying empire: When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures...
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“Somehow, firing people with jobs became the Republican strategy for job...
“Somehow, firing people with jobs became the Republican strategy for job creation. People who taught our children; policed our streets; picked up our garbage; put out our fires; built and maintained...
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Romney economics: when a fair wage for American workers is considered ‘greed’
Fox News and Mitt Romney, as representatives for the one percent, rely on the Republican base voters to be not only dumb and uninformed, but self-hating as well. How else do you explain support (by...
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One half of all jobs in the U.S. today now pay less than $35,000 a year
We were once a great country that proudly built things, exported goods, and earned a living wage—in large part because we had thriving labor unions. We also had a healthy public sector employment rate,...
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What sort of person…
image: christopherstreet This sort: The Republican Party, the tea party, the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Paul Ryan, Mitt and Ann Romney, John Boehner, CEOs of the most profitable corporations, and...
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Whenever you sip a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, you’re tasting a little Bain Capital
And you’re tasting the Bain Capital success model, Mitt Romney’s business experience, and his ideas about American “job creation.” In 2010, a year after the last round of Hertz layoffs, Carlyle teamed...
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Under Romney’s tax “reforms,” Sheldon Adelson could reap 9 times what he’s...
Think Progress reports: “Romney’s corporate tax reforms would also provide Adelson’s casino company approximately $1.2 billion in tax breaks on overseas profits and $565 million from Romney’s proposed...
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Screw Papa Johns (and Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Applebees, and Longhorn...
Consequences: free speech and the public’s right to boycott Pure Greed. via: soupisnotameal Huffington Post: Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to...
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Veterans Day: Jon Stewart on the obligation to our veterans and Republican...
Source: sandandglass “40 Republicans senators thought it would be wrong to spend $1 billion on a bill to reintegrate veterans into the domestic workforce, partly because of the amount of money...
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John Schnatter – @IAmPapaJohn: Greedy Bastard
Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to his business onto his workers. Schnatter said he will likely reduce workers’ hours, as a result of President...
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The Black Friday shopping spiral of desperation
“Walmart has been shown to come into a community, pay lower wages than the traditional wage standard, and actually depress the wage standard in the area.” — Catherine Ruetschlin On Friday, Americans by...
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The high price we all pay for low-wage workers
The consumer is the true job creator — not the one-percent business owners who hoard their profits instead of fairly compensating their workers. “The more that we can have a conversation about the...
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Costco: the anti-Walmart
You won’t find Costco employees having to rely on food stamps and other taxpayer-subsidized programs like health care and housing, subsidies which Walmart employees must use. Costco is a net positive...
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Welfare Queen Business Model: Walmart is ‘the largest recipient of public aid...
No wonder the Walton family’s personal wealth is equal to the combined wealth of 40% of American families. Walmart is the anti-American dream… it’s the American nightmare. Why would any American shop...
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Darden Restaurants promises to keep prices low — by screwing over its employees
The company that owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden is feeling the effects of its well-publicized tantrum plan to not provide its employees — who get paid very low wages — with health insurance...
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