Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Glenn Beck has only one objective: To become famous and the most talked-about person in the news media and the viewing audience. And he doesn’t care how he achieves that goal, or how much damage he inflicts along the way — just as long as he does it. Of course, making millions in the process is a bonus. In his mind, becoming famous is priority-one. And if people die and the country fails, so be it. That’s the price he’s willing for America to pay.
Certainly you recall all the “outrage” over middle-class home owners walking away from their mortgages when they could no longer afford them. You couldn’t have possibly missed it. Most of Wall Street and their public relations networks talked about it often. Each time a status report was released on the subject, the “wealthy world” made sure it got top billing for at least a week: “They have a contractual obligation and shouldn’t be allowed to simply walk away from it”. But now that wealthy folks are walking away from their mortgages “at a rate that greatly exceeds the rest of the population”, not a peep from anyone!
Glenn Beck might have some credibility if he wasn’t so obvious about which political party he supports. He could be a great voice for the American people if he wasn’t so obsessed with political ideology. [...]
It’s only natural that Beck be at Fox News. Everyone knows Fox is the gathering place for all those who hate the Democratic Party and love the Republican Party. [...]
MSNBC has removed Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as anchors of live political events. The move was due to a lot of criticism from without and within the network, but no specific names were given other than Tom Brokaw, who said “at times Olbermann and Matthews went too far”. Continue Reading » »
On Monday, March 31, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will announce a proposal that would ‘give the Federal Reserve the power to regulate virtually the entire financial industry’. The proposal will require Congressional approval. Supposedly this is an attempt to give the Treasury Department authority to oversee financial institutes in an effort to ward off the kinds of problems the industry has had over the past year. Continue Reading » »
Chris Wallace, who works for Fox News, has chastised the trio of the morning Fox News show ‘Fox & Friends’. He said he watch the show for two hours on Friday morning and the trio spent nearly the entire time bashing Barack Obama for Obama’s comment “typical white woman”. Wallace said they completely ignored the real news of the day about Bill Richardson endorsing Obama and the State Departments scandal over employees illegally accessing presidential candidate’s passport records. Continue Reading » »