December 2012
Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged | Alternet →
questionall:
1. Only THREE PERCENT of the very rich are entrepreneurs.
According to both Marketwatch and economist Edward Wolff, over 90 percent of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), personal business accounts, the stock market, and real estate. Only 3.6 percent of taxpayers in the top .1% were classified as entrepreneurs based...
Robert Reich: Organizing McDonalds and Walmart,... →
robertreich:
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza?
Everything.
Jobs are slowly returning to America, but most of them pay lousy wages and low if…
Robert Reich: Organizing McDonalds and Walmart,... →
robertreich:
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza?
Everything.
Jobs are slowly returning to America, but most of them pay lousy wages and low if…
Robert Reich: Organizing McDonalds and Walmart,... →
robertreich:
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza?
Everything.
Jobs are slowly returning to America, but most of them pay lousy wages and low if…
Robert Reich: Organizing McDonalds and Walmart,... →
robertreich:
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza?
Everything.
Jobs are slowly returning to America, but most of them pay lousy wages and low if…
November 2012
“Speaker John A. Boehner entered the fray over possible changes to the Senate...”
– Boehner Steps Into Filibuster Fight : Roll Call News (via sarahlee310)
“If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks...”
– god, this so fucking much.
(via darkjez)
Robert Reich: Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff →
robertreich:
What’s the best way to pressure Republicans into agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class while ending them for the wealthy?
The President evidently believes it’s to scare average Americans about how much additional taxes they’ll pay if the Bush tax cuts expire on schedule at…
Robert Reich: Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff →
robertreich:
What’s the best way to pressure Republicans into agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class while ending them for the wealthy?
The President evidently believes it’s to scare average Americans about how much additional taxes they’ll pay if the Bush tax cuts expire on schedule at…
“You have to wonder in particular about the prominent economists who threw their...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot)
Uh oh: Sea levels are rising 60% faster than... →
Denver Police Refuse to Test 44% of Rape Kits →
jonathan-cunningham:
Trigger Warning for Rape
Colorado police departments are collecting hundreds of rape kits, but a CALL7 Investigation found many of those are not tested. And experts and victims tell us that is a problem because those kits may allow police to identify serial rapists by putting any DNA into a national database.
Kelly Binder says she was drugged and raped two years ago by a...
“Neoliberalism is a philosophy which construes profit making as the essence of...”
– Henry Armand Giroux (via mehreenkasana)
Robert Reich: Why is the White House's Council of... →
robertreich:
Why is the White House trying to scare average people about the consequences of the “fiscal cliff?”
If the President’s strategy is to hold his ground and demand from Republicans tax increases on the wealthy, presumably his strongest bargaining position would be to allow the Bush tax cuts to…
Kids hate-tweet Obama, echoing what they hear at... →
Naked racism as a political strategy if not life philosophy is nothing new to the GOP, but perhaps progressives need to point out that this is the urgent culture war facing our country, not whether PBS deserves its minuscule amount of government funding, because the collateral damage of a racist party are the children.
As a public service, I suppressed my gag reflex and read every one of the...
“And I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame. The...”
– Mike Prysner, US Army veteran of the Iraq war (via disobey)
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a... →
sinidentidades:
A few months after Congress passed a landmark law directing the federal government to dismantle segregation in the nation’s housing, President Nixon’s housing chief began plotting a stealth campaign.
The plan, George Romney wrote in a confidential memo to aides, was to use his power as secretary of Housing and Urban Development to remake America’s housing patterns, which he...
Low Mississippi water levels may halt barges →
sarahlee310:
The stubborn drought that has gripped the Midwest for much of the year has left the Mighty Mississippi critically low — and it will become even lower if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers presses ahead with plans to reduce the flow from a Missouri River dam.
Mississippi River interests fear the reduced flow will force a halt to barge traffic at the river’s midpoint. They warn the...
Robert Reich: Will Tim Geithner Lead Us Over or... →
robertreich:
I’m trying to remain optimistic that the President and congressional Democrats will hold their ground over the next month as we approach the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
But leading those negotiations for the White House is outgoing Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner, whom Monday’s Wall Street…
Peter Drucker: The Dumbest Idea In The World:... →
The real market vs the expectations market
In today’s paradoxical world of maximizing shareholder value, which Jack Welch himself has called “the dumbest idea in the world”, the situation is the reverse. CEOs and their top managers have massive incentives to focus most of their attentions on the expectations market, rather than the real job of running the company producing real products and...
“Carly Fiorina, who reportedly stood to receive more than $42 million after being...”
– Fiorina: ‘It is not fair’ that public workers are ‘so rich’
WHEN GREED SPEAKS. Maybe if cities and states stopped cutting taxes FOR THE WEALTHY, their budgets would balance. (via underthemountainbunker)
Watchqueerencia:
nirvikalpa:
can we talk about how great this is?
file under: things i approve of that make me slightly uncomfortable
