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Friday Feedback: Don’t Bother Calling Wealthy Democrats?

February 17, 2012 By admin

Friday Feedback: This week, regular commentor Joe Weinstein addresses Brent Budowksy’s “Calling Wealthy Democrats.”

Calling Wealthy Democrats

February 9, 2012 By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: Will men and women of the center and left fight as hard as those on the right for their vision of America, or will they surrender from the sidelines? If they surrender, I tremble for the future of the nation.

Michigan’s Free College Tuition Plan

January 18, 2012 By Tanya Somanader

Tanya Somanader: Hoping to refocus priorities in 2012, Michigan’s Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.

The Way Forward for Occupy Portland

November 1, 2011 By Shamus Cooke

Shamus Cooke: If the Occupy Movement demanded that the wealthy and corporations be taxed to create jobs and prevent cuts to social programs, the 99% would see a movement built in its own image

Why We Shouldn’t be Selling the Right to Live in America

October 24, 2011 By Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The visa-for-home swap proposal also comes at exactly the same time the nation is actively closing its doors to foreigners who aren’t wealthy. Is this what America is all about?

Why the Far Right “Supports” the Occupy Movement

October 23, 2011 By Shamus Cooke

Shamus Cooke: The modern far-right’s populist demands can be discredited by the Occupy Movement with one stroke; if we make class-specific demands that clearly benefit working people at the expense of the wealthy and the big corporations, the right wing will be disarmed.

Effects of Agent Orange

August 17, 2011 By James Rhodes

James Rhodes: As President John Kennedy said in the 1960s, regarding the inhumane treatment of the people of Berlin, “We are all Berliners.” Today, the world should say, “We are all Vietnamese.”

More Riches for the Rich

July 6, 2011 By Steve Hochstadt

Steve Hochstadt: But neither party has tried very hard to protect the poorest Americans from the outsized greed of the wealthy. About half of all members of Congress are millionaires, and all of them are beholden to the very wealthy for donations to their constant campaigning.

A Call to Arms for Wealthy Progressives

June 20, 2011 By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: It is time to say we will not let America go, and fall under the one-party state domination of a right-wing extremism that uses words like “liberty” in the service dark visions that would make our Founding Fathers cringe with horror.

Disaster Capitalism in the Budget Debate

April 15, 2011 By Adam Eran

Adam Eran: Historic tax reductions on the wealthy, and the Wall-Street-Fraud recession, have reduced public revenues, and this reduction now makes otherwise too-popular-to-cut programs vulnerable. But are such cuts really necessary?

Wealthy Celebrity Athletes Don’t Need the President’s Backing—But I Know Who Does

January 1, 2011 By Jasmyne Cannick

Jasmyne Cannick: Rather than call Eagles owner Jeffrey Laurie, the President could have really made an impact by addressing employers throughout America on the importance of giving all ex-prisoners—regardless of their football playing ability—a second chance and freeing them from a life without the possibility of employment.