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On Common Ambitions, Or, Occupy Wall Street Likes Capitalism – Sort Of

October 17, 2011 By fake-consultant 1 Comment

Well I’m finally back here at work after another recent series of personal adventures; in the middle of all the fun I’ve been finding time to get down to my local “Occupy” event, and for those of you who have not been keeping up I thought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 99%, capitalism, Common Ground, conservative, economy, elections, Occupy, tea-party

Bonzo Goes To Bitburg, 2011

January 21, 2011 By shiltone 5 Comments

Schenectady, New York, was -- and is -- a GE town, rising and falling at the whim of its largest employer like some Depression-era cartoon of fat-cat captitalist evil. For many years, what was good for GE was good for Schenectady -- until … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitalism, general-electric, obama, schenectady

Medicare Part E (Everyone in, no one left out) is finally on the table

June 10, 2009 By annem 18 Comments

June 10, 2009 The United States Congress finally puts "single payer"--improved and expanded Medicare-for-All--health reform on the table at the HELP Subcommitee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) hearing. Click link to view hearing on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitalism, greed, health-care, national, politics

Financial Crisis in Laymens Terms

April 5, 2009 By sue-kennedy 5 Comments

This was forwarded to me and appears to be a pretty good description of how the Wall Street geniuses got us into this situation. Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitalism, credit, financial-crisis

Massachusetts health care debacle continues to unfold–r/t $897Mil in new state spending in Chap58

January 23, 2009 By annem Leave a Comment

btw I'm a nurse and a healthcare justice activist who's been involved in health system reform efforts for 20 years. In the spirit of full disclosure I've shared some observations about MA BCBS and Partners Healthcare that are germaine to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitalism, greed, health-care, ma-politics

Another Monday Financial Meltdown, Where is this plan OOPS!

November 24, 2008 By woburndem Leave a Comment

Ok here we are on another Monday Morning with Thousands of foreclosures going on daily coast to coast and we are bailing out another one of the big banks with cash and insurance way beyond the bailout provisions layed out in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bailout, bush, capitalism, change, democracy, economy, hope, obama, paulson

#2 in per capita income, #47 in taxing that income – the reality

February 18, 2007 By AmberPaw 77 Comments

Go to:  http://www.urban.org...Download the ENTIRE study if you wish.There appear to be two views on taxation:1.  The "no new taxes" view:  "What is mine, is mine.  If you don't have enough to meet your needs, I don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitalism, oliver-wendel-holmes, per-capital, survival, taxation, taxes

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This guy was released? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/15/metro/holbrook-man-charged-after-allegedly-trying-run-over-black-children/

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.@RepCawthorn helped recruit and incite the mob that attacked the Capitol. You know who supports this #MountainMoron seditionist? Las Vegas casino billionaire Stephen Wynn who is also alleged to be a sexual predator like @CawthornforNC. Republican family values?

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honestly, though, I'm just so dang tired of this.
We fought to get the foundation budget studied (for years).
We fought to ensure the foundation budget study was complete (for a year and a half).
We fought to get the foundation budget study implemented (for years).

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"The thought that the MBTA would be shopping for 25 diesel-powered locomotives – instead of efficient, less-polluting electric trains – for the commuter rail system is an idea right out of the last century." 👏👏
https://www.salemnews.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-look-to-electric-not-diesel-solutions-for-rail-lines/article_9fba9e47-c7da-5fbb-92af-ba7a99fbf7e7.html

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