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Divided and Conquered America: How "Independent" Media Undermines Mass Movements For Meaningful Change - Once you understand how the powerful function to divide and conquer us, you break free from the groupthink partisanship that is pivotal in preventing any meaningful mass movements for structural change. How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory - The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network. The Many Errors Of Fact In Speaker Boehner's Wall Street Speech The American Legislative Exchange Council: A Primer On The Premier Right-Wing Corporate Lawmaking Shop - [The ALEC] solicits millions of dollars from corporations to finance a series of conferences where state lawmakers sit down with big business to write model legislation that can be easily propagated across the country at the state level. The laws often work to the economic benefit of the corporate giants who bankroll ALEC. The People vs. Goldman Sachs - A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges. Conservative tax tricks: Did tax cuts grow the economy? - Conservative ideology says cutting taxes makes the economy grow. Let's explore whether this is, in fact, the case. 9 Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts The Real Housewives of Wall Street - Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs? The Truth About Taxes: Little-known facts and the big lie of supply-side economics What the Union Fight is Really About: Defunding the Left - The GOP's new three-part plan to starve the Dems Of the 1%, By the 1%, For the 1% Deteriorating Oil and Gas Wells Threaten Drinking Water, Homes Across the Country The Expendable Middle Class as Republicans Push for Autocracy U.S. Consumers Have Big Banks To Blame For High Gasoline Prices Beggar Thy Neighbor, Beggar Thyself Tax Revenues: Awful, Any Way You Look at the Numbers This Is the Way the World Ends The True Story Of Koch Oil's Multimillion-Dollar Swindle Unequal Protection, Part I: Corporations Take Over Chapter Two: The Corporate Conquest of America Who Got Bailed Out by the Fed? An Anti-Social Document Prepared in Secret by the European Commission The Consequences of Conservatism Analysis Of The Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination And The Coming American Rebellion Class Warfare, the Final Chapter Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment Issa Oversight Committee Staffs Up with Industry Insiders The Road to Revolution - If you think what?s happening in Egypt won?t happen within the United States, you?ve been watching too much TV. It's the Inequality, Stupid Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About First Big Coal Broke the Union. Then It Broke This Town. The Dangers of American Fascism The Rise of Corporations Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?And watch an Interview with the author Matt Taibbi on his article The Wrath of Fools: An Open Letter to the Far Right Wall Street's Big Win The Truth About the Tea Party Invasion of the Home SnatchersThe United States of Inequality
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June 18, 2011
June 18, 2011
Seems that just about the only thing we hear about lately is the national deficit and our debt. Everybody has an ?opinion? and proposed ?fix?, but few like to admit to what really caused it, and nobody wants to talk about who voted to put us in this mess. But the Washington Post has come up with a neat little graphic that list the current members of Congress who voted for these contributors.
The Post, using the Congressional Budget Office numbers, has correctly attributed the Bush tax cuts, Obama Stimulus bill(s) and the war?s in Afghanistan and Iraq as the major, major contributors to our deficit and debt. The chart on the right reflects that cost. You will notice that without those three things our debt would be considerably less than it is today.
The graphic is interactive and in two parts; one for the House of Representatives and one for the Senate. And it?s an overlapping graphic which reflects who voted only for one of the contributors and who voted for more than one. For example, Representative Paul Ryan voted for both the wars and the Bush tax cuts, whereas Representative Ron Paul voted only for the tax cuts.
This sort of ready information is very informative; especially when you recall some of the past comments from these politicians. It?s kind of like the Ryan budget plan; every single Republican in the House voted for it, then went before their constituents and tried to weasel out of it. But the facts are clear: If you voted for any of these three contributors, you are responsible for the deficit and debt.
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