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Republicans Show Their Holiday Spirit By Demanding Billions In Health Care Cuts

Republicans Show Their Holiday Spirit By Demanding Billions In Health Care Cuts: "The Christmas season is allegedly about giving without an expectation of recompense. In politics, representatives are not expected to give gifts to their constituents, but they are expected ensure that every citizen has opportunities to prosper without sacrificing something to a few wealthy elites. Republicans are notorious for tying legislation that helps the majority of Americans to some type of harmful legislation, and the current debate over extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans is their latest dispensation of damage. Republicans opposed the payroll tax cut extension last week, but they expressed interest in supporting the extension on Friday. When Representative Peter King (R-NY) was asked what changed House Republicans’ aversion to extending the payroll tax cut, he replied, “Christmas spirit.” Naturally, one would think that if Christmas spirit is involved with supporting the extension, Republicans would pass it without expectation of recompense because as President Obama said, passing it is “something House Republicans and Senate Republicans should want to do regardless of any other issues.”..."

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How Killer Student Debt and Unemployment Made Young People the Leaders at Occupy Wall Street

How Killer Student Debt and Unemployment Made Young People the Leaders at Occupy Wall Street: ""That we're young only means we have the most to lose by standing idle," say the young protesters mocked by mainstream media.

The sign has a clever double meaning. The young have the most to lose by standing idle and not having their voices heard in the political process, and they have the most to lose by actually being idle — or unemployed.

The media hasn’t learned the lessons from the 1960s, as there is still a tendency to dismiss young people protesting because they are young. You can see this phenomenon in the original New York Times coverage, and it appears in much of the rest. But at the heart of dismissals of young college kids in the 1960s was the idea that they had a very bright future ahead of them that they were taking for granted. For instance, here’s President Nixon in the New York Times, May 1970...."

11 Reasons Why the Unemployment Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think

11 Reasons Why the Unemployment Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think: "Here are 11 unemployment facts that mass media underreport or ignore completely.

President Obama recently addressed the nation during a joint session of Congress and the main theme of that address was the need to create jobs, lots of jobs, millions of jobs. The Great Recession has cost US workers millions of jobs and those jobs have not come back as quickly as they disappeared and in many cases those jobs will never return. According to the Economic Policy Institute, “In total, there are 6.9 million fewer jobs today than there were in December 2007.”

That is only a small part of the jobs-hole story, a story that is often ignored, overlooked and oversimplified by mass media...."

Double Take 'Toons: Off The Job?

The Flood Hasn't Subsided

Unemployment in the U.S.

Unemployment in the U.S. This link is on Google, it's an interactive that shows the unemployment rate in the US. You can do it by state and county. From there you can break it down even more. Some scary stuff.

Bachmann Takes $1.1 M From Taxpayers But Claims Unemployment Benefits Are Unaffordable

Bachmann Takes $1.1 M From Taxpayers But Claims Unemployment Benefits Are Unaffordable: "Today Michele Bachmann claimed that we can’t afford to extend unemployment benefits, but while she has been in Congress, she has taken over $1.1 million taxpayer dollars in salary, subsidies, and benefits...."

The myth of the job creator

The myth of the job creator: "In their drive to restore some sort of economic equity to our society, decrease our deficit and restore some semblance of balance to the federal budget, President Obama and Congressional Democrats have repeatedly called for closing corporate tax loopholes and increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Poll after poll has shown that the American public, and even a strong cross section of Republicans, look favorably upon this idea. And who could blame them? At a time when the rich are getting ever richer while everyone else is wondering how they will keep their heads above water and figure out how to pay for college for their kids, it only makes moral and logical sense that those who are well off should make a little bit of a larger contribution to bring out nation's economy and people back from the brink..."

What Was Really Happening While That Debt Deal Went Down

Libertarians: Duped By Corporate America

Obama Makes Worst Possible Deal

This teenager knows more about our economy than most adults do. These people have no soul to be doing stuff like this. They should be ashamed of themselves. I wonder how they sleep at night.

U.S. Economy Headed For Depression

"Every Man Cannot Have His Way In All Things" President Obama Address