McJobs: Fast food career the new American dream? (VIDEO)

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Arizona to raise taxes on poor, cut them for rich

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If Arizona shifts to a one-size-fits-all income tax, it would raise taxes for 88 percent of Arizona filers while cutting them for the 12 percent with a taxable income of more than $100,000 a year, a legislative analysis shows.

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Republican Bill Says If You Strike You And Your Entire Family Won't get Food Stamps

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Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

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Three States (Maine, Ohio and NJ) Propose Massive Tax Cuts For Millionaires, Tax Hikes for Middle Class

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There are conservative efforts in twelve states to shift the tax burden onto the middle class even while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy.

In three states, conservatives are going even further, proposing massive estate tax cuts for millionaires even as income inequality is at its worse since the 1920s.

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Top Republican Wants To Cut taxes by 10% ... for the rich

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Ten years ago George W. Bush cut taxes to the richest Americans and richest US corporations and no new jobs were creatged...so let's cut more wealthy taxes and tax the poor more!

Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he hopes to cut the tax rate for the richest individuals and corporations to 25 percent to help spur job growth.

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Nearly Identical Anti-Labor Bills Appear In Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, Other States

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Reporting for the progressive Maine blog Dirigo Blue, Gerald Weinand has discovered that a proposed “right to work” law in Maine mirrors similar proposals in several other states, like New Hampshire and Missouri.

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Today, owning a slave costs just $90

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Anywhere between 10-30 million people are in slavery, according to a recent report by CNN.

One expert even told the network that the price of an individual slave has actually fallen to a historic low, to just $90 a person in some regions.

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Don’t Go To College; All Those ‘Good’ Jobs Are Being Taken By Robots Too

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If you went to high school in the past ten years, you may have seen an Ad Council poster hung somewhere that said you will make millions of more dollars over your lifetime if you earn a college degree than if you merely finish high school.

But this burgeoning wage cushion the college-educated once enjoyed no longer exists.

And soon there will no longer be nearly any magical middle-class “knowledge economy” jobs for college graduates, because robots are coming to take those too.

And it turns out the robots are even better at that than they were at manufacturing!

There goes the Sports Scholarships!

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Michael Moore in Madison, Wisconsin: 'This is our Last Chance to Wrestle America Away From the Grubby Hands of the Greedy Rich.'

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Filmmaker Michael Moore will march with members of Madison Firefighters Local 311 to the Wisconsin Capitol today and join a mass rally at the King Street entrance around 2 p.m.

Public Employee Unions Don't Get One Penny from Taxpayers and Can't Require Membership, But the Big Lie That They Do Is Everywhere

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New York Times Celebrates David Koch, America’s Best Person (at union busting)

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Did you notice America’s Greatest Victim getting the NYT “we’re sorry” treatment in Saturday’s paper?

Poor little rich boy David Koch is super sad about how the mean poor/working people are upset because he’s funding and directing the destruction of government unions nationwide.

This makes him feel bad!

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Thousands join Wisconsin protest against governor

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Thousands of people join protests in the US state of Wisconsin against proposals that will limit the power of trade unions.

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Don't Sit on the Sidelines -- This Saturday, Be Part of the Uprising Sweeping the Country from Wisconsin to Your Home Town

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A huge coalition of progressive groups have organized rallies across the country to stand up against harsh budget cuts and tax cheats, and protect the middle class.

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Main Street Movement Erupts As Thousands Across Country Protest War On The Middle Class (VIDEO)

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Eat the Rich

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The rich are richer than ever, but don't ask them for help.

If you want a true picture of New York's current economic plight, take a look at a remarkable graph showing the share of income going to the top 1 percent of earners over the past 100 years.

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Foreclosing of America (VIDEO)

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Sign of the times: CASH FOR TOOLS

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Mexican Trucks Can Be Back on American Highways Soon. Truckers It is Time to Raise Hell Again

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We no longer have a government of the the people,for the people by the people.

Our government responds to corporate greed and the will of special interest.

"Are you with the American people or are you with the Globalist?If you are not with us. Than you're against us"

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