***REUTERS REPORTS OPTIMISM THAT THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY, WHILE SLOW, IS PROCEEDING: The latest data showed that US retail sales rose in August with the biggest gains in the last five months. Best Buy Co Inc. had a bigger quarterly profit than was expected, and they raised their outlook for the future. There were stronger-than-expected jobs and trade data that also helped lift optimism about the ...
DON'T BOTHER US WITH THE FACTS, WE JUST LOVE OUR ANGER! Is it purely American, or just human, to rant and rave about non-existent issues? A segment of our population is just so furious that there's a man in the White House that is not even a citizen --- clearly illegal and unconstitutional! And when presented with the FACTS, these people will look away. They just love their rage, and damn- ...
WHY WE'RE PROGRESSIVES A friend recently shared an e-mail exchange he had with members of his extended family --- about the appropriate role of government in our lives. It began with his attempt to derail the spread of another one of those viral e-mails that disseminates misinformation. We were impressed with the quality and thoughtfulness of the conversation, and wanted to share with our rea ...
We first saw this fascinating graphic on The Rachael Maddow Show. She held it up and said, "Democratic candidates no longer have to run on offering themselves as a choice between themselves and their opponent. All they have to do now is hold up this graph and tell the voters that they have a choice between Democratic results and Republican results." The graph was prepared by Catherine Mulbran ...
***COLIN POWELL SAYS NEW YORK MOSQUE SHOULD GO FORWARD: Former Secretary of State in the George W. administration, Gen. Colin Powell, says he strongly supports a community center two blocks from Ground Zero in New York City. “If you believe in our system…then you can’t make a distinction between two, three, five, and ten blocks” away from the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks. On ABC’s The ...
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE PIE-CHARTS WE JUST LOVE! IT'S THE INCOME-INEQUALITY, STUPID. PONDER THIS: 64% of all the growth in income in the last 30 years has gone to the top 10%.
WHEN IDEALOGY MEETS REALITY
The President began to draw the differences between himself and his critics yesterday in a speech in Ohio --- and, he defined the differences in terms of a value system. Here's a brief example: "I ran for president because for much of the last decade, a very specific governing philosophy had reigned about how America should work: Cut taxes, especially for millionaires and billionaires. Cut regu ...
CHECK-IT-OUT: Timothy Noah writes about The United States of Inequality in today's Slate. Great perspective and more FACTS to back up our previous post on Income Inequality, We especially like the final paragraph which explains so clearly how the 1%-ers are getting away with it. "Why don't Americans pay more attention to growing income disparity? One reason may be our enduring belief in soc ...
Even though the American economy kept growing, hourly wages flattened. The median male worker earns less today, adjusted for inflation, than he did 30 years ago.