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Talk Nation Radio: Robert Pollin: There Is No Fiscal Crisis
There is no fiscal crisis. There is an unemployment crisis. And there is a solution: tax the banks. The support for this argument is explained by Robert Pollin, the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. His latest book and papers discussed during the program are here: http://backtofullemployment.org
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Talk Nation Radio: Sam Pizzigati: What Serious Progressive Taxes Would Look Like
Sam Pizzigati provides perspective on what serious progressive taxation (and labor organizing and populist activism) would look like via the lessons of his new book “The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970.” Pizzigati is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of http://toomuchonline.org
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The Military Spending Cut Scare
The fearmongering is on. Here’s a typical article, this one from the only daily newspaper in my hometown:
“Defense spending could face large loss from federal cuts
“By: | ndelesline@dailyprogress.com | 978-7243
“Published: September 17, 2012
“Charlottesville Daily Progress
“Charlottesville and Albemarle County could see a potential loss of $46.5 million in defense-related spending if federally mandated cuts, which are slated to start next year, come to fruition.”
There are several ways in which this is misleading. First, “defense” here means military, whether or not defensive. Second, “cuts”
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The Socialism of McCain, Graham, Ayotte
From Senator John McCain’s website: (slight changes marked)
Washington, D.C.–U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today announced the launch of their “Preserving America’s Strength” series of town hall-style meetings in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and New Hampshire highlighting the devastating impacts of the looming defense clean energy and infrastructure cuts now scheduled to take place under budget sequestration next year.
The three
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Guess What % of Americans Know Military Spending Is Increasing
And keep guessing some more, because pollsters are unlikely to ask that question.
A year and a half ago, a poll found that Americans drastically underestimate how high U.S. military spending is.
This fits with consistent polling showing slim majority support for cutting military spending, but strong support for major military cuts when the people polled are told what the current budget it.
Setting aside, however, the absolute size of the U.S. military budget, its size in comparison to the rest of
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Talk Nation Radio: Students Hunger Strike for a Living Wage
Hunter Link of the University of Virginia’s Living Wage Campaign explains why he and other students stopped eating and why workers at UVA can and should be paid a living wage.
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Engineer: Christiane Brown.
Music by Duke Ellington.
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We the 99% Demand a Totally Different Federal Budget
We can fit our demands on a bumpersticker: “Majority Rule” or “People Over Profits” or “Love Not Greed.” But we don’t want to. Our government is doing everything wrong, and we should be allowed to present the full list of grievances. We can, however, give the world a thousand words’ worth in an image, a pie chart to be exact. Our federal budget funds the wrong things. We want it to fund the right things.
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Rebuild the Dream in the Streets
Remarks at Take Back the Dream conference, October 3, 2011.
For videos of this speech and of remarks by Derrick Crowe and Jo Comerford click here: http://warisacrime.org/content/rebuild-dream-streets
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