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A Timeline of Events
A Timeline of Events Steve Benen Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we? 1980: Ronald Reagan runs for president, promising a balanced budget 1981 – 1989: With support from congressional Republicans, Reagan runs enormous deficits, adds $2 trillion to the debt. 1993: Bill Clinton passes economic plan that lowers deficit, gets zero votes […]
Continue readingChart: Women Have To Have A Ph.D. To Make As Much As Men With A B.A.
thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/09/290588/chart-women-phd/
Continue readingThoughts on Diversity and Conformity
There are many things which separate Democrats and Republicans. Perhaps one of the more fundamental of these is our feeling about diversity and conformity. Diversity in thought, or conformity in thought. Diversity in society, or conformity to narrow concepts about who is a real American. Economic diversity, or protection of the privileged. Hope….fear. Future….past. […]
Continue readingDemocrats to reintroduce DREAM Act
Original Politico article here By SCOTT WONG | 5/10/11 7:26 PM EDT Senate Democrats will re-introduce the long-stalled DREAM Act, hoping to tap into momentum from President Barack Obama’s speech along the border Tuesday about America’s need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Bob […]
Continue readingHow Choice Can Detoxify Taxes
How Choice Can Detoxify Taxes (excerpted from Your Money, Your Choice Rethinking Taxes: Proud to Pay by Cait Lamberton) According to experimental research I’ve conducted looking into the efficacy of tax choice, permitting taxpayers to allocate even a small percentage of their income tax to the programs of their choice generates significant increases […]
Continue readingUnity
As the Republicans march in lock step to dismantle programs for children’s education, assistance for working families, and Medicaid/Access, they have accelerated their efforts to also dismantle the entire middle class, for the benefit of the wealthy. The recently proposed flat tax by the Republican dominated State Legislature will significantly raise taxes on working people […]
Continue readingRepublicans Up the Anti
Make no mistake…there is a battle underway to change America, and Republicans have upped the anti, and here is how: – Anti Public Education – The Republican controlled State Legislature and the Republican Governor have slashed funding for schools, with more cuts to come. They cynically do this while, at the same time slashing taxes […]
Continue readingArizona could learn lesson from Lincoln
by Andrei Cherny One hundred fifty years ago this week, Abraham Lincoln was celebrating his birthday aboard the train carrying him on his journey from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C. He would never return home again. Lincoln and so many others perished in the furies of the Civil War in defense of our Constitution and […]
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