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Tag: Economics

Posted on Mon, Nov 10th, 2014Tue, Nov 11th, 2014

Obama Has Best Job Creation Streak Since 1939 So Republicans Vow To Return To Bush

take our country back

In Republican vernacular, returning to the "old ways" is "taking our country back;" but back to what? If the subject is the economy, it is back to Bush-era economic policies that are wildly popular with conservative mainstream media, but still not austere and severe enough for the Koch brothers.

Posted on Sun, Oct 26th, 2014Sun, Oct 26th, 2014

Chris Christie Doubles Down on Koch Fueled Cluelessness About The Minimum Wage

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Chris Christie refused to let Fox News save him from himself as he doubled down on his misinformed opinion that the country doesn't need a debate about the minimum wage.

Posted on Tue, Oct 21st, 2014

Business and Wall Street Agree: Republicans Are Killing the Economy

income inequality

Now, after over five years of economists' warnings, banks, Wall Street, and the preponderance of retailers have joined Democrats in calling for quick and complete implementation of President Obama's economic policies to save America.

Posted on Thu, Sep 25th, 2014

Who Is Lazier, The Welfare Recipient Or The Rich Guy?

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The right-wing negativity critical of those individuals receiving food stamps and other welfare benefits irritates me. The recipients are always characterized by the political extremists as "lazy."

Posted on Tue, Feb 18th, 2014Tue, Feb 18th, 2014

Former Reagan Adviser Art Laffer Laughably States That Stimulus Caused The Recession

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In what had to be one of the dumbest segments in television history, Laffer tried to make the case that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the stimulus, actually CAUSED the Great Recesssion.

Posted on Fri, Feb 7th, 2014Fri, Feb 7th, 2014

Work Ethic Challenged Republicans Now Claim the ACA Threatens America’s Work Ethic

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Now that their Obamacare kills jobs lie was discredited by the CBO's report and again in testimony to Congress, Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking another way to call "you people" lazy freeloaders.

Posted on Wed, Jan 22nd, 2014Wed, Jan 22nd, 2014

Republican Denialism and the Ugly Truth About Income Inequality

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"The widening divide in incomes between the poor and rich poses the most likely threat to the global economy over the next decade" according to the World Economic Forum

Posted on Sun, Jan 12th, 2014Sun, Jan 12th, 2014

Liberals Have Fought Alone Since the War on Poverty Ended in 1980

poverty weapon of mass destruction

The snide satisfaction conservatives gloat in their declaration that the War on Poverty failed is apropos given how they sabotaged it

Posted on Thu, Jan 2nd, 2014Thu, Jan 2nd, 2014

A Trickle Down Republican Assault Is Forcing Americans To Work Themselves to Death

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Now that Republicans have most Americans working for poverty wages, they can turn their full attention to those nearing their retirement age, and forcing every American to work until they drop dead.

Posted on Wed, Jan 1st, 2014Wed, Apr 11th, 2018

Wealthy Americans Prove Pope Francis’ Point by Threatening Economic Blackmail

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Home Depot founder Ken Langone complained that the Pope is being mean to rich Americans because unlike rich people in other countries, American rich people are benefactors.

Posted on Sun, Dec 29th, 2013

Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message

Pope trickle down

Republican evangelicals have gone mad with rage as Pope Francis and President Obama are delivering the same rejection of their selfish economic ideology.

Posted on Sun, Dec 22nd, 2013Mon, Dec 23rd, 2013

Bill O’Reilly Asks Fox News Viewers to Pray for Every Wealthy Person In America

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Bill O'Reilly has asked his viewers to pray for people he feels are in imminent danger; every affluent person in America.

Posted on Sat, Dec 21st, 2013Wed, Dec 10th, 2014

Republicans Are Making Sure That the Economic Recovery Only Benefits the Rich

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If Americans have learned only one thing about the economic recovery, it is that Republicans will make sure the only beneficiaries of good economic reports are Wall Street and corporations .

Posted on Thu, Dec 19th, 2013Thu, Dec 19th, 2013

Southern Republicans Drag the Rest of the Nation Down by Doing the Kochs’ Bidding

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The real tragedy is that as stupid Southern voters do the Kochs' bidding by keeping Republicans in power, at least in their states, they are dragging the rest of the nation down to their level

Posted on Thu, Dec 5th, 2013

Republican Attempts To Sabotage the Obama Economy Fail as Good News Pours In

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Despite Republicans' best efforts to sabotage the economy, there were three or four suspiciously unreported pieces of good economic news over the past three days.

Posted on Tue, Dec 3rd, 2013Tue, Dec 3rd, 2013

Stop Complaining Republicans, the Minimum Wage Should be $22.62 an Hour

Minimum Wage Kitty

Republicans who are wont to claim they speak for all Americans say the people oppose higher wages, but if the minimum wage kept pace with the top 1%, it would be $22.62 an hour.

Posted on Sat, Nov 23rd, 2013Sat, Nov 23rd, 2013

Mike Huckabee Renews Assault on Sanity of a Living Wage

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Huckabee complains that it is easy to spend somebody else's money; it is apparently far easier from his perspective to starve somebody else

Posted on Mon, Nov 18th, 2013Mon, Apr 21st, 2014

Have Decades of GOP Deregulation & Safety Net Gutting Made Depression the New Normal?

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Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is never afraid to ask the tough questions. Though his Times blog bears the name "The Conscience of Liberal," the title is sort of an unfortunate misnomer.

Posted on Sat, Nov 9th, 2013

Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014

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Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.

Posted on Fri, Nov 8th, 2013Fri, Nov 8th, 2013

Steve King Says if You’re not a Capitalist You Don’t Love America

Steve King

"They don't like the constitution, they don't love this country, they don't appreciate the greatness of America, they don't think of this country the way I do"

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