Friday, December 28, 2012

Going Over The Fiscal Cliff “Let It Happen Cappen” And Ten Articles In Support



Going Over The Fiscal Cliff “Let It Happen Cappen” And Ten Articles In Support

Hello dear friends,

The Republicans will never go along with a deal to increase taxes on their wealthy patrons.  President Obama is put in a position of negotiating with himself. He can only offer up larger pieces of the social safety net while exempting higher incomes from the expiring bush tax cuts. It is for that reason that I say let it happen Mr. President. The Republicans are willing to hold the economy hostage if they don’t get their way. All the leverage that the Republicans have is the perceived need make a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. Once we go over the cliff their leverage evaporates.

If we go past January 1st 2013 with out making a deal we will accomplish something we could have never have done within the structure of a deal. That is to get some additional tax revenue from the hyper rich. That is what an overwhelming majority of Americans (seven out of ten) say that they want. That same overwhelming majority does not want cuts to Social Security or Medicare. They want to strengthen those and other programs which build up the middle class. President Obama has a very high approval rating especially compared to the Republican leadership. Simply stated the American people want a shared prosperity. Corporate America wants to increase their bottom line without regard for what is good for ordinary Americans. A radical group of conservatives would like to dismantle Social Security, Medicare and other elements of the social safety net. Look at the fix the debt lobby; they are trying to convince the American people what a bad idea it would be to go over the fiscal cliff. They are peddling a self induced austerity crisis. Believe me the fiscal cliff is a much scarier prospect for them.

Come January 2nd 2013 and no deal; sure the stock market may throw a hissy fit.
Tax rates will go up for everyone. Huge cuts in the military industrial complex will be on the horizon and the debt ceiling will still have to be raised. At this point the pressure will be on the Republicans to mitigate the perceived damage. The pressure will be coming from the upper middle class Republican tax payers and everyone else in the middle brackets. Pressure will come from corporate America to raise the debt ceiling and not tank the economy. Add to that mix the overwhelming majority of Americans who just want a shared prosperity and a chance to make it into or stay in the middle class. The house Republicans will be under extreme pressure to let the American economy get about its business.

Sure the deficit issue is a concern for America. I would question the timing. The Republicans had little concern about the deficit when they rammed thru the Bush tax cuts or when they started two wars of foreign intervention and put them on the national credit card. They weren’t worried about it when they passed the prescription drug benefit (retail), with no effort to negotiate Medicare drug prices. They weren’t worried about it when they supported reckless deregulation of the financial sector leading to a near collapse of the economy. They weren’t worried about it when they bailed out their patrons in the financial sector and left ordinary Americans to twist in the wind, or when they encouraged the off shoring of the American workforce.  Now they would like us to embark on a great crusade of national austerity, austerity for the American people; not for their hyper rich patrons, the defense industry, the medical insurance industry or the ever expanding incarceration industry. Let’s remember that Social Security is a self sustaining program and it is not responsible for the deficit. Let’s also remember that Medicare is far more efficient at dispensing health care to the American people than the private healthcare insurance industry

If we were serious about the deficit may be we should look at inheritance taxation, raising the tax rate on capital gains, a financial transaction tax and a look at the off shoring of corporate profits. Corporate America has managed to buy a disproportionate share of the American politic and to get their way with little regard for the poor, the working class or middle class. After all we are a constitutional democracy where every citizen has one vote.


Here are ten articles which make the intellectual case for calling the bluff of the house Republicans.

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/dont_fear_the_fiscal_cliff/?source=newsletter
Don’t Fear The Fiscal Cliff

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/some_dems_drive_over_fiscal_cliff_then_bargain/
Some Democrats Say Drive Over Fiscal Cliff And Then Bargain.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/22/over_the_fiscal_cliff_we_go_2/
Over The Fiscal Cliff We Go.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/21-5 Playing Taxes Hold’Em ‘GOP Crazies’ Save Progressives From Obama (Again)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/fiscal-cliff-poll-pew_n_2292151.html
Fiscal Cliff Poll: Democrats In 'Strong Position

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/19 Fiscal Cliff: Lets Call Their Bluff

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/19-0 Robert Reich: Obama Has Compromised Too Much on the Fiscal Cliff

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/sen-sanders-president-obama-needs-stand-fi Sen Sanders: President Obama  Needs to Stand Firm Against Cuts to Social Security

http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/13326-dear-mr-president-stop-compromising-start-leading Dear Mr. President Stop Compromising and Start Leading

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/fiscal-cliff-poll_n_2279553.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeaturePhoto&utm_term=Daily+Brief Fiscal Cliff Poll What Americans Would Like A Fiscal Cliff Deal To Look Like.

Here are the links to over 500 more Economic Justice Articles
http://economicjusticelinks.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Raw Links To 562 Economic Justice Articles


Link Table 2
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1 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/25/4_ways_to_improve_americas_labor_market/?source=newsletter
2 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/25/listen_up_marco_rubio_science_lessons_for_the_tea_party/?source=newsletter
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgFiW2xtf0&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
4 http://www.alternet.org/environment/while-germany-headed-80-renewable-energy-were-getting-left-dust
5 http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/11/20/you-think-youre-getting-social-security-but-youre-not-says-multimillionaire-banker/
6 http://billmoyers.com/content/peoples-relief/
7 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/25/deficit-reduction-council-fiscal-cliff_n_2185585.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112612&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
8 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/inequality-and-budget-def_b_2184304.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112612&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
9 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-3
10 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-0
11 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/18-1
12 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/21-9
13 Michael “Waterman” “Circlewider” Hubman http://watercorps.net/ http://righttosharefood.org/ https://twitter.com/
14 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/jim-greer-florida-voting-laws_n_2192802.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112712&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
15 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/obama-appeal-public-fiscal-cliff_n_2196857.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112712&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
16 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/tim-geithner-fiscal-cliff_b_2203892.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112812&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
17 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/alan_simpson_i_hope_grover_norquist_drowns_in_the_bathtub/?source=newsletter
18 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/how_to_make_a_better_president/?source=newsletter
19 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/dear_mr_president_fix_that/?source=newsletter
20 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/the_case_against_cooperation/?source=newsletter
21 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/will_geithner_push_obama_over_the_fiscal_cliff/?source=newsletter
22 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/26/bernie-sanders-nervous-about-obamas-talk-of-entitlement-reform/
23 http://washingtonspectator.org/index.php/The-Economy/naders-new-american-century.html
24 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/the_case_against_cooperation/?source=newsletter
25 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/26-4
26 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/26-0
27 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/26-3
28 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/the_fiscal_cliff_is_a_lie/?source=newsletter
29 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/27
30 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/27-0
31 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/27-5
32 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/27-12
33 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/27-0
34 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/27-2
35 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/the_election_commission_with_no_commissioners/?source=newsletter
36 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/21-9
37 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/21
38 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/21-7
39 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/21-1
40 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/dark_money_obscures_congress/?source=newsletter
41 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/return_of_the_47_percent_the_rights_latest_tax_lie/?source=newsletter
42 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/20
43 http://dccc.org/blog/entry/new_democratic_members_of_the_house?source=mainbox
44 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-3
45 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-9
46 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/3_principles_for_restoring_progressive_taxation/?source=newsletter
47 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/americas_secret_fracking_war/?source=newsletter
48 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/americas_secret_fracking_war/?source=newsletter
49 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/18/victory_for_strangers_heathens_wastrels/?source=newsletter
50 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/17/americas_first_class_warfare_election/?source=newsletter
51 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12
52 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12
53 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/14-5
54 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/14-3
55 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-6
56 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-11
57 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-0
58 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/16-7
59 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/16-1
60 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/16-3
61 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/16-0
62 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/16-0
63 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/16
64 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/15/stop_income_inequality/?source=newsletter
65 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/15/house_gop_leadership_pledged_to_oppose_climate_tax/?source=newsletter
66 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/15-1
67 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/15-8
68 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/14
69 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/14-0
70 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/14-1
71 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/14-4
72 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/14-10
73 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/14-7
74 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/progressives_get_ready_to_push_obama/?source=newsletter
75 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/progressives_get_ready_to_push_obama/?source=newsletter
76 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/13-9
77 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/13-2
78 Robert Reich on the Fiscal Cliff: ‘We’re Back to Where We Were Before the Election’
79 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/13-1
80 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/13-0
81 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/13-0
82 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKZNs745bk&feature=em-unknown
83 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/dear_angry_white_conservatives_chill_out/?source=newsletter
84 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/your_war_may_in_trouble_if/?source=newsletter
85 http://www.causes.com/causes/75449-st-anthony-foundation/actions/1697876?causes_ref=email&template=activity_mailer%2Factivity_update&utm_campaign=action_update&utm_medium=email&utm_source=causes
86 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/youth-vote-gap-republican_n_2100155.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=111312&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
87 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/robert-wolf-obama-wall-street-_n_2119747.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=111312&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
88 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/obamas_grand_bargain_ing_leverage/?source=newsletter
89 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/12/election_2012_everything_wrong_with_citizens_united/?source=newsletter
90 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-6
91 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-0
92 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-11
93 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-5
94 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12-0
95 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12-6
96 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/12/everything_you_need_to_know_about_the_fiscal_cliff/?source=newsletter
97 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/12/anti_science_gopers_vying_for_house_science_chair/?source=newsletter
98 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=111212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
99 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/paul-krugman-democrats_n_2116240.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=111212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
100 http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wall-streets-plan-push-obama-betray-those-who-elected-him
101 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/10/four_more_years_right_wingers_nightmare_come_true/?source=newsletter
102 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/07-7
103 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/06-1
104 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/06
105 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/08-9
106 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/06-8
107 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/06-8
108 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/07-1
109 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/occupy_gets_into_the_debt_market/?source=newsletter
110 http://www.ips-dc.org/pressroom/new_report_ceos_pushing_social_security_cuts_are_sitting_on_massive_retirement_funds_while_underfunding_worker_pensions
111 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/28/maddow-gop-attacking-rice-so-kerry-will-leave-senate/
112 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/28-3
113 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/28
114 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/28-1
115 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/28
116 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-6
117 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-4
118 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-9
119 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-3
120 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-5
121 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-1
122 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/28-6
123 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/28-1
124 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/stuart_stevens_delusional_jackass/?source=newsletter
125 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/five_reasons_to_kill_the_filibuster/?source=newsletter
126 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/let_the_bush_tax_cuts_expire/?source=newsletter
127 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/climate_denying_goper_will_likely_be_chair_of_house_science_committee/?source=newsletter
128 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/opinion/break-up-the-telecom-cartels.html?_r=0
129 http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121128/what-grand-bargainers-simpson-and-bowles-really-stand-for
130 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/28/remarks-president-extending-tax-cuts-middle-class
131 http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/top-economists-iceland-did-it-right-everyone-else-is-doing-it-wrong.html
132 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3867
133 http://video.pbs.org/program/why-poverty/
134 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/29/fighting_our_new_nanny_economy/?source=newsletter
135 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/the_simpson_bowles_consensus_makes_no_sense/?source=newsletter
136 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/area_of_arctic_sea_ice_larger_than_us_melted_this_year/?source=newsletter
137 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/29/liberals_double_down_no_entitlement_cuts/?source=newsletter
138 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/29/republicans_just_dont_get_it_2/?source=newsletter
139 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-0
140 http://www.nationinstitute.org/featuredwork/fellows/3039/the_fiscal_cliff_helped_clear_the_air/
141 http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=c0a59df9-cb1d-4d7f-a1a4-45e9184df259
142 http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=67CDF881-550F-4156-974C-09A92C84B143
143 http://www.thenation.com/blog/171474/dont-eliminate-filibuster-restore-it
144 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/28-3
145 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/29-7
146 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-9
147 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/29-0
148 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/29
149 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-28/dupont-sends-in-former-cops-to-enforce-seed-patents-commodities.html
150 http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/clif-n29.shtml
151 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/29-7
152 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/29-8
153 http://blog.pfaw.org/content/election-mandate-policies-grounded-progressive-american-values
154 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/obama-fiscal-cliff_n_2217118.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=113012&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
155 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/30/fiscal_cliff_deja_vu/?source=newsletter
156 http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/11/obama-blasts-boehner-on-irresponsible-debt-ceiling-150665.html
157 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-weiler/republican-party-zero-credibility_b_2219085.html
158 http://www.publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/Un-Shared_Sacrifice.pdf
159 http://billmoyers.com/2012/11/09/solving-the-six-billion-dollar-problem/
160 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/30/krugman_beware_bipartisan_entitlement_cuts/?source=newsletter
161 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/30/pressuring_gop_obama_takes_his_fiscal_plan_to_pa/?source=newsletter
162 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/29/howard_dean_going_off_fiscal_cliff_the_best_deal_progressive_democrats_are_going_to_get.html
163 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/29/carney_deeply_irresponsible_to_demand_spending_cuts_to_match_debt_limit_increase.html
164 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/obama-fiscal-cliff-budget-deal-bush-tax-cuts?page=1
165 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/obama-fiscal-cliff-budget-deal-bush-tax-cuts?page=1
166 http://www.thenation.com/article/171504/fracking-our-food-supply
167 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/30-4
168 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/30-0
169 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/30-1
170 http://grist.org/article/no-keystone-xl-big-oil-will-just-take-the-train/
171 The political and corporate elites in the industrialized world continue, in spite of overwhelming scientific data, to place short-term corporate profit and expediency before the protection of human life and the ecosystem. The fossil fuel industry is permi
172 http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545
173 http://www.alternet.org/economy/9-greedy-ceos-trying-shred-safety-net-while-pigging-out-corporate-welfare?page=0%2C1
174 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/america_didnt_vote_for_a_grand_bargain/?source=newsletter
175 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/george_w_bush_still_haunts_the_gop/?source=newsletter
176 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/they_bet_and_lost_will_wall_street_be_punished/?source=newsletter
177 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/08-4
178 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/08-0
179 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/a_big_win_for_harry_reid_and_senate_democrats/?source=newsletter
180 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/seventeen_best_excuses_romneys_defeat/?source=newsletter
181 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/shattering_the_rove_myth/?source=newsletter
182 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/michael_moore_election_night_was_a_rebuke_to_neanderthals/?source=newsletter
183 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/what_obama_needs_to_do_now/?source=newsletter
184 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/whats_next_for_americas_economy/?source=newsletter
185 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/why_revenge_is_sweet/?source=newsletter
186 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/the_gops_horrible_california_nightmare/?source=newsletter
187 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/14766-focus-supreme-court-confirms-citizens-right-to-film-police
188 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ralph-nader-why-a-tax-on-stock-trades-should-be-part-of-a-fiscal-cliff-deal/2012/11/30/d6a1285e-3a38-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story_1.html
189 According to Wolff, between 1983 and 2010, the percentage of households with less than $10,000 in assets (using constant 1995 dollars) rose from 29.7 percent to 37.1 percent. The “less than $10,000″ figure includes the numerous households that have no ass
190 http://costoftaxcuts.com/about/
191 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/carbon_pollution_up_to_2_million_pounds_per_second/?source=newsletter
192 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/a_plan_to_drive_conservatives_wild/?source=newsletter
193 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/julian_assange_the_web_can_create_revolutions_or_jail_revolutionaries/?source=newsletter
194 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/09-2
195 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/09-2
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198 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3806
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202 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/07-20
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204 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/elizabeth-warren_n_2088073.html
205 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/big_money_lost_the_battle_but_the_war_goes_on/?source=newsletter
206 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/why_revenge_is_sweet/?source=newsletter
207 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/big_money_lost_the_battle_but_the_war_goes_on/?source=newsletter
208 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/the_final_defeat_of_backlash_politics/?source=newsletter
209 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/time_for_a_conservative_gut_check/?source=newsletter
210 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/whites_only_gop_meets_its_demographic_destiny/?source=newsletter
211 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/the_rights_new_line_obama_has_no_mandate/?source=newsletter
212 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/war_on_drugs_beginning_of_the_end/?source=newsletter
213 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/fox_news_dark_night_of_the_soul/?source=newsletter
214 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/the_20_biggest_sore_losers_of_election_night/?source=newsletter
215 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/the_obama_mandate/?source=newsletter
216 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/exit_poll_many_still_blame_bush_for_bad_economy/?source=newsletter
217 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/barack-obama-reelection_n_2085819.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=110712&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
218 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/04-3
219 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/04/cory_booker_takes_a_vow_of_hunger/
220 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/elizabeth-warren-banking-committee_n_2236898.html
221 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/04/gop_fiscal_cliff_plan_echoes_failed_budget_talks_2/?source=newsletter
222 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/04/poll_republicans_will_be_blamed_if_theres_no_fiscal_cliff_deal/?source=newsletter
223 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/01/1165912/-Selling-off-the-Post-Office-Berkeley-calls-out-Richard-Blum
224 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/opinion/krugman-the-big-budget-mumble.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0
225 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/opinion/speaker-john-boehner-makes-an-offer.html
226 http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-backlash-begins-234518852--politics.html
227 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/how_the_gop_plan_might_raise_taxes_on_the_middle_class/?source=newsletter
228 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/timothy-geithner-fiscal-cliff_n_2247457.html
229 http://www.npr.org/2012/12/05/166489199/a-thin-line-economic-growth-or-corporate-welfare
230 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/05-1
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232 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/05-4
233 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/05
234 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33236.htm
235 http://www.techdirt.com/
236 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/05/moms_to_congress_dont_throw_families_over_the_fiscal_cliff/?source=newsletter
237 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/05/obama_warns_against_another_debt_ceiling_fight_2/?source=newsletter
238 http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/fiscal-cliff-ahead-cue-the-extremists/
239 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-bergthold/is-health-care-part-of-th_b_2241810.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=120512&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
240 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-trumka/listen-to-the-voters--and_b_2241698.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=120512&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
241 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/fiscal-cliff-plan_b_2240254.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=120512&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
242 I’ve written a lot about the GOP’s defiance of reality–its denial of climate science, its simultaneous denunciations of Medicare cuts and government health care, its insistence that debt-exploding tax cuts will somehow reduce the debt—so I often get accus
243 http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/New-stunning-nighttime-views-of-Earth-unveiled-4093936.php
244 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33225.htm
245 http://www.inquisitr.com/422519/corporate-profits-hit-record-highs-as-wages-continue-to-fall/
246 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33213.htm
247 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-biggest-bank-bailouts-in-history-2-is-happening-right-now/265853/
248 http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/poor-women-and-children-faced-with-fiscal-threat/?src=recg
249 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/03-6
250 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/03-0
251 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03-3
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253 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/03-0
254 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/03-6
255 http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/
256 http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/04/1282461/wall-street-warren-banking-committee/
257 http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/05/1287141/britain-doubles-down-on-failed-austerity-policies/
258 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/john-boehner-fiscal-cliff-tea-party
259 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/understanding_the_fiscal_cliff_in_150_seconds/?source=newsletter
260 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/keystone_xl_protesters_blockade_themselves_inside_pipeline/?source=newsletter
261 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/opinion/krugman-class-wars-of-2012.html
262 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ-mrD9tm-0&feature=share
263 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ-mrD9tm-0&feature=share
264 http://truth-out.org/news/item/13092-tax-incentives-to-companies-bleeding-towns-dry-with-few-results
265 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/us/politics/pushing-gop-to-negotiate-obama-ends-giving-in.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0
266 http://www.zcommunications.org/struggles-of-the-past-by-noam-chomsky
267 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14218/foodies_get_wobbly
268 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/how_the_gop_became_so_unreasonable_on_taxes/?source=newsletter
269 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/social_securitys_most_media_friendly_foe/?source=newsletter
270 http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/claire_mccaskill_who_is_grover_norquist/?source=newsletter
271 http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/284302/8/Sarasotas-ACLU-claims-police-target-homeless-
272 http://www.thenation.com/blog/171557/paul-ryan-making-americans-more-favorably-inclined-toward-socialism
273 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/the_case_for_legalizing_pot/?source=newsletter
274 The "fiscal cliff" is a metaphor for a government that no longer responds to the biggest challenges we face because it's paralyzed by intransigent Republicans, obsessed by the federal budget deficit, and overwhelmed by big money from corporations, Wall St
275 http://www.freep.com/article/20121206/NEWS15/121206030/right-to-work-legislation-Rick-Snyder-Republican-leaders?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
276 http://dailybail.com/home/wake-up-america-the-real-us-budget-problem-defense-war-spend.html
277 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/06
278 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/06-4
279 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/09-2
280 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/06/democrats-watch-in-awe-as-mcconnell-filibusters-himself/
281 http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/four_more_years_to_enact_a_new_great_society/?source=newsletter
282 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/06/millionaire-congresswoman-laughs-when-told-65-percent-want-tax-hike-for-the-rich/
283 http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Arctic-climate-change-s-un-glacial-pace-4095158.php
284 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03
285 http://www.thenation.com/article/171504/fracking-our-food-supply
286 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/07-2
287 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/07-11
288 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/07-4
289 http://samuel-warde.com/2012/12/noam-chomsky-how-climate-change-became-a-liberal-hoax/
290 http://samuel-warde.com/2012/12/noam-chomsky-how-climate-change-became-a-liberal-hoax/
291 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/tea-party-quitter-demint_b_2254684.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=120712&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
292 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33261.htm
293 http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/happy-birthday-bradley-write-him-a-letter-of-support
294 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/12/201212824116863716.html
295 http://prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11897/fracking-foreigners-new-report-feds-backs-natural-gas-exports
296 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/opinion/blow-dinosaurs-and-denial.html
297 http://truth-out.org/video/item/13071-why-the-fiscal-cliff-is-a-scam
298 http://truth-out.org/video/item/13071-why-the-fiscal-cliff-is-a-scam
299 http://educationvotes.nea.org/2012/11/30/breaking-news-judge-rules-louisiana-school-voucher-plan-unconstitutional/
300 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03
301 As I like to say, the G.O.P. doesn't just want to roll back the New Deal; it wants to roll back the Enlightenment. But here's what you should realize: when Mr. Rubio said that the question of the Earth's age "has zero to do with how our economy is going t
302 http://links.org.au/node/3123
303 http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2012/11/quick_hits_in_state_news_wisco_1.php
304 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc
305 No fewer than 50 hospitals are threatened with closure in the next six months. Two have already ceased operating due to a lack of health insurance payments, which meant that staff had received no wages for between four and six months. The total debt of ho
306 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13173-the-new-republicans-weighed-down-by-plutocrats-and-preachersjavascript:return
307 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/27/californias-humboldt-state-university-launches-marijuana-institute/
308 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12996-goldman-sachs-global-coup-de-tat.html
309 http://www.nationofchange.org/iceland-did-it-rightand-everyone-else-doing-it-wrong-1354283363
310 http://truth-out.org/news/item/12934-why-so-secretive?-the-trans-pacific-partnership-as-global-coup
311 http://truth-out.org/news/item/13130-entitlements-are-fundamental-human-rights-not-political-poker-chips-to-be-bargained-away
312 http://truth-out.org/news/item/13136-bayou-frack-out-the-massive-oil-and-gas-disaster-youve-never-heard-of
313 http://truth-out.org/news/item/12605-its-the-interest-stupid-why-bankers-rule-the-world
314 US breeds a Chinese-style inmate labor scheme on its own soil. Both state and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep
315 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/08-2
316 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/09-0
317 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/08-3
318 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/09
319 http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/dont_fear_the_fiscal_cliff/?source=newsletter
320 http://www.salon.com/2012/10/18/new_lie_the_government_spends_more_on_welfare_than_everything_else/?source=newsletter
321 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/homeless-rate-in-the-us-remains-steady_n_2269092.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121012&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
322 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10-1
323 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/dethrone-filibuster-king_b_2267339.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121012&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
324 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnOhDhgPyUk&feature=em-subs_digest
325 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/12/10/47486/right-to-work-bill-would-harm-michigans-middle-class/
326 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2010/04/15/7603/where-are-your-tax-dollars-going/
327 Three Decades of Empirical Economic Data Shows That Supply-Side Economics Doesn’t Work
328 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/hostess-pensions-diverted_n_2271868.html
329 http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/110944/no-dont-raise-the-medicare-age
330 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/the-budget-thugs-what-do_b_2274646.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121112&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
331 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10-1
332 http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/11/politics/fiscal-cliff/?hpt=hp_t1
333 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/report/2012/12/11/47645/raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age-would-harm-seniors-and-increase-health-care-spending/
334 http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm
335 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10-2
336 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/09/14-0
337 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/14-5
338 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/11-0
339 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/11-2
340 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/11-1
341 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/11-9
342 http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/11/michigan_gop_push_through_anti_union
343 “Let’s be honest. We’re broke. The plan we offered is consistent with the president’s call for a balanced approach,” said the Ohio Republican. “We’re still waiting for the White House” to do the same.”
344 http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/11/climate_change_denial_why_don_t_they_publish_scientific_papers.html
345 http://www.progressive.org/ellen-brown-interview-audio
346 http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/10/reality-economics/
347 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33290.htm
348 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/11-2
349 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/fiscal-cliff-poll_n_2279553.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeaturePhoto&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
350 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/right-to-work-laws-michigan_b_2283773.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
351 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/right-to-work-michigan_b_2278232.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
352 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33303.htm
353 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harlan-green/michigan-right-to-work_b_2277481.html
354 http://www.ikners.com/2012/12/11/economists-and-the-one-percent-reality-economics-by-michael-hudson/
355 http://www.ikners.com/2012/05/08/austerity-cant-be-just-for-regular-people-by-matt-taibbi-it-didnt-take-long-to-crank-up-the-backlash-against-european-voters-this-is-inevitable-whenever-a-socialist-wins-a-major-election/
356 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33295.htm
357 http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/twinkie-ceo-admits-company-took-employees-pensions-and-put-it
358 Alarms Go Off as Obama Plays Footsie with Raising Medicare Age
359 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/12-0
360 COP18 Failed to Turn Down the Heat
361 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/12-5
362 The political friends of America’s rich aren’t aiming to convince us that higher taxes on the nation’s highest incomes make no sense. They’re just hoping to keep us distracted.
363 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/12-3
364 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/gop-fiscal-cliff-tax-cuts_n_2286096.html
365 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33290.htm
366 How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society. http://rt.com/usa/news/us-public-transport-security-817/
367 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/11-7
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373 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/11-3
374 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2012/12/12/47756/infographic-house-republican-tax-plan-raises-taxes-on-working-families-to-cut-taxes-for-the-rich/
375 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/news/2012/12/12/47008/faith-in-values-forgive-us-our-debts/
376 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2012/12/11/47728/doha-climate-summit-ends-with-the-long-march-to-2015/
377 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/report/2012/12/04/46689/reforming-our-tax-system-reducing-our-deficit/
378 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2010/04/15/7603/where-are-your-tax-dollars-going/
379 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/technology/report/2012/12/10/47481/the-high-return-on-investment-for-publicly-funded-research/
380 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2012/12/05/46817/5-charts-that-show-how-increasing-income-inequality-leads-to-less-opportunity/
381 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2012/12/05/46886/4-charts-that-show-how-rising-income-inequality-increases-pessimism/
382 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2012/12/06/47053/7-ways-that-looming-budget-cuts-to-public-lands-and-oceans-will-affect-all-americans/
383 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10-3
384 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/10-0
385 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/10-6
386 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/10-1
387 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/10-0
388 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/10-10
389 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/10-7
390 http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/10-6
391 http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/301-201/14920-obamas-pot-problem
392 http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/28/the-humiliation-of-bradley-manning/
393 http://www.alternet.org/3-terrifying-things-about-earth-were-denial-about?akid=9724.52318.Op56C1&rd=1&src=newsletter750912&t=3
394 http://justiceforgreece.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/a-seed-for-change-a-documentary-project-by-alex-ikonomidis-and-the-declaration-on-seed-freedom/
395 http://www.nationofchange.org/iceland-did-it-rightand-everyone-else-doing-it-wrong-1354283363
396 http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/13/matt_taibbi_after_laundering_800_million
397 http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/13/matt_taibbi_on_the_unfolding_libor
398 http://www.labornotes.org/content/labor-notes-mark-brenner-exposes-right-wing-lies-behind-right-work
399 http://ctj.org/pdf/unrepatriatedprofits.pdf
400 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/tom-harkin-conservative-m_n_2288696.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121312&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
401 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/beef-investigation-kansas-city-star_n_2284832.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121312&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
402 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/13/filmmakers-capture-iceberg-the-size-of-manhattan-breaking-off-greenland/
403 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/michigans-new-corporate-law_b_2292001.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=121312&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
404 http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/13/clean-water-act-under-attack-why-we-need-to-expand-and-protect-this-landmark-legislation/
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