So, the Republicans have been busy little beavers, making sure that logos are intact and coins are pretty and big manufacturers get breaks on emission regulations and wireless companies that generously contribute campaign funds to Republicans get tax breaks.
As Warren spoke to the audience, a man interrupted and complained about her support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. When the crowd attempted to shout him down, Warren intervened and asked them to let him speak. He said that he was unemployed and that the Tea Party has been protesting Wall Street longer than OWS.
Some unemployed protesters are taking the OWS movement to the DC office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Approximately 40 protesters are occupying McConnell’s office until they get a meeting with him. Nearly two months ago, protesters in Wisconsin occupied Paul Ryan’s office and were then locked out.
In what appears to be the first of many general strikes to come, Occupy Oakland protestors delivered a devastating blow to the cancerous colon of wild, wild west casino capitalism when thousands of Occupy demonstrators swarmed the big banks.
At what point do we get to demand a refund from politicians who waste too much of the taxpayers’ time and money? If the GOP refuses to do actual work, we should get their salaries back.
The former president of Facebook and founder of Napster wishes all the thousands facing arrests and facial reconstruction of #Occupy Wall Street would take some time to understand all the many hardships that billionaires like him face on a daily basis.
During a Sunday morning appearance on Meet The Press, Ron Paul told host David Gregory that he would abolish federal student loans that millions of student across the country rely on to help them pay for their education. Paul also blamed the government for making education so expensive.
Republicans in Congress have largely refused to help struggling Americans this year, so what can President Obama do about it? Turns out the President throws on his Superman cape and helps financially struggling Americans by giving them money from his own pocket.
Paul Ryan told a student at a Wisconsin town hall earlier today that he should work three jobs to pay for college instead of using Pell Grants.
Be grateful. That is what I am hearing from my conservative friends and I’m listening and would suggest that all my liberal and moderate friends listen as well. This is life changing information.
Tea Party Nation sent a message to their members today urging businesspeople to stop hiring people in an effort to sabotage the economy and make President Obama fail. The message came from activist (and traitor) Melissa Brookstone, and reads as follows.
After failing to live up to many Republicans dreams of suddenly pulling a Kool-aid man and bursting through the walls of a GOP debate with an announcement to run, Christie has sort of faded out of the national conservation.
During this debate in Las Vegas, Cain stood by his previous statements in which he blamed the unemployed for not having jobs. The conservative audience then burst into cheers.
A Florida Republican has introduced a bill to end the ban on the humiliating and dangerous practice of dwarf tossing. State Representative Ritch Workman thinks he can help solve unemployment in the state by allowing ‘launching little people for the amusement of an audience.’ This is despite the fact that Workman himself doesn’t condone the act.
It’s a bill that callously allows hospitals to leave pregnant women to die rather than perform an abortion procedure that could save her life. It’s a death sentence for any woman, even a woman who happens to be pro-life like Rick Santorum’s wife, who would be dead right now if her doctor had refused to perform the life-saving abortion that allows her to be with her husband and children today.
New York City’s billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering evicting all of those horrible 99 percenters who’ve put their personal miserable lives of abject poverty on hold, and devoted themselves to marching for a restoration of economic equality.
One week after officially putting an end to the 24-hour GOP/Fox News hump fest surrounding his flirtation with a presidential run, Gov Christie may have just given some of the Romney doubters in the GOP a reason to be happy about with his endorsement of the former Massachusetts governor.
Instead of dressing up like morbidly obese founding fathers and screaming about their leader being born in Kenya and some covert Muslim Socialist, the people of Iceland actually rose up against the overwhelming tide of corporate greed and deception and reclaimed their country.
Looking at the political landscape these days is like looking at an iceberg adrift on the ocean. You know it will eventually wind up in warmer climate where it will melt, but at the moment all you can focus on is its immense proportions, its icy and formidable composition and the hazard it poses to navigation.
It’s a movement that is growing by the minute. Millions of Americans across the nation have decided that now is the time to revolt against the greed of Wall Street.
