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Tag Archives: Congress

Idle Corporate Cash Piles Up, by David Cay Johnston, Reuters

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Roy Batty • 0 Comments

U.S. nonfinancial companies hold at least three times more cash and other liquid assets than the Federal Reserve reports, idle money that could be creating jobs, funding dividends or even paying a stiff federal penalty tax for hoarding corporate cash.…

Filed Under: Corporate Coup D'etat

Declaration Of Independence From Rich Assholes

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Roy Batty • 2 Comments

As a free and independent people, we have full power to punish rich assholes for their criminal acts… …

Filed Under: Rich Assholes

Paul Krugman Shills for Obama and Capitalism, by Patrick Martin, World Socialist Website

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Roy Batty • 0 Comments

Evidently Krugman counts on his readers having political amnesia, and forgetting that for the first two years of the Obama administration the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, including, for nearly a year, a 60-vote majority in the Senate, enough to shut down any Republican filibuster.…

Filed Under: Plutocracy

The Real Health Care Debate, by Chris Hedges, TruthDig.com

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Roy Batty • 0 Comments

With the “individual mandate” President Barack Obama, and his corporate backers, extinguished the possibilities of both the public option and Medicare for all Americans. There is no substantial difference between Obamacare and Romneycare. There is no substantial difference between Obama and Romney.…

Filed Under: Plutocracy

Make Your Taxes Disappear!* by Michael Scherer, Mother Jones

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Roy Batty • 0 Comments

For perspective on the debate over tax cuts and deficit fixes, a classic case study of how the tax code became a slush fund for corporate America.…

Filed Under: Plutocracy