Attacks from every direction
No longer content to just badmouth and vilify hardworking Americans, it seems the right has started actively trying to...
Someone else’s child
Before Andrew Leonard’s paean to paying taxes (inspired by his house catching fire) sparked me to write a different post on Friday, I’d intended to write a wrap-up post, comparing Mitt Romney’s NAACP speech to Joe Biden’s speech. Something Vice President Biden said in his speech reminded me of something else I heard from a speaker at the closing plenary of the Take Back the American Dream conference this year; something brings into focus the stark choice facing voters in November, and why the NAACP audience responded so differently to Romney and Biden.
The problem isn’t outsourcing
The American economy has moved way beyond outsourcing abroad or even “in-sourcing.” Most big companies headquartered in America don’t send jobs overseas and don’t bring jobs here from abroad. That’s because most are no longer really “American” companies. They’ve become global networks that design, make, buy, and sell things wherever around the world it’s most profitable for them to do so.
Hey, Mitt: Leave our teachers alone
It’s no surprise that conservatives think America needs fewer teachers. They’ve done everything they can to accomplish that end, and promise to do much more. What’s mystifying are their claims that fewer teachers would be good for American education.
Disappointed
Apparently, the people of America are vulnerable to lies and propaganda paid for by Karl Rove, Charles and David Koch,...
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