Why They Call it The American Dream -- You Have to be Asleep to Believe It

Seeded on Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:53 AM EDT (youtu.be)

George Carlin tells it like it is:  "There's a reason education SUCKS, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you've got. Because the owners of this country don't want that.

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Health Reform not to Blame for Your Soaring Health Insurance Premiums

Seeded on Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:16 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Annual premiums for employer-sponsored health coverage soared by 9 percent for families and 8 percent for individuals this year from 2010, far faster than wages or inflation. Republicans, predictably, blamed health care reform for contributing to the rise.

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GOP won't touch $7 trillion Unfunded GOP Medicare drug benefit

Seeded on Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:10 AM EDT (MSN)

Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," blaming it in part for the United States' ballooning budget deficit. But they're quiet when it comes to the Medicare drug benefit — another massive health care entitlement, with unfunded f …

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GOP Lapdogs Go To Work to Undo Financial Industry Reforms

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:46 AM EDT (The New York Times)

A direct assault on Dodd-Frank would be so blatantly biased toward banks that it would be sure to provoke a public backlash. So the Republican plan is to delay and disrupt reform.

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EPA Proposes Long-Delayed Rule That Could Save 17,000 Lives a Year

Seeded on Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:08 AM EDT (The New York Times)

The E.P.A. estimates the annual cost of compliance at $10 billion a year, compared with health benefits from reduced hospital visits and lost time on the job at $100 billion a year.

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Income disparity is what tea partyers should be upset about

Seeded on Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:25 AM EST (The Seattle Times)

The tea partyers have a right to be angry. They are just focused on the wrong thing. What they should be mad about — hopping mad — is the growing inequality of income in the United States.

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Disability Applications Balloon to 750,000 per Quarter - Costs Grow to $190 Billion per Year

Seeded on Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:45 AM EST (The New York Times)

The disability insurance program provides crucial support for people who can no longer work because of a disability.

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I Impore You to Use Your God-Given Brain

Seeded on Tue Oct 7, 2008 11:47 AM EDT (godgivenbrain.net)

I am back. And I want to communicate directly with you. And my message to all of you is this: Think! Use your God-given brain. I gave you the ability to think for a reason.

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