Bushvilles, Hoovervilles and Lost Causes
Love thy neighbor. That clip is from January 2009 History seems to be repeating itself. More below the fold . . . . .
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Union cuts, and cuts, and then bleeds to death.
Here is to the once mighty Union, now an endangered species. Congratulations, after generations of working in sweatshops and salt-mines as peasants and slaves, your recent ancestors fought for...
View ArticleHuge Fraud! Let's assume you are a dishonest accountant!
You would expect that the people paid by multinational finance giants to know how much money they have would have seen this international financial disaster coming, right? Apparently, these...
View ArticleOff With Their Heads: Fixing Broken Companies
Time after time we see layoffs as the solution to a company's woes. For example, of the 598,000 newly unemployed individuals in the US in January of 2009, 163,000 of these were laid off from the 500...
View ArticleHealth insurance industry CEO salary survey, stay calm for this
While the American people find themselves priced out of health insurance and healthcare, the CEOs of America's largest for-profit health insurers are making record salaries. And perks . . .like private...
View ArticleRoast in Peace
When I was young, "Don't speak ill of the dead" was right up there with "Get your hands out of your pockets" and "Stop wiping your nose on the napkin." There were lists of things one just didn't do and...
View ArticleSomething BIG might happen on Tue. Morning Sept. 8th...
Something, BIG, very big might happen next Tuesday, Sept. 8th. This thing, might tilt the health care debate towards the Public Option. This thing, might change the way people think about the Health...
View ArticleHitmen Aren't Bad People
Yesterday, Keith Olbermann rightly labeled Hannity the world's worst person for claiming that Obama had said that insurance executives are bad people. That is clearly not what Obama said. In fact, his...
View ArticleMichael Moore's Brinks Job with Bankers in Tow
originally posted at Sum of Change Sum of Change and Zej Media are proud to present to you, Michael Moore's Brinks Job with bankers in tow...
View Article"Wake Up" OR "Shut Up" AMERICA
By now many of you have seen the headlines about Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis' impending retirement payments totaling $53 million. http://money.cnn.com/... This retirment package is in addition to...
View ArticleUPDATED - Health Insurance Company CEO: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
[Inspired by a sequence from "A Few Good Men"] Health Insurance Company (HIC) CEO: You want answers? Progressive Congressman: I think I'm entitled to them. HIC CEO: You want answers? PC: I WANT THE...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley CEO John Mack - Madoff's Precursor
During the bush ii years, major bush fundraiser, John Mack, CEO and Chairman of banking behemoth, Morgan Stanley appeared to get away with inside trading while engaging in an incestuous daisy chain of...
View ArticleUrgent: Raise Minimum Wage to $240/hr Or No One Will Have Any Incentive...
I'm going to have to break ranks with the progressive movement now that Obama has imposed "Draconian" pay cuts on Wall Street CEOs. I've been listening to some of the reactions from Wall Street...
View ArticleFaux Fox Fight, Feeble Fake To Rally Somebody, I'm Sure
Obama's fight with FOX news falls a little flat around my blog center. I mean what is he fighting the so called Right about anyway? Health Care? No, Wars? No, Banking and bailouts? not really, but what...
View ArticleThe Prince And The Pauper - Recession Style.
We all know this classic story, at least it it's most basic form: The prince of some kingdom stumbles across a lookalike, they decide to change places and life lessons are learned by both as they live...
View ArticleMy George Bush Vacation
Most of the diaries posted on Daily Kos deal with how the Bush years effected institutions. I've had to wait until the 'mental dust' settled to understand how deeply affected I was by his complete...
View ArticleYou Won't Believe Wall Street's Reaction to Goldman CEO Bonus
Reacting swiftly and with the compassion it is so often accused of lacking, Wall Street’s top CEO’s and bankers rallied to the aid Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein, announcing a weekend fundraising...
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Tax the rich until their freakin eyes bleed
This is why it was so important to put profit over safety, which resulted in the deaths of 29 miners at a Massey coal mine and hundreds and hundreds of safety code violations before that....
View ArticleTragedy strikes Wal-Mart CEO
Business reporters are normally a jaded bunch. Over the past couple of years, they have written one story after another about the tough economic times that have fallen upon the United States. We have...
View ArticleShep Smith lays smartest smackdown ever on BP's CEO "At least act like you care"
Now here is a rant that would make Keith Olbermann jump up and shout "Hallelujah" After BP's CEO Tony Hayward told a British reporter "It's a relatively small leak compared to the volume of water in...
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