Executives Receive 1/3 of All Pay in America
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data — without counting billions of dollars more in pay that remains off federal radar screens that measure wages and salaries. (Submitted by novenator) More...
Condoleezza Rice Breaks w/ Right Wing And Says pass CIR
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Condoleezza Rice now says that Congress needs to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform. and expressed regret that during the Bush admin., CIR did not get done. Rice: “We need immigration reform. I don’t care if it’s for the person who crawls across the desert to earn $5 an hour, or for Sergey Brin, who came here from Russia and founded Google." (Submitted by jhjacko) More...
Anti-Immigrant Front Group Courts Progressives
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — The deceptively named anti-immigrant front group, Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), released polling data today suggesting that while over half of liberals support a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the US, they also see immigration as liability... Beware PFIR's ties to nationalists. (Submitted by ForumDriv) More...
McCain Reminds U.S. Of Bullet It Dodged In November
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Speaking to Fox News this morning, former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) condemned the Iranian elections, stating that “it’s really a sham that they’ve pulled off and I hope that we will act.” (Submitted by amprather) More...
Minuteman Leader Allegedly Kills 9-Year-Old And Father for $
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Shawna Forde, 41, leader of the Minuteman American Defense, and two of her associates were arrested in connection with the murder of a 9-year-old girl, Brisenia Flores, and her father, Raul, in Arivaca, AZ. Local police are reporting that Forde and her posse broke into the Flores home looking for money and drugs to finance her border watch group. (Submitted by ForumDriv) More...
ANALYSIS: Glenn Beck & Bill O’Reilly Save $400,000/year
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Conservative commentators Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly regularly rail against President Obama’s budget which would fix the Bush tax system. Maybe it’s because Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck benefit tremendously from the broken status quo. According to a new analysis, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly each save $400,000 under the current Bush tax system. (Submitted by thejimmyo) More...
Bush Tax System Saves Limbaugh More Than $1.5 Million a year
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — The current Bush tax system, enacted in 2001 and 2003, showered tax breaks on the very wealthiest Americans and ushered in a decade of tepid job growth and declining real incomes for average American households. (Submitted by AmericanElitist) More...
Senate Conservatives Propose $3.1 Trillion ‘Stimulus Plan,’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — A new analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that the Republican plan would cost over $3.1 trillion over ten years — more than three times the amount of President Barack Obama’s plan — and be largely ineffective at creating jobs. (Submitted by poopsybythebay) More...
Barney Frank: 'The Largest Spending Bill' Is The Iraq War
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) derided the economic recovery package currently before the Senate as "the largest spending bill in history." Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) fired back that the actual largest spending bill in history "is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq." (Submitted by climatebrad) More...
Conservatives Distort Research, Claim to Create More Jobs
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — A more recent paper Romer coauthored concluded that government investment creates more jobs than tax cuts. As this table that Romer and Jared Bernstein compiled shows, government spending has a stronger multiplier effect, and is therefore stronger stimulus. (Submitted by thejimmyo) More...
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