by MCDC | Dec 21, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, History, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security
Isn’t it amazing how Washington works? While the rich get richer, they get tax breaks and Wall Street deregulation? While working families become poorer, they get cuts in pensions that were promised to them. Congress must start defending the needs of working...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Citizens United, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Video, Voter Rights
Senate majority leader Harry Reid gave a hell of a speech in Congress about the agenda of the billionaire Koch brothers, carbon barons who are the prime beneficiaries of Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that ruled that corporate persons had the free speech...
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Economy, Education, Employment, GOP Shutdown, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Video
Robert B. Reich: What are they really after? Connect these seven dots. Number one, they’re against extending unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for more than six months, even though there is still only one job for every three unemployed....
by MCDC | Jan 11, 2014 | Economy, Social Security
The Absurdity of Cutting Social Security to Reduce the Debt By Marty Wolfson Shortly after the ceiling on federal debt was raised on October 17, 2013, the conservative Heritage Foundation notified its readers that the outstanding debt of the United States had...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2014 | Employment, Ethics, Health Care, History, Issues, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Social Security, Video
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
by MCDC | Dec 26, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Employment, Ethics, Minimum Wage, Satire, Sequester, Social Security
Are you ready for a visit from Saint Ayn Rand on the day after Christmas? With a million and a half people losing their unemployment benefits, there’ll be tough times ahead for all you “moochers.” But don’t worry, Rand Paul and crew are just trying to help you,...
