Mitt Romney says government workers are paid too well and in general government is a bad thing. But he wants to run it. Romney made his fortune by buying companies, laying off the workers, and keeping the money they were making for himself. He apparently thinks everyone but the 1% are paid too well. So maybe that's the plan.
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MORNING MESSAGE: Wall Street’s Unpunished Crimes
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Forgery. Perjury. Investor fraud. Bribery. Money laundering. The body of evidence against individuals at the nation’s biggest banks is overwhelming. Nothing speaks louder about the banks’ guilt than this evidence - nothing, that is, except the billions they’ve paid to settle the charges.
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Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general who is co-chairing President Obama's investigative working group on the mortgage crisis, told members of the House Progressive Caucus that he is beginning to get the resources he needs to hold the people who caused the foreclosure crisis accountable. But he urged them—and progressive activists—to keep up the pressure for accountability.
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So the "general election has begun" proclaims The Hill, and the exhortations from the punditry are for candidates to either,
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This week President Obama derided the draconian budget conceived by Rep.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, notorious for his flip-flops on a broad array of issues, seems to maintain this tendency when he's addressing policies governing education and public schools.
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In today's Progressive Breakfast: Republicans say student-loan interest rates are high because of "Obamacare." House Republicans are trying to block the Violence Against Women act, using a ruse. They oppose the Dream Act and offer a false compromise to make it look like they support the concept.
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Genuine mental illness is a human tragedy that afflicts both the sufferer and those around him or her. Our healthcare system provides inadequate resources for its treatment,. It's no joking matter.
Political craziness, on the other hand, is just crazy. It's sheer lunacy of the Marx Brothers variety.
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Tuesday the Senate voted 54 to 45 to reject a resolution disapproving of the NLRB decision to speed up union elections. The new rules take effect Monday. This is a victory for working people.
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