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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)"The promise of a prosperous middle-class life with decent work, rising living standards, and the potential for a better future has long been the foundation of the American dream. But as America continues to struggle to recover from the Great Recession, it has become clear that the middle class is in jeopardy -- and many of the policies of the last 40 years are to blame.
Examining the political, legislative, and corporate choices that have pushed the middle class to the brink, Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning journalist, producer, and bestselling author Hedrick Smith details the story of this demise. In his new book, Who Stole the American Dream?, Mr. Smith analyzes how "pro-business" policies dismantled the previous American social contract and tells the stories of the people who have been left behind. ..."
The Book - Who Stole The American Dream
http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith/dp/1400069661
See the Powell Manifesto Here.
http://www.thwink.org/sustain/articles/017_PowellMemo/PowellMemoReproduction.pdf
Commentary Here.
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Cha
(297,220 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)cantbeserious
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Cha
(297,220 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,220 posts)out those at the bottom, fresh. And, call it what it is.. Corporate Welfare for those who are greedy and shrunken hearted.
OT, but I saw this on FB and thought of you..
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Yay~
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Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)Thanks for the thread, Cha.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Because apparently she fawns over Obama 24/7....at least according to him.
K&R
Cha
(297,220 posts)a sad 'cause msnbc isn't spewing rw talking points 24/7.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Last edited Fri Dec 27, 2013, 12:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Here's Glenn on the subject earlier this year:
Chris Hayes regularly criticizes Obama from the left while, post-election, Rachel Maddow sometimes does the same).
From the interview apperently in question:
Greenwald clarified that he wasn't talking about everyone.
Here is Rachel defending Greenwald in August: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/19/1232435/-Rachel-Maddow-on-David-Miranda-and-the-White-House
By the way, reaction from this discredited website, where BOTH Maddow and Greenwald are trashed:
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/08/dear-rachel-maddow-terrorism-under-veil.html
Rachel goes on an "insane rant!" don't you know.
Here is Greenwald interviewing Maddow about her book "Drift:" http://www.salon.com/2012/04/04/interview_with_rachel_maddow
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Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)who went after one of the few channels with good hosts like Maddow, Lawrence and Rev. Al.
I'm shocked to see this from you!
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)I've never said you can't criticize Greenwald. He's actually using some lazy hyperbole here to make a valid or at least debatable point. But he HAS clarified the point previously and it didn't include how much Rachel Maddow sucks. What I have said and implied is you don't get to criticize Greenwald by making stuff up, because you can't see beyond cult of personality. If you are looking for "agenda," there you go.
I have been a big fan of Rachel for a long time, posting her stuff here long before she ever had a TV show, and will defend her when necessary. But you, apparently, would not be aware of that, since you seem to know nothing about me beyond what you want to make up in your head about me.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Something you read on websites like Free Republic.
Your slip is really showing.
Not only do you use right wing memes, but you always seem to show up in threads to defend someone who is attacking Obama.
I'm merely pointing it out.
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Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)You just can't win the argument, and so your baseless, disgusting post.
As I have repeatedly pointed out, you don't have a clue.
But you do have ad Hominem.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The right wing constantly refers to Obama supporters as cult followers and they have since 2008.
Lo and behold, there you go referencing "cult of personality".
Add that to the constant defense of Obama haters like Greenwald and I think it's pretty obvious where you stand.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)But, then, you don't care, do you? Congratulations, you took an thread-jack attack on Greenwald in a thread that wasn't even about him, and absurdly extended it to an implication that I am a troll, and managed to throw in Barack Obama, too (when no one was talking about him), without even managing to defend your original point.
Do you have any idea how silly it makes you look to imply that I am a troll to all the many, many people here who know absolutely that I'm not?
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)It was always bs of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%, and recognized as such by everyone but the brainwashed and highly brainwashable.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)If you truly believe this, then Turd way candidates are not for you. Turds only support the corporatist plan, they do not care about the least among us.
sheshe2
(83,758 posts)Sad...
Cha
freshwest
(53,661 posts)It'd be funny is so many hadn't fallen for the lies, and lost their souls to greed and bigotry. From the link, but the entire piece is worth the read, to understnad the depths of the depravity and the dangerous hypocrisy of the GOP:
A Christmas Speculation
Here are the passages I found in which Jesus tells his followers that they have a duty to take care of children, the poor, and other vulnerable people:
Matthew 18:6, 18:10, 19:21, 23:14, and 25:31-46; Mark 9:36-37, 10:21, and 12:40; and Luke 10:30-37, 11:41, 12:33, 14:12-14, 18:22, and 20:47.
Here are the passages in which Jesus tells his followers to pay their taxes without complaining:
Matthew 5:42, 17:24-27, and 22:19-21; Mark 12:14-17; and Luke 6:30 and 20:21-25.
Here are the passages in which Jesus tells his followers that they arent supposed to obsess about other peoples sins, but should leave that to God, and attend to their own moral failings instead:
Matthew 7:1-5 and 9:10-13; Mark 2:15-17; Luke 6:37, 6:41-42, 7:44-48, 15:2, 18:10-14, and 19 ; and John 8:2-11.
And here are the passages in which Jesus tells his followers to blame the poor and vulnerable for their plight, direct benefits toward the already well-to-do at the expense of everyone else, refuse to pay their fair share of taxes, and obsessively denounce and punish the sins of people they dont like while finding every opportunity to excuse their own sins and those of their friends:
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http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
Cha
(297,220 posts)been saying something like that for a long time now. It's only obvious.
Cha
(297,220 posts)from being killed off by the Plutocracy and their puppets.
Excellent Graphic, she.. eloquently, concisely stated by Randall Aubrey..
Thank you, she~ ILIWIWUITMABOIP
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)for rank-and-file Republicans (and conservatives in general) to stop for a minute and ask themselves why anyone would want to be poor and without basic necessities? For real, even when someone like Limbaugh who makes roughly $50M a year gets taxed at an Eisenhower rate, he or she would still have a few millions to blow, compared to someone like me who has no job and has to rely on monthly government checks to pay for groceries and the rent that are less than a thousand dollars.
I don't get people who vote like that who aren't rich. I really don't.
Cha
(297,220 posts)to do with being brainwashed by those like Limbaugh, Jamaal. And, I don't think it's only confined to America.
It's a human phenomena.. that listening and watching shows for suckers is more important to them than having health care and the benefits that would help them.. if they weren't too busy making misspelled signs accusing President Obama of "Socialism!".
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)to promote the general welfare by almost exclusively pandering to the uber-wealthy and large corporations at the detriment of the rest of society, the story will be one of the ugliest, most ruthlessly corrupt abrogations of duty ever perpetrated imo.
Cha
(297,220 posts)Last edited Fri Dec 27, 2013, 10:23 PM - Edit history (1)
for us.. I don't care what those who have no clue have to say. CLEAN HOUSE IN GOTV 2014!
farmbo
(3,121 posts)Ayn Ryan says something different!
Make this stop!
Cha
(297,220 posts)that's out to kill America, farmbo..
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)degree. Or reduce them to the lowest possible denominator. In this instance I would reduce the theory of economics down to the most basic scenario possible such as maybe ten people stranded on a desert island.
If only one person has all the money, how do the others survive? If that one person should happen to hire the baddest dude on the island as his "enforcer" (for a minimum wage, of course) then the rest are at the mercy of the one with all the occurrence.
However, if the wealth is more evenly spread out between them, there is room for growth, progress, and cooperation. Any of them are enabled to become as rich as possible, but they all have a vested interest in the community and progress is much more likely.
This does not take a degree in economics to figure out.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)degree. Or reduce them to the lowest possible denominator. In this instance I would reduce the theory of economics down to the most basic scenario possible such as maybe ten people stranded on a desert island.
If only one person has all the money, how do the others survive? If that one person should happen to hire the baddest dude on the island as his "enforcer" (for a minimum wage, of course) then the rest are at the mercy of the one with all the currency.
However, if the wealth is more evenly spread out between them, there is room for growth, progress, and cooperation. Any of them are enabled to become as rich as possible, but they all have a vested interest in the community and progress is much more likely.
This does not take a degree in economics to figure out.