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Entries Tagged as 'the Great Recession'

Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security

June 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism

It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell their friends. Because the Peterson Commission is coming to get your Social Security. Not yours…yours. Yes, you there, the relatively young person who is about to start gathering funds to retire. [...]

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Lessons for the “Tea Baggers” on the Bush Recession and Republican Aid to the Rich

December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, International affairs, Politics

In November of 2008, while Barack Obama was winning an election, George W. Bush was already planning his exit. In addition to the two wars he was leaving us, the Bush Administration was preparing a surprise, a giant drop in the economy. Republicans in Wall Street had engineered speculative financial instruments based on derivatives tied [...]

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