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You
have never heard of her. Most people haven’t. But for the few who knew
Rosalind, they can tell you a bit about this quiet, unassuming woman.
Like most women right after World War I, she was expected to find a good
husband, have some children and move into that little house with the
picket fence. Not that she was against all that, it just never seemed to
work out that way for her. For one thing, she wanted to work. But good
jobs for women were about as scarce as hen’s teeth. The... Continue reading ...
One of the major narratives that Barack Obama has been running on ever since he began his political career, is changing the tax code. "Right now, we have a tax code that gives incentives for companies to move offshore. Instead, we must have a tax code that rewards companies that are doing the right thing", proclaimedObama in June 2004.
Running for president in May 2008, he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "We have seen a lack of shared prosperity. So, you've got CEOs making more in a day than ordina... Continue reading ...
TJ Walker, of Forbes, posed 35 questions that Mitt Romney needs to answer relating to his involvement with Bain Capital, his sole claim to fame as a job creator.
Mitt Romney insists that he is not responsible for any of the decisions made by Bain after February 1999. In particular, those decisions that led to bankruptcy, shut down factories, dumped workers' pensions on the backs of tax payers and outsourced thousands of jobs overseas, while Bain and Romney walked away with hundreds of million... Continue reading ...
One might say that offshore accounts, such as those held by Mitt Romney, are the antithesis of capitalism anddownright unAmerican. Shouldn't a presidential candidate, who claims to hold the answers to our economic woes, set the bar a little higher and lead by example?
Excerpt: More than half the world’s money passes almost undetected through a series of financial black holes that shelter it from not only the tax collector but from shareholders, partners and wives, a Tribune-Reviewinvestigat... Continue reading ...
Take
this short, 10-question quiz to test your knowledge of the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act, and
then find out how you compare to the rest of the country, as represented
by the findings of the Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly Health
Tracking Poll. You might actually learn something about it you didn't
know before!
Judge Richard Posner, a prominent and highly respected conservative who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, didn't hold back after observing the conservative backlash over Supreme Court Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding President Barack Obama’s health care law.:
"Because if you put [yourself] in his [Robert's] position
... what's he supposed to think? That he finds his allies to be a bunch
of crackpots? Does that help the conservative movement? I mean, what
would you do if you were Rober... Continue reading ...
Watch this explanation about happened to the American Middle Class...and why the American Dream has slipped so far out of reach for many families, and what we can do about it. To learn more, visit RebuildTheDream.com
TJ Walker
Judge Richard Posner,
