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ProgressiveDem: Category Archive for Financial Crisis

Divide, Dominate, Demean, and Destroy Main Street

FYII, Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Budget Fiasco has Become a Disaster for Regular Americans

It's Main St. Not Wall St. Doing the Sacrificing

ObamaDems Don't Respond With The Truth, But Act Like The GOP Lite

Because The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share, They Have Caused a "Debt" Crisis

GOP Members on Capitol Hill Threaten This Country, Again.....A Re-Run of 1995

What We're Witnessing in Wisconsin is "We The People" Fighting Against Corporate Control of the State

Economic "Growth" in the US Only Works for the Wealthy Few

Obama's Budget: a Triangulated Monstrosity That Will Exacerbate the Jobs Crisis

Financial Industry Makes Billions on Food Stamp Processing, Profiting from the Misery of American Workers and the Unemployed

Jobless Numbers Reflect Washington's Disdain for Regular, Struggling Americans

"Institutionalization of Corporate Influence"

Income Inequality Is Worse in the US than in Egypt

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission tells us what we already knew: Wall St. Robbed and Brutalized Main St. with Gov't Help

Whatever Happened to the Financial Transaction Tax?

Scheming To Let States Declare Bankruptcy and Screw Retired Public Workers Out Of Their Pensions

Creating Job Ideas That Will Excite The President

The 21st Century Gilded Age

We Need a 21st Century FDR and an Economic Bill of Rights

Since Both Parties in Washington are Owned by Corporations, Time for a People's Jobs Party

Taxation Unfairness, the Rich Not Paying Their Fair Share, Is Hurting Everyone Else

Rich Get Richer, While It's "Austerity" for the Rest of Us

FYII, Tuesday, January 4, 2011

New Year's Resolution For Regular Americans: We Won't Pay for the Crisis They Caused

Government Policy: Ignore the Jobless

Obama's Tax "Deal" With the GOP is a Cowardly Capitulation & Betrayal of Common Good Democratic Values

Under Bush and Obama, Fed Lent Trillions to Wall St. Casinos, Multinationals, Foreign Banks, and US Billionaires

Government Protecting the Rich, While Regular Americans Struggle

US Jobless Numbers are Appalling; and Both GOP and Dems Fiddle as the Unemployment Catastrophe Worsens

Some Things Never Really Change

Our Political System Coddles and Protects the Rich Crooks

This Depression Has Hurt Working Families and Worsened Economic Inequality. Where is the 21st Century New Deal?

Straight Talk on Economic Issues Impacting Regular Americans or "Families are just as important as corporations."

Audacious Blackmail Attempt by the Corporatocracy

"Scared Stiff" Geithner and Bernanke Trying to Maintain Illusion of Recovery in Midst of Exploding Foreclosure Fraud

The Rich Protecting the Rich.....and the Rich Getting Richer and Paying Less and Less Taxes

Graphic Look at Inequality in the US or "Where would you rather live?"

US has Another Dubious, Shameful Distinction Among Western Industrialized Nations: Biggest Disparity Between Rich and Poor

Obama Avoids Discussing Continued Off-Shoring of American Jobs

As Obama Extols the Disastrous Larry Summers, His Replacement May Signal Going From Frying Pan to Fire

US Becoming a Banana Republic

Dear President Obama: $50 Billion For Nation's Infrastructure Is Chump Change

Thanks Obama.....Fed Tries To Keep Financial Industry Bailout Secret

Move Over India, US Becoming a Low Wage Nation

The Financial Reform Bill: Obama and Congress' Gift to Wall Street

Back to Hoover, Coolidge GOP Gilded Age? .....Hell for Workers and Massive Unemployment

A Hopeless Future Ahead for Many Americans?

Financial Reform Bill: Much Ado About Almost Nothing...Casino Business As Usual on Wall Street

What a Great Country

Our DINO "Free" Trade Prez Alienating the Democratic Base

To the Horrible, Disaster Causing IMF: Shut Your Pie Hole

Telling It Like It Is: The Truth About Unemployment and Restoring the Rule of Law to Change the Continuing Financial Crisis

Obama and Geithner: the Bobbsey Twins Lying to Placate Big Corporations and Wall Street

Wall Street Looting Class in Cahoots With Many in Government

This Is So Wrong: "Bailout Money Used To Move Jobs Out of US"

Income Inequality: Playing with Fire

Not Since the 1950's has Capitol Hill and White House Both Turned Their Backs on the Jobless While Rewarding Corporate Greed

Thirty Years of Economic Inequality Have Led US To Brink of Financial Collapse

The Tyranny of the Right Wing GOP Minority Helped by DINO Bobbleheads

1937 Redux, Failure to be Repeated in the 21st Century

Long Term Unemployed Want Some Answers......Where is the New Deal for the 21st Century That Creates Jobs?

Bush and Obama Administrations Have Inflicted Increased Economic Injustice On Struggling "Have Less and Have Nots"

Economic injustice: The Chasm Between the Haves and Have Mores and the rest of the American People

Incompetents Managing the Economy Insist On High Unemployment

Unemployment Still in Double Digits Contrary to the Economic Pollyannas

No Jobs, Long Term Unemployment a Sure Fire Recipe for Public Anger

Financial Industry Revolving Door on Capitol Hill (and in the White House) a Cesspool of Government Of, By, and For the Wealthy Few

Are Long Term Unemployed, Victims of This Economic Depression, Being Told They're On Their Own?

Obama Reveals His DINO Credentials as Financial Reformers Have To Fight His Administration as Hard as Wall Street

Shades of Jeb Bush and Lehman Brothers; Deja Vu All Over Again

A DINO President Created a Detrimental, Doofus Deficit Commission

Vote On Auditing the Fed: Senator Bernie Sanders Caves to White House Pressure to Dilute Legislation

Which Will Obama Choose: To Be For The People or The Financial Elites' Interests?

Unemployment in the US Reflects A One Party System of Corporate Power and Government of, by, and for the Wealthy Few

Obama's Proposed Solutions to Problems on Wall Street Leaves Financial Industry Resting Easy and Doing Business as Usual

What American Dream? Regular Americans Who Played by the Rules Getting Shafted, Losing Their Jobs and Their Homes

Dodd's Financial Regulation Legislation Isn't Strong OR Tough Enough

More than 50% of Your Taxes Go To Fund War; While Obama;s Wall Street Foxes and Lobbyists on Capitol Hill Stymie Strong Financial Reform

Working People are Angry

Why Isn't the "Financial Crisis" Inquiry Commission a Real "Financial Crimes" Commission That Puts Perps In the Dock?

White House and Capitol Hill's Financial Reform: A Farce

It's Not Enough Just to Run Alongside the Tough-Regulations-for-the-Financial Industry Bandwagon

Congress Deliberately Creating Diluted, Ineffective Financial Industry Regulation

Pollyanas Predicting Recovery Just Around the Corner are Delusional....We're In A Long Term Crisis

Financial Industry Regulation Becomes A Joke As Congress Works To Protect Rich Donors

Will Unregulated Wall Street Casino Gamblers Force Struggling American Workers To "Take it on the Chin" Again?

Obama Avoids the Wisdom and Advice of Prescient, Knowledgeable Progressive Economists

Wall Street Pattern: Fraud & Lies while Timothy Geithner as then Head of NY Fed Derelict or Culpable for Aiding & Abetting

Two Separate Americas Continue To Exist in This Country

Despite The Recent Financial Meltdown, Some States Play With Public Pension Funds Money At The High Risk Wall St. Casino

Typical Americans Face More Massive Unemployment, Widening Economic Inequality, and Unfair, Regressive Taxation

Obama and Crew Buy Into Deficit Fear Mongering to the Detriment of the American People in this Massive Unemployment Crisis

Desperation of Job Seekers Is Heartbreaking

Dems Acting Like Hybrid Lemming Chicken Little Deficit Hawks

Destructive Consequences of Regressive Taxation and Tax Giveaways for the Filthy Rich are Ruining the Lives of Working Americans

Double Digit Unemployment Hurting Americans and Obama Busies Himself With a Fiscal Deficit Commission?

Financial Transaction Tax in the US and a spot on video about a "Robin Hood" Financial Institution Tax (in the UK)

Obama Administration Deliberately Favoring Wall Street Over Putting Americans Back To Work

Obama, A Talented Rhetorician With Anemic Policies for the Jobless Crisis

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