The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.
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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. [Read more]
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America's New Economic Order : The Working Poor
Jim Hightower reading a [rustle of paper] Wall Street Journal story documenting the harshness of life in the new low-wage economy being built for us by Washington and Wall Street.
This article is about the [quote] "working poor" -- an oxymoron... [read more]
Organochlorines : An Environmental Cause Of Breast Cancer
Jim Hightower noting that when trying to figure the cause of an illness, medical researchers have a commonsense rule-of-thumb. They say: "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses."
Well, more and more researchers, doctors and patients are convinced that... [read more]
Boycott BGH Dairy Products
Jim Hightower wishing I had a nicer way to put this, but that carton of milk you bring home to your kids could soon contain an added amount of cow pus and bacteria, as well as residues of dangerous antibiotics.
That's... [read more]
Clinton : The Political Price Of NAFTA
Well, the big NAFTA vote in Congress came down to a choice between working stiffs and Wall Street . . . and guess who got stiffed?
Again.
The President managed to cobble together a majority made of Republicans and what he calls... [read more]
Deja Shoe : Making Cash From Trash
Jim Hightower thinking of the old comedy shtick of the guy who goes to the doctor and says, "It hurts when I do this," so the doc says: "Well stop doing that" [drum bump].
Well, the real cure for the pain... [read more]
Thanksgiving : Monopolistic Middlemen Carving Up America's Food Dollar
Jim Hightower asking how much you think goes to the farmer out of each dollar you spend at the supermarket? Sixty cents? Fifty? Forty?
Well, just a dozen years ago, farmers were getting forty cents, but now they're down... [read more]