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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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]
It's About Time : Thanksgiving
Jim Hightower noting that as we approach Thanksgiving in these raucous and tumultuous times, let's be grateful for a few small favors that play to our gentler, more peaceful sides.
For example, while phone companies, cable systems and others are merging,... [read more]
IBM's Executives : Getting " Fat And Mean "
Jim Hightower noting that IBM might be a sinking giant, but its executives are taking it down in high style.
While the company's stock-value has plummeted by 75-percent and nearly half of its employees -- 180,000 people -- have been chopped... [read more]
There Is No Free Market In Health Care
Jim Hightower pointing out that those who oppose health-care reform on the grounds that government shouldn't mess with [quote] "the free market approach" are either pulling your leg . . . or they're running about a quart low on IQ.
There... [read more]
Lockheed's F-22 : A $60 - Billion Waste
Jim Hightower noting that despite all the hoopla about streamlining the military budget, Washington is still throwing bushel-baskets of our money at overpriced weaponry designed to fight enemies we don't even have.
Take Lockheed's F-22 . . . pleeeeze!
Writing in Harper's... [read more]
Congress Punts On Campaign Finance Reform
Jim Hightower saying that the most important need in American politics is to get the big money out of it. The average cost of winning a seat in the House of Representatives last year was $550,000. In the... [read more]