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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Automobile Executives : Out Of Touch With Reality
Jim Hightower pointing out that many top executives today are learning that they can improve their products and services by going incognito into their own stores -- and experiencing first hand how their customers are treated.
But Detroit's top brass hasn't... [read more]
Arron Ahearn : Whistleblower
Jim Hightower saying to Aaron Ahearn: [Whistle] This whistle's for you.
This nineteen-year-old ocean-loving gung-ho navy recruit didn't set-out to be a whistleblower. But sailing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the world's largest aircraft carrier, Ahearn was given an assignment... [read more]
Phil Gramm's Health Care : Pay Or Else
Jim Hightower with my ten-foot-pole, poking into an "alternative" health plan just proposed by Senators Phil Gramm, Paul Coverdell, John McCain, Daffy Duck, Goofy, Pluto and the entire insurance lobby.
The essence of their approach is to make consumers indentured servants... [read more]
Bringing Democracy To The Feds
Jim Hightower noting that there are NOT three branches of government, as we've been taught, but four: Legislative, Executive, Judicial . . . and the monetary system, which is run by something called the Federal Reserve.
Who cares? You do... [read more]
Solution Dog : How To Make Congress Pass A Good Health Care Bill
Jim Hightower presenting: SOLUTION DOG! [Ta Dah!]
DOG, a Big Problem that's really worrying a lot of us Americans is that Congress might pass a weak, health-care reform bill that'll provide inadequate protection for most American families. How can we... [read more]
Coopers & Lybrand : Another Folly In The S & L Saga
Jim Hightower noting that we don't hear much about that scandalous, multi-Gabillion-dollar bailout of the savings & loan industry these days, but don't think for a minute that it's gone away. Nope, it's still . . . [sucking sound]... [read more]