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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Excessive Corporate Salaries
Jim Hightower reading here in Business Week magazine that the big corporate executives AVERAGED nearly $4 million in pay last year. FOUR MILLION DOLLARS!
That's 50% more than they made the previous year.
For what? Are these overstuffed executives 50%... [read more]
Make Banks Pay for S & L Bailout
Jim Hightower noting that a bank has been likened to a baby: A digestive tract with a huge appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other end.
And, as you know, bankers made a BIIIIIIIG Mess... [read more]
Kuwait : Raping Maids
Jim Hightower reading that the Emir of Kuwait has just lavished expensive gifts, degrees and national titles on George Bush, declaring him [Ready for this?]: Second only to God.
Fine.
What's not so fine though, is that our government continues to defend... [read more]
Drug Companies : Self - Control on Prices
If you ever need an example to illustrate the old homily, "necessity is the mother of invention," look no further than the inventions of drug makers today. I'm not talking about any new drugs, but about the convoluted arguments... [read more]
Clear Marketing Madness
Have you seen this latest marketing ploy that companies are trying? Even a fool can see through their gimmick. I mean literally see through it. It's the "clear" fad -- colorless merchandise. Clear colas, clear mouthwash, clear gasoline and... [read more]
Voice - Mail Hell
There was a 1950ish cartoon in the New Yorker picturing a husband and wife at their breakfast table, with the man saying: "The egg-timer is pinging. The toaster is popping. The coffee pot is perking. Is... [read more]