Posted on 07 April 2011. Tags: Budget, Campaign Contributions, Class Warfare, Crisis, Debt, Deficit, Health Insurance Industry, ideology, It's Not Raining, medicare, Middle Class, Paul Ryan, We're Getting Peed On: the Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Yesterday, I wrote that we should not "insult" Rep. Paul Ryan–but we should rip his scary, fraudulent budget to shreds with facts and a competing vision of America. So, to work: not that this would surprise anyone but Ryan’s biggest contributor to his campaigns has been the insurance industry–including the health care part of […]
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Posted on 23 October 2010. Tags: 2010 Elections, AFSCME, Campaign Contributions, Firefighters, NEA, public employees
With all the media attention to the money pouring into elections from business and right-wingers, here is an interesting tidbit from today’s Wall Street Journal: The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has […]
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