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How many Republicans are on Welfare or collecting Farm or Agricultural Subsidies, or other Federal Benefits like Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid

Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:34 AM EDT

The Republicans and Tea Baggers favorite chant is how much they are against socialism and big government. And they love to be against any federal Program regardless to who the program helps or how much good the particular program does.

Yet today after 8 consecutive years of Republican social program cutting, economy ruining tax cuts, war mongering and profiteering our nation is gripped by the [...]

Unless and until we fix the gross immoral wealth and income inequality in this country where the richest 400 have more than the bottom 155 million NOTHING will change and things will only get worse.

Human need before corporate greed!

U.S. Income Equality Trails Iran, Mongolia, and Lithuania, PBS News-hour, September 29, 2011. A useful — and interactive — online info-graphic.

Last year, according to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest Americans paid only 17 percent. That’s because so much of their income is classified as capital gains – which, now at 15 percent, creates a loophole large enough for the [...]

Blatant Fraud

by DavidPierre

The election was certainly a display of how pissed off the populace is. The “turnout to throw out” incumbents was unprecedented and now… gridlock. The turnout unfortunately was mostly older voters as the under 30′s just didn’t show up. What a shame because it is their future that is being ruined and yet they sit silent. Hopefully the House of Representatives will do what [...]