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‘Left, Right & Center’: More Mortgage and Midterm MessesPosted on Oct 15, 2010
Mortgages take center stage yet again on “Left, Right & Center” as the gang discusses Ben Bernanke and the possibility of Fed intervention. Also the final arguments around the midterm elections: Have Democrats made the case, and are Republicans being forced into positions even they don’t want to hold? KCRW:
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By Matzpen, October 18, 2010 at 7:04 am Link to this comment
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The politicians keeping on doing nothing to help regular people during this “Great Recession”, but workers at Mott’s have successfully taken matters into their own hands by going on strike against pay-cuts and winning.
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By mdgr, October 17, 2010 at 10:50 am Link to this comment
Not sure who the “fat lady” is in the former post. I’ll be generous and assume it refers to BP, the Military-Industrial complex, Wall Street and the relatively unchallenged perpetuity of a thoroughly corrupt and ossified two-party system in America.
Report thisBy morristhewise, October 16, 2010 at 9:38 am Link to this comment
There are few things that get a worker angrier then seeing their take home pay
Report thisreduced by taxes. What gets a taxpayer even angrier is watching a fat lady at the
checkout getting two cartloads of food for free with a benefit card. The ultimate in
anger is having that unwed fat lady as a neighbor in a rent free apartment with six
drug addicted children. Taxpayers have to cool it and take the good with the bad,
the good is that their taxes are helping the less fortunate survive, the bad is that
they have to move in with the fat lady.