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Starbucks CEO Compels Workers to Do Political Bidding

The coffee company’s chief executive, Howard Schultz, conscripted “countless low wage workers into the austerity army” in asking his Washington, D.C.-area employees to promote the billionaire-backed Fix the Debt campaign by scrawling the words “Come Together” on customers’ cups.

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Alan Greenspan, Mr. ‘Fix the Debt’

The man who missed the $8 trillion housing bubble that was generating more than $1 trillion in wealth per year—and the collapse of which led to the current demand crisis that is strangulating the economy—was present at the formation of the corporate-backed Campaign to Fix the Debt.

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CEO’s Demand Austerity to Fix Budget, Not End to Corporate Welfare

A group of corporate CEOs that contributed to the burgeoning deficit crisis want the poor and elderly to largely pay for the mess the greedy Wall Street fat cats helped create.

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What Capitalists Want for Christmas

A group of CEOs led by Macy’s Terry Lundgren calling itself the Fix the Debt coalition is hoping for a deficit-busting austerity budget this holiday season—not a program to create American jobs.

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