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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster” America’s leaders are small, but Americans are notFree food can be yours for the pickingThe "anti-Starbucks" StarbucksWall Street’s new Halloween trickGoofing up health care reformObama must get going on jobs Bank profits, banker pay and other banker tricks“Local” goes locoA “smart choice” that isn’t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 22,2011
Let’s get real on jobs
You know what’s wrong with the American economy, Bucko? You, that’s what. Yeah, yeah, it’s true that the reckless global gambling schemes of Wall Street bankers are what wrecked our
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 15,2011
Perry Tales: Rick is not who he says he is
Presidential wannabe Rick Perry is flitting all around the country – hither, thither and yon – spreading little “Perry Tales” about himself and the many wonders he has worked a
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 8,2011
Corporate elites still doing a job on American workers
In this week of Labor Day, our country is engulfed in deep economic anxiety, and no doubt you share my heartfelt concern for those Americans who’re suffering the worst of these uncertain times.
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 1,2011
Your job, Mr. President, is jobs
Having just been recently rolled by tea party Republicans in the debt-ceiling circus, Barack Obama now says that his priority is job creation. Wow, what took him so long? Jobs should have been Priorit
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 25,2011
Governor Supercuts for president?
GOP-land is all a twitter, now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced that he’s ready to ascend to the White House.His candidacy was actually launched at a Prayer-A-Palooza in Houston the week
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 18,2011
The downgrading of America
As Lily Tomlin noted, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” Many of us view the deficit ceiling brouhaha between the Obama White House and the laissez-f
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 11,2011
Obama fights for the poor. Poorly.
By gollies, America’s workaday majority of middle-class and poor people have a fighter on our side in Washington. Unfortunately, that fighter is Barack Obama. He waved his white hankie of surren
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 4,2011
America’s shameful leadership
OK, Barack Obama has not exactly turned out to be Mount Rushmore material, but – good God! – the petulant pettiness of right-wing Republican congressional leaders has turned them into a na
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 28,2011
A right-wing jobs program for America
Here’s the core economic problem we’re facing today: Unemployment and underemployment are rampant and entrenched throughout America, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 21,2011
Who killed the bluebird of happiness?
Economists and politicians keep their fingers on the pulse of the Dow Jones Average, following every tick of this narrow measure of Wall Street wealth. But the truer indicator of America’s econo
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