Republicans seem only able to accept one part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision: The broad outline of racial equality. That’s only one part of what Dr. King was working for. Dr. King also had a vision of economic justice for all people, a world in which a hard day’s work would be rewarded with fair pay, in which war would come to an end, in which health care would be a universally recognized human right.

Corporations say that these changes are necessary to help them create jobs, but as James Moran pointed out, the truth is that corporations already have the resources necessary to create jobs, but are refusing to pitch in. They want those extra profits to go to the top 1 percent, not to create jobs for working America.

S. 1738 provides a 3.8 tax cut, but only for households with an income of over $250,000 per year. It’s a special tax deal for the 1 percent most wealthy Americans. It provides no benefit whatsoever to the 99 percent.

People are mad as hell. They really think that they’ve been let down. They worked so hard to achieve what they had achieved in this great country; and the greatest thing about America is not what you’ve achieved, in my opinion, it is having the hope that you can make it in America.

Citizen Stan Clark has a message for those in Congress who are hoping that the protests will go away: “People are pissed because it makes you feel as though this Administration and Congress are looking the other way, because they’re all involved.”

Members of Congress are trying to pretend that they haven’t noticed the anti-corporate protest going on for six days now on the sidewalks of Wall Street, but Green Party congressional candidate Ben Emery is spreading the word.

Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.

among those voting for this resolution against the debt ceiling increase are a huge number of Republican U.S. Representatives who, only a little over a month ago voted in favor of the debt ceiling increase. They flip flopped on the issue, stating that they were for the increase of the debt ceiling before they were against it.

The Obama plan would cut the amount of money going to Social Security and slash Medicare benefits. The Rebuild the American Dream Framework from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, however, would create jobs without sacrificing Medicare or Social Security.

Joe Heck’s political career has been funded by corporations that concentrate wealth in the hands of their top executives instead of creating more jobs… and now, Heck is working to give those corporations, and their fat cat executives, special permanent tax breaks. Heck has his job in Congress, and his financial elite friends are raking in the cash. Keeping that dirty arrangement going seems to be the only jobs plan Heck is willing to consider.