A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.
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.
Does the name Cornelius Harvey McGillicudy the Fourth sound like it is attached to a man who has known hard times? Well, it isn’t. The man who calls himself “Connie Mack” in imitation of what he thinks to be working-class bona fides comes from a family of comfortable riches and power, with nationally prominent politicians [...]
On April 1st, Grayson’s bill passed the House of Representatives on a vote of 247 to 171. Then, it went to the Senate… and it has been sitting there on the calendar ever since.
For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.
Barry Welsh: I think we have to look at our trade agreements. It’s my opinion that, most of the time, trade agreements in America are drawn up with the purpose of controlling wages, as opposed to being beneficial to consumer pricing, which is the guise that they’re done under.
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