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dave723"If there are lessons to be learned from Kansas City's dismal experiences, they are about the importance of looking for ways to preserve integrated, economically diverse urban cores; of building up the notion of common community again so that the public sector flourishes rather than withers." (guardian.co.uk)
"Over ten years the Obama plan would plop an additional $336 billion into the insurance companies' pockets -- in the form of subsidies given to those who can't afford to buy health insurance on their own. Okay, this is getting weird: We're going to help the poor by enriching their exploiters?" (commondreams.org)
"Greenspan's nightmare: a dreaded 'labour shortage' is forcing Chinese wages up and this will add to inflation. What is wrong with a 'labour shortage' being resolved in the way that markets resolve other shortages: ie the price of labour goes up until quantity supplied matches quantity demanded." (guardian.co.uk)
"This new student movement has the potential to probe into the inherent flaws that plague the American system. Young people are especially fed up with seeing public dollars line the pockets of the economic elites while education and steady employment increasingly become an unattainable dream." (commondreams.org)
Recognizing Female Personhood: "I can only regard a recent spate of laws that seek to make even miscarriages a criminal matter on the basis of fetal personhood as an obscene failure to either empathize with the difficulty of women's lives or trust them to know best how to live those lives." (openleft.com)
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Recognizing Female Personhood: "I can only regard a recent spate of laws that seek to make even miscarriages a criminal matter on the basis of fetal personhood as an obscene failure to either empathize with the difficulty of women's lives or trust them to know best how to live those lives." (openleft.com)
"If the Democrats want to keep this generation, they need to pass major jobs bills, probably through reconciliation, since the Republicans seem to be only too eager to leave young voters demoralized and unemployed. The push to make jobs the top priority has to come from the grassroots." (commondreams.org)
"Rather than directly creating jobs that pay workers, the $15 billion is going into tax breaks for businesses. This trickle-down approach is even more pathetic than trying to fight a house fire with a squirt gun, for it doesn't even put the squirt gun in the hands of the people caught in the fire." (creators.com)
"A financial transactions tax could help with both the need to rein in speculation and the need to fund vital projects. The Center for Economic and Policy Research estimates that only one-half of one percent would generate at least $60 billion to $100 billion dollars in the United States alone." (yesmagazine.org)
" If scientists want people at least to try to understand their work, they should raise a full-scale revolt against the journals that publish them. It is no longer acceptable for the guardians of knowledge to behave like 19th-century gamekeepers, chasing the proles out of the grand estates." (guardian.co.uk)
"Patients should be fully informed up front of the financial risks they are taking on when they seek medical care. Doctors and others providers should publish and post in their offices their methods of debt collection and the numbers of patients they sue in an average practice year." (commondreams.org)
"It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people."
"The center of American politics was pushed about a hundred degrees to the Right. Obama gets elected and tries to move it about a half degree leftward and we hear screams of 'socialism!' In reality, the only group to receive 'socialism' so far has been the biggest investment banks on Wall Street." (huffingtonpost.com)
"There are more African Americans under correctional control today -- in prison or jail, on probation or parole -- than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. Crime rates do not explain the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African Americans during the past 30 years." (tomdispatch.com)
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