Monthly Archives: June 2011

Brit Hume: Understanding the Debt Limit. Fox News, June 27, 2011.

Brit Hume’s take on the debt limit ceiling fiasco. Continue reading

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Republicans declare war on the middle class. Cenk Uygur June 24, 2011 video transcript

Senator Frank Lautenberg, Democrat from New Jersey, and former White House Deputy Secretary Bill Burton talk about some GOP governors’ recent attcks on the bargaining rights of state workers. Continue reading

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The main event: Congress takes a gamble on America’s debt. Down to the wire: GOP daring Dems to show budget backbone. Cenk Uygur June 24, 2011 video transcript

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein shares his thoughts on why top GOP leaders fled the debt talks and how it will affect the country’s economy. Continue reading

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Mendte: Lawmakers have too many days off. Members of Congress only work half a year.

All you hear today from Congress is the need to cut: cut waste, cut spending, cut the budget. But how about cutting the number of weeks vacation that members of Congress get every year? Are you aware that members of Congress take a week off for virtually every weekday holiday and weeks off for the big holidays, accumulating nearly twenty-six weeks of vacation time every year? Talk about waste! How about cutting their vacation time? Let them just take the same number of holidays and vacation that we are allotted: the seven (7) major holidays and a couple of weeks off for a vacation. So instead of 26 weeks, let them set an example and get 3 weeks off. It’s time to cut, alright, it’s time to cut all the time off members of Congress get. Maybe by cutting all the time off, Congress will get something done and fix our economy. Continue reading

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Look who is not talking? Cantor backs out of budget talks. Cenk Uygur June 23, 2011 Video Transcript

Independent Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele and The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank talk about the major breakdown in budget negotiations which occurred on Thursday. Continue reading

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A brilliant, well-oiled propaganda machine, funded by big corporate interests, to steal more billions from the middle class.

Are you aware of the “echo chamber”, a brilliant, well-oil, propaganda machine infiltrating the media and sabotaging the minds of the American citizens? Continue reading

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Cenk Attacks Rich Tax Holiday On MSNBC. Why do the rich keep getting breaks?

On his weekly segment on The Dylan Ratigan Show, The Young Turks/MSNBC host Cenk Uygur explains why corporations should not get a so-called ‘tax holiday’.

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Counter the Koch Billions. Protect Social Security. Will you help Senator Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber? Video Transcript

EXPOSE THE KOCHS: The Koch brothers fund multiple think tanks and academic centers to promote their ideology and grow their profits, a Brave New Foundation investigation reveals. Let’s create an echo chamber of truth by using YouTube’s SHARE tools above to protect Social Security and counter the Koch billions. Continue reading

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Robert Reich Explains Why We Make Less Money Now Than In 1980: Cenk Uygur Video Transcript

Former Clinton Labor Secretary made an excellent, short video that summarizes why our wages have fallen since 1980 despite economic growth – where did the money go? Cenk Uygur expands on it.
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