Aug / 19

Daily Show on U.S. class apartheid

After Warren Buffett’s New York Times Op-ed called for a tax on the mega-rich, the news cycle kicked into overdrive, with one cable news channel noticeably distressed with the article.

Fox News declared it class warfare and one broadcaster asked if Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and of the richest men on the planet, was a socialist.

Jon Stewart strung together Fox News complaints and decided that the talking heads on the show felt the $700 billion raised by increasing the tax on the top 2 percent of the U.S. would be a negligible amount of money. That $700 billion just happens to be about half of everything the bottom 50 percent of the country owns.

Stewart offers up a solution: Just take everything the bottom 50 percent of the country owns.

(posted via WaPo blog)

Jun / 24

(Not) Spreading the Wealth

A recent Washington Post Article details how executive pay is pushing the ever widening income gap to new limits.

Apr / 24

Trump the Race-Baiter

Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

With a potential Presidential run in the works, Donald Trump has decided to take the low road of divisive, racial politics. Check out the full story as detailed in The New Yorker.

Oct / 19

Low-Income and Minority Voters Ignored

On 9/21, Project Vote released a new poll of 2008 voters and their opinions on government and public spending, “What Happened To Hope & Change?” Not surprising, voters are most concerned about the economy; more than one in three black voters and low-income voters reported not having enough money to buy food for their families in the past year. But Project Vote says media fascination with the Tea Party has drowned out the voices of a large and growing component of the electorate: black voters, young voters, and lower income voters. Polls show those who sympathize with the Tea Party are overwhelmingly older, white, and higher income Americans, and Project Vote’s poll shows that they do not represent the views of mainstream Americans or the groups that make up the rising American electorate. Download the full report here.

(posted via projectvote.org)