August 2, 2010
This morning's Beacon has a short front page piece from AP writer Jeannine Aversa entitled, "Tax worries have the wealthy cutting back." No, seriously,…that's the title. Here's the premise….. Wealthy Americans aren't spending so freely anymore. And the rest of us are feeling the squeeze. Economists say overall consumer spending has slowed mainly because the [...]
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January 7, 2010
As soon as Barack Obama was elected in November 2008, corporate media began to mount a campaign meant to bring the tax-cutting Republicans back into power. During all of 2009, corporate media members relentlessly pursued the opinions of out-of-power Republicans. Republican and conservative guests outnumbered Democratic ones on teevee "news" programs. The Sunday shows were [...]
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