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  • 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

    8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

    My good sister, Stephanie E., with whom I am reading Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed sent me this article yesterday on FB. It details what the situation that Henry Giroux has been talking about in such texts as Youth in a Suspect Society and Youth in Revolt. Of all the…

  • Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare

    Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study reveals that immigrants’ contributions to Medicare generated a $115 billion surplus from 2002 to 2009. I am glad to see a study was at last accomplished to demonstrate what common sense should already have postulated. If you know a) most immigrants…

  • The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

    …By not raising taxes on the wealthy or using the central bank to monetize spending on anything except bailing out the banks and subsidizing the financial sector, the government follows a pro-creditor policy. Tax favoritism for the wealthy deepens the budget deficit, forcing governments to borrow more. Paying interest on…

  • Let them eat cake… for the 21st Century

    The corporate CEOs who have made a high-profile foray into deficit negotiations have themselves been substantially responsible for the size of the deficit they now want closed.The companies represented by executives working with the Campaign To Fix The Debt have received trillions in federal war contracts, subsidies and bailouts, as…

  • Wall Street Banks Seeking to Confuse Democratic Networks

    This is a very important bit of investigative journalism coming out of TruthOut.org right now. Let me attempt again to make the basic facts clear.  Third Way is not a “liberal think tank.”  It does not take “a centrist approach.”  It is not run by “fellow progressives.”  It is not…

  • 36% of Social Security recipients are not retired workers, almost 1-in-6 Americans receives a SS benefit | Face the Facts USA

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions These are some very important facts that it is worth knowing. See on facethefactsusa.org

  • Paul Ryan: 2012 Candidate for Vice President – Esquire

    Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn’t believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which he…