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Jim Hightower | Cooperatives Over Corporations

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Jim Hightower | Cooperatives Over Corporations Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: “While it’s rarely mentioned by the conventional media, completely missing in the political discourse, not considered by economic planners and chambers of commerce and not known by most of the public, there are 30,000 cooperatives in America (with 73,000 places of business). A 2009 survey by the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Cooperatives found that these energetic enterprises have 130 million … Continue reading →

Petition to Break up Bank of America Pushes Forward

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Petition to Break up Bank of America Pushes Forward George Zornick, Video Presentation: Last month, we noted that Public Citizen filed an official petition with the Federal Reserve to break up Bank of America, using powers granted under the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. Those measures were supposed to end “too big to fail,” yet Bank of America has assets equal to one-seventh of America’s GDP—and there are quiet but persistent … Continue reading →

Healthcare helps Seniors!

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Health Care Reform Helps Deliver Preventive Care to 86 Million Americans Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced on Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance plans. She also announced that an estimated 32.5 million people with Medicare received at least one free preventive … Continue reading →

Hello to Precinct 7.1,

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As representative of the Alliance of Retired Americans. I attended the meeting described below, with Deputy Secretary of Labor, Seth Harris. He gave us information on improvements the Obama administration has made. Sadly, they don’t seem to make the news. So I made a few notes which I thought were worth sharing. Every dollar of unemployment income received creates two dollars in the market place. 70% of the U.S. economy … Continue reading →

Today’s press release

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Bothwell challenges Rogers on campaign finance Congressional candidate Cecil Bothwell will formally file for office at noon on Monday, Feb. 13. He will hold a press conference on the steps of the Buncombe County Board of Elections at that time. “The western counties deserve representation by an old-fashioned Democrat,” Bothwell said. “We need a representative who will vote with the President, instead of against him. We need a representative who … Continue reading →

From a rabid Republican friend of a friend

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From a rabid Republican friend of a friend … at least he is thinking and forwarding! J. __________________________________ Now, since Obama’s regime, all of a sudden, folks have gotten mad, and want to take America Back…BACK TO WHAT/WHERE is my question? After The 8 Years Of The Bush/Cheney Disaster, Now You Get Mad? You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President. You … Continue reading →

BP Made $3 Million an Hour In 2011,

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BP Made $3 Million an Hour In 2011, While Spill Victims Continued to Suffer Rebecca Leber, News Report: “BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill is still affecting the lives of many Americans, particularly the tens of thousands that have not settled lawsuits with the company. Yet the company has bounced back from the billions it lost in the wake of the spill. BP announced today that its 2011 profit totaled … Continue reading →

Cor­po­ra­tions are ob­vi­ously not peo­ple!

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Published: Monday 6 February 2012 “Cor­po­ra­tions are peo­ple, my friend.” -Mitt Rom­ney at the Iowa State Fair Cor­po­ra­tions are ob­vi­ously not peo­ple. But Rom­ney is ac­cu­rate in the sense that cor­po­ra­tions have hi­jacked most of the rights of peo­ple while evad­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. An im­por­tant part of the so­cial jus­tice agenda is de­moc­ra­tiz­ing cor­po­ra­tions. This means we must rad­i­cally change the laws so peo­ple can be in charge of cor­po­ra­tions. … Continue reading →

Health Care Reform Law Saves 3.6 Million Americans $2.1 Billion

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Health Care Reform Law Saves 3.6 Million Americans $2.1 Billion Nearly 3.6 million people with Medicare saved $2.1 billion on their prescription drug costs in 2011 due to the Affordable Care Act, according to data issued on Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In addition, the savings for people with Medicare will increase over time. According to the HHS report (http://1.usa.gov/yFFyex), the average person with Medicare … Continue reading →

Don’t be misled by Billy Graham

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©2012 by Fred Flaxman As a non-Christian subscriber to the Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times, I think it is unfair and blatantly discriminatory for our community’s only daily newspaper to run Billy Graham’s conservative Christian column every day without giving equal space to proponents of other religious and nonreligious ethical points of view. The headline on his column in today’s paper was: “Don’t be misled by nonbelievers.” But it is Billy … Continue reading →