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Intel Brass Defend NSA Surveillance Programs
Officials at the NSA and the FBI told House lawmakers Tuesday that secret NSA spying has disrupted over 50 potential terror plots against the U.S. since 9/11.
Special Forces Official Wary Of Integrating Women
Women make up about 14 percent of the 1.4 million active U.S. military personnel.
Democrats Call On Boehner To Set Aside Hastert Rule
“The Speaker of the House should be the Speaker of the American People not of one particular party.” Gutierrez said during a press conference outside the Capitol.
Cummings Releases Full IRS Transcript, Issa Hits Back
Issa issued a statement that he was “deeply disappointed” and that the transcript “will serve as a roadmap for IRS officials to navigate investigative interviews with Congress.”
Time To End ‘Government-By-Crisis’
Three years and 9,000 pages of legislation later, our economy has yet to see any benefits from the passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
It Pays To Be A Greedy CEO And Screw Over Your Workers
The AFL-CIO is out with their new Executive Pay Watch report – revealing that CEOs at Fortune 500 companies made on average $12 million each in 2011.
They’re now getting paid 380-times more than their average worker. That’s a slight increase since 2010 – and a massive increase since 1980 – when, before Reaganomics, CEOs were paid only 42-times more than their average worker.
On top of that – CEO pay increased nearly 14% in 2011 – compared to a meager 2.8% increase in worker pay that same year.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer – creating the largest wealth inequality gap in America since right before the Stock Market crash of 1929. And rather than doing something about it – multi-millionaire Congressman Paul Ryan and the Republicans want to make wealth inequality even worse with a $3 trillion tax cut for the nation’s Romney-rich.
We can’t afford to do that – in fact, we need to be doing just the opposite. We need to roll back the Reagan tax cuts – and make the Romney-super rich pay their fair share in taxes again.
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