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Why are we pretending?
Why are we pretending? Pretending that elections in 2014 might change things, that elections in 2016 could too? Even now the Republicans and their talk show supporters are flailing about as if there is
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Infographic: So You Want To Retire? Five Disturbing Statistics About Retirement
To all Americans in their twenties, thirties, forties, or even fifties, naively looking forward to their retirement, we have two words: "good luck." One look at the flow chart below and we can't help but
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If Obama Can Just Create A Trillion Dollar Coin, Then Why Do We Have To Pay Taxes?
If Barack Obama can "solve" the debt ceiling crisis by printing up some trillion dollar coins, then why does the federal government need our money? As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, many in
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Dems look for up to $1T in new revenues
Democrats say they want to raise as much as $1 trillion in new revenues through tax reform later this year to balance Republican demands to slash mandatory spending. Democratic leaders have had little time to
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60 Facts That Prove The American Middle Class is Being Wiped Out
The middle class in the United States is being systematically destroyed, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it. Our incomes are shrinking, our share of the income pie is at
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Barack Obama’s $7 million Hawaii vacation is an insult to America’s struggling middle class
$16.4 trillion – that’s the latest figure for America’s massive national debt. Nearly $6 trillion of this debt was racked up in the first term of the Obama presidency – a 50 percent increase.
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The end of America: Why Romney lost
The United States of America was created as an independent nation whose founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Freedom. Ayn Rand said that “freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government
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The Real Country-Killer in 2013
Never mind the "fiscal cliff." America went bankrupt, technically, at midnight on December 31, 2012. We hit the debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion. Yet the U.S. government needs to borrow more
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6 Things You Won’t Believe That Are In The Fiscal Cliff Bill That The Senate Passed At 2 AM While Most Americans Were Drunk
Last night just before 2 AM, the Senate overwhelmingly agreed to pass a bill that will avert the Fiscal Cliff once the House approves it. The bill is pretty straightforward. Income tax rates will only
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Obama Seizing Sole Authority for US Defense
In an attempt to seize total control over national security and bypass congress, a frightening new step by the Obama Administration is coming into play. As noted in Friday’s Wall Street Journal in an
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Fiscal Cliff Deal: Hollywood Gets Tax Incentive Extension
The Senate passed legislation meant to end the "fiscal cliff" crisis in the wee hours of the morning. And it seems Hollywood's rigorous backing of President Barack Obama and his Democrat peers in the
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Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff Is Going To Rip You To Shreds
The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013. Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and
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Video: Gerald Celente on 2013, Gold and Silver and WW III
Trends forecaster Gerald Celente predicts the global financial system will continue to be propped up. Celente says, “The scheme continues to go, the scheme being dumping cheap money into the system to perpetuate
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Video: Ron Paul On The Fiscal Cliff: “We Have Passed The Point Of No Return”
In a little under three minutes, Ron Paul explains to a somewhat nonplussed CNBC anchor just how ridiculous the charade that is occurring in D.C. actually is. This succinct spin-free clip should be required
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10 Fascinating Economic Collapses Through History
Since 2008 the United States has been in economic trouble. The current debate over the “fiscal cliff” has placed this economic distress and its origins back on the public radar. In retrospect, the origins
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Generation Y Wakes Up From The American Dream, Faces An American Nightmare
Three and a half years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, the earnings and employment gap between those in the under-35 population and their parents and grandparents threatens to unravel the American
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Say Goodbye To The Good Life
Will this be the last normal holiday season that Americans ever experience? To many Americans, such a notion would be absolutely inconceivable. After all, in the affluent areas of the country restaurants
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Report: Hunger and homelessness rise in U.S. cities: report
Across the United States, the number of hungry and homeless people is growing, and budget fights at the federal level are threatening the aid many need to survive, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said
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GERALD CELENTE: The Financial Collapse Of 2013 Will Be Worse Than The Great Depression
Forget the Mayan Apocalypse. Gerald Celente, the popular trends forecaster of Trends Research, cites the work of a former Treasury official and warns that the bonds are in a massive bubble that will burst in
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20 Signs That The U.S. Poverty Explosion Is Hitting Children And Young People The Hardest
The mainstream media continues to insist that the economy is "getting better", but the poverty numbers for children and young people just continue to explode. For example, did you know that the poverty rate
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