By Eric London
The ''50 Wealthiest Lawmakers'' list shows that dozens of congressional politicians have amassed huge fortunes while simultaneously slashing the wages, benefits and social services of the American people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32300.htm
No Way to Avoid Global Financial Collapse, Says Predictive Software
By Susanne Posel
As the mega-banks face the controlled demolition of the US dollar, they have taken the stance of victim to the implosion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32298.htm
Average U.S. Household Has Lost 5% in Annual Income Since Economic ''Recovery'' Began
The rich are getting richer, and the poor really are getting poorer. According to a new report, Americans are earning less today on average than they were when the Great Recession, which began in December 2007, ended in June 2009.
http://is.gd/Xblu92
Bankers' profits soar on backs of home buyers
Don t you just love the bankers? The worse things get, the more money they make.
http://is.gd/RhsXiB
Why You are a Lot Poorer Than You Thought You Were
By Mike Whitney
The middle class is embroiled in a war-to-the-death with carpetbagging vermin who plan to deprive them of work, strip their assets, foreclose their homes, and leave them penniless to face old age.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32330.htm
Report Blames Big Banks For 800,000 Preventable Foreclosures
Just how many more people could have qualified under the administration s mortgage modification program if the banks had done a better job? In other words, how many people have been pushed toward foreclosure unnecessarily?
http://is.gd/3j5TFg
Wells Fargo To Foreclose On Dying Cancer Patient
Battling cancer is difficult enough without your mortgage lender deciding to foreclose on your home just weeks after saying it was trying to help. Yet that appears to be what's happening to Cindi Davis, a North Carolina woman diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.
http://is.gd/AvS5ma
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An American Journey Across Expendable Communities and People
Chris Hedges, Nation Books: ''In a room across the street from Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where meals are provided for the homeless on Saturdays, a group of African American women bow their heads over a table and hold hands. They are led by Lallois Davis, sixty-seven, known as Lolly, a heavyset woman who radiates an indomitable spirit. 'The poor have to help the poor,' Davis says, 'because the ones who make the money are helping the people with money.'''
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/11021-days-of-siege
Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage?
Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger, Moyers & Company: ''Money rules. And in the foul air democracy chokes and gasps, the middle class falls behind, and the poor sink from sight as political donations determine the course and speech of policies that could make the difference in the lives of ordinary people struggling in a dog-eat-dog world.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11257-money-in-politics-where-is-the-outrage
Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It's Inequality, Stupid
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: ''The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top, among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people, and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequality in America is at record levels. The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11293-labor-day-and-the-election-of-2012-its-inequality-stupid
Banks Threaten Elderly Veterans With Foreclosure
Viji Sundaram, New America Media: ''According to a recent AARP study titled, 'Nightmare on Main Street: Older Americans and the Mortgage Market Crisis,' while the mortgage crisis has hit every age group, Americans who are 75-plus have been disproportionately hurt, especially those in the African-American and Hispanic communities.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11712-banks-threaten-elderly-veterans-with-foreclosure
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Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/05
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Bankers Love Keynesianism
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1205.html
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