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Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: If the Democratic Party doesn t hold Billionaire-istan accountable with new wealth taxes and protections for workers, then they will accomplish their all-out looting of America.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13581-republicans-are-the-ruling-party-of-billionaire-istan



Why Republicans Don t Care What the Nation Thinks

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: Are House Republicans, now summoned back to Washington by Speaker John Boehner, about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff? Don t bet on it.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13587-cliff-hanger-why-republicans-dont-care-what-the-nation-thinks



More Theft Under the Guise of the Fiscal Cliff

Kevin Zeese, Its Our Economy: The fiscal cliff is a self-created bi-partisan drama that demonstrates the failure of traditional politics and the need for mobilized resistance and a new independent poltical movement.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13619-more-theft-under-the-guise-of-the-fiscal-cliff



The Case Against Billionaires

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: It s time to start funneling the riches produced by the American economy to the real job creators: working class people who are spending money.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13698-the-case-against-billionaires

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America s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff

By Michael Hudson

Holding the bottom 99% in debt, the top 1% are now in the process of subsidizing a deceptive economic theory to persuade voters to pursue policies that benefit the financial sector at the expense of labor, industry, and democratic government as we know it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33471.htm



Net worth of world s richest rose by $241B in 2012

The richest people on the planet got richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world s 100 wealthiest individuals.

http://is.gd/ZYvbqT


From Information Clearing House

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'Aggressive' New Phase of Anti-Worker Campaign Underway
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/14-0

Corpocrisy: The Systematic Betrayal of American Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/04-7



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