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Dean Baker, Truthout: "Alan Greenspan has been strangely missing from the fierce battle over the future of public sector unions in Wisconsin and other states. His absence is strange because he bears more responsibility for the current conflict than anyone else alive. The reason is simple. Mr. Greenspan's incredible incompetence in allowing the $8 trillion housing bubble to grow unchecked created the fiscal crisis that is gripping Wisconsin and most other states... How does it change anything if we know that Greenspan (last seen being feted at the Brookings Institution) is the real villain in the Wisconsin budget crisis? First, it should turn the heat where it belongs: Washington."

http://www.truth-out.org/greenspans-incompetence-badgers-wisconsins-workers67917

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'This Is What Democracy Looks Like' in Wisconsin, as Largest Crowd Yet -- 80,000 -- Opposes Union Busting
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/20

Jesse Jackson Tells 50,000 in Wisconsin: 'This is a Martin Luther King Moment!'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/19-5

Wisconsin Still Laboratory of Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/20-4

From Wisconsin to Washington, Budget Cuts Draw Battle Lines Against Public
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/19-1

Bringing Home 150 Troops From Afghanistan Would Fix Wisconsin's Budget 'Crisis'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/19-5

That Moment People say 'No!'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/20-8

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There?s got to be a better way

Foundation for Economic Education Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

02/18/11

What?s so remarkable about events in the Middle East is that a significant number of people who had felt powerless looked around at what they?d seen every day of their lives and thought for the first time: 'It doesn?t have to be like this.' When will Americans do that?

http://tinyurl.com/6dr4qvd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fiscal+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greenspan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Martin+Luther+King
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jesse+Jackson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wisconsin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=public+unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget+cut
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bubble
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dean+Baker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Susan+Galleymore
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Chen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

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