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GoLeft TV

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:26 PM Dec 2012

Papantonio: Wall Street Pushing Us Over “Fiscal Cliff”

In the last century, a shift has taken place in the American economy. In the past, policies and change were produced from the bottom to the top, with workers taking the lead in forcing corporate America to be more honest and more fair. But in this last century all of that changed, as the wealthy 1% of this country became entwined with both political parties, which allowed them to cut worker protections, destroy unions, and reduce wages to the point that full time workers still can’t break out of poverty. But we can change all of this if we can once again work from the bottom up, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with economist Richard Wolff about how this can happen.

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Papantonio: Wall Street Pushing Us Over “Fiscal Cliff” (Original Post) GoLeft TV Dec 2012 OP
K&R limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #1
This is class warfare and the 1% declared it Jack Rabbit Dec 2012 #2

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
2. This is class warfare and the 1% declared it
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:59 PM
Dec 2012

Socialism should be discussed openly as an option to replace free market fundamentalism, which We The People should make absolutely clear will not be tolerated.

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