Alan Collinge of the Student Loan Justice Org sent me an email yesterday. Bad Stuff from Texas . . . Hey Bill! This is a scary story. They are arresting people en masse in Texas over student loan debt. I got on the Thom Hartmann show to talk about it: https://youtu.be/a1OBJGs2PeE There’s no direct tie-in
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There is and will continue to be a lot of discussion about Sanders supporters that won’t support Clinton if she wins the nomination, which looks very likely at this point. It is quite possible that up to 30% of Sanders supporters won’t vote for Clinton. Many people feel that this is rather treasonous, that if
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The Democratic debate in Brooklyn took place last night, and while it was more intense than previous debates no real new ground was covered. It has become clear however what this contest boils down to. If you are a Democrat you have a choice between Hillary, the smart kid, and Bernie, the good kid. This
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China is trying to make the transition to a consumer based economy, but they face a hurdle which will take decades to overcome. Since China has had no social safety nets to speak of they have an economy which requires a great deal of personal savings. The Chinese system must make people feel more secure
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Mitch McConnell has indicated that the now Republican controlled senate will not consider a nomination to fill the seat of the late Antonin Scalia on the supreme court until after the next presidential election. This is a high stakes and foolish gamble on the part of the Republican establishment. First off this only pays off
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If Clinton wins her parties nomination for president we will miss out on an important and overdue debate concerning the role of the U.S. military. This is because in a general election the debate between her and her Republican would probably center over how engaged to be in foreign conflicts, not over we whether we
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Hilary Clinton takes a fair amount of criticism for her willingness to compromise her positions from people who aren’t her supporters on the left. I heard an interview with her which was very illuminating the other day in this regard. The interview was from when she was running against Obama in the Democratic primaries. During
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O.k. a rather inflammatory title, but bear with me, let’s think about this for a moment. If we take a big picture view of the forces which are shaping the global economy it may be possible to make the argument that income and wealth Inequality serve a purpose. This would be primarily because in an
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Bernie Sanders health care plan has come under a great deal of scrutiny over it’s cost, in the arguments over that we need to be aware of a very important fact. Sander’s plan would save us, not cost us money. Every developed country which has universal single payer health care spends less in health care
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Let me be upfront about this, for years I have argued in favor of gun control, but there is a huge problem with this issue, and that is that the more we argue in favor of gun control the quantity of guns sold keeps going up. Fact is gun manufacturers and the NRA both benefit
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