Extreme Austerity: Michigan School District Shuts Down; Every Teacher Is Laid Off
Closing schools in the name of austerity
Read MoreTag: Chris Hayes
Fast food worker strike is akin to civil rights struggle
More than 400 employees from 60 restaurants walked off the job in New York City Thursday, demanding better wages and the right to organize. The action followed a smaller strike last November.
Read MoreWhat we see here is a healthy lack of trust
Healthy skepticism is a good thing… you cannot correct a problem with the same thinking that brought it about, to paraphrase Albert Einstein. Too many of the names documented in Wim de Vriend’s book, The JOB Messiahs are still being cited in the local paper as credible sources with valued opinions.
Read MoreChris Hayes – UP – It’s rough out there for plutocrats
Montana learned the hard way about the impact of money on politics and established its own ‘Corrupt Practices Act’ more than a century ago. A panel discusses money and politics ad Citizens United and seem to universally agree that money buys ads which in turns buys seats in federal, state and local elections.
Read MoreMaddow – Jeff Merkley (D-OR) spearheading filibuster reform in the Senate
Minority party filibuster has required little more effort than a senator lodging an objection and then going home to dinner. New rules, if passed, would require any filibuster to more along the lines of ‘Mr Smith Goes to Washington”.
Read MoreOlbermann – 9/11 responders bill still being held up by GOP
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) tells TJ Gilmartin, a first responder suffering from debilitating lung disease, “sorry, there is nothing I can do”.
Read MoreOlbermann – Bank of America sued for fraudulent loan practices
Bank of America Corp. violated Arizona’s consumer fraud law by misleading consumers who tried to reduce their mortgage payments so they could keep their homes, state Attorney General Terry Goddard said Friday as he filed a civil lawsuit against the bank.
Read MoreOlbermann – Not Neutrality – FCC decision tomorrow
Multi-tiered bandwidth management is at play allowing private companies to choose what medium gets the best access. The present proposal is NOT Net Neutrality
Read MoreMore on media bias, media spin and purposed misinformation
So why the deceptive headline? Surely, some readers are disappointed to discover there was no answer to the headline because the question posed, doesn’t apply to the interview. So why the headline?
Read MoreMaddow – Banks burned by own fraud – Matt Taibbi
“What‘s happening now in the foreclosure world is that homeowners are starting to demand that the banks that foreclosing on them produce the housing-world version of a car title called the note.
They‘re simply saying, “OK, you want to kick me out of my house? You have to show that you legally own my mortgage.”
Read MoreMaddow – Not the Taliban leader you are looking for
Blackwater author, Jeremy Scahill, fresh from a trip to Afghanistan speaks about the ‘Taliban imposter’ presumably negotiating with NATO recently.
Maddow – Bush tax cuts least effective way to boost jobs
Jacob Hacker, author of Winner Take All Politics discusses the proven ineffectiveness of tax cuts in job growth or creation. Clinton, without tax cuts, created 22.7 million jobs compared to 1.1 million jobs created with the Bush with tax cuts.
