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Government Shutdowns Get The 1% What They Want

By Dave Johnson On November 15, 2011  

A while back I was writing about the Republican threat of a government-wide shutdown, and the two-week Federal Aviation Administration shutdown (and Delta Airlines’ anti-union role in that). The shutdown threat was used to force the government to give even more favors and bucks to the 1% and even less to We, the People.

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Shutdown And Hostage-Taking — It Is NOT Both Sides Doing It

By Dave Johnson On September 26, 2011  

One side says, “Never mind the deal we just agreed to, cut this or we’ll shut down the government” and the other side says, “This isn’t fair, and it hurts people. We can’t keep agreeing to pay these ransoms, this has to stop!” Is this “both sides squabbling?” Is this “Congress can’t get its act [...]

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Delta’s Greed Helps Shut Down The FAA

By Dave Johnson On August 3, 2011  

You probably don’t know that another act of hostage-taking by Republicans is underway. They have shut down the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help Delta Airlines in its battle to keep its workers from voting in a union. This is costing the government $200 million a week, more than 4,000 FAA employees have been furloughed, [...]

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Did Koch Industries Write The Budget Deal?

By Dave Johnson On April 12, 2011  

Did Koch Industries write the budget deal? Or is it just a coincidence that so many of the the things Republicans demanded — and got — just happen to line up with the financial interests of the billionaires who fund the Tea Party and much of the “conservative movement?” Cutting money for the EPA, alternative [...]

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Republican Shutdown Shuts Down The Economy — So Do The Cuts They Demand

By Dave Johnson On April 7, 2011  

Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and other members of the Progressive Caucus react to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.

Here we are only four months into Republican control of the House of Representatives and the government is shutting down! When you give power to people who hate the government, what [...]

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