Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination

The people are finally beginning to really rise up, and we hope this turns into a large-scale movement across all the country - "overturning the tables," so to speak. Stand up against greed! Stand up against corruption! Stand up FOR compassion, the working Americans, unemployed, and the large percentage of Americans in poverty. OCCUPY. Why

Warren Buffet: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”

You know things are out of touch in Washington when our wealthiest billionaires write editorials complaining about how low their taxes are. Listen up, congress, Obama Administration, GOP and the American voters! Democrats in congress, we ask you to FIGHT for us, fight for social justice. From NY Times: OUR leaders have asked for “shared

Republicans Walk Out on Budget Talks

No compromising! From the article: "I would point that the president supports a balanced approach," Carney said. "He does not support an approach that provides for a $200,000 tax cut for millionaires and billionaires paid for by a $6,000 a year hike in expenses and costs for seniors..." Enough said. Stand firm President Obama and

Cities Facing Long Wait for Jobs to Return

Some people just can't wait a decade. We need a House and Senate that will provide cooperation with the Obama Administration's ideas and plans - stop playing politics with people's lives! Join us in praying for these cities, and families without work, and supporting real solutions to job growth that don't involve giving more breaks

Obama pushes jobs in trip fraught with politics

Obama is just now beginning to get the chance to show what he can really do for the country - and he will be able to do much, much more when we get a House majority again and Senate that is filibuster proof! That's what we'll be fighting for, and with the way things are

Despite recovery, bank lending still falling

Not doing their part? The final scene in the movie “Too Big to Fail” shows Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (played by Paul Giamatti) talking with then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (portrayed by William Hurt). The scene takes place in September 2008 after the two men had just arm-twisted some of the nation’s biggest banks into