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Writer's pictureChris Ossman

Eye opener for October 18, 2024: Who Do They Represent?



Books:



Link 4: Ending Special Tax Treatment for the Very Wealthy:https://www.americanprogress.org/article/ending-special-tax-treatment-wealthy/

Link 5: How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality


Link 6: The Middle-Class Squeeze


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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:


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Research from Brookings Institution


Link 9:

End the Job Creator Lie Petition:


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NPR:


Link 11: Economic Policy Institute

https://www.epi.org/publication/financial-regulations/ tracks how the deregulatory trends continue to benefit Wall Street over Main Street.


Link 12: Center for American Progress

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Link 14:

Brookings Institution


Way Back Machine:


Center for American Progress: https://www.americanprogress.org


Inequality.org: https://www.inequality.org


Public Citizen: https://www.citizen.org/article/the-commodity-futures-modernization-act-of-2000-fueled-the-financial-crisis/

This outlines how CFMA helped create the conditions for the 2008 crisis, amplifying wealth inequality


Studies such as those from the Congressional Budget Office show that the act disproportionately affected low- and middle-income families, while wealthier Americans were shielded from the cuts.


Other interesting links:

Madeline Albright discusses death of half a million Iraqi children:

https://youtu.be/KP1OAD9jSaI?si=Y4oyDKvxMiKzxber


Each Walmart Store Costs The Taxpayers one million dollars:

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/taxpayers-subsidize-poverty-wages-at-walmart-mcdonalds-other-large-corporations-gao-finds/


Walmart Takes Out Life Insurance Against Its Sickest Employees:

https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2010-05-07/walmart-sued-for-collecting-life-insurance-on-employees


Average Age of Uktoday'srainian Soldier:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-battles-its-demography-find-sufficient-soldiers-peter-apps-2024-08-07/


Lindsey Graham Saying Ukraine Will Fight To The Last Ukrainian:

https://youtu.be/yJvXqtYdJqk?si=HB0BPqVp3ZxYDfcC&t=99


Hannibal Directive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive


Israel Attacked U.S. Naval Ship U.S.S. Liberty (ote that this is a .gov website):

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d284


Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/oil-embargo


Expensive Televisions:

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/best-hdtv-ever-15-000-lg-9-000-samsung-oleds-6c10931492


Dock workers show how much power workers have in America's economy:

https://youtu.be/gXCcYJgGjVI?si=8uep4spNTQ_ZJPVC


Eisenhower's warning against the military industrial complex:

https://youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Y?si=ac60dD02z3xsG7b5


War is a Racket by Smedley Butler:

https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf


United Nations General Assembly Walks during Netanyahu's speech:

https://youtu.be/qn84UKkkNVw?si=w8jMogjL8QtisN0v


Neo-Nazis of Ukraine:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/13/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links


Ukraine bombing its own in the Donbas since 2014;

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets-killing-civilians


Linsey Graham saying the U.S. will fight to the last Ukrainian:

https://tinyurl.com/28qo5fu8


American homelessness growing everywhere:

https://tinyurl.com/2yv48gss


How America deals with homelessness:

https://tinyurl.com/287ttv93


Capitalism has even made trailer parks unaffordable:

https://youtu.be/wkH1dpr-p_4?si=cSDSWr9Hbi_YYtVJ


1% down home loans:

https://tinyurl.com/2cdxf48w


0% down home loans:

https://tinyurl.com/2defh8zv


Tobacco companies used the same tactics they used to keep addicted to cigarettes to keep people addicted to bad foods:

https://tinyurl.com/2cg6xeqa


CEO yelling at employees to stop asking for bonuses while her bonus was millions of dollars

https://youtu.be/tnJPPpLs-aA?si=2yy7NqF4nYetExWd


Who controls America's food supply?:

https://thecounter.org/who-really-owns-american-farmland/


Sharecrop Farming:

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sharecropping


No free vaccines:

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2020-08-25/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-deal-with-drugmaker


Bill Gates doesn't want to share the vaccine with poor countries:

https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-bill-gates-says-no-to-sharing-vaccine-recipes-with-poor-countries/


Books:

Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America.


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