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"You can't have a mass movement without the masses."--Fred Harris, senator from Oklahoma
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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While most of the Democrats in Washington cower
The presidency is taking over the courts and Congress
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- VERICHIP IMPLANTS AND TUMORS
- AN EXCLUSIVE PRIMARY
- OUR GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE
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OUR GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE
According to faireconomy.org, which analyzes CEO pay, perks, and pensions, in 2006 the chieftains of Fortune 500 corporations averaged $10.8 million each in pay--more than 364 times the annual paychecks of the average U.S. worker! On top of this, CEOs salted away an average of $1.3 million in pension gains in 2006, and they averaged another $438,000 in such freebies as personal travel on corporate jets, country-club fees, and even corporate payment of their taxes.