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Even a dead fish can go with the flow. -- Jim Hightower
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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Sources for issue
Economy
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
Corporate profits
US Dept. of Commerce
Net worth and the number of billionaires, plus CEOs' salaries -- Forbes
Bush tax cuts to to 1% -- Congressional Budget Office. Note: This is how much more the top 1% would have paid over 7 years if not for Bush's tax cut.
How the rest of us get by
Poverty & diversity: http://www.ourfuture.org/real-state-union-2008-numbers
Education info: http://projectonstudentdebt.org/
Energy
Oil prices: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html
Exxon profits; http://money.cnn.com/quote/financials/financials.html?symb=XOM&sid=161455&report=1&period=annual
Health insurance
Health Insurance Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau: Background for a New Historical Series
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/usernote/revhlth_paper.pdf
Agricultural imports
"Food Imports Often Escape Scrutiny," May 1, 2007, NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/01food.html
Housing
Apartment rentals: http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/AvgRentalPrices.html
Foreclosure and housing crisis info: The National Low Income Housing Coalition's 2008 Advocates' Guide, http://www.nlihc.org/doc/AdvocacyGuide2008-web.pdf