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In This Issue
The buying of the government 2004 (Part 1)
Bush II brought to you by...
Also in this issue:
- Growing up with your chip
- Merck execs' bailout loot
- One economic factor rising
- Hot peppers and 4-year tacos
- Your right to sue threatened
- Name that school!
- Growing up with your chip
- Merck execs' bailout loot
- One economic factor rising
- Hot peppers and 4-year tacos
- Your right to sue threatened
- Name that school!
Do Something!
September's Lowdown
Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs. Obama fiddles.
By gollies, when the economic going gets tough for America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders to get going! Get going, as in: rush like hell to find some gimmick to make it look like they're doing something without actually, you know, doing anything.
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Your right to sue threatened
High on Bush & Co.'s agenda is "tort reform." The "crisis" is that you unruly citizens are treating big corporations unfairly, constantly filing "frivolous lawsuits" against them. So, to protect the poor corporations, Bush says he must limit your access to America's courts.
But a survey by the consumer group, Public Citizen, reveals that American businesses file about four times as many lawsuits as do individuals—even though there are 40 times more individuals in America than businesses—and that corporations file frivolous lawsuits 69 percent more often than individuals do.
Corporate lawyers sue customers, competitors, suppliers, workers, and anyone else standing between their client and another dollar bill. Regular folks count on trial lawyers who pay the up-front costs of getting us to trial, and only get paid if we win. This provides the best access to the judicial system poor and middle-class families can get.
To get this survey and fight for your rights, call Public Citizen: 202-454-5104.