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It's around 25°F in Davos, Switzerland today. Thousands of world leaders have arrived for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting. These powerf...
Judging from the variety of post-mortems following President Obama's address last night and this morning, yesterday's State of the Union was no exception to the range of responses typically elicited.
While we rightfully criticize our "leaders" for their inability to move beyond partisanship, our major news networks and newspapers have become accomplices in creating an environment of short-term and short-sighted political discourse.
The 99 Percenters also have power. We have the power to dictate masses of smaller individual deals, on underwater homes and usurious interest. We can simply reduce the interest to 0% and the principal to $0.00 -- by not sending the big bank any more money.
My message for the participants at Davos is simple: time is running out and concerted action on job creation and bridging inequality is vital. Jobs have to be the global priority. It's time the 99% were given back what has been taken from them.
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Hans Willmore is the lead scientific investigator at Oslo's Neuroconnectivity Institute, where the studies comparing a subject's ability to explain LinkedIn with his or her ability to break down the complexities of an apparently indifferent universe began.
As all eyes turn to Capitol Hill tonight for the State of the Union address, I'll join 20 fellow Iraq vets on the House floor and millions nationwide and overseas who are looking for crucial promises from the president.
President Obama is one of the most anti-small business presidents in U.S. history and his policies have devastated the middle class economy. His policies have forced millions of small businesses to close their doors and millions more people to lose their jobs.
Banks are making money with money rather than providing the services to society that they were originally established for: collecting and rewarding savings and using these funds for investments that would enrich society.
The chickens have finally come home to roost -- the Hostess Company, the maker of the Twinkie, filed for bankruptcy. If anything speaks to the failure of capitalism and our cultural decline, it is the demise of the Twinkie.
If America's leaders want to see us regain our manufacturing dominance, the answer is not as easy as "right-to-work" laws, a changing tax code, or currency manipulation.
It's not that there aren't millions or even tens of millions of Americans that are trying to solve our problems creatively and help create a just and egalitarian society, it's just that they have no power or voice. Consider the drug war.
By all means, let's keep arguing about the morality of Bain Capital. But let's ask questions that give us answers we can use.
It is the "quick-buck" business model that has dominated most American corporations over the past three decades and caused the demise of many of them.
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