Category Archives: Economy

Cartoons: Mr. One Percent Rides Again

H/T to Bartcop for a couple of these.

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Today’s Quote: Listening, Mitt?

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Billionaire Bill Gates Envies Millionaire Mitt Romney?

Every time one of the Great Unwashed starts talking about the inequality of Mitt Romney paying half the tax rate of the average working stiff, you’ll hear some Republican bonehead dismiss it as ‘the politics of envy.’ (No doubt Frank … Continue reading

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Cartoon: How Mitt Romney Was Hired at Bain

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Today’s Quotes: Wealth

“The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.” — Kofi Annan, former UN Sec’y-General, from an interview with Awake! Magazine, … Continue reading

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Today’s Quotes: Private Greed and Public Need

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Romney’s ‘Free Market Capitalism’ Myth

Mitt Romney, the blundering, dull, grown-up rich kid currently being beaten up by thrice-married ‘family values’ uber-hypocrite Newt Gingrich on the death march to the Republican nomination for president, apparently really thinks he made his fortune — or added to … Continue reading

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The List on Ron Paul

It’s nice he’s against war and American colonialism, and that he’d end the drug war — if he could get such a proposal through Congress — but his drawbacks far outweigh his advantages, as the graphic below from No Ron … Continue reading

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Does Mitt Have Hidden Millions in the Cayman Islands?

IS ROMNEY THE LIAR LYING ABOUT HIS “INVESTMENTS” IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS? By Joseph Posted at Romney the Liar Jan. 18, 2012 Willard, who wants very much to be president despite his complete lack of qualifications, has been, for years, … Continue reading

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Note to Republicans: Stop Telling People to ‘Get a Job’

While Republicans in the Senate relentlessly block job bills and GOP governors around the country cut state jobs, stop lecturing people to ‘get a job’ when there aren’t any. It only adds insult to injury and no one with half … Continue reading

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