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• Letter Concerning Hispanic Immigration and the People of God.

  
  Hundie Jo [dot] Com — Authority: 125
  In one of my classes, we were asked to write a letter to a congregation that was largely white and middle class concerning the influx of a large group of Hispanic immigrants in the community due to the opening of a meat packing plant.  Here is my response; it is largely devoid of references to secondary literature ...
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• What’s The Status With This, Barack?

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 642
  Barack Obama made a solemn pledge as a candidate not to raise taxes on American families making less than $250,000. He also promised to cut taxes on American families making less than $200,000 a year. No, really. “I can make a firm pledge,” Obama said in September 2008 speech. “Under my plan, no family making ...
  6 hours ago

• How to convince an English colleague that his country has the worst cooking possible ?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 171
  A co-worker of mine argues that fish & chips is a meal of choice and that Britain is a top-notch country in the "cuisine" industry because they have the mediatic and rude chef Gordon Ramsay cooking tedious overpriced meals for ignorant English middle-class people wanting to look posh. How could I tell how wrong ...
  12 hours ago

• Pre-Budget report: Alistair Darling accused of pre-election con

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Conservatives accuse the Chancellor of conning the electorate by announcing benefits rises in his pre-Budget report that experts suggest will need to be cut again after the election.
  12 hours ago

• Pre-Budget report: Alastair Darling accused of pre-election con

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Conservatives accuse the Chancellor of conning the electorate by announcing benefits rises in his pre-Budget report that experts suggest will need to be cut again after the election.
  12 hours ago

• Pre-Budget report: Alistair Darling accused of pre-election con over benefit rises

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Conservatives accuse the Chancellor of conning the electorate by announcing benefits rises in his pre-Budget report that experts suggest will need to be cut again after the election.
  13 hours ago

• MR. POTTER VERSUS MR. BAILEY: SATAN VERSUS CHRIST

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 125
  The whole idea has been to run the middle and lower classes in the US into debt peonage. The idea has been to destroy the unions and all movements to greater egalitarianism -- destroy the peoples ability or desire to throw off the evil yoke of the greediest of the greedy who pay so-called intellectuals and economists ...
  17 hours ago

• Read Us on DailyKos

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  Were summarized some of our content on DailyKos. Stop on by if you have any comments to add. As we told the Kossacks: Washington likes to pretend there are mythical union people sitting somewhere, enjoying the fruits of their lavish health plans (perhaps by enjoying a free massage while Deepak Chopra whispers ...
  19 hours ago

• Breakthrough? Two Research Papers Slam the Excise Tax

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  Two new papers published today in Health Affairs could help turn opinion against the excise tax, especially from an academic perspective. Using a combination of analysis and interpretation, six researchers reached essentially the same conclusion: The excise tax would be unfair in its impact, and there is no reason ...
  21 hours ago

• Is the American Dream Over?

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 741
  Or are we just seeing a widening of inequality, not only of income but of skills too?
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• Excise Tax Will Target Large Corporations - And Further Erode Our Social Safety Net

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  "Were finding that about half of the large employers we work with will be at or above the (excise tax threshold) limits." Senior Health Benefits Consultant We promised yesterday to write a series of posts about the "amazing facts" contained in a recent Kaiser Health News article about the excise tax (aka ...
  1 day ago

• AFL-CIO Sends Letter Promoting Anti-Tax Campaign

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  The AFL-CIO has sent out an email blast in support of the campaign to overturn the excise tax on health benefits. The letter is addressed to constituents of Rep. Jerrold Nadler, praising him for his work in opposition to the tax and suggesting they encourage him to "stay strong" on the issue. The letter reads in ...
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• Larry Summers is Steering the Economy Towards “Structural Adjustment”

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 134
  There’s no fixed number of greenbacks in a vault at the Treasury which limit how much the federal government can spend. Since the US pays its debts in its own currency–it can print as many dollars as it pleases. Of course, if boosting the money supply triggers inflation, the Fed has to withdraw liquidity and raise ...
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• What does the Treat of Copenhagen, reparations, and World War II have to do with the United States?

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 136
  Climate Treaty Reparations would cost $50-$200bn per year The largest share of the burden would be borne by the United States. Students of history may remember that the reparations forced upon Germany by the victors of World War I, resulted in hyperinflation, destroyed the German middle class, and eventually brought ...
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• Astounding Mercer Fact #1: Excise Tax Could Affect One Out of Every Five Employer Plans

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  Kaiser Health News has summarized some new findings from the Mercer consulting group that are quite compelling. We think theyre so significant they should each be absorbed separately. The first impressive finding, from a study of 3,000 firms: "The excise tax ... could hit up to 19 percent of medical packages ...
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• Daily Wrap-Up and Poll: Do We Have Too Much Healthcare In This Country?

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  The following appeared at Daily Kos and elsewhere as a roundup of todays activities and posts We need to stop the excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health plans - a tax that will affect an increasing number of middle-class workers over the next ten years. In the meantime, feel free to take a poll: "Do you think we ...
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• Economic Insecurity and Hunger: An Opportunity for Real Reform

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 142
  Food stamp use is now at record highs and increasing every month. There is evidence that as need grows the stigma of such use decreases. Terming the aid “nutritional assistance” rather than welfare... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Social Class Anxiety

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 442
  I’m curious about markers for social class in the United States. What I am not talking about is money. I know there are rich and poor. I’m interested in figuring out behavior and cataloguing it as low class, middle class and upper class. I’m interested in zeroing in on behavior that indicates class anxiety. ...
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• Federal Workers Would Be Hard-Hit By the Middle-Class Health Tax

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 665
  A quartet of union leaders was joined on a press conference call today by Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, to present new data which demonstrates that Federal workers covered by FEHBP would-be hard hit by the Senates proposed excise tax on higher-cost health benefit plans. Report findings indicate that single ...
  2 days ago

• Elizabeth Warren on the collapse of the middle class in June, 2007 (long but worth it)

  
  Stock Geometry — Authority: 126
  
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