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Read David Gessner’s toon and then turn off your computer and go outside: Slaves to the Screen: A Cartoon Caution
Source: onearth.org
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FACT: The number of students who have to go into debt to get a bachelor’s degree has risen from 45% in 1993 to 94% today. →
The next debt crisis.
Source: think-progress
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ROMNEY HAS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MORALITY UPSIDE DOWN
Mitt Romney’s reaction to J.P. Morgan Chase’s mounting losses from reckless trades is that “the market will take care of it.” His spokesman says “no taxpayer money was at risk” so it doesn’t mean we need financial regulation. Romney has promised to repeal Dodd-Frank if he’s elected president.
Yet at the same time, Romney has come out strongly against same-sex marriage. He’s also against abortion. He has no problem with government intruding on the most intimate of decisions a person makes.
He’s got private and public morality upside down. He doesn’t want to regulate where regulation is necessary — at the highest reaches of the economy, where public immorality has cost us dearly, and will cost even more unless boardroom behavior is constrained. Yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate — at the level of the individual, in bedrooms and other intimate spaces, where private morality should govern.
This is a dangerous confusion. It should be a matter of personal choice whom to marry and when to have children. But it is undoubtedly a matter of public choice whether big banks should be allowed to take the kind of risky bets that plunged the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, and whether people with great wealth and should be able to buy our democracy with huge campaign contributions.
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Source: robertreich
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