Many have assumed that the relation of money to politics is like a law of nature: the more money one has, the more political power one can wield. There is some truth to this claim.
Students, teachers, and social service workers in the Occupy Education movement are not wavering in their commitment to the Millionaires Tax, which would raise taxes only on millionaires.
As the inequalities in wealth continue to grow, some have argued that the decline in the labor movement is a strong contributing factor to this tendency.
Organized labor has the resources to pursue its own political agenda where it defends the interests of all working people in the face of this current historic corporate attack.
The U.S. social and economic landscape is rapidly changing. Inequalities in wealth, which began an upward ascent back in the 1980s, accelerated in the 1990s. Now they are flying off the charts.
In Copenhagen, President Barack Obama made his pathetically inadequate proposal to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020, which in essence will amount to driving off the environmental cliff at 83 miles per hour rather than 100 miles per hour.
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