The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.
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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. [Read more]
With his aw-shucks charisma and no-nonsense attitude, he dishes out what's wrong with the eroding...
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"I make a lot of money these days speaking to corporations, so I'd really prefer not to admit how...
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" Back - Up Bill "
Jim Hightower thinking that Bill Clinton doesn't need to move to the right -- as most Washington pundits and politicos are demanding. He just needs to quit backing-up.
He backed up on the jobs bill compromising it from a $40-Billion... [read more]
Student - Loan Reform
Jim Hightower thinking that the person who said you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip -- was never in the grasp of a banker.
One automatic money-machine for America's bankers is the federally-funded program that makes loans to help students... [read more]
Bread and Roses Cafe
Jim Hightower talking about a restaurant that serves an exclusive clientele: people without money -- a restaurant for the unemployed and the homeless.
Now, Bread & Roses is not a soup line. No, you've got to make reservations to... [read more]
Diamond - Walnut
Jim Hightower talking about the Diamond Walnut Company, which claimed in the mid-'80s to be on the Brink of Broke. So the country's largest processor of walnuts asked workers to take cuts . . .to save the company.
Represented by... [read more]
Shell No - Pest Strip
Do you ever get nostalgic for the '70s?
You know -- Disco music, Richard Nixon . . . and those handy "No Pest Strips" that Shell used to sell. Ahhh, mutagenic memories.
Jim Hightower . . . back in a... [read more]
NIMBY
A few years ago, a West Texas citizens group learned that Washington officials were about to plant High Level Nuclear Waste underneath their farms.
Now this is an area of quiet, law-abiding, church-going families. Not the kind of place where... [read more]