One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation's social, economic, and moral strength
Poverty in America: Bigger than ever and rapidly spreading. The flood of poor people in this Land of Plenty is being swollen by turbulent economic waters sweeping millions of Americans downstream from the middle class. This is our nation's true economic crisis. Unlike the manufactured "fiscal cliff" hysteria that continues to consume Washington politicos and pundits, the present pace of poverty really is dragging down our economy and our nation's potential for greatness.
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. [
Let's Chop the CIA Budget
Jim Hightower finally figuring out why the CIA was so super-secretive about its budget all these years. Not that it was afraid to let the KGB know -- it didn't want us to know! Now we do, sort... [read more]
Brand - Name Disloyalty
Jim Hightower with Stuart Elliott's recent New York Times column about a frenzied meeting of the American Association of Advertising Agencies -- or, the Four A's, as these slicks call their group.
You're gonna love these guys.
It seems that many brand-name... [read more]
Well It's About Time
Jim Hightower with [ECHO-CHAMBER] "Well It's about Time!"
Starting with this report that the U.S. Energy Department finally is going to let its own workers be protected by OSHA -- the Occupational Health and Safety Administration.
Now, we're not talking about Energy... [read more]
Health Care Paperwork
Jim Hightower saying it could be amusing to watch know-it-all doctors struggle with the growing paperwork demanded by the insurance companies. Except for one thing: You and I get billed for the whole pile. Billed as in... [read more]
NAFTA : Conservationist Sellout
Jim Hightower asking if you're a member of the World Wildlife Fund, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society or Defenders of Wildlife?
If so . . . do you know where your... [read more]
Historical - Analogy Police
Jim Hightower sympathizing with a gaggle of academics who say that the "historical knowledge" of politicians is "appallingly bad."
Well, yes it is. But then, so's their knowledge of literature, adding and subtracting, the English language . . . even... [read more]