Quotation for Today: Yes, Congress Needs to Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act

The quotation for today captures the essence of the banks' roles in the current, ongoing financial crisis that has wrought great havoc and intense pain on the American people.  The current financial crisis didn't have to happen; it was facilitated by the intense and unholy alliance between the Congress of the United States and Wall Street bankers.

Quotation for Today: Protecting the Health Care Freeloaders

Across the jump, the quotation for today assists us in understanding the significance of the Affordable Care Act and its positive effect on middle- and working-class Americans.  Equally important, the Republicans' illiberal effort to dismantle the law and protect the health care freeloaders is questioned.

Quotation for Today: Corporate-Welfare Kings: The Modern-Day Robber Barons

The redistribution of income and wealth is the focus of the quotation for today.

Quotation for Today: It Is Truly 1929 Again or America's Corrupt Banking System

The quotation for today introduces an article which makes a strong case that Jamie Dimon, Chief Executive Officer of JP Morgan Chases, should resign from the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- the Federal Reserve bank that helps regulate JP Morgan Chase and other Wall Street banks.

Quotation for Today: Republican Tactics to Distract the Voter

Can the American people regain control of the nation's financial system or will they continue to suffer outlandish financial repercussions at the hand of out-of-control bankers?


The quotation for today highlights the efforts of the Speaker of the House, John Boehner (Republican of Ohio), to distract us from the threat of extreme, unnecessary risks to the nation's financial system; financial hazards that are created by out-of-control banks and their vainglorious managers.

Quotation for Today: Do Republicans Worship a False Economic Deity?

The meme for this election season is political candidates, mainly Republicans, extolling themselves as "job creators."  The quotation for today provides insight into who are the true job creators, and as you might have guessed, they are not the people who are praised and deified by Republican politicians.

Quotation for Today: Romneynomics Is Wrong for America

Republican presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, has made the return to Bushnomics the central idea of his political campaign. These are the same economic policies that provided tax breaks for American companies that off-shored thousands of American jobs to foreign countries. Conversely, President Barack Obama has advocated tax breaks for American companies who create jobs for Americans, not foreigners.  


Across the jump, the quotation for today captures the essence of the economic policies that GOP presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, thinks is good for America.

Securing a Robust American Middle Class

The fact that Congress is not working to help the Main Street economy recover and to ensure the security of the American middle class should be emphasized vigorously and continuously.  Across the jump, a few actions that Congress can take to help restore a viable and strong middle class are discussed.

Quotation for Today: E Pluribus Unum - Still Working Toward That Ideal

The quotation for today, across the jump, highlights the continued struggle for equality and voting rights in the United States and against illiberalism; a narrow-mindedness that still can be found in the halls of Congress. 

Quotation for Today: Affirmations

The quotation for today, across the jump, provides us with a clearer picture of the presumptive GOP presidential candidate's attributes than the one we may have had.

Quotation for Today: Indiana Republican/Tea Party Candidate Exhorts Civil War?

The quotation for today, across the jump, offers a clear illustration of the extreme political views of the Republican Party.

Quotation for Today: Republicans Destroying the Dreams of America's Next Generation

As the quotation for today illustrates, the Republicans are willing to do anything to block taxes on the ultra-rich in America and this includes destroying America's college-loan system that helps pay for the tuition of middle- and working-class Americans.

Quotation for Today: American Capitalism: A Failed Economic System

The quotation for today introduces an interview conducted by The European, and it emphasizes the extreme economic and financial degradation that American middle- and working-class workers have experienced. 

Push Back Against the Republicans' Anti-Democracy Laws

Republicans' efforts to rollback democracy by restricting voting rights for Americans are well under way.  The heinous Republican efforts are disguised as preventing voting fraud of which there is virtually none.


Working indefatigably to push back against the Republicans' wicked efforts to restrict voting rights of Americans are several grass-root groups. These grass-root organizations are working to ensure the voting rights for the people targeted by voter-restriction laws enacted by Republican-controlled state legislatures.  To read more about the Republicans' anti-democracy laws and how you can help fight back against them, go here.


The irony of the Republicans' fight against voter fraud is that the one, recently criminally-proven case of voter fraud was committed by the Republican Secretary of State for Indiana, see here.

Quotation for Today: Disabusing Americans of Another Fantastic Lie (Updated)

The quotation for today, across the jump, introduces us to an excellent follow-on article to the piece about retirement that was introduced in the previous Quotation for Today.

Quotation for Today: The 401k Confidence Game or Why We Must Have a Financially Strong Social Security

The urgent need for a financially strong Social Security program, one that will replace 75 percent of a person's final income, is captured in the quotation for today. 

Quotation for Today: Mitt Romney and Robert Bork, Severe Conservative Twins

The nightmarish administration that a Robert Bork-advised President Mitt Romney would bring to the United States was captured superbly in the quotation for today, across the jump.

Quotation for Today: The Confederate State of Arizona

The quotation for today, across the jump, aims our attention at what are the true goals of Arizona's immigration law.

Quotation for Today: The Extreme Candidate of the Extreme Party

Across the jump, the quotation for today introduces us to the Republican presidential wannabe, Mitt Romney, whose extreme political stunts insult the intelligence and honesty of the American people.

Quotation for Today: America's Income and Wealth Gap - A Republican Creation

The quotation for today -- across the jump -- captures the fact that Republican government, economic and monetary policies of the past 30-plus years have created the greatest income and wealth inequality in the United States since before the Great Depression.