Working familes in Washington, D.C., and Cannes, France (where leaders of the G-20 are meeting), rallied yesterday for passage of a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street. You can join the action by telling Wall Street it’s time to pay its fair share.
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Stan Sorscher, labor representative for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace/IFPTE Local 2001 ( SPEEA /IFPTE), describes what he sees as an emerging American Aristocracy in this excerpt from Washington Policy Watch .
I went to France in June and couldn’t help comparing the French revolution to our own. So, let’s start with aristocracy, then we’ll get to Ayn Rand. Stick with me.
After International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested for alleged sexual assault on a Manhattan hotel housekeeper, there was a lot of domestic back-slapping for this country’s superior handling of such cases compared with such European countries as France, where sexual predation often is swept under the rug.
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