Chuck Norris: Give Big Banks a Roundhouse Kick!

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Friday April 30, 2010 · 10:33 AM PDT

2010/04/30 · 10:33

Can Chuck Norris convince his Tea Party fans, and their Republican Senators, to support cracking down on the big banks?

This has been showdown week in Washington, and the main event is Wall Street vs. Main Street.

Goldman Sachs was testifying, 1500 Wall Street lobbyists are lobbying, and Republicans were filibustering common sense reforms to reign in the biggest banks.

This is such a clear-cut, common-sense, powerful-special-interests vs. the-rest-of-us issue that we think even Tea Party activists should be on our side.

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 9:19 AM PDT

2010/04/13 · 09:19

Cross-posted at ProgressiveFuture.org

Republican Senator Tom Coburn thinks this is a good time to risk more job loss by cutting off unemployment insurance benefits.    

So, he singlehandedly blocked Congress from renewing benefits before they expired on April 5th. The same way Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) held up unemployment benefits until the final hour a few months ago. Different Republican senator, same backwards agenda.    

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 9:40 AM PST

2010/01/21 · 09:40

For more than sixty years federal law has banned corporations from spending their treasury funds directly on elections. With today’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the Roberts Court turned back the clock. Campaign reform advocates say this sets the stage for a deluge of corporate money in politics, and threatens to upend the role of citizens as the central force in our democracy.

Today we launched a letter to President Obama and Congress, which reads "No more Supreme Court justices who believe corporations have the same rights as citizens!" You can sign the letter at https://www.progressivefuture.org/....

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Friday January 15, 2010 · 12:50 PM PST

2010/01/15 · 12:50

Cross-posted from progressivefuture.org

Willie Sutton said he robbed banks "because that’s where the money is." The big banks have hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars right now. Let’s take it back so we can use it to create jobs and invest in a 21st century economy.

Wall Street banks brought our financial system to the brink of collapse. Taxpayers spent hundreds of billions of dollars to bail them out. Now these mega-banks are poised to announce $150 billion in executive bonuses -- these people truly have no shame.

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Tuesday September 22, 2009 · 8:54 AM PDT

2009/09/22 · 08:54

With all the lies, misinformation, hatred and outright violence that has centered around this health care debate, it's hard to pinpoint who we're fighting. Chuck Grassley? Sarah Palin? Blue Dogs?

The short answer is yes to all of the above -- but the real enemy is the insurance companies. Because health insurance companies are using your premiums to contribute to these candidates and to lobby against reform. As the brilliant and talented Levana Layendecker of Health Care for America Now! says:

That's your money they're spending to defeat health care reform and the choice of a public health insurance option.

At Progressive Future, we're joining with HCAN today to send our demands to the top 3 insurance companies in the country. Chances are, your health insurance company is part of WellPoint, UnitedHealth Group or Cigna. Let them know what you think of them using your health insurance premiums to fight health care reform today.

Barney Frank is my new personal hero -- with swag!

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 3:09 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 15:09

By now I'm sure you've all seen the video clip of Barney Frank verbally smacking down the town hall attendee. I personally watched it twice.

Because I, like we all are, am sick of the lunacy. I'm sick of the violence and vandalism. And I was thrilled to see one of our representatives finally stand up and call this woman out for her ridiculous and hateful comments. So thrilled, in fact, that we at Progressive Future wanted to commemorate the occasion with the button you see here.

Wear your button the next time you go to a town hall meeting to counter the right wing lunacy in your own town. Or wear it to school or the office and start a conversation about why we need real health care reform and we need it now.

Stand with Rep. Frank and call for a return to reasonable debate with your button today. You can get one here.

Sen. Grassley Disqualifies Himself from Health Care Negotiations

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 6:52 AM PDT

2009/08/13 · 06:52

Senator Charles Grassley is the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee and the chief Republican negotiator in efforts to produce a bipartisan health care bill. By now you may have seen that Sen. Grassley has jumped on the health care crazy bandwagon, endorsing the notion that his constituents should fear the House bill over what Sarah Palin termed "Obama’s ‘death panel.’"

At an Iowa event yesterday, he said, ""In the House bill there is counseling for end of life...and from that standpoint you have every right to fear...we should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma." If you haven't seen the video yet, check it out here:

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Wednesday April 08, 2009 · 10:04 AM PDT

2009/04/08 · 10:04

I'm posting this diary on behalf of Dan Smith. We got to know Dan while fighting back against the Mortgage Bankers Association opposition to foreclosure assistance. This is what he has to say...

My name is Dan Smith, and I’m an electrician with IBEW Local 952 in Ventura, California. I lost my home because my mortgage broker lied to me about my interest rate. I’m working with Progressive Future to take on the Mortgage Bankers Association and urge Congress to save millions of homes. You can help by clicking here.

My wife and I sold the comfortable condo for which we had saved for years. We had figured out that we could afford to pay $2700 per month to share a bigger home with our one-year old daughter, with plans to have another child. Our third month, we got a bill for $3600—33% more than we signed up for. I called my broker and he said "didn’t I tell you that you had a ‘teaser rate’ that would go up?" No, he hadn’t told me. I was angry, but stuck—whatever they’d buried in the fine print was threatening everything I’d worked for.

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Wednesday April 01, 2009 · 3:07 PM PDT

2009/04/01 · 15:07

We all know our economy is shedding jobs at a scary clip. President Obama’s recovery package was a good start to get us back on track, but we need to do more.

And, of course, the recession has hit our most vulnerable populations hardest—minorities, folks laid off from the manufacturing sector, and disadvantaged youth.

That’s why Progressive Future is excited to be working with Green for All, Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, and others to promote a program that will provide pathways out of poverty, while saving Americans money on our energy bills: a national Clean Energy Corps.

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Wednesday March 04, 2009 · 11:53 AM PST

2009/03/04 · 11:53

One every 13 seconds.[1]

That's how many families are losing their homes to foreclosure. More than 8 million families are at risk.[2]

And, this is no accident. In Brave New Foundation's provocative new film on the housing crisis, a California mortgage broker admits on tape that he was "trained to mislead borrowers" and get them into the most expensive loans.

Check out the video:

Tell the Mortgage Brokers Association to back off and get out of the way of solutions to the housing crisis.

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 2:32 PM PST

2009/02/16 · 14:32

The level of entitlement that bailed out banks are displaying is nothing short of stunning. First, they make bad decisions and bad investments. Arguably, these investments caused our current economic crisis; at a minimum, they were a major contributing factor.

Then, we learned that bailed out bank CEOs were giving themselves nice bonuses and taking themselves on nice vacations with the billions of tax dollars that I and other hard working Americans had no choice but to give them.

Now, they're planning on sticking it to me again, this time in the form of even higher than the sky-high interest rates they were already charging on credit cards. Apparently they are so cash strapped that they have to pass the costs on to their customers. Thousands of credit card holders are getting letters giving them very short notice that their interest rates could skyrocket to as much as 30%, or that they will be assessed a $10 monthly fee for carrying a balance for too long. I guess our tax dollars just weren't enough to cover their lavish lifestyles.

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 10:22 AM PST

2008/12/18 · 10:22

Cross-posted at http://www.progressivefuture.org

After years of abuse and waste, and over two years after a brutal shooting in which 17 Iraqis were killed, the State Department has finally decided to cut Blackwater off. An advisory panel, convened by Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, recommended that Blackwater's multi-million dollar contract to protect U.S. officials in Iraq not be renewed.Talk about too little, too late.

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