``Sadly, most conservatives tend to cheer on the big corporations, but this is not how our founding fathers envisioned our capitalist system working. Our founding fathers envisioned large numbers of similar companies competing against one another for customers. They did not envision a very small number of giant corporations buying up all of their competitors or smashing them into oblivion with their giant piles of money.
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Paintings by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com. Reclaiming the Founding Fathers’ Vision of Prosperity To understand the core problem in America today, we have to look back to the very founding of our country. The Founding Fathers ... Read Post
An Oxford American mini-documentary, featured above, lost a National Magazine Award earlier this month to Romney’s 47% video on Mother Jones. Kevin Hartnett reflects: There’s a lot of joy and some sadness, too, in Tiny Town, a small... Read Post
The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today. America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is becoming poorer. So why is t... Read Post