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Republicans in Congress never tire of exuding their fulminations against Big Government. They also never tire of their sham, for they are the leading supporters of that Big Government — such as the Federal Reserve and corporate welfare payouts — that caters to the endless demands of Big Business. Big Business is Big Government. How…
The recent orgy of forcing taxpayers to subsidize the multi‑millionaire owners of sports corporations shows no signs of abating as cities grovel to outbid one another. The bids normally range between $200 million to $400 million packages and the giveaway contracts do not require any share of profits or any other kind of payback to…
From The Nader Letter April 1996 As coronations go, the confirmation hearings for Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and two new members of the Board were, if nothing else, a model of efficiency and speed, taking just a little more than three hours of the Senate Banking Committee’s time. So perfunctory was the Committee’s…
On March 26th, the voters of California defeated three proposals on the ballot that would have destroyed or restricted the legal protections of injured motorists and other people swindled of their savings or harmed by defective products. About fifteen million dollars of computer, insurance and financial industry monies bankrolled these “democracy destroyers” behind a barrage…
Republicans in Congress are in a struggle with President Clinton over H.R. 956, a bill to federalize and restrict the state-based legal rights accorded injured persons who take the perpetrators of their harm to court. This legislation is by no means the full package that its business backers, including the insurance and tobacco industries, have…
Without exception the most authentic breath of fresh air running for the U.S. Senate on a major party ticket is Pat Quinn. He is battling to defeat Cong. Richard Durbin, a true corporate Democrat, in the Illinois Senatorial primary this month. Quinn is a remarkable man. As a citizen activist, he sparked a referendum in…
The waves of commercialism sweeping over the nation’s institutions of higher learning are becoming larger and more frequent. Many years ago, Universities and colleges were wary of business turning their institutions into partners, joint ventures and other deals. Now, more and more of these academies are actively bidding for business partnerships and encouraging their professors…
From The Nader Letter March 1996 Suddenly basic economic and trade issues are front and center in national politics. Discussions of job security, stagnant wages, corporate ethics and flights of factories to Mexico are pushing out the endless renditions of balanced budgets, deficits and arcane tax proposals as the hot button issues. Belatedly, politicians and…
Suddenly basic economic and trade issues are front and center in national politics. Discussions of job security, stagnant wages, corporate ethics and flights of factories to Mexico are pushing out the endless renditions of balanced budgets, deficits and arcane tax proposals as the hot button issues. Belatedly, politicians and pundits are discovering that jobs and…
At the Cedar Lane Unitarian Church in Bethesda, Maryland on the morning of February 19, 1996, there was a memorial service to celebrate the life of an extra ordinary musician, Randy Hostetler, age 32. In a short hour, his friends, younger brother, Eric, and his parents, Jim and Zona, through their pastor, conveyed the iconoclastic…