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Entries Tagged ‘rich kids’

Campaign Spending

It gets worse every year… The Republican candidates and a few independent groups have spent nearly $10 million on television and radio ads in seven states that vote on Super Tuesday, and more than half of that total comes from the Mitt Romney-backing Restore Our Future, which is running spots criticizing Rick Santorum and Newt [...]

Disgusting!

This is the most vile and disgusting thing I’ve read in a very long time (and I’ve read Rick Santorum speeches!) Rich people suffering. Who knew? Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 [...]

One of Us!

Wow….just….wow… Mitt Romney Comes From “The Real Streets Of America” …all that and unemployed too. What a guy.

Yeah, This Will Help

Board of Trade Offers Job Counseling Advice for Occupy Chicago: Chicagoist Someone at the Chicago Board of Trade issued another message to the Occupy Chicago protesters by blanketing them with these McDonald’s job applications. The protesters are understandably offended by both the message and by the hundreds of pieces of new litter around them. First [...]

Struggling Oil Industry Releases Q3 Numbers

Here’s the big news from the nation’s struggling oil companies. Certainly this will be an excuse to continue subsidizing these desperately poor corporations… Chevron Announces $7.8 Billion in Q3 Profits, 2011 Profits for Big-Five Oil Companies Hit a Staggering $101 Billion | ThinkProgress As Oil Companies Announce $24 Billion in Profits, Rep. Stearns Says, “When [...]