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Papantonio: Private Industry has Ruined Healthcare

The GOP believes that the private insurance industry can do a better job at running healthcare than the government. Unfortunately they are the ones who've been in charge while things have gone down the tubes. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox News' Bulls and Bears to discuss the reasons why the government could do a much better job.

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Papantonio: Debt is a National Security Problem

Vice President Biden said last week that our soaring debt is a national security problem. He's absolutely right but the GOP wants to forget that it was George Bush who squandered the surplus left to him by President Clinton. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox News' Bulls and Bears to talk about how our debt has made us indentured servants to our creditors.

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Papantonio: The Tree Hugging Pentagon

Those crazy tree-hugging liberals at the Pentagon have gone too far this time. It's time for neocons to regain better control of the dialogue about global climate change. The Pentagon announced that they recognize that global climate change is not only real but that it is so serious that it could be a "global destabilizing force." What were they thinking? Has Al Gore and Bobby Kennedy, Jr. commandeered the decision-making around the Pentagon? That loony military organization that for decades has helped keep America safe surely is way off course on this call. Who are the real intellectuals here? Is it likely that they know more than that distinguished line of Republican thinkers like Senator James Inhofe, or Glenn Beck, or maybe even Sarah Palin? Tell me it's not so.

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Papantonio: Obama, Stop Playing Nice

The White House has unveiled a new communications strategy in hopes of retaking control of the political dialogue in America. The GOP believes that this is just an attempt to completely shut them out of the debate but as Mike Papantonio points out on Fox Business's Happy Hour, that's exactly what the Obama administration should have been doing from day one.

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Papantonio Explodes on Fox Panel

What happens when four right wing hacks deny reality and facts? When they're put up against Ring of Fire's own Mike Papantonio he let's them know what really is happening in the world and how they are the ones who kept pushing the toxic trash that helped crash our economy. As you can see in this clip they don't always enjoy being forced to live in reality.

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Papantonio: Teabaggers and Teabaggees

When Fox News conducted a poll and asked the question "What is the Tea Party movement about?" that Fox poll showed that 76% of the respondents said it was a fruitless mix of racism and conspiracy theories. The poll showed that only 16% of the respondents said that the movement had anything to do with fiscal responsibility. That identity crisis is one reason the recent Nashville Tea Party event was like the sound of one-hand clapping.

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Pap and David Uncover the News

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Mike Papantonio and David Bender uncover some of the most important news stories from the past week that you might not have heard about and they also offer their unique insight into some of the stories that the mainstream media actually did manage to cover.

• Stop Kennedy Smears
• Joel Surnow

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Papantonio - CPAC: O'Keefe is Our Hero

James OKeefe is one of those young right-wing leaders that the conservative movement embraces. OKeefe showed up at CPAC only after he posted bail on felony charges he faces in New Orleans. That CPAC young right-wing leader was arrested for trying to tap the phone lines and computer system of a Democratic U.S. Senator. The criminal operation led by OKeefe and several other leaders of the conservative movement's bright future would not be considered inspirational by normal standards. It was a criminal operation not much different than one led by another conservative leader named G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy and his pals also believed that criminal break-ins and wiretaps should be part of the conservative social and political agenda.

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Henry Rollins: A Mad Dash, Anarchy and America

Rocker, author, and activist Henry Rollins recently joined Mike Papantonio on Ring of Fire to talk about his latest tour, his recent role on the hit show Sons of Anarchy, and he shared his thoughts on Sarah Palin and the tea party movement.

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Henry Rollins: H For Hunger

Rocker, author, and activist Henry Rollins recently joined Mike Papantonio on Ring of Fire to talk about his latest tour, his recent role on the hit show Sons of Anarchy, and he shared his thoughts on Sarah Palin and the tea party movement.

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Henry Rollins: The Supreme Court & Tea Parties

Rocker, author, and activist Henry Rollins recently joined Mike Papantonio on Ring of Fire to talk about his latest tour, his recent role on the hit show Sons of Anarchy, and he shared his thoughts on Sarah Palin and the tea party movement.

HenryRollins.com

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Papantonio: Deficit Reduction Starts with Tax Revenue

The GOP is up in arms over the rising deficit yet they fail to wrap their heads around the fact that the only revenue-generation possible in our government is through taxes. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox Business's Bulls and Bears to debate the issue.

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Papantonio: Fox Host Defends Wall Street Greed

Goldman Sachs is planning a multi-million dollar PR campaign to remake its image but is this going to be enough. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox Business's Bulls and Bears to talk about how the culture of greed on Wall Street is a problem that a slick PR campaign won't be able to fix.

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Papantonio: Watch Pharma Stocks

Mike Papantonio makes his predictions on which stocks to avoid in the upcoming months on his recent appearance on Fox Business's Bulls and Bears.

There's some doubt that the Burroughs story is the beginning of a trend. From detnews: Mich. firm turns tables on outsourcing:

Robert Kennedy, associate director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan business school who studies global business trends, said that while there may be some examples of returning offshore work to American soil, "that doesn't add up to significant trend."

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Papantonio: Marco Rubio's GOP Spending Spree

The Rubio story was barely noticeable when it first emerged. We had a Cuban-American conservative poster boy in a heated Senate Republican primary running against Florida Governor Charlie Crist. The headline to the early stories was that Rubio had charged more than $100,000 on his GOP American Express card. Republican leaders were quietly upset that the new face for ultra-conservative politics had used GOP money to pay for bottles of liquor, groceries, personal travel, family car repair and $130-haircuts. GOP critics complained that donors who gave money to the party did not anticipate that one-hundred thousand dollars worth of their contributions would be used as mad money by Rubio.

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Attachment 5427
The Elite vs. The American People

Recently Congress weighed whether or not to lower the tax rate for corporations in an attempt to leave them more money to create new jobs. This proposal would be great for businesses but unfortunately it would do absolutely nothing to help fight unemployment. When it comes to the plight of the average American worker, Congress seems to consistently miss the mark. They can't quite wrap their heads around the fact that half of the children in this country are going to bed hungry or that mothers and fathers working two jobs each are still having to live paycheck to paycheck. Mike Papantonio talks about the REAL America the one that those of us who arent CEOs of major corporations live in with author and blogger David DeGraw.

The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America

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From a leaked citigroup "Industry Note": WELCOME TO THE PLUTONOMY MACHINE

In early September we wrote about the [[ir)relevance of oil to equities and introduced the idea that the U.S. is a Plutonomy....

We will posit that: 1) the world is dividing onto two blocks - the plutonomies, where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few, and the rest....

4) In a plutonomy there is no such animal as “the U.S. consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed the “Russian consumer”. There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the “non-rich”, the multitudinous many, but only accounting for surprisingly small bites of the national pie....

MUCH more at the link.

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Papantonio: Goldman Sachs Caused Greek Economic Collapse

The GOP is deathly afraid that the United States could soon be facing a problem like the one in Greece where the country is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. They're actually correct - only because nothing has been done to reign in banks like Goldman Sachs who actually caused the meltdown in Greece. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox Business's Bulls and Bears to set the record straight.

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Papantonio: Market Rally Won't Last

One year ago the stock market hit rock bottom. Today the system looks to be setting itself up for yet another crash. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox Business's Bulls and Bears to talk about why the system hasn't really been fixed yet so any rallies we see are completely artificial.

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Papantonio: GOP Mocks Own Donors in Document

Two weeks ago the folks who run Republican fundraising made a sloppy mistake. They left the blueprint for their party fundraising plans at a posh resort where they had hosted a GOP retreat. That document is now in the hands of the media. RNC Chairman Michael Steele is having to put a good light on that pathetically cynical document. Money is short in GOP coffers these days. The RNC has less money in the bank than they have seen in a decade. This fundraising blueprint that is circulating shows a sense of desperation. It doesn't simply trash its donors. It trashes all the GOP party members by proclaiming that at the heart of the GOP fundraising effort will be the use of fear. GOP leadership believes that fear is the most effective motivator for the elephant crowd.

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Matt Taibbi on Wall Street's Bailout Hustle

When executives on Wall Street announced that they would be paying themselves $140 billion dollars in bonuses last year in spite of being on government welfare there was barely a whimper of outrage coming from the American public. After all, this is the kind of behavior that we've come to expect from the corrupt, greed-driven industry that sank our economy. But if their bonuses weren't enough to get your blood boiling then how about the fact that some of the largest financial institutions in America swindled the government like a common street hustler and left the American taxpayers footing the bill. Mike Papantonio talks about how the swindle occurred and who perpetrated it with Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi.

• Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
• taibbi.rssoundingboard.com

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Even Fox News is picking Matt's brain via a sans-cowboy-hat Imus: 'Wall Street's Bailout Hustle' Matt Taibbi.

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RFK, Jr. and Sheldon Whitehouse Talk Job Creation

While the GOP is trying to hang the current economic disaster on President Obama, it's important to remember that it was President Bush who put us on this path. He squandered the surplus, bankrupted our government, and allowed Wall Street to rule unchecked. As a result, Obama is having to work around the clock to fix the mess that he inherited. One of the biggest messes that he's trying to clean up is the unemployment rate in this country which is now hovering around 10%. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses this issue with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse who is working to get Congress to take up the issue of job creation.

• RingOfFireRadio.com
• whitehouse.senate.gov

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Attachment 5535
Papantonio: Healthcare, Republicans Lose the Fight

The Healthcare debate is heating up as lawmakers are attempting to bring it to a close. Republicans are crying about the tactics the Democrats are considering while the Democrats are justifying it by bringing up the fact that the GOP operated the same way for six straight years. Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC to talk about the issue.

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Papantonio: Whine Republicans, Whine

With the healthcare debate winding down and Democrats in a position to pass a bill within the next week or so, the GOP has resorted to the last trick left in their playbook - Whining. Knowing that they are outnumbered on every front, Republicans are taking to the airwaves to try and stop healthcare reform from taking place. Mike Papantonio appears on Fox Business's Happy Hour to talk about why this tactic isn't going to work for the GOP.