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Hightower: Our Disgraceful Minimum Wage
Znet Article, September, 21 2012
Jim Hightower
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Where are the ethics in a "work ethic" that rewards so many with paychecks that deliberately hold them in poverty?
Hightower: The Truth About the U.S. Postal Service
Znet Article, March, 31 2012
Jim Hightower
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Since 1971, the postal service has not taken a dime from taxpayers
Hightower: Something Big is Happening: Occupy Together
Znet Article, October, 08 2011
Jim Hightower
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Their cause is the same as the one boiling in the guts of America's workaday majority: Stop the gross greed of financial and corporate elites
Hightower: There's Nothing Conservative About Gov. Walker's Autocratic Power Grab
Commentary, May, 09 2011
Jim Hightower
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Call them what they are--not conservatives, but self-serving plutocrats
Hightower: Greed Trophy Up for Grabs
Znet Article, February, 18 2010
Jim Hightower
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By gollies, the top executives of health insurance corporations are not giving up without a fight! To paraphrase every high school football coach who ever lived, "When the going gets ugly, the ugly get going."
Hightower: Obama's War
Znet Article, December, 05 2009
Jim Hightower
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Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to war we go! Pound the drums loudly, stand with your country proudly!
Hightower: Fighting Back in America's 30-Year Class War
Znet Article, March, 14 2009
Jim Hightower
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David Brooks was upset. You can tell when this conservative and rather-professorial columnist for The New York Times gets upset, because his words almost sag with disappointment - you can practically hear the tsk-tsks and the heavy sighs in each p...
Hightower: Immigrants come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There
Znet Article, February, 09 2008
Jim Hightower
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The wailing in our country about the "invasion of immigrants" has been longand loud. As one complainant put it, "Few of their children in the countrylearn English ...The signs in our streets have inscriptions in bothlanguages ... Unless the stream...
Hightower: Thieves in High Places: They`ve Stolen Our Country--And It`s Time to Take It Back
Book, October, 12 2007
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Hightower: There`s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos
Book, October, 12 2007
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Hightower: If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates
Book, October, 12 2007
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Hightower: Subprime Loans = Primetime for Vampire Lenders
Znet Article, August, 24 2007
Jim Hightower
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Subprime Loans = Primetime for Vampire Lenders
Hightower: Tom Delay
Znet Article, December, 17 2003
Jim Hightower
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In politics, especially in the South, it's not uncommon to be tagged with a nickname. In my first run for office here in Texas, I became widely known as "Whole Hog" Hightower after I gave a particularly fiery speech at the state AFL-CIO convention...
Hightower: Enron Shorts
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Jim Hightower
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THE SOB STORY OF KEN AND LINDA LAY 2/11/02 I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or throw up.The televised tear-jerker entitled "Ken Lay, What A Guy!" starred Linda Lay, the wife of Enron CEO Ken, in an Emmy Award-winning performance. Like the wives...
Hightower: The Uncounted Majority
Commentary, December, 05 2000
Jim Hightower
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Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that caused the publisher of an economics report to have to issue an apology to subscribers: "Instead of the figures on t...
Hightower: Three from Hightower
Commentary, July, 31 2000
Jim Hightower
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"The truth will come out. They are killing me tonight. They are murdering me." These were the final words of Gary Graham, number 135 on the list of death row inmates executed in rapid-fire order on the watch of George W. Bush, who has averaged ...
Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Commentary, June, 02 2000
Jim Hightower
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At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Commentary, May, 14 2000
Jim Hightower
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Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...
