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Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money
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Donna Summer's classic music video.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/17/rip-donna-summers-thanks-for-great-dance-tunes-she-works-hard-for-the-money/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/360594457330701 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/360594457330701#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:53:18 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=1a71f210bea06311da4ea9181d2dcc0d


TechCrunch | Still Smiling, Eduardo? Senators Schumer, Casey Want To Collect Your $67M In Facebook T
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Another development in the ongoing story of how Eduardo Saverin has given up his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying $67 million in taxes related to Facebook's IPO: the U.S. government doesn't want him get away with it quite so fast. Today, Senators Charles Schumer and Bob Casey are expected to anno...]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/17/under-greed-in-the-dictionary-you-make-almost-4-billion-from-the-facebook-ipo/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/392892770748908 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/392892770748908#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:11:14 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=dfe8912fb66bfd4c65d4efad0ed16206


WATCH: Strategist Behind Proposed Reverend Wright Attack Ad Has Long History Of Race-Baiting
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A group of GOP strategists is planning to pull out all the stops — including racism — in its campaign strategy to defeat President Obama, the New York Times reported today. The Times obtained a proposal, crafted by race-baiting GOP media consultant Fred Davis, that says the group will go after Obama...]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/17/batten-down-the-hatches-outright-racism-gobs-of-superpac-right-wing-money-it/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/368921283165586 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/368921283165586#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 11:53:31 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=3e473366c0339e5da8996b2784879ccf

MAP: Which States Are Best for Working Moms?
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You probably won't be surprised to learn that most states failed.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/17/heres-ample-proof-we-need-better-laws-protecting-womens-employment-rights-lik/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/354292727958442 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/354292727958442#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 11:34:47 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=4a677efe78ce8fe92c24f714ee5ad4f7
"Men's rights" groups are hugely problematic, and a red flag for how VAWA doesn't help the women it's meant to. ~Cyn



Dispatches From The War On Women: Just How Bad Is House VAWA Bill?
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The latest headlines from the best and the worst in the war on women.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/17/our-own-jessica-pieklo-on-how-bad-the-vawa-bill-is-it-empowers-abusers-by-remo/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/337528932983848 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/337528932983848#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 03:37:58 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=95a79581b13f4a982136d4701f77a1ed


Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'N
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It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/16/goldman-sachs-inadvertently-releases-the-very-incriminating-documents-theyve-be/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/380406485343098 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/380406485343098#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 03:29:24 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=b6c0dadf1b0016bef8675ca0bae073f0

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On May 15, Sen. Bernie Sanders joined with citizen groups to protest the Peter G. Peterson* “Fiscal Summit” where elite power brokers including House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), former Sen. Alan Simpson, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and former President Bill Clinton will gather inside to discuss a so-called “grand bargain” budget that will cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.
The Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan, authored by Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), is once again being discussed in Congress as a possible model for 'bipartisan' (?) deficit reduction legislation. Members of Congress should know that the Bowles-Simpson plan would cut Social Security benefits for today’s and tomorrow’s beneficiaries. Of even greater concern, it would end Social Security as we know it.
"Maybe the time is now to ask Mr. Peterson and his billionaire friends to start paying their fair share of taxes rather than devastating middle-income and working families," Sanders said on ABC 22 Fox 44.
VIDEO (7 mins 38 secs):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGv7NVdeItA&feature=share
The Bowles-Simpson plan:
http://my.firedoglake.com/socialsecurityworks/2012/05/15/livestream-sen-sanders-speaks-out-against-pete-petersons-fiscal-summit/
*Peter G. Peterson an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce under Richard Nixon. He is most well known currently as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which he established in 2008 with a $1 billion endowment.
Before serving in the White House, Peterson was Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell, from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. Peterson was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007, after being named chairman emeritus. In 2008, Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/16/lift-the-cap-on-social-security-deductions-so-its-taken-from-110000-and-above/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/10150784637606447 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/10150784637606447#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 23:28:15 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=0fb916b76114daabce00e1e92f03daeb http://momocrats.com/2012/05/16/wow-heres-how-youve-become-a-political-football-again-to-the-gop-the-house/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/359755690746138 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/359755690746138#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:37:47 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=6d1946e38475c197522f8ff8651fc32a
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Tell John Boehner: Domestic violence isn't a partisan issue!
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Sign Barbara Boxer's emergency petition to House Speaker John Boehner urging him to do the right thing by bringing up and passing the bipartisan, Senate-passed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/16/we-talked-about-vawa-on-todays-momochat-podcast-barbara-boxer-urges-you-to-sig/feed/ 0 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/328785563860387 http://www.facebook.com/MOMocrats/posts/328785563860387#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:10:20 +0000 MOMocrats http://momocrats.com/?guid=ccd79bff823e32c1bbee6592f06e11cd
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Sen. McCain huddles with Dems on campaign finance reform - TheHill.com
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The senator is talking about a joint effort to require wealthy outside groups to disclose their donors. Sen.]]> http://momocrats.com/2012/05/16/mccain-seems-to-really-believe-in-limiting-campaign-finance-and-may-be-getting/feed/ 0