Episode

11/18 Cheney Family Feud, Unemployment Horrors & Elite Calls For Social Security Cuts

November 18, 2013

The Cheney sisters fight over Liz’s opposition to marriage equality, astroturf Fix the Debt austerity organization caught plagiarizing, why Fix the Debt would raise student interest rates, Washington Post publishes absurd Social Security editorial, poverty spikes among elderly women, how the long term jobless are not getting hired and Sheldon Adelson makes the “moral” case against online gambling.

On The Better Half: Jeremy Hammond’s draconian prison sentence, Wall Mart organizes a food drive for its own employees, why we need to offer a public option now and your IMs.

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