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Epstein Emails Expose How America’s Elites Really See the Rest of Us

February 5, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Anand Giridharadas - Epstein emails shows what the rich really thinks about the rest

Anand Giridharadas explains how the Epstein emails expose elite contempt, inequality, and a culture that normalizes exploitation and moral indifference.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Anand Giridharadas, billionaire culture, capitalism, Class Warfare, democracy, Economic Justice, elite power, Epstein emails, Independent media, Inequality, paid leave, Progressive Politics

How Republicans Blew Up the Debt and Put the Dollar—and America—at Risk

January 27, 2026 By Egberto Willies

How Republicans Blew Up the Debt and Put the Dollar—and America—at Risk

GOP tax cuts created deficits, enriched elites, and forced America to borrow from itself. Now the dollar’s global role is collapsing—and the world is adapting.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: bond markets, BRICS, de dollarization, dollar dominance, global finance, GOP economics, Independent media, interest payments, paid leave, progressive economics, Sanctions, SWIFT, tax cuts for the rich, US debt

Nina Turner Schools Neo-Liberals: Americans Want Medicare for All, Not Corporate Excuses

November 6, 2025 By Egberto Willies

Nina Turner Schools Neo-Liberals: Americans Want Medicare for All, Not Corporate Excuses

Nina Turner exposes the hypocrisy of elites who label Medicare for All “socialism” while Americans struggle for basic dignity.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Medicare For All, neoliberal, neoliberalism, Nina Turner, paid leave, Zohran Mamdani

If America stopped redistributing the working and middle class’s money to the rich, we’d be OK.

July 20, 2025 By Egberto Willies

If America stopped redistributing the working and middle class's money to the rich, we'd be OK

America currently supports socialism for the wealthy as it distributes money from the working and middle class to the rich, unlike happy countries like Denmark and the Netherlands.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: middle class, paid leave, redistribution, working class

Why Workers and Employers Both Need Paid Family Leave

February 3, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Mike Morales’s doctor advised him to take four weeks off for an important procedure, and the longtime crane operator readily agreed, secure in the knowledge that he wouldn’t lose a dime in pay or face other repercussions at work.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor, maternal, paid leave

Joe Manchin’s Reagan moment to us & West Virginians: People would go hunting & abuse paid leave

December 21, 2021 By Egberto Willies

Joe Manchin's Reagan moment to us & West Virginians: People would go hunting & abuse paid leave

We always knew Joe Manchin was a neoliberal. But his disdain for the rest of us is palpable. Funny, it is he who a taker is.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Build Back Better, Fox News, joe biden, Joe Manchin, paid leave

MSNBC host uses her good fortune to blast America’s draconian family leave & other social policies

May 6, 2021 By Egberto Willies

MSNBC host uses her good fortune to blast America's draconian family leave & other social policies

MSNBC Host Katy Tur is taking the family leave offered by MSNBC. She slammed the U.S. for its deficiency in valuing the needs of families.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Family Leave, Katy Tur, paid leave

Denver Health Executives get bonuses. Employees get unpaid leave & furloughs. Our form of Capitalism.

April 26, 2020 By Egberto Willies

Denver Health Executives are doing their part to start the process of pitchfork sharpening. The hospital is losing money and employees are asked to take the burden. Like the titans of finance who continue to make money whether their companies and banks fail, these executives received fat checks from the hospital that is losing money. […]

Filed Under: A Few Takes Tagged With: capitalism, Denver Health, executives, paid leave, unpaid leave

You want non-ending TAX CUTS? Here’s your future. The rich can leave you can’t.

August 17, 2019 By Egberto Willies

You want non-ending TAX CUTS? Here's your future. The rich can leave you can't.

Homes & structures all enjoy that line beautiful humanmade lakefront shorelines worth billions are at peril because of shortsighted tax cuts for the rich.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Blanco River, Dam, GBRA, Guadalupe River, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, paid leave, Rich, Tax Cuts, Taxes

Chuck Todd thinks Congresspeople woefully underpaid (VIDEO)

July 3, 2017 By Egberto Willies

Chuck Todd thinks Congresspeople woefully underpaid (VIDEO)

Chuck Todd sadly able to empathize with ‘woefully underpaid’ politicians while never questioning how their ideology leave many Americans more broke.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Chuck Todd, Jason Chaffetz, paid leave

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