Not to be picky, but | Rhetoric aside, since when do businesses care about job creation?
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Henry Banta points out that corporate leaders’ goal is to make a profit, and that ‘any sane businessman wants to employ as few people as he can.’ If jobs get in the way of profits, the jobs go – as Mitt Romney well knows.

Community or austerity? | The long-term care challenge isn't just a fiscal problem, it's a test of our nation's character
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When it comes to caring for the elderly and the disabled, fiscal austerity and moral imperatives come into direct conflict. So as the baby boomers enter their twilight years, a scholar at the Claude Pepper Foundation writes, the nation will have a stark choice between communal values or neoliberal ones.

What happened to tolerance? | GOP candidates, religion, and same-sex marriage in Iowa
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Michael Gartner says Republican presidential candidates and their supporters should read Iowa’s 2½–year-old same-sex marriage ruling instead of bashing it. If they did, they would find a ringing endorsement of freedom of religion, not a rebuke or challenge to it.

| The outlook for the FCC and broadband: Not good
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If words were actions the FCC under Obama would be a more aggressive regulator than it was under Bush. But they aren’t and it isn’t. The U.S. is way down on the list of countries in broadband performance, and likely to stay there.

Too big to fail? Break ‘em up! | How many more crashes before we fix the economy? COMMENTARY Some lessons were learned from the 2008 economic collapse but few reforms have been implemented; moneyed resistance is too powerful and stubborn. So a good question is: When will we fix the system? After the next crisis? The one after that? We sure aren’t fixing it now.

A tale of two systems | For German automakers, US is a low-wage country
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Workers for Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen make about twice as much at plants in Germany as workers in those firms’ plants in the U.S., all of which are in right-to-work states. A Remapping Debate report.

$2.5-$3.3 billion expected | What should TV stations do with all that negative ad money?
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2012 will be a boon for TV stations. Bill Wheatley suggests they set up ‘Windfall tithing’ operations, pumping 10 percent of their bounty into solid election-year reporting to counter some of the misleading and even false commercials they will be running.

Shock troops of the super-rich | 'Wealth defense industry' protects oligarchs from the rabble and its taxes
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Thousands of lawyers, accountants and consultants work full-time to defend the wealth of the richest Americans, says a Northwestern University political economist. It's their secretive labor that makes the effective tax rate so regressive for the ultra-rich -- and makes everyone else so angry

Too much ‘politics as usual?’ | Strentz & Cranberg on whether to boycott Rick Perry
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Two longtime Iowa journalists, one a professor, the other an editorial page editor, in a brief colloquy on whether Rick Perry should pay a price – no editorial board meeting – because of some outrageous remarks.

Cuttling lifelines | The U.S. is facing a retirement security crisis -- and Washington wants to make it worse
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More and more older people will be living in poverty as it is, writes a scholar at the Claude Pepper Foundation. So why are even Democrats talking about cutting their lifelines?

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