Plastic bag ban kills 8800 jobs says activist group

AUSTIN, Texas – The the American Progressive Bag Alliance believes that the ban on plastic bags is hurting job growth. “8,800 Texan jobs are threatened by the proposed ordinance to ban and tax plastic bags,” the group wrote in a statement issued yesterday. Plastic retail carry-out bags are 100% recyclable and made from clean natural [...]

Davos elites fresh out of job creation ideas

Western political leaders are quick to rely on business leaders to solve today’s job creation problems, mainly because lobbyists have promoted the idea that CEOs were best suited for the job. But a business’ primary function is to generate profits, not to maintain the welfare of a nation and its people. And if given an [...]

Capitalism is outdated and crumbling

Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.” “We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, [...]

Colbert Soft-Shoes Racism in Harris-Perry Interview

Late night television comedy show host Stephen Colbert waded into briny waters last week on his Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, interviewing revered Tulane political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry on the matter of racial stereotypes. The razor-witted political satirist invited Harris-Perry to discuss her new book: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in [...]

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