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Fox News’ attempt to stop the flood of young viewers from fleeing the network failed as FNC
lost the most young viewers of any cable news network in 2013.

TVNewser reported on the big drop in young people tuning into Fox News, “Compared to 2012,
Fox News was down -5% in total viewers and -19% in the A25-54 demographic in total day.
In primetime, the network was down -14% in total viewers and -30% in the demo, the steepest
decline among younger viewers of all the cable news networks.”

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A study published last November in The Journal of Politics suggests that this sorry
state of affairs is good news for a small group of Americans at the top of the economic pile.
“Washington gridlock helps the super-rich stay rich, and get richer,” says Thomas Volscho,
a sociologist at the City University of New York and one of the authors of the study. “And
the richer they get, the more the gridlock actually helps them.”

The researchers looked back over 70 years of data, and found that the more dysfunctional
Washington is, the bigger the share of the pie the top one percent tends to grab. And most
importantly, they also found that when economic inequality is high, the kind of polarization
and gridlock that have been the hallmark of Washington since Barack Obama’s election make
legislative efforts to change course all-but-impossible.

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A memo from House leadership to the Republican caucus coaches members on how to speak
about unemployment in a compassionate manner, according to the Washington Post.

The memo tells representatives that unemployment is a "personal crisis" and asks them to give
"proper consideration" to an extension of longterm unemployment benefits.

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Unions aren't people either.  Let's remove legal recognition for both - in a bipartisan manner.

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Sounds good to me.  Any program that benefits Corporations should be equally shared with Unions,
or not exist at all.

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I agree...you won't here Elizabeth Warren say that.  Not politically advantageous for class warfare rhetoric.

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In 2011, Congress encouraged private sector “police companies” to replace law enforcement on the State and local level by coercing a new police protection insurance that would tack on a fee to citizens for the use of “police protection”.

This move was justified by having citizens pay for the police to be called to scenes as a “communal service” that is contractual just as any other service or good is paid for. As a customer, the citizen would tell 911 dispatch their insurance information for payment purposes to be billed after the police were deployed to the scene, or services were rendered.

Turning LPDs into private security firms that provide services to the public was the scheme behind privatizing law enforcement.

Under state government contract, private security firms preform law enforcement services. With legislative bodies on both the state and Congressional level supporting this change, private corporations enter into contractual agreements with city councils to provide armed security patrol. Just as a rent-a-cop is hired to secure private property, local police departments are masked rent-a-cops that were hired by local government to secure their city.

This fact has been hidden from public scrutiny and has added to the blending of social perception of what the police are and what they do so that police services are able to function without question. At the same time, citizens are expected to pay fees for these “services” that were once inherent to life in a structured town or city.

In early 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report entitled “Homeland Security and Intelligence: Next Steps in Evolving the Mission” which outlined in part on how to redirect efforts of the federal government from international terrorism toward home-grown terrorists and build a DHS-controlled police force agency that would control all cities and towns through the use of local police departments.

DHS maintains that “the threat grows more localized” which necessitates the militarization of local police in major cities in the US and the training of staff from local agencies to make sure that oversight is restricted to the federal government.

Private corporations have been parading as public servants policing cities and towns across America without the knowledge of the average citizen for quite some time. Although they wear the same badges as LPDs of the past, these private security firms are not there to uphold peace or enforce any laws and city ordinances. Just like any other corporation, they seek out opportunities to collect revenue for the benefit of the city that hired them.