The reality is that the government and the economy are so thoroughly integrated it is impossible to separate the two.
Inequality across much of Europe has widened, but it is still quite modest when compared with the vast income gap in the United States.The question is whether relative equity can hold as workplace institutions that for decades protected European employees’ standard of living give way to a more lightly regulated, American-style approach, where the government hardly interferes in the job market and organized labor has little say.
The Daily Show
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When it comes to spying, the American government isn't doing anything to the rest of the world that it isn't already doing to Americans.
There is a growing impatience with austerity among public-sector workers, as the government prepares a budget for 2014 that will inflict a seventh year of spending cuts and tax increases. Irish governments have sought to control costs in response to the country's worst-ever property and banking crisis that started over five years ago. The country is obliged by its bailout with the European Union and International Monetary Fund to public sector spending and jobs cuts.
Could there be a higher octane fuel for the Fox News false outrage exploitation engine than wheelchair-bound World War II veterans?
The Colbert Report
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The Obama administration alerts Americans about an imminent Al Qaeda attack that could happen any moment, anywhere, at any time.
If Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy but convicted of espionage, who was he spying for, us?
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Republicans show they are willing to compromise on the farm bill by eliminating the part they refused to compromise on.
Tyranny and Texas
Jessica Williams meets Texas residents tired of living under the jackboot of a democratically elected government.
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