Aug. 10th, 2013

U.S. multinationals have cut 2.9 million jobs here while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a corporate funded organization that writes proposals and hands them off to legislators who often don’t change anything in those proposals,

The United States has the most people in prison by far of any country in the world.

U.S. health care costs are the highest in the world.Total amount of GDP spent on health care is also the highest of any country in the world at 17.6 percent.

Gerrymandering - process by which republicans re-draw districts to make it more difficult for Democrats to win seats in the legistlature.

The number of bills blocked by Republicans in Congress.

Congress has only passed 15 bills that were signed into law. until the Senate recently threatened to reform the filibuster, the GOP had succeeded in holding up 79 of President Obama’s picks to the U.S. Circuit Court and Courts of Appeal. blocking these appointments regardless of qualification.

Tax cuts primarily benefit the wealthy.

Six corporations - Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, and CBS -control roughly 90% of the media in the U.S.

more: http://www.alternet.org/media/15-things-americans-would-know-if-there-were-liberal-media?paging=off
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