What Should Jesus Do?
The protester, a bearded guy in sandals, says that the moneyed interests are exerting too much influence on the government. He thinks that it is time for those who are holding aloft the banner of God...
View ArticleMedicare "Improvement Standard" Improperly Applied
The Center for Medicare Advocacy talks about the improper interpretation and erroneous implementation of an "improvement standard." Basically, treatment under Medicare should not be denied on the...
View ArticleOil Speculation
CNN's Jack Cafferty asks, "Should price controls be imposed on gasoline?"My answer is that it is not just Wall Street that is the problem. Crude oil prices are determined on a “futures” market at the...
View ArticleRomney for President?
Crony capitalism, disaster capitalism, lies and super pacs. Now Romney wants to reduce capital gains from 15% to 0%, eliminate corporate taxes altogether, and reduce income taxes (the wealthy would be...
View ArticleAARP Wants Social Security Cuts Again?
From the Huffington Post, we have that AARP "will soon be holding a private, principals-only 'salon-style conversation' with a host of advocates of entitlement cuts." A petition opposing this outrage...
View ArticleOn the Road Again to 1929 - The JOBS Act
Copy of Letter to Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN):I am writing about your YES vote on the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, HR3606 (JOBS, or Jumpstart Only Big Scams Act).Thank you for voting to end...
View ArticleThe XL Pipeline and Other Progressive Rumblings; A Letter to the President
The Keystone XL pipeline is touted as necessary, even though it will lead to only 50 permanent jobs, and any output will be sold abroad, not here in the U.S. And there is a reason that Canada does not...
View ArticleAARP Wants Permission To Ask For Benefit Cuts
AARP's repeated efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits demonstrates that they have little understanding of the issues involved. Not only have they bought into conservative's lies, they...
View ArticleMore Bad Budgets
The rich should be paying their fair share, not 15% on investment income. Preferential treatment for capital gains income should be eliminated. Obama has proposed extending most of the Bush tax cuts,...
View ArticleMisinformation: CNN and Social Security
Regarding CNN's, "Where do your taxes go?", posted 4/20/2012, and broadcast 4/21/2012 during the 1:00 pm ET news show. "$2.3T of the $3.6T federal budget comes from taxes. Christine Romans explains...
View ArticlePayroll Tax Increase Used In Pay-As-You-Go-Act
Not only is the payroll tax holiday mixing general revenues into the Social Security Trust Fund (which has U.S. Treasury bonds and has not been "stolen"), but now politicians are using payroll tax...
View ArticleMonsanto and Genetically Modified Organisms
After so long hearing of so many egregious practices by Monsanto, and in particular after reading an article by SourceWatch and viewing "The World According to Monsanto" by Marie-Monique Robin - ARTE ,...
View ArticleJob Numbers Sign of Anemic Recovery
In response to "Mitt Romney Calls May Jobs Report 'Devastating News' For American Workers":I am amazed that the economy improved at all. The Democrats in the Senate had only 59 votes 2009-2010 because...
View ArticleFeedback for Obama 2012
Obama-Biden 2012 questionnaire additional comments or feedback:Better to let all tax cuts end than to give in to GOP demands for continued breaks for those who do not need them. Focus on revenue, not...
View ArticleIs Our System Socialist?
Socialism is an economic system characterised by social ownership and/or control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy, and a political philosophy advocating such a...
View ArticleRegarding Demonstrations of Intolerance
I think about the number of people who chose to go to Chick-Fil-A on a certain day to show their support of unequal rights versus the number of people who did not go, and that gives me a bit of hope....
View ArticleAnother Liberal Rant
Four years ago the economy was tanking; jobs were disappearing at the rate of 750,000 per month, gas prices had dropped from over $4 a gallon to less than $2, the stock market was plunging, housing...
View ArticleRomney's Pants On Fire Welfare Claims
For those who believe Romney and Ryan on their claim that Obama is gutting the welfare work requirement, here are the facts:From Kathleen Sebelius, The Secretary of Health and Human Services, July 18,...
View ArticleReturn to Fiscal Sanity
Robert Reich's proposal for $4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next decade:Raise the tax rate to 55.2% for those making over $1 millionCharge a 2% surtax on the wealth of the richest one-half of...
View ArticleBoehner Post-Election is Business as Usual
Response to "John Boehner: No Tax Rate Boost To Avert Fiscal Cliff"It's not a tax hike, it is the end of a temporary tax cut. The income of the wealthy has quadrupled while wages on the middle class...
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