Lindsey Graham said “Mr. President, don’t think for one minute I don’t hold you ultimately
responsible for Benghazi. I think you failed as commander in chief
before, during and after the attack.” As for Rice, Graham said, “I have
no intention of promoting anyone who is up to their eyeballs in the
Benghazi debacle.”
The most grievous debacle I've seen is two Senators who obviously listened to a leaky CIA employee or someone with access to top secret CIA information who used them to spin lies of an ideological nature. Who was it that told these two Senators that the White House had taken reference Al Qaeda out of the first Benghazi response read by Susan Rice? Didn't they even question that person's information enough to know it was the CIA that removed that comment. Didn't they listen to Ambassador Rice's words and understand her caveats and the fact that this was what the CIA knew at the time of her presentation.
John McCain said “I take on things … when I believe they’re wrong. Four Americans died that didn’t have to die.”
Even one casualty is a terrible loss but compared to the 4,486 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war they supported based on bad information (without question) a bit worse.
It seems to me the horrific understanding we now should see clearly is that we have a shadow force withing our CIA and Military that thinks nothing of outing Secret Agents like Valerie Plame and probably more individuals in her network, spinning us into an unnecessary war, and using Honorable Senators and leaders to further their own ideological goals and profits. How wrong can Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham be for a position of leadership to not only fall for this again and again. What next war are they already working on and why do they always opt for violent confrontation or the destruction of good people and their credibility.
I can understand Lindsey Graham's motivation (although I don't respect that motivation) being from South Carolina and up for reelection but even the very conservative people of that state can spot a phony and I know he will not make it past his primary race.
So why has John McCain gone from moderate (if you can call it that) Republican to extremist to moderate to extremist conservative over the last few years?
I'm sorry to say it all sounds like they both would rather believe the worst of their President and his administration than just ask the serious questions in their committees of people who really know the answers rather than shadow dances who dance with the truth like a fart in a windstorm.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The Guilded Age becomes the Glutted Age
Joe the Plumber talked a lot about the redistribution of wealth and he was right. Wealth was redistributed when George W. Bush took office and instituted his tax cuts. It's still happening ladies and gentlemen of the Tea Party and will go on until business realize they are killing the fatted cow known as the middle class.
What are we willing to do without so millionaires can take a few more trips to Europe, build another home to visit every now and then, speculate on the market while millions struggle to keep their homes, keep their jobs, eat well, enjoy their lives.
Never before have so few taken so much from so many and resent that the little people exist. Never before have so many people been so angry that they try to destroy all efforts to help them and their families and help the very people who's policies and propaganda made them angry.
Money is being redistributed alright - Flooding up and never trickling down.
The excesses of the Guilded Age were best shown in the breaking of unions in a more violent way then the movement Ronald Reagan began but it is a parallel between then and now.
Those who refuse to understand their history are doomed to repeat it.
Amen brother
"Today, the concentration of privately held wealth at the top is at its highest peak since 1929, the year the financial markets crashed and gave rise to the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, 25% of the population was out of work.Despite our economy being mired in the deepest recession since the 1930s, people in the top 1% continue to own as much wealth as those in the bottom 90%, and education is essential to reversing this trend and constructing a strategy for recovery."~ United Fair Economy Dot Org
Never before have so few taken so much from so many and resent that the little people exist. Never before have so many people been so angry that they try to destroy all efforts to help them and their families and help the very people who's policies and propaganda made them angry.
Money is being redistributed alright - Flooding up and never trickling down.
"What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?--dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must." ~ Mark Twain-1871
"The brutal depression of 1893-94 triggered some of the worst labor conflicts in the country's history, including the strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company. When George Pullman slashed wages and hiked rents in his company town, a national strike and boycott was called on all railways carrying Pullman cars. Railroad traffic ground to a halt as 260,000 workers struck, and battles with state and federal troops broke out in 26 states. The strike ultimately failed, its leaders imprisoned and many strikers blacklisted.
The labor movement lay in shambles, and would not rise again for nearly fifty years. Although workers would find new strength in the next century, they would never again pose the same broad challenge to the claims of capital."
Amen brother
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Common Sense and common senseless
The GOP and extreme right wing puppeteers are being charlatans when they talk about President Obama lecturing, and living in an Ivory Tower as if education is a bad thing and college is a place to be indoctrinated.
Rush Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."
It isn't any wonder Rush Limbaugh resents education and makes statements like, "Now, we've all acknowledged while they are book smart, they're genuinely ignorant, devoid of common sense, real-life experience people. "
There is such a thing as smart and scheming and Rush is probably a little of both with his love on power and money far exceeding his morality and common decency.
Then there is Glen Beck.In 1996 Beck took a theology class at Yale University. The class was called "Early Christology" and it marked the extent of his post secondary education. This was followed by Beck going on a "spiritual quest" where he "sought out answers in churches and bookstores." As Beck later recounted in his books and stage performances, his first attempt at self-education involved six wide-ranging authors: Alan Dershowitz, Pope John Paul II, Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, Carl Sagan, and Friedrich Nietzsc
Today Glen Beck lectures his followers in front of a blackboard while complaining about how President Obama acts like a professor (which he was, teaching Constitutional Law) when giving a speech.
It is Beck and Limbaugh and others that have convinced their listeners that only they know the Constitution of Common Sense and it's all smoke and mirrors.
There is no one who respects common sense more than I do but the common sense does come equally to those with an education and those without. I've known some very wise people in my lifetime who never went to a University and some really dense people with a Doctorate. I have also met some really misinformed individuals with no education and some very brilliant college professors who have a great deal of common sense and a genuine humble personality.
The most unsettling thing about Beck, Limbaugh and their followers is that while they say they want to restore the Constitution they at the same time have tried to tear down everything in the constitution except the Right to have a firearm.
They are teaching anarchy in the name of patriotism and division in the name of unity and neither is qualified to teach a dog to roll over.
Government is not the problem these people are the problem or spokesmen of a higher power with lots of money, gold and drugs.
Rush Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."
It isn't any wonder Rush Limbaugh resents education and makes statements like, "Now, we've all acknowledged while they are book smart, they're genuinely ignorant, devoid of common sense, real-life experience people. "
There is such a thing as smart and scheming and Rush is probably a little of both with his love on power and money far exceeding his morality and common decency.
Then there is Glen Beck.In 1996 Beck took a theology class at Yale University. The class was called "Early Christology" and it marked the extent of his post secondary education. This was followed by Beck going on a "spiritual quest" where he "sought out answers in churches and bookstores." As Beck later recounted in his books and stage performances, his first attempt at self-education involved six wide-ranging authors: Alan Dershowitz, Pope John Paul II, Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, Carl Sagan, and Friedrich Nietzsc
Today Glen Beck lectures his followers in front of a blackboard while complaining about how President Obama acts like a professor (which he was, teaching Constitutional Law) when giving a speech.It is Beck and Limbaugh and others that have convinced their listeners that only they know the Constitution of Common Sense and it's all smoke and mirrors.
There is no one who respects common sense more than I do but the common sense does come equally to those with an education and those without. I've known some very wise people in my lifetime who never went to a University and some really dense people with a Doctorate. I have also met some really misinformed individuals with no education and some very brilliant college professors who have a great deal of common sense and a genuine humble personality.
The most unsettling thing about Beck, Limbaugh and their followers is that while they say they want to restore the Constitution they at the same time have tried to tear down everything in the constitution except the Right to have a firearm.
They are teaching anarchy in the name of patriotism and division in the name of unity and neither is qualified to teach a dog to roll over.
Government is not the problem these people are the problem or spokesmen of a higher power with lots of money, gold and drugs.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
This mid-term election isn't important to our country
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Vote Reminder! This election is very important- Since when is the DMV part of the Federal Government? I got my drivers license in 15 minutes today - and where on earth is McDonald's considered a good meal rather than an unhealthy snack
Republican candidate for New York governor sits down with Megyn Kelly
Ron Johnson rails against government aid, but news reports indicate he received $4 million in government-subsidized loans to grow his business and his company used a government $75,000 grant to build a rail spur.
"There is a brochure out by my opponent which says I proposed that we not tax the oil industry when in fact, what I proposed was we not tax any of those energy industries and let the whole system take off.
Vote Reminder! This election is very important Wacko personified
Here is a video clip of Art Robinson responding to a question about public schools. Art Robinson says in this clip, "I think the public schools should be abolished."
Vote Reminder! This election is very important
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AK-Sen: Joe Miller on Border Security: “If the East Germans Could Do It, We Can Do It” | America’s V
At a town hall meeting in Anchorage yesterday, GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller (R-AK) argued for an interesting approach to border security: harkening back to the good old days of…East Germany.
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On Sunday's morning public affairs shows, both Republican Senate candidates Carly Fiorina in California and Ken Buck in Colorado struggled to give specifics about how they would reduce the deficit while also supporting expensive extensions of the Bush tax cuts. Although journalists ask Republicans t..
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Security guards for Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller handcuffed and detained the editor of the online magazine "Alaska Dispatch" on Sunday while he tried to interview the Republican nominee, according to multiple reports. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Tony Hopfinger, who founded and edits ...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Fourth Estate - Mass Media - Seducing the Masses
Oscar Wilde said,
"In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press... We are dominated by Journalism."
We are in very dangerous times, having lost any semblance of understanding. As information Technology has advanced the ability to find meaningful information has suffered. I think about the chaff used to defend fighter jets and bombers against radar guided missiles.
Countermeasure Chaff"Radar countermeasure chaff is dispensed by aircraft to decoy radar-seeking missiles. Our chaff products offer high reliability, multiple broadband frequency protection, excellent operational radar cross section and a rapid bloom with minimal birds-nesting. Variations of products are available to suit specific user requirements."
If you can't outrun a missile just confuse it with what appear to be multiple targets. So it is with politics and the Mass Media. Misinformation is 2,000 times more prevalent that fact. We are inundated with molehills being made into mountains by the "Press," fake news shows (Fox), loud clowns like LimpBaugh, Beck, and even Ed Schultz on the left. There are Tea Baggers in 57 varieties (most radical some just angry and very few who understand the contradictions they espouse "Keep the government out of my Medicare"). There are Republican'ts that say they are for small business but vote against it and do nothing but make our government look ineffective.
No wonder we are all confused, clarity is in short supply while the amount of information has grown into one humongous cloud. I'm not sure but I think clarity in politics, policy and the media is a thing of the past.
Perhaps the acclaimed TV series "Mad Men" also gives a clue about how this all started with large, professional advertising firms and the honing of their craft. Branding, Weasel Words, Controlled Access and other techniques now dominate the news.
The political bible says Halderman begat Segretti who begat Atwater who begat Rove who begat Brietbart who begat O'Keefe etc... Dirty Tricks and false statements seem to get more coverage in the "news" than fact and now fact has been smothered by fiction.
I used to be able to discern easily right from wrong now I have to take days to get even a kernel of the truth. Perhaps I'm just becoming a skeptic but phone in polls on the Ed show are a joke because of the audience who watches Ed and Fox is worse having several hacks sit and call our president a racist as though they had the corner on sooth saying.
Everyone should rent and watch the movie "Network" to see what life has become with a fourth estate gone either wacko and influential or so affluent and droll they can't and should not be taking our time on the air.
A few notable exceptions are Bill Moyers, Rachael Maddow, Jon Stewart, Paul Krugman and E.J. Dionne.
I am tired of Chris Matthews fawning over Chuck Todd a young man with more snark toward our president and with almost enough brains to keep his commentary to himself and grow up to be a real "News" director. I am tired of Glen Beck crying and making connections out of thin air and Rush Limbaugh pontificating while both feed lies and innuendo to trusting followers and ditto heads. Sure we are angry but one day I hope they realize why and turn on the weasels who drove them mad.
The fourth estate has become a morbid joke that is tearing the country apart or do we need classes in critical reading, listening and thinking before a person is allowed to vote. The news business is almost non-existent and at this point has constipation of the facts and diarrhea of the bluster.
The political bible says Halderman begat Segretti who begat Atwater who begat Rove who begat Brietbart who begat O'Keefe etc... Dirty Tricks and false statements seem to get more coverage in the "news" than fact and now fact has been smothered by fiction.
I used to be able to discern easily right from wrong now I have to take days to get even a kernel of the truth. Perhaps I'm just becoming a skeptic but phone in polls on the Ed show are a joke because of the audience who watches Ed and Fox is worse having several hacks sit and call our president a racist as though they had the corner on sooth saying.
Everyone should rent and watch the movie "Network" to see what life has become with a fourth estate gone either wacko and influential or so affluent and droll they can't and should not be taking our time on the air.
A few notable exceptions are Bill Moyers, Rachael Maddow, Jon Stewart, Paul Krugman and E.J. Dionne.
I am tired of Chris Matthews fawning over Chuck Todd a young man with more snark toward our president and with almost enough brains to keep his commentary to himself and grow up to be a real "News" director. I am tired of Glen Beck crying and making connections out of thin air and Rush Limbaugh pontificating while both feed lies and innuendo to trusting followers and ditto heads. Sure we are angry but one day I hope they realize why and turn on the weasels who drove them mad.
The fourth estate has become a morbid joke that is tearing the country apart or do we need classes in critical reading, listening and thinking before a person is allowed to vote. The news business is almost non-existent and at this point has constipation of the facts and diarrhea of the bluster.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Headline: Chamber Of Commerce Calls Out Obama On Jobs
I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR yesterday and heard some interesting thoughts from the Chamber of Commerce on how to improve the economy. It was the same tired old Trickle Down, Voodoo Economics, No regulations, Lower taxes for the wealthy confabulated drivel. This time it was couched in terms of improving job growth.
How could anyone in their right mind believe that illogical, proven wrong theory any longer. I heard things that any thoughtful, self respecting middle income citizen knows deep inside is pure bunk, as in bunko.
Here is the transcript with credit to National Public Radio, Talk of the4 Nation, Robert Siegel, Michelle Norris and Tamara Keith the interviewer. This transcript can be found here
The following is a transcript with comments in Yellow
Chamber Of Commerce Calls Out Obama On Jobs
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted a jobs summit in Washington this afternoon and posted an open letter demanding that something be done to improve the business climate.
NPR's Tamara Keith reports.
TAMARA KEITH: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce building is virtually across the street from the White House, there's a small park between them, and the building is plastered with these giant red, white and blue banners that spell out the word: jobs. It's a not-so-subtle reminder of what is quickly becoming the Obama administration's Achilles' heel, and it was a rallying cry at today's summit.
Jobs - The Chamber and it's members need to first answer this question. "Do you see jobs or maximization of profits as your first concern?"
Mr. TOM DONOHUE (President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce): The need to create more than 20 million new jobs for America over the next 10 years, it's why we're here today.
The Real Demands of the Chamber - Is that really why you're here Mr. Donohue or are you here to demand lower or no regulation, no serious efforts to seek alternate energy and deny climate change, or is it lower taxes on the wealthy.
KEITH: Tom Donohue is president of the chamber. In his keynote address, he said the climate for business these days is bad, and recent actions by Congress and the White House are making matters worse. He points to health care reform, financial regulation and talk of climate change legislation.
Mr. DONOHUE: And all of this has injected tremendous uncertainty into our economy, and uncertainty is the enemy of investment, of growth and of jobs.
Uncertainty I - Investor uncertainty isn't about the economy but rather the confidence in the management of the companies they are being asked to invest in. When Steve Jobs illness was in the news it affected Apple. A company I worked for whose stock dropped dramatically was a market leader but when their main money maker had defects from lack of testing the stock went from about $60 to somewhere around $2.
Uncertainty II- is also caused by market demand or perceived demand for a companies products. When people (the average blue or white collar) cannot find work demand drops (as we can see today) and companies layoff more workers. Keeping the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy does nothing to improve demand for products and smart companies will not grow until demand rises with more employment either Private or Public.
KEITH: Of course, Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration don't see it that way. They say these bills and others will create jobs. Donohue is less optimistic. He says small business owners can't get the capital they need to grow. Others are struggling just to stay afloat. Many larger corporations actually have plenty of cash.
Mr. DONOHUE: But they're sitting on it. They cannot in good faith and responsibility to their shareholders incur the heavy obligations of expanding and adding to the payroll at this time.
Expanding Payroll and Responsibility to Shareholders - It isn't just the wealthy that are shareholders anymore but a mix of wealthy & middle class folks who own stock. Corporate responsibility is, if we are to believe the Supreme Court's recent decision, is like any other citizen. First responsibility is to our family and next our neighbors. When a corporation succeeds we all succeed but success is not unreasonable profit but sustaining profit especially in downturns. Of course you can't expand payroll without a well thought out plan but that requires wise management and some effort planning - get with it guys.
KEITH: And that's how you get stagnant job growth. Small businesses are the biggest engines of job creation, but most owners are like Jim Wordsworth. He hasn't hired anyone in two years. Wordsworth owns several small businesses, including a catering company that supplies food for White House events like the Easter Egg Roll.
Mr. JIM WORDSWORTH (Owner, JR's Goodtimes): I don't like the atmosphere in here. They're gray clouds of a business, and it's just a dark day.
Gray Clouds - What better time to plant crops?
KEITH: What is it going to take for you to hire again?
Mr. WORDSWORTH: I guess, if there was one word I would use, I would use confidence. I just have lost confidence in so many things.
Loss of Confidence - We have all lost confidence in a congress built on one group trying to get things done after an administration that put us in two unnecessary wars, increased the deficit beyond even the "Off The Books" wars, and brought this economy (the strongest in the world) to it's knees with lack of regulation and turning a blind eye to the sinking economy. And, by the way at the same time gave away over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy, corporations (some Foreign) while not creating jobs in this country but over seas.
KEITH: One thing Wordsworth says would really help is also at the top of the chamber's agenda. A series of Bush-era tax breaks are set to expire at the end of this year, and the chamber wants them extended, at least for a couple of years.
Bush Tax Break Extension - How in he heck will tax breaks for the wealthy help when there is so much uncertainty and lack of confidence and no demand from the masses for lack of money. Wouldn't it be better to extend unemployment and have that money hit the streets. Does this sound familar
Stan Anderson is leading up the chamber's jobs campaign.
Mr. STAN ANDERSON (Legal Adviser, U.S. Chamber of Commerce): We'd like the president to say that that's the policy they're going to follow. We think that would have an enormous psychological impact.
Psychological Impact - Sure Stan that will perk up the economy. Reward the investors in stock while homeowners are losing $20, $50, $100 thousand in their only investment in their homes.
KEITH: The chamber's jobs strategy also calls for reducing the regulatory burden on businesses, cutting the deficit, expanding exports, even allowing more logging in national forests.
Regulatory Burden - Sure like the unbearable burden on BP (A foreign firm) who still cut corners and caused the death of it's workers, wasted a huge quantity of oil, and have fouled the environment for years to come.
Cutting the Deficit - Do they really think extending the Bush Tax Cuts will reduce the deficit? Did they think not putting the "Cost of War" in the budget helped the deficit or just hid it from view.
Expanding Exports - What are we going to export? Goods made in China back to China?
Logging in National Forests - Teddy Roosevelt must be turning over in his grave. Part of what makes this country great has been the conservation of it's wilderness and scenic recreational areas. I've seen "Old growth" forests and believe me it's isn't just the spotted owls that we should save those forests for but for places like the redwoods, or Constitution Grove of trees as old or older that the Constitution and other great parks.
President Obama held his own meetings with business leaders today to talk about what the administration can do to encourage employers to start hiring again.
What President Obama and Congress SHOULD do - If corporations refuse to plan better and invest in this country President Obama should call for major government projects in partnership with companies both large and small to lead us to energy independence just as John Kennedy led us to the moon.
Tamara Keith, NPR News, Washington.
How could anyone in their right mind believe that illogical, proven wrong theory any longer. I heard things that any thoughtful, self respecting middle income citizen knows deep inside is pure bunk, as in bunko.
Here is the transcript with credit to National Public Radio, Talk of the4 Nation, Robert Siegel, Michelle Norris and Tamara Keith the interviewer. This transcript can be found here
The following is a transcript with comments in Yellow
Chamber Of Commerce Calls Out Obama On Jobs
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted a jobs summit in Washington this afternoon and posted an open letter demanding that something be done to improve the business climate.
NPR's Tamara Keith reports.
TAMARA KEITH: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce building is virtually across the street from the White House, there's a small park between them, and the building is plastered with these giant red, white and blue banners that spell out the word: jobs. It's a not-so-subtle reminder of what is quickly becoming the Obama administration's Achilles' heel, and it was a rallying cry at today's summit.
Jobs - The Chamber and it's members need to first answer this question. "Do you see jobs or maximization of profits as your first concern?"
Mr. TOM DONOHUE (President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce): The need to create more than 20 million new jobs for America over the next 10 years, it's why we're here today.
The Real Demands of the Chamber - Is that really why you're here Mr. Donohue or are you here to demand lower or no regulation, no serious efforts to seek alternate energy and deny climate change, or is it lower taxes on the wealthy.
KEITH: Tom Donohue is president of the chamber. In his keynote address, he said the climate for business these days is bad, and recent actions by Congress and the White House are making matters worse. He points to health care reform, financial regulation and talk of climate change legislation.
Mr. DONOHUE: And all of this has injected tremendous uncertainty into our economy, and uncertainty is the enemy of investment, of growth and of jobs.
Uncertainty I - Investor uncertainty isn't about the economy but rather the confidence in the management of the companies they are being asked to invest in. When Steve Jobs illness was in the news it affected Apple. A company I worked for whose stock dropped dramatically was a market leader but when their main money maker had defects from lack of testing the stock went from about $60 to somewhere around $2.
Uncertainty II- is also caused by market demand or perceived demand for a companies products. When people (the average blue or white collar) cannot find work demand drops (as we can see today) and companies layoff more workers. Keeping the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy does nothing to improve demand for products and smart companies will not grow until demand rises with more employment either Private or Public.
KEITH: Of course, Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration don't see it that way. They say these bills and others will create jobs. Donohue is less optimistic. He says small business owners can't get the capital they need to grow. Others are struggling just to stay afloat. Many larger corporations actually have plenty of cash.
Mr. DONOHUE: But they're sitting on it. They cannot in good faith and responsibility to their shareholders incur the heavy obligations of expanding and adding to the payroll at this time.
Expanding Payroll and Responsibility to Shareholders - It isn't just the wealthy that are shareholders anymore but a mix of wealthy & middle class folks who own stock. Corporate responsibility is, if we are to believe the Supreme Court's recent decision, is like any other citizen. First responsibility is to our family and next our neighbors. When a corporation succeeds we all succeed but success is not unreasonable profit but sustaining profit especially in downturns. Of course you can't expand payroll without a well thought out plan but that requires wise management and some effort planning - get with it guys.
KEITH: And that's how you get stagnant job growth. Small businesses are the biggest engines of job creation, but most owners are like Jim Wordsworth. He hasn't hired anyone in two years. Wordsworth owns several small businesses, including a catering company that supplies food for White House events like the Easter Egg Roll.
Mr. JIM WORDSWORTH (Owner, JR's Goodtimes): I don't like the atmosphere in here. They're gray clouds of a business, and it's just a dark day.
Gray Clouds - What better time to plant crops?
KEITH: What is it going to take for you to hire again?
Mr. WORDSWORTH: I guess, if there was one word I would use, I would use confidence. I just have lost confidence in so many things.
Loss of Confidence - We have all lost confidence in a congress built on one group trying to get things done after an administration that put us in two unnecessary wars, increased the deficit beyond even the "Off The Books" wars, and brought this economy (the strongest in the world) to it's knees with lack of regulation and turning a blind eye to the sinking economy. And, by the way at the same time gave away over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy, corporations (some Foreign) while not creating jobs in this country but over seas.
KEITH: One thing Wordsworth says would really help is also at the top of the chamber's agenda. A series of Bush-era tax breaks are set to expire at the end of this year, and the chamber wants them extended, at least for a couple of years.
Bush Tax Break Extension - How in he heck will tax breaks for the wealthy help when there is so much uncertainty and lack of confidence and no demand from the masses for lack of money. Wouldn't it be better to extend unemployment and have that money hit the streets. Does this sound familar
Stan Anderson is leading up the chamber's jobs campaign.
Mr. STAN ANDERSON (Legal Adviser, U.S. Chamber of Commerce): We'd like the president to say that that's the policy they're going to follow. We think that would have an enormous psychological impact.
Psychological Impact - Sure Stan that will perk up the economy. Reward the investors in stock while homeowners are losing $20, $50, $100 thousand in their only investment in their homes.
KEITH: The chamber's jobs strategy also calls for reducing the regulatory burden on businesses, cutting the deficit, expanding exports, even allowing more logging in national forests.
Regulatory Burden - Sure like the unbearable burden on BP (A foreign firm) who still cut corners and caused the death of it's workers, wasted a huge quantity of oil, and have fouled the environment for years to come.
Cutting the Deficit - Do they really think extending the Bush Tax Cuts will reduce the deficit? Did they think not putting the "Cost of War" in the budget helped the deficit or just hid it from view.
Expanding Exports - What are we going to export? Goods made in China back to China?
Logging in National Forests - Teddy Roosevelt must be turning over in his grave. Part of what makes this country great has been the conservation of it's wilderness and scenic recreational areas. I've seen "Old growth" forests and believe me it's isn't just the spotted owls that we should save those forests for but for places like the redwoods, or Constitution Grove of trees as old or older that the Constitution and other great parks.
President Obama held his own meetings with business leaders today to talk about what the administration can do to encourage employers to start hiring again.
What President Obama and Congress SHOULD do - If corporations refuse to plan better and invest in this country President Obama should call for major government projects in partnership with companies both large and small to lead us to energy independence just as John Kennedy led us to the moon.
Tamara Keith, NPR News, Washington.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Let Them Eat Dirt - Republicans to the Unemployed
For all the talk by the Republican't Party about Barack Obama being all eloquent words, about lecturing, about being a celebrity, about naivety, and the rest who is it that simply will not lift a finger for those in need?
The Republicans refuse to allow the majority to pass a supplemental unemployment bill. The Republicans, in fact, seem to only care about extending the Bush Tax Cuts to the wealthiest people in and out of this country. Yes, I did say out of this country. How many multinational corporations benefited from the Bush tax cuts...?
The Republicans refuse to allow the majority to pass a supplemental unemployment bill. The Republicans, in fact, seem to only care about extending the Bush Tax Cuts to the wealthiest people in and out of this country. Yes, I did say out of this country. How many multinational corporations benefited from the Bush tax cuts...?
"the tax package had grown into a massive giveaway that will add to the complexity of the tax system and end up rewarding multinational companies that move jobs overseas. " ~ MSNBC
"President Bush signed into law late Friday $136 billion in corporate tax breaks, including a one-year reduction from 35 percent to 5.25 percent on foreign profits for U.S. multinationals. The provision was strongly backed by the technology industry despite criticisms that the break rewards corporations that outsource jobs overseas. "... "The final version of the bill also eliminated efforts by Democrats to attach anti-off shoring provisions to the legislation. " ~ Roy Mark (IT MANAGEMENT online)
What will it take for the Independents, Libertarians and Tea Bagger Supporters who think they are grassroots to realize their grass is being spiked with Roundup® and being killed. Those people could give a flying flip about anything other than a vote even if it means destroying the country.
It's not really the original Country Club Republicans but the John Birch Society, blowhards, one issue haters of government that captured the Republican Party and are holding it hostage not to help the country but to destroy a good administration trying to help the average American who is lost in the rush to maximize profits no matter the costs or collateral damage.
It's not really the original Country Club Republicans but the John Birch Society, blowhards, one issue haters of government that captured the Republican Party and are holding it hostage not to help the country but to destroy a good administration trying to help the average American who is lost in the rush to maximize profits no matter the costs or collateral damage.
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