tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272476382011-11-27T20:24:15.934-05:00Liberal like Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, & Paine, and Damn Proud of it.CNCSAWMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446293433021984910noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27247638.post-54761195828236719362011-04-12T19:40:00.000-05:002011-04-12T19:40:54.337-05:00

From one of my daily reads that make me smarter, so of course you'll never hear from her on the TV, for sure.  Raising revenue without raising taxes "Now it's possible that cutting these "tax expenditures" really will bring in some money. But let's just say that the idea that this means they can lower tax rates while insisting on harsh cuts in "entitlements" makes no sense at all.

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Below is an excellent observation of the inexplicable adoration by the masses of utterly clueless "leadership", as demonstrated by the two men who accidentally destroyed the most by governing the least; bless their hearts. (Author's unfortunately colorful language included) From ginandtacos.com "Bush and Ronald Reagan were very different people, with very different backgrounds and

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Over at a fantastic "just working folks" blog, Campaign For America's Future , Dave Johnson responds to Whirlpool's response to Dave's post last week titled "Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It". It's a great read and from the what it's worth department, my response is below. I agree completely with Dave's response to Whirlpool's "clarification", we do indeed have only

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Entire article quoted below, for our mathematically challenged conservative brothers, bless their hearts! They're consistent, I'll give them that - they still think Herbert Hoover had it right! Who Tripled The Deficit? "Conservatives claim that President Obama "tripled the deficit" and point to the huge 2009 budget deficit as proof. The fiscal-year 2009 deficit, as reported in October was,

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Shhhh, don't tell anyone - the oft demonized "left wingers" on those crazzzy blogs? They have most of the real smart, honest people. :) Print some of this to defend against the oncoming tsunami of Republican attacks on Social Security. We can't afford it! Cut those scrawny benefits and tell the masses to suck it up! I wrote my thoughts below, regarding a nice young mis-informed man that came

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We won't be seeing this again anytime soon, unfortunately. President Obama was fully in command of the facts when visiting the Republican Congressional retreat in Baltimore, while the 140 Republican members of Congress presented the President with a laughable array of easily dis-proven talking points - the kind most of us relatively cognizant common citizens spend most of our time refuting from

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I get a good world view of America reading WATCHING AMERICA, with many interesting perspectives and news not reported at all here in the U.S. by our vaunted corporate media complex. The following article by Ming Jinwei in the Guang Ming Daily News, China, is titled, "Tire Tariffs Hurt Everyone's Interests" He predictably vigorously defended free unfettered trade, as one would expect from a

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Or at least a Democratic Republic with Representatives charged with doing the will of people while protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. This is my response to a recent inquiry asking why a successful person should "be penalized" with higher tax rates than those laggard souls unwilling or unable to do likewise. This is, of course, the age old plea of certain Republicans on

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Standing amid the devastating rubble of the Republican dismantling of the Glass-Steagall Act and other responsible, proven regulations, that had stood us in good stead for 66 years by assuring American citizens the government would guarantee that greedy bankers, brokers, and insurance companies wouldn't team up to steal their money ever again, I'm surprised to read a conservative editorial so

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On my more charitable days I empathize with those who face the stark choice of either accepting they've been duped by Republicans into voting against their own self interests all these years, and therefore have been wrong on virtually every issue; or bravely fighting by any means for what they fervently hope remain the only true tenets of their political "faith" - conveniently ignoring that the

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This is raw politics folks, and after last night's blockbuster Democratic National Convention - where America was reminded why the party of FDR is the only option for "We The People" - the Republicans again proved why even in their death throes they remain dangerous and determined to subvert the will of the American people. Sarah Palin and John McCain were both "selected" because even though

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Almost everything accomplished the last hundred years worthy of a civilized society has been done by Democrats, often over the kicking, screaming objections of Republicans."A Democrat will always do less harm to the working man by accident, than a Republican will on purpose". My Dad.We've seen and lived the dark vision of a Republican America these last forty years, here's what FDR had to say in

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It will get much worse in the short term, although it has been no bed of roses for us regular working folks since Reagan and trickledown economics anyway.The bill has come due for the parasitic feeding by the wealthy and corporate raiders upon a once prosperous America built after World War II on progressive, bottom up tax and spending policies.25 Billion to bail out Bear Stearns a few weeks ago,

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UPDATE:Paul Krugman has an update with a chart from the Tax Policy Center showing only 1/3 goes to Americans most in need, but it's 1/3 more than Bush wanted to give them - Let them eat cake, eh, George?Bottom Line? 58% Of the rebate goes to the richest 20% of workers, those least likely to need it or spend it, 21% to the poorest people who need it the most and would spend it the quickest,

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I've been undecided but leaning towards Senator Hillary Clinton, while both Obama and Edwards had attributes that until their attacks on her kept my mind and heart open to certain aspects of their messages.Hillary is really hitting her stride and looked very good in the segments Lou Dobbs played tonight.Of course, his purpose is to scare the public - "look at the scary liberal woman snuggling

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Or at least that was the gist of the prototypical E-Mail someone sent me decrying a recent Supreme Court ruling regarding religious symbols on federal property.I get these stupid things all the time, accompanied by the obligatory screed about the "threat" to Christianity from that pesky Constitution.The author attaches a photo of Arlington National Cemetery with a note that the crosses are next!

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Trade doesn't have to be a suicide pact, but according to today's NY Times the best we can do is accept the inevitable and soften the blow to its victims."There is scant evidence that trade has played a big role in holding down typical workers’ wages. There is abundant evidence that it has contributed substantially to America’s overall economic growth. It offers American producers access to

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I was a senior United Steel Workers union official for a small local foundry in the late seventies, the membership rejected a proposed 3-year contract of 4,5, & 6% annual wage increases because a proposal to "grandfather" existing employees at current wage levels and pay new hires significantly less.The members rejected this contract because they rightly feared this as a tear at the corner of the

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Bush now joins co-criminals Nixon and Reagan as the most corrupt administrations in our history. This adds perspective to the eight year political coup d' e'tat conducted by Republicans against Clinton.Republicans placed partisan politics above the will of the voters and the best interests of the country with 1,052 Congressional investigations on top of Starr's payback for Watergate vendetta.You

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I never cared nor inquired about other’s faith, until those predisposed to imposing their will on all of us managed to hijack someone’s religious beliefs, and cherry pick them to death to justify their archaic, barbaric views.Their forty-year-old tax financed campaign of buying political power has resulted in far too much power for their share of the populace, particularly the small minority of

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We can and should pursue a policy of favorable tax treatment and myriad other incentives to make it more profitable to manufacture domestically than in China, for example.We know from experience that manufacturing is an economic anchor that generates tremendous downstream activity and benefits a far broader swath of the economy than Republican top down thinking that clearly benefits the very

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I was there when everyone bought into the "Greenspan Solution" and we "saved" S.S. in 1983, but in reality just sanctified the practice of raiding S.S. funds to cover the combined cost of irresponsible tax cuts and defense spending increases.No one seems to remember anymore the massive tax increases for the middle/under class and redistribution of wealth of the 80's when lauding Reagan's "

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Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be an American male, especially given the dichotomy between the traits and values instilled by my father and those demonstrated daily by male “leaders” and political "commentators" in the U.S.Virtually every petty male impulse to meanness, shallowness, and testosterone-laden-bullying-covering-our-insecurities behavior, overcome at least by the early twenties in the

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of the world's oldest exercises in moral philosophy;that is the moral justification for selfishness".John Kenneth Galbraith, esteemed economist and advisor to FDR.Many if not most of my middle class brethren probably haven't heard of Milton Friedman, or if they have only as a revered icon of and mouth piece for "supply side economics", or more aptly "

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We've already heard the corporate pundits and "broadcasters" jumping on the Pelosi bashing bandwagon, dutifully listing all the Republican campaign talking points about her while declaring that her support for Jack Murtha for Majority Leader if not her choice of pants suits renders her tenure a failure - less than two weeks after the elections and two months before Democrats even take over.Nice

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I’m enjoying reading John Stuart Mill on the power of the governed and avoiding the “tyranny of the majority”. It’s quite apropos with the recent Supreme Court slap down (Hamdan V. Rumsfeld) of King George and his merry band of war profiteers, neocons, hate mongers, and ideologues who are determined to stengthen their authoritarian ideology.“On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill – 1860http://

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No other reforms or efforts to reclaim our Democracy are possible before eliminating money from politics.That the 1976 Buckley V Valeo decision by a conservative, Rehnquist run Supreme Court (short version - those with the money own the speech) would hurt American Democracy on every level and was a conservative pushback after Watergate seemed obvious at the time. But even our concerns then pale

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From panel four at the Jefferson Memorial – Letter to Samuel Kercheval – 07-12-1810“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects.""But I know also, that laws and institutions must

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I received an E-Mail recently listing some of the old, tired Reagan sayings and other nonsense he used to spew defending his turning over our Democracy and planet to corporate profiteers, titled "Boy, Do We Need Him Today!!!!".Ah, yes, so amusing on Friday reading about a B actor playing POTUS who voted for FDR four times and then set the country well on the path to ruin and corporate domination

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Conservatives make all kinds of specious claims about whatever topic. For example, a cul de sac bred utopian vision of the economy, without ever once offering a statistic to back it up.Try the worst job growth in forty years, the slowest wage growth, try all those wonderful jobs Bush is "creating" paying on average $ 8,000 less than the ones he's losing, increasing poverty....EVERY period since

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Aren't you just sick of it? I know I am! Especially since average folks like you and me know it's been getting way harder to keep up with everything for years.I'll quote some information I found that will not be widely reported so average people can hear about it and discuss it, making an informed decision when they vote as to who really looks out for regular Americans.The following excerpts are

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I watched two things yesterday on C-Span II that perfectly exemplifies what we all lose when women are purposely excluded from the debate about the issues of the day.The first was a hilarious yet sadly cogent presentation by Damali Ayo, author of “How To Rent A Negro” - http://www.rent-a-negro.com/, which provided brilliant insights into how we can have an actual conversation about progressing as

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