Daily Topics - Thursday March 10th, 2011
By shawnt56
This week, Truthout proudly begins publishing weekly installments of Thom Hartmann's much-lauded book, "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back." Click here to see Thom's video and to read chapter one
Hour One: Latest from the trenches...War on Labor - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine / Plus, Dems fight back - Wisconsin State Senator John Erpenbach and Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson / Labor weighs in - Leo Gerard, United Steel Workers
Hour Two:What's next for Wisconsin? Mike Tate, Democratic Party of Wisconsin / Push for single payer health care - Oregon State Rep Michael Dembrow, Single Payer Oregon
Hour Three: Latest from the trenches...war on democracy - David Vines
Comments
#2
Wow Thom is putting Unequal Protection out for free, nice. I already have my signed copy, but its an awesome book, and you can't argue with his pricing. I must urge all here to go to www.truthout.org and read the chapters posted. If you don't learn a lot, you are super educated and my hat is off to you.
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#3
This Wisconsin bill being passed my be a victory for the Republican'ts, however its our duty to make it Pyrrhic.
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#4
Will this article pass the flag test?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Stealing-from-Social-Secur-by-paul-craig-roberts-110309-149.html
#5
These two articles give you and me answers for our many problems.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Contempt-by-Richard-RJ-Eskow-110307-946.html
Republicans have contempt for Americans. Wake up people!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Continues-To-Pay-A-by-Roger-Shuler-110308-157.html
The Reagan Revolution has hurt our people and our country.
#6
What can we learn from Wisconsin?
Our lessons to learn from Wisconsin!!!
#7
The budget crisis is a Ponzi scheme.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Budget-Crisis-is-the-by-Richard-Clark-110303-330.html
#8
These paragraphs are from the budget crisis article.
Consider this: If we could tax the rich at the same rate they are taxed in northern Europe, there would be no need to lay off a single teacher, close a single library for an extra hour, or raise a single fee by one red cent. Every government could then not only balance its budget, but wind up with a surplus.
And why shouldn't their taxes be increased?! Over the last 50 years, tax rates for the bottom 80% of wage earners have remained almost static. Meanwhile, over that same period of time, the rich have received tax cut after tax cut after tax cut! For example, the tax rate paid by the top 0.01% -- these are people who each currently receive at least $6.5 million a year in income! -- fell by half (from 70 to 35%) in that period.
#9
My wife has informed me that New Hampshire is going to pass a law that prohibits college students from voting unless their parents have property in that state. It is interesting. An eighteen year old can go to war and kill God’s children but these same eighteen year old young people will be unable to vote. If persons cannot vote, we are no longer a democracy. I have for some time believed that we are not a democracy.
#10
Do not forget that Representative Steve King "pals around with" and praises the IRA AND has been doing so for decades.
#11
NEVER underestimate the DLC-oriented Democrats (like President Obama). . . They have shown time and time again that they can snatch defeat outta the fires of utter victory every farging single time.
#12
Death Panels & Death Taxes in Texas
Like Arizona, our Republican governor and legislature are serving as Death Panels, deciding whether to dump nursing home residents or the mentally retarded out on the streets. The taxes that they are unwilling to raise are the true "death taxes". In my mind I see a national ad campaign enumerating how many nursing home residents could be kept safe and alive by estate taxes. Then give examples of beneficiaries of the estate taxes, the amount of money involved and how they are already filithy rich without the estate tax windfall. Also emphasise that instead of paying for it now, we borrow from China.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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Why are Scott Walker and the Republicans all over the nation being so bold and cocky and not pondering their fate in future elections? I saw what the Republican blitzkrieg of lies, half truths and misinformation did to our very wonderful Senator Feingold. Yet, I feel they are planning more stunts to skew our democratic process. Does a misallocation of voting booths, flushing the voting registry and other perverse un-American acts account for their superior arrogance and confidence? I am going back to the electronic polling and tallying machines and the discrepancy between exit polls and ‘election results’. Statistics and the sampling process is a science. It is used in the design of experiments by scientists all over the world. The theories and mathematics that evolved in agriculture field testing and sampling will boggle your mind. As a science and mathematics, it is not right for decades, and now wrong for a few political trails. The Democratic Powers that Be may not want to push this issue but who does the FBI need permission from to conduct an investigation anyway? There is something going on and we need an investigation to find out what. To dismiss this irregularity is analogous to dismissing the science behind global warming, which is something the Right and Corporate media so conveniently do for the own self interest. Is the Democratic Party also becoming a Party of convenience when it refuses to push this issue which WE THE PEOPLE so depend on.