Daily Topics - Wednesday September 14th, 2011
By shawnt56
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Hour One: New plan to keep Social Security solvent revealed - Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District)
Hour Two: Troy Davis...an innocent man may DIE...abolish the death penalty? Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
Hour Three: Winners of yesterday's special elections and what it means - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Comments
#2
I really don't believe that Obama will not compromise on his Jobs Bill, in fact I assume he will accept more tax cuts and give up on the other aspects of the bill. I don't know if he's planned it all along, or is just naive enough still to think he's going to get support from the majority of voting Americans when he does do it, but either way I completely expect he that he will compromise to his detriment. I seriously doubt he's going to get much campaign donations from Wall Street this time round either, but who knows, the banksters have been doing awfully well under him.
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#3
To the caller who was a victim of a crime and uses that as justification of the death penalty, I have to ask... how does putting you're attacker to death benefit you in any physical way? It doesn't take away your seizures, it doesn't get you out of a wheelchair, it doesn't give you your previous life back, it just doesn't. All it does is give you satisfaction that someone who did you wrong was punished as you desired them to be. But if violence is so horrid, then why is it OK for the government to kill? Why is it alright to kill prisoners and citizens of other countries when heads of government can't agree to get along?
Vengeance seems to be an adequate justification to people, but what if I felt that someone personally wronged me, maybe a boss that fired me without cause and then my wife and family left me, that certainly doesn't justify me as a typical citizen to do violence to my ex-boss. There are alternatives to violent reprisals, even if those alternatives don't fulfill one's personal sense of justice.
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#4
When Social Security starts redeeming its treasury notes from the trust fund, the money will either be paid by current revenue - in which case the national debt goes down, or treasury will sell new treasury bills to fund it - in which case the national debt stays exactly the same since they will be swapping old debt for new.
The only way that it could occur that Treasury can't redeem Social Security's treasury notes is if we are already in default and can't sell any treasury bills - in which case our national debt is moot and the economy has been destroyed.
#5
Does Ron Paul seriously think that any rise of people out of poverty has nothing to do with existing welfare programs?
His rhetorical plan here has to be that if something is right with the way things work, he'll just conveniently forget that there's a ~socialist~ program in place to cause just that, and use the outcome as evidence that there doesn't need to be such a program.
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Buying USA is a MAJOR security issue. The last time I checked, a few years ago, one couldn't even buy a computer that was completely made from parts manufacturered in the USA! In fact, I believe that almost all of the moniitors that are currently being used are made in Taiwan.