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How about where walker has refused Federal $$$ for a High Speed Rail in Wisconsin??? That would have created thousands of jobs, brought in more business, and advanced Wisconsin into the modern rail age?
Just another bit of evidence that the repugs have no plan to create jobs! The only plan the repugs have is to lose as many jobs as they can so come next election cycle the American people will overwhelmingly elect only Republicans in 2012! (Another bit of evidence - the proposed repug buget bill will cause the loss of 700,000 jobs in the comimg 2 years!)
These repugs are all drinking laced Kool Aid! It is their plan and it is a Conspiracy. Check out their wordage when they all talk about this - all scripted and all identical!
To all you unemployed, how does that make you feel? To all those who will be unemployed in the coming 2 years, how do you all feel about that? In my wildest dreams I would never have believed that a political party would be as corrupt, immoral and unethical as to deliberately cause the loss of millions of jobs and the demise of our industrial system for purely Machiavellian and political reasons!
This is pure evil.
"So the only people who should
So the only people who should be on the supreme court are the ones that agree 100"% with a certain politcial partys view? If not they should be replaced? That's very fair? Idiots!"
No, only applies to those who sleep with their wives who lobby corporations for MONEY!! Those are the judges that should not be on the supreme court bench! And that goes for ALL judges!
Watch it with the word calling - it only shows your level of intelligence and lack of education, if any!
In the State of Mortal Sin
What prompted me to write on this topic was my viewing of a program of NOW with host, David Branccacio. He had Alex Gibney who won an Oscar for his documentary film of “Taxi to the Dark Side.” The film is about an innocent taxicab driver who was tortured by the Iraqi militia under the watchful eye of American military officers. There were also American military personnel who tortured Iraqis and they gave their account of these war crimes. They were directed by military officers to torture Iraqis.
With the approval of Bush and his fascist cabal the United States of Mortal Sin is living in the state of mortal sin for her torture of human beings, mass murders of people, and war crimes against humanity. The soul of the United States is on the path to eternal damnation for her evil, vile, and wicked ways. The majority of Americans have permitted these atrocities against God’s children and their damnation and the nation’s damnation will become more solidified with each passing day.
The late Leo Buscaglia who taught at the University of Southern California gave a talk at a conference and after his lecture a woman came up to him and said to him that she would want to help but she did not know where to start. Dr. Buscaglia said to her that she needed to look around and there is much she can do.
There are people who will doubt that the United States of Mortal Sin is in the state of mortal sin. I say to these people just look around and you will see our nation’s evil, vile, and wicked ways. Everyday there are more torture, mass murders, and war crimes permitted by the United States of Mortal Sin. We are truly a damned nation.
The United States is not a good, holy, and saintly nation. America’s pride prevents any movement toward God and His direct commandment to us. “Love one another as I have loved you.” Americans are listening to the politicians in Washington, D.C. and especially to people, such as Bush, when he was in the White House. There are Americans who say to us, “Hate one another as we hate you.”
In addition to torture, mass murders, and war crimes the nation’s hatred continues to leave us in the state of mortal sin. Unless Americans repent, their souls along with the soul of the United States will be damned for eternity. American pride will not believe that we are in the state of mortal sin and eternal damnation. Yet, the cardinal sin of pride is deep and widespread in the American psyche that prevents any movement toward repentance. The United States is not a good, holy, and saintly nation.
More on Mortal Sins
America and Americans have accepted and embraced mortal sin. Mortal sin is our religion in our country and these sins make up the eight pillars of our faith. Let us look at these eight pillars of faith.
America is a nation inundated with mortal sins. Mortal sins are damning our devil incarnate nation.
The Governor of Wisconsin may be an idiot . . . if he is lucky is he only an idiot. However, you can fool some of the people, some of the time, you can fool all of the people, some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people, all of the time. His chickens will come home to roost. I expect that he will either resign from office or be recalled. He has stepped so far over the line of civility and common sense. The good people of Wisconsin, Democrats and Republicans will drive this fool out of office.
If he is allowed to succeed, he will make Wisconsin a second class state. So much hubris, so little sense. I expect the next big story will be a recall movement. I live in California. If Governor Gray Davis could be recalled for the folly he allowed to happen with Enron, then Scott Walker is ready to be booted out of office for his malfeasance. He has done every thing he could to give the State of Wisconsin a bad name. Time for him to go!
Philip Henderson, Ethical Magician
Banksters should be held responsible for their actions through the tax code and the penal code. Give th banksters a fair trial but a jury of OUR peers then imprison them for a fair amount of time, 10-20 years is fair. Prison prevents offenders from repeat offenses and deters similar criminal actions in the future.
Carry on the fight!
Bill Clinton left office with a net worth of $325,000--4 years later he was worth an estimated 32 million. I dont think he was a true democrat thats for sure because all those millions came from those big corporations that benefited from NAFTA and GATT! And they weren't American companies either! He was a neo-con just as most of the Republicans are. These people that say they are Republicans are not true Republicans! They are neo-cons! Look up the definition of NEO-CON and FASCISM--one and the same! Then look up the definition of Republican--(true republicans are different). The same thing that is happening in our country is the same thing that took place in Germany during the late 1920's and into the 1930's--far right neo-con/fascist ideology! Every country that has slid into this political nationalism has fallen and no longer exists!
If the right succeeds , then what ? Trillion-airs ? Perhaps labor can earn their salt by building gigantic tombs in their memorial.
As an old lurker, for some reason I cannot sign into chat l;ike I used to, but just wanted to speak my piece somewhere.
Thom:
We have already TRIED all these corporate and elitist tax breaks and we still lost millions of jobs before Obama came into office and the ones he enacted are still not doing the job. When are these wingnuts going to get it that a decade of tax breaks have proven already THEY DO NOT WORK TO MAKE JOBS????
GRRRR
Cat Sullivan .Seattle, WA .
Your interview with Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women's Forum today and apologizing to her at the end for being "a little tough" with her was rather disconcerting. There seems to be a common thread among all progressive talk show hosts. Every one of you act like "chickens" on the air, afraid to correct a guest that clearly is either; misrepresenting the truth, outright lying, bulling you, talking over you, etc.. To add insult to injury, even when you showed some "gonads' and corrected their lies, progressive talk show hosts seem to always need to say, "I'm sorry if I was a little tough". I can't remember the last time I ever heard anyone from the right wing apologizing to a talk show or TV show progressive host for being a little tough!
The right wing clearly knows how to control a conversation. The forceful, commanding, assertive manner in which they discus a topic and present their facts simply deflates the air out of a progressive's point of view. Combine that with telling a lie over and over again and people will believe you (Joseph Goebbels) and they end up winning. You need to listen to some of your shows and you will see how often you back down.
It is time for progressive talk show hosts to fight fire with fire. When a guest lies, you need to call them on it. If a guests misstates the facts, they need to be corrected. When a guest continues to talk over you, the conversation needs to be stopped and the guest reminded who is control of the show. Finally, if a guest has taken any topic or set of facts hostage, the host upon ending the interview needs to have a "fire side chat" with their listeners to set a record or fact straight (exp.; "clearly Carrie Lukas refuses to tell you the real reason why Obama capitulated to the Republicans and went along with reducing the taxes of the rich temporarily. President Obama was backed into a corner by the Republicans (who had the vote) and needed to first insure the unemployment benefits were made available to the middle class which the Republicans were holding as hostage along with other items" (yada, yada, yada……!).
Time for progressives talk and TV show hosts to get tough…
BEWARE!
The rumors that a Republican Wisconsin Senator may retract his support of the bill may or may not be true...but it may also be a ruse. As I recall, the number of Republicans needed to turn their back on this bill is precisely one. If a GOP senator seems to be backing down, it might just be a trick to get the Wisconsin 14 back in the state. They may not be able to count on his vote.
There was a time when such a thing would be unthinkable, dishonorable, and disreputable. But we apparently live in a brave new world.
Just something to think about.
I meant "exercising". Sorry about that.
Hey Tom,
Regarding violent signs at Wisconsin. I don't recall seeing any member’s exorcising their 2nd amendment rights at the demonstrations like at the Tea Party demonstrations. And I challenge anybody to show more violent signs then here:
http://republicanscannotgovern.com/DemocratsVsRepublicans/IncitingViolence/IncitingViolence.html
cheesteak, don't make this about us vs. them as far as union workers go. The police, the firefighters and all protective services are SUPPORTING workers rights. We are not so foolish as to believe anything this man says. He has proven he is a total liar and will sell his own Pastor Father down the river to keep the Koch brothers happy. He certainly didn't pay attention growing up as he has no morals at all.
Carrie Lucas is spewing lies about violence in Wisconsin. There has been no violence. She has nothing to say, so is making it up. Is she related to Mr. Walker? If not by blood, certainly by ideology!.
This so called Budget Repair bill has so much more to it than just the removing of our collective bargaining rights. It's long and it's by design a very confusing document. They don't want regular people understanding what all is in there. It's includes things like the right for Walker, basically by himself, selling off any state owned property. That could be power plants to the Koch brothers or others; state owned parks, water management lands, etc. It includes ways to take away medicare and medicaid for our elderly, education money which has already been cut to bare bones (I never heard of yearly referendums as I was growing up just to keep the doors open to the local schools, and it's getting worse every year); once they gut public worker rights, private workers are right behind and will be the next ones.
People take this seriously. These are fights that were fought successfully for MIddle America years and years ago. Why are we letting a few of the 'haves' take away everything we hold dear from what will soon be the 'have nots'. Middle America will cease to exist as is.
I live in Wisconsin, am a retired law enforcement officer and do not support the Republican agenda and most of my friends and cops do not either.
As far as people who tend to lean toward the Republican views, even those who voted for Walker, are changing their minds as the days go by here in Wisconsin.
They have now illegally shut down the State Capitol building and are refusing to allow the public into this public building today. We even have reports of over 100 firefighters and police officer being turned away, a state assembly legislator was turned away while friendly lobbyists were allowed inside. We have reports they are welding the windows shut as I post this. At the very least a fire violation and very unsafe for the people inside, including the Gov. Nothing is beneath the Repubs at this time.
Bill Clinton is the Poster
Bill Clinton is the Poster Child for Bankrupt Liberalism.
I suggest that you pick a GOOD book on the Labor Unions in this country! There was NO Middle Class before Labor FOUGHT for its fair share. The middle class exists THANKS to the Labor Unions, not the other way around. It is amazing how history only seems to take place in the years one has been around, as if all the history before it is ephemeral.
There is a reason why the corporate elites want to destroy the UNIONS - they want to return to the days when labor was cheap and where there was NO protection for the worker. The Right leaning middle classer is being lulled into believing that once the corporate elites re-own this country that they, the Right “no-longer-middle-class”, will be rewarded for their destruction of their own livelihoods!
Yes, there are MANY Republicans and right leaning Americans who are the direct recipients of the bargaining rights of UNIONS! They may not be in Unions, and they may live in “Right To Work” States, and they may also hate Unions, but the fact is that they are all the direct beneficiaries of what the Unions created in this country!
The corporate elitists have lulled these union haters into believing that they we should all return to the good old days when unions were nonexistent, when the corporate elitist could pay whatever he wanted, where he could fire whomever he wanted, who didn’t care a hoot about health benefits, who hated social security and wishes it would all go away, who hated anything that had to do with safety in the workplace, etc etc!
And millions all believe this propaganda nonsense! Suggestion – if you believe all this nonsense and want to return to those “GOOD OLD DAYS”, than do so and leave the rest of us rational middle class folk out of it! We will protect and FIGHT for what we believe in and what our forefathers fought and died for.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-They-Stole-America-by-amos-richardson-110222-862.html
They stole our country.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Coming-Shutdowns-and-S-by-Robert-Reich-110221-644.html
The coming end!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Revolution-Handbook-for-Am-by-Joel-Hirschhorn-110220-179.html
Success?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Isn-t-Wall-Street-in-J-by-Richard-Clark-110226-3.html
Why aren’t they in jail?
I am cautious about letting the discussion center only on labor relations. This legislative chess game is, I believe, all about selling the public utilities for pennies on the dollar. Let the Wisconsin citizens be very careful about accepting an amended law because of a few capitulations.
Mortal Sin
Three things are necessary for a sin to be mortal: 1. SERIOUS MATTER (In my Examination of Conscience pamphlet there is a list of serious sins as we follow the Ten Commandments and we should not forget Jesus’ Eleventh Commandment.); 2. KNOWLEDGE OR FIRM BELIEF THAT THE ACT IS SERIOUSLY WRONG PRIOR TO COMMITTING THE ACT (When American corporations and the American rich sit around to devise ways to hurt average, middle, and working Americans, they have knowledge of a serious wrong that will be committed.); 3. FULL CONSENT OF THE WILL!!!
A MORTAL SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD. TO DIE IN THE STATE OF MORTAL SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD. OUR OVERT DESTINATION IS THE ETERNAL ABYSS OF HELL. Believe it or not at your own peril!!!
The fight we are in will be lost to us because the powerbrokers who control the gold will win the battle or battles. In the end they will lose the war and wallow in hell for eternity. THIS IS MY PERCEPTUAL OPINION AND WE ARE ALL ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS.
Bush Family Secrets
Prescott Bush had dealings with Hitler for nine years. He would tell the family that he admired Hitler’s leadership skills.
George, elder, was involved in the Iran-Contra cover-up. This was a treasonous act that went nowhere. He gave weapons of mass destruction to Iraq. He remained silent of the murders of the Chinese students in China in 1989. He broke promises to the Iraqi people to overthrow Saddam after the Gulf War. He helped train Osama bin Laden’s terrorists. Bush, elder, is an advisor to the Carlyle Company that invests heavily in defense contracts to gain huge profits from war and weaponry. He said that if Americans knew what the Bushes did to this country, they would be chased down the streets and lynched.
Barbara “Nutcracker” Bush said that why should worry about body bags and death. She does not want to worry her beautiful mind with body bags and death.
Neil Bush’s saving and loan scandals were covered up and he was never tried.
Jeb Bush’s rigging of Florida’s 2000 election.
Bush, younger, and his business dealings made him millions of dollars through questionable information from insider stock sales. He had close ties with Ken Lay and Enron. He spiked the investigations of Osama bin Laden. He made his first million dollars as principal of Arbusto Oil in Texas, a nearly worthless venture ended up a gold mine with the financing of Saudi-linked businessmen and Gulf Arabs. He received $4.1 million for his presidential run from five Texas energy companies that controlled the energy power sales to California. These companies were Enron, TXU, Reliant, Dynegy, and the El Paso Corporation. With Arbusto Oil, Bush had an offshore tax shelter to avoid paying federal income taxes. Bush is a true rich patriotic American? Bush, younger, has loosened regulations toward companies that manufacture and produce toxic products and toxic wastes that are sent into our environment. He is awarding tract to companies that have offshore tax shelters and pay no taxes. Halliburton has 20 such tax shelters. Yet, Americans are asked to pay taxes. American companies with offshore tax shelters avoid paying close to $700 billion in taxes. Americans have paid nearly $300 billion so far for the Iraq war. It is estimated that Americans will have to pay over $2 trillion for 20 years of occupation. These monies are lost to our citizens in our cities and states. Homeland Security is wasting money and a waste of time. We have the security departments to do the job without Homeland Security. Bush’s increase in temper tantrums is a warning sign of a demented and deranged psycho.
This information is only the tip of the iceberg. George, younger, rides to the presidency with the Catholic vote because he says that he is pro-life. As governor of Texas 152 inmates were put to death. As president he starts a war with the killing of thousands of Iraqis and American lives. He also dumps tons of depleted uranium on human populations. The war was started through lies. Bush is a murderer and a war criminal. He has signed directives to kill Iraqi leaders and possibly other leaders from other countries. Bush claims to be compassionate and pro-life but Americans have no universal health care and affordable prescription drugs. Bush has loosened regulations for corporations to hire illegal aliens. They hire these illegal aliens but do not have their names on the books to avoid paying about $400 billion in taxes. The tax breaks that corporations receive through offshore tax shelters and the loosening of regulations to hire illegal aliens even with Homeland Security corporations do not pay $1.1 trillion per year in taxes. Can you imagine what Americans can do with $1.1 trillion for health care, the environment, education, poverty, road construction, mass transit, and overall quality of life for the American people?
Bush Family Fortunes
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast investigates the Bush family dynasty. We must never forget that the Bush family is a dynasty. Jeb Bush will be the next president. The fix was on in 2000 to have W. as president. W. is dumb and that was his role to be dumb. The family is grand masters of the game. W. is a phony and a screw up. Even though he did poorly on the test for the Air Force National Guard, he was put at the top of the list. W. appears to be a chicken shit human being. He is also a hypocrite and a fraud. We have the weak leading the strong. Bush, Sr. started his dynasty in Midland, Texas. W. belongs to a “SPECIAL SPERM CLUB.” When W’s business interests failed, he ran for Congress, like most failed human beings. W’s National Guard records have been shredded. He has been groomed to president. The ballot count in Florida was a sham. The theft of the 2000 election was sealed in Florida. W. was an investment for the rich. He was a big time investment. As president W. increased our polluted airs. W. has also corrupted and polluted our democracy. Without a doubt the United States is a sinful nation. Money and Texas are in love with each other. Money talks and bullshit walks! MONEY GETS THEM THE OFFICE AND THE OFFICE GETS THEM THE MONEY.
The Carlyle Company sells weapons to the United States and to other countries with dictators. W. had four oil companies that failed and he still made millions from these failed oil companies. The Saudi family poured million of dollars into W’s failed oil companies. The Carlyle Company has received money from the Saudi family. The 9-11 families cannot receive any information on the Saudi and their connection with 9-11. Osama bin Laden may have been backed by the Saudi family. Was 9-11 an inside job?
Personally, there is no hope for average, middle, and working class Americans. We can only pray and prepare our soul to meet our Creator. Hopefully, a merciful God will welcome you and me into His heavenly kingdom. Our future is really our final destination and our final destination is to be with God and His Communion of Saints.
Inside Job
Iceland was a great country in 2000 crap by 2008. Icelandic deregulations started in 2000. The banks were privatized in 2000 and by 2008 the banks collapsed. Government regulators did nothing. In eight years deregulations enslaved the Icelandic population. The world powerbrokers cannot stand prosperity for any nation in the world. Why are Americans so asleep at the wheel of her future? BOHICA Days will always be with us. On September 15, 2008 the global depression commenced upon the United States and the world. When Reagan took office in 1981, the start of financial crises began with his policies and practices.
Where did we go from here?
Investment banks went globally. 1981 was the start of thirty years of deregulations. Clinton was a disaster, a total disaster. Big banks knew they would be bailout whenever they failed. Big financial institutions are corrupt and they are guilty of fraud. Derivatives have made the financial markets unsafe. The use of derivatives became a fifty trillion dollar business. Brooksley Bourne wanted to regulate the financial markets but Larry Summers stopped her. Summers and Alan Greenspan wanted derivatives unregulated.
The Bubble (2001-2007)!
We had no real money. The Ponzi scheme was led by Alan Greenspan in 2005. Henry Paulson was also involved in the Ponzi scheme. AIG also failed from corruption. There were no penalties for high risk investments. Money and cocaine are addictive. Prostitutes are near the stock exchange offices. The prostitutes have at least one thousand clients and charged one thousand dollars per evening, so much for our precious family values.
The Crisis!
Bernanke did nothing and he never saw any problems in 2008. After the depression started in 2008, he made a comment in 2009 that our government needs to investigate. The FBI was warning of mortgage fraud as early as 2004. We still have no regulations for our financial markets. The federal government brings in the crooks to rob us blind of Americans hard-earned savings. Our federal government and the financial markets are embedded to remain crooked. WE CAN NO LONGER TRUST ANYONE! THE CROOKS CREATE THE PROBLEM AND THEN THEY DEMAND TO BE BAILED OUT FROM THE MESS THEY CREATED. The whole world is in a crisis from the crooks who have created the financial mess. I believe that we are headed for global tsunami depression by 2012 or the latest by 2015 and by 2020 the United States of Mortal Sin will be in a living hell for ninety percent of Americans and ten percent of Americans will live in lavish lifestyles.
Accountability!
No seems to be accountable for our financial mess. The crooks were not fired or sent to prison instead they were given hundreds of million dollars for the failures. The corrupt companies are bigger today and these companies will screw America and the world even more.
Where Are We Now?
Our companies are sending work to other countries to hire millions of workers. A college education is out of reach for most Americans. Tax cuts have made the rich become even richer. The inequality in wealth is at the highest percentage of any other country. Obama’s financial regulations and reforms are weak because we are a Wall Street Government. Obama’s economic advisors are the same crooks who have created our current depression that is a prelude to the catastrophic depression that is coming soon. The use of prostitutes to cover up spending money is okay. Our dreams are now nightmares. The economic advisors who caused the crisis are still in power and they will never leave power.