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It's unfortunate that the TPers want the country to fail because of thinly disguised racism.
The control of vital truths are essential to Democracy. When mass media is controlled by corporations the truths are not reported or filtered to remove key information essential to critical thinking. Propaganda media is the result. The free internet is their next objective to control. In example,look at wikipedia how the right wing and their minions rush to change facts to reflect their opinions. Free press that gives facts is the solution. Thanks to Democracy Now, Thom Hartmann, and Al Jazeera network. The two independent networks on satelite ( Free Speech TV and LINK TV] and the Internet ( Alternet,Think Progress, TruthOut, Common Dreams].
The power of words and their message is crucial to ending this reign of terror. Do hate me for using the word. The actions of those involved in deceiving the American people is terrorism and quite sadly all this stuff we are discussing is Worldwide. What happened the day after our crisis, Italy became the next target. Country after country the attack is on. Take more from the poor and middle class and hand it over on a Gold platter to the wealthy and corporations. The spider web of deceit is mindboggling. The lies must stop.
In America, International Corporations control, The President, Senate, Congress,Supreme Court, U.S. Treasury, Major Media, Pseudo American organizations like Us Chamber of Comerce, Federal Reserve, and now we learn about ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC creating the legislation our Government inacts in favor of corporations at the expense of the poor and middle class. Standard n Poors has demonstrated many questionable actions, but if you are not tuned in to free and independent media you are misinformed. Weeks before and during the debt debaucle, the truths were being brought to light by Free Media. The main fact that the whole debt ceiling was contrieved utter nonsense was never discussed by corporate media. As usual the other side of story is never allowed,
This is Shock Doctrine at its best. Create false crisis and effect control of those who seem powerless to act. The spin is taking over the air waves. Talking heads speak corporate dogma. People change the channel get good information and fight back.
Standard and Poors, Moody's, and Fitch have made themselves irrelevant. They missed on Enron, they missed again on their ratings of AAA on the housing derivatives. No intelligent investor should rely on these thieves. They made themselves irrelevant by crawling into bed with the banks when they were preparing these toxic financial products. If S&P, Moody's, and Fitch had been an independent and trustworthy agencies, they would not have lied to investors about Fannie Mae and all the banks that were creating garbage. The savvy investors are not paying attention to these soon to be arrested co-conspirators. I am waiting for the United States Department of Justice to arrest the thieves who committed fraud on a grand scale by giving garbage a AAA rating.
If they can give AAA ratings to garbage, what is the value of their work? They have not merely shot themselves in the foot; they have blown their brains out by being so partisian. I expect that all three ratings agencies will be replaced in the next twelve months. They are providing useless information. If you cannot trust them, then why use them at all.
Philip Henderson, Ethical Magician
You lie!
Only one thread runs through every Tea Party mind. Obama hate. They were not entirely sure what they were for or against until Koch listed his agenda. Now it is the Tenets. Abstract concepts which sound nice but they have no idea what they mean.
300,000,000 people, I'm half way through life, what will my once country tis of thee look like when it hits a billion? scary...got soilent green, strawberry jam by the sponfull for $1000.
During the great depression, my grandmother wrote to ask for help in what she could do to improve her families situation. (I don't remember where she wrote). The basic answer she got was that her husband needed to get a better paying job!
If your family was struggling to survive, would you cut their neccessities like food, medical care, shelter, and adequate clothing so that you could have more money to play the golf course with?
We the average American have already sacrificed enough, and the people who have control of the budget need to step up to the plate and demand that our elected officials who are supposed to be governing us get rid of the tax breaks on the rich. We need more income, because they gave tax breaks to the rich and allowed companies to house their money and businesses offshore, hiding it from taxation, and giving unfair competition for jobs.
Our leaders are not on our side, and are not representing the will of the average American, particularly Republicans who are not going to comprimise on anything.
The saddest part is if the spin masters twist it just enough to bend the minds they've already bent just a bit more then 2012 may very well be the end the democratic party as the blame will rest, surely on Obama. Funnier yet will be the strange timing of it going back to AAA if the conspiracy comes to light. and all because a bunch of blow holes and lunes want total control without any tax increase....Hey did you all watch that documentary, "inside job"? if that made you a bit angrrrrry wait until we see the truth about this fiasco!!!
Actually NPR had a guest on prior to Obama's speech today who hit on S&P's point about intransagent Repugnicans. I didn't get her name. I only heard the first ten minutes of NPR's "All things censored", but it's probably safe to assume they breezed right by the far-right agenda.
Anyone who opposed America's wars of aggression wouldn't want America to have any credit. They'd want America to not be able to keep borrowing money to invade and occupy other nations. It's no surprise that Democrat voters are angry that it will cost more to borrow money to fund the wars that they keep voting for. www.chenangogreens.org
The Tea Party is a collection of puppets jerking to the hand twists & finger flipping of this countries' richest, most evil, power-grabbing wealthiest families in the land. Once again they manage to hide behind their puppets. Look for - & expose - the puppetiers, Thom.
I think you forgot to change the air in your head the other day mate. Regulated the private sector out of $10 billion, stimulus-nothing got fixed the money went to pay off those who got him elected... seriously listen to your doctor and change the air in your head more often.
Question is Will folks fall for the same old dirty schemes of GOP Tea Baggers and blame Obama for this amd Not the GOP Baggers who pushed this bill under duress, threat of default. I call that blackmail. Same as when Tea Baggers GOP used the unemployment extension to push the Bush tax cuts . Fact is : We must End all wars End corp loopholes-subides. End SS tax cap Charge wealthy seniors a bit more for their benefits That will save US trillions
Speak out now www.whitehouse.gov www.congress.gov www.senate.gov Do your part Griping does NADA Thom says Be active Hammer them till they listen as long as it takes Over and over again Its urgent
YES Tea Bagger run GOP got all they wanted but they did it under great duress - threat of US default, using dirty political tricks as usual. GOP Tea Baggers are more determined than ever to make Obama lose/ fail at any cots. That means US fails too along with the economy., education- our kids future, lower & lower wages- more corp tax cuts & loopholes. More con judges to screw us even more than they have Bet on this : GOP will lose seats Walker will be recalled Voters must use forethought & logic this time around . Vote devious plotting GOP Tea Baggers out asap. or we have another GOP meltdown
Where is the petition to ensure that Sen. Bernie Sanders is on the "Gang of 12" waste of time committee?
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Yes, Vince, I got the picture! And I agree with everything you just said!
I have been watching CNN and CNBC and, of course, these talking heads and their guests have not once said anything about raising the taxes on the rich...everything they say is the problem is the entitlement programs. They don't say anything about how our idiotic and illegal...and on-going wars in the Middle East and Africa are a problem...it's always the entitlement programs. They go on and on about how the entitlement programs are 57% of the budget...as they show their pie chart...this is Social Security 20% and Medicare and other programs are 37%. Military, their pie chart shows is 20%, and what they call non-military discretionary spending is pretty high as well...together equaling about the social programs. So, there is no mention of the military's wasteful spending...in needlessly murdering people in the Middle East.
I'd like to see a pie chart, or any chart, that shows how the increase in wealth of the top per cent of the population and the decrease in taxes the those at the top have paid over the same period (last 50-60 years) presented right along side the pie charts they present when trying to tell us that the social programs are a problem. Main stream media is unfair and unbalanced and side with the rich and the Republicans. You only get the real news and true perspective by getting your news from non-main stream media and foreign news sources...or on web sites like ThomHartmann.com and Thinkprogressive.org
What is kind of funny is that these biased propaganda people in the main stream media and politicians are all now trying to down play S&P and saying that THEY are politically motivated. NOW they get really vocal about the credit rating agencies and bring up their culpability in the housing crises. These people are spoiled rotten brat cry-babies who are selfish and hateful and willing to throw granny under the bus in order to not pay their fair share of taxes and make the middle class and poor soak up all the pain. The pain that the middle class or poor would suffer is/will be much greater than the pain that rich people would be trifled about. They would still be wealthy enough a zillion times over to buy anything they wanted for the rest of their lives...and their heir's lives...yet they won't budge on their position. Greedy, Greedy, Greedy! Shame! Shame! Shame!
So many tps have stated publicly their top priority is taking Obama and his administration down. It would be difficult to believe otherwise since they continue to point directly at Obama for this turn of events.
Of course the GOP and Tea Party got what they wanted. Since Obama's election their primary objective has been to discredit Obama and undertake any task that would directly or indirectly cause Obama to lose the next election. This demonstrates unequivocally that the GOP are willing to tank the US economy to get Obama out of office.
Article II, Section III, "He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper..."
Brilliant choice to show Harry Truman's speech! I see the Republicans have not changed .
Labor day weekend-- I'll go.
The Supreme Court is so right-sided it may have lost it's right-mindedness.
That problem is as bad as the non taxation of those who should be happy to give back--give back to the nation that afforded many of them the ability to acquire all that loot.
The whole thing is ... well ... talk about unsustainable--to say that is the absolute least one could say.
Hey all you rich people--send a check to the IRS and put your support in, FOR
"We the American People"
"We" implies you and me as in all of us! It does not imply others without including you.
Thank you in advance
The whole paragraph mate,
"Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act. Key macroeconomic assumptions in the base case scenario include trend real GDP growth of 3% and consumer price inflation near 2% annually over the decade.
I do see a "base case scenario" hummm. A search of the document for "base case revenue" is blank.
Who is being lazy or is it manipulative? For those who would like a copy:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/05/national/main20088952.shtml
Reading brings up a question, continually hearing, debt is now 100% of GDP but every scenario begins: "net general government debt would rise from an estimated 74% of GDP by the end of 2011"
I'm all for abolishing corporate personhood. However, I wonder if it is possible in the post-Citizens United environment of campaign funding to get Congressmen to vote against their own financial interest (of theoritically unlimited campaign funds) in order to do the right thing.
Ultimately, it may require the systematic replacement of the majority of the House and Senate with progressive-leaning members who see the need to take back the power that was so casually given to corporations by SCOTUS in the 1888 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad and solidified by Citizens United.
Like many other issues facing Congress, it may not be possible given the current composition of the body to successfully produce the needed legisition. But, that should not stop us from trying. We need to keep the 'long game' in mind and not give up if the first few tries are not successful.
Didn't Boehner say he got 98% of what he wanted? Well, Merry freaking Christmas, Boehner.