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Poll: 71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis
Fox "News" certainly won't go away without a fight, I'll guarantee ya that. Evil never does. That's why it's evil.
Anyone remember the big 2000 scare? Computers were going to malfunction...the world was going to come to an end? So, I guess we'll see what happens when we don't raise the debt ceiling...and America defaults on it's debt....and the same idiot rating agencies that rated junk as triple A in the CDOs and mortagage scandals will downgrade America's ability to pay....but of course they weren't worried when America was bailing out all those foreign banks were they? So who lied? They all lie!!! Can you believe anything you hear or read? Should I take my money out of the bank? Can we believe that the FDIC insurance is any better than the social insurance programs...the government backed them all. Can we believe that we are all not going to have our savings wiped out by some new casino capitalist scam by the banks? Will the government freeze all banking accounts while their task masters wipe us out?
I remember back in 2001, I believe it was, when most companies 401k accounts were frozen (ostensibly so the accounts could be switched over to a new 401k investment group). No worker was able to make changes to where his/her money was invested. This was all happening right during the time when we were all losing money on our 401k plans bigtime. No execs were so limited...for some reason. And I later found out that most companies were using the exact same excuse to freeze the 401k plans....all while workers were losing thousands of dollars.
I'm sorry to say that I don't have much faith in Obama or his Justice department to do much more about this than they have done about so many egregious activities of the Bush administration. These are opportunites he is NOT taking to overturn the kinds of precedents set by Ford when he pardoned Nixon.
Fox will go on lying ,smearing, misinforming their loyal followers.
Nothing will change @ Fox noise . Too many loyal followers / ditto heads . Fox runs the GOP / Baggers lock stock & barrell Rush Dick Armey & Karl Rove are wealthy greedy GOP hacks who scheme to make Obama fail NO matter who gets hurt. .Its so sad
Murdock & Co?
The story will pass, buried in more current events, money will be passed under the table, politicians will work to ease the pressure.....
In the end, nothing will change.
We will do as we have with other criminal moguls like Senator Stevens and Martha Stewart, slap their hands, return them to service and proclaim a day to honor them. Then establish foundations and scholarships to promulgate their kind with support from the presidency to the supreme court.
I certainly hope so, anyway.
BusGreg: This story sounds very familiar...I might have read the book...many years ago. I am interested in the JFK, MLK, RFK murders and certainly don't believe that Oswald acted alone...or, perhaps, wasn't even really that involved...a patsy? Probably! I believe that there are powerful groups that look for good patsy candidates and set them up to take the fall.
I heard of another "conspiracy theory" that I found rather absurd...and there are a lot that I believe are created not only by very imaginative people looking to make a buck but also by these very powerful organizations that create the really way out conspiracy theories just to water down the validity of more believable ones. This conspiracy theory says that Jackie Kennedy offed her husband...and the proof they present are about 4 or 5 frames of the famous film of the assassination where Jackie is reaching up to Jack while a stream of blood?(something?) shoots upward. The conspiracy is that Jackie shot Jack with the killing shot. It is pretty ridiculous I believe. And other conspiracy theories about 911 was that some space based beam weapons disintegrated the WTC buildings. I don't believe that one either. I do believe that nano-thermite was planted and used in bringing down the towers because of the scientific paper of the analysis of the dust samples. OBL sure didn't do that from a cave in Afghanistan!
Anyway, thanks for that story...very, very, interesting!!!
I certainly hope and pray that this will be the end of un-informed/misquiding political Faux news casts which have kept so many
from knowing the real factual truth for way TOO long.
Allegations of Rupert Murdoch involved in many international control conspiracies from 911 to European Banking control besides false and twisted media distribution and control. I would believe justice needs to be served by Obama. If he refuses to go after Murdoch that would be the greatest disappointment of his administration. Incidentally I understand Reagan granted Murdoch US citizenship.
Ravenkitty: the "feast" has been going on by the ravenous casino capitalist wolves...they've been eating our lunch. It certainly is time that they pay for their excesses. Hard working Americans have been contributing (making payments to) America's social safety INSURANCE programs for all their working lives. There is no excuse for our government (now run by casino capitalists) to renege on it's obligations. Tax, fine, and imprison those casino capitalist criminals who gamed the systems. We want our country back from the Ponzi schemers.
If our government can create money on a computer keyboard to bail out casino capitalists with billions of dollars...they should have no problem doing the same for any of the social INSURANCE programs. Doesn't matter if it is true that the Social INSURANCE programs (that we all paid into all our lives) coffers were raided (if even true..but, I wouldn't put it past them to have done this)...if the government can create money to pay casino capitalists they can continue to pay their obligations toward social INSURANCE programs....create more money like they did before.
If I knowingly let criminals clean out my bank account and then claim that I could no longer pay my financial obligations..my mortgage..my doctor's bills...my taxes....do you think I could really get away with that excuse...especially if I had a money printing machine in my basement? No, of course not, while it is "legal" for the government to create money (can't even say print money anymore because, aside from the green stuff, really huge amounts are just created out of thin air...on computer keyboards), we can't "legally" print, or create, money.
The government is always trying to make deals with the wealthy and end up being taken for a ride...rather the people get taken for a ride in the end. There was a program a while back where the government made a deal with rich corporations where the corporations would get a special tax rate of 5% (rather than the already low rate of 15%) if they would only take their money out of the tax havens and bring it back to the US if they would agree to create more jobs. Well, they got their money back and taxed at the special 5% rate but didn't create any new jobs. They basically said "See ya, Suckers!"
Isn't that also what the banksters did when they got the bailouts? Instead of lending more money to borrowers...they said "See ya, Suckers!" after they gave all their top execs huge bonuses.
I think that if Obama can't see fit to throw these criminals in jail and take away all their ill-gotten gains and return them to the nation's coffers then some kind of mass movement of a very effective kind may be necessary.
It's simply time to pay the tab.... The feast is over.
Here are the last two months in a capsule! Bad to somewhat better to worst!!!
Obama and the GOP have struck a deal to END MEDICARE and give each person a voucher for $8,000. I have received notification of my $8,000 voucher. I have also received my bills for two procedures – pacemaker and colonoscopy. There were also added a breakdown of other costs – pharmacy, recovery rooms, lab work, EKGs, etc. Each bill stated the bill was “Due Upon Receipt!” The total costs for both procedures were $126,000. By subtracting the $8,000 voucher from the bill I must pay $118,000 NOW! I will be calling the hospitals tomorrow and ask for sometime to sell our home. After the sale of our home I will probably be $50,000 shy from paying the bills. I cannot declare bankruptcy because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a person needs money to declare bankruptcy. No money, no bankruptcy!!!!!
Never forget!!! Always remember!!! WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION!!!!! AS LONG AS YOU HAVE MONEY!!!!!
This is our future for the poor and for working Americans! I WILL NOW HAVE TO SUCK IT UP AND COPE!!!!!
Global: Your last comment sounded an awful lot like what one would hear on Fox Snooze. I agree we need to starve the beastly government that has enabled wealthy people to rob and snuff out the lives of hard working wage earners across America. But your comment sounded like you think the problem is the government of the workers of America, that traditionally has worked to keep the wolves from eating up the working man, which you believe overspends and wastes money on social programs. I agree that they have had special interest programs and pork wasting money on bridges to nowhere..and military weapons programs.
It wasn't hard working Americans who engineered the economic, capitalist Ponzi schemes that broke the banks. It was casino capitalists gaming the system...the same ones who got tax payer bailouts and who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes.
Government is good if it keeps these wolves and hyenas in check so that the masses of hard working Americans who have been contributing all their working lives into the social INSURANCE programs can rest assured that they will not be starving in the streets in their old age.
Government is bad when it has been hijacked by the greedy, selfish capitalists...the banksters, Wall Street Gordon Gecko types, and corporate executives and owners who lie and cheat in order to maximize their short term profits to the detriment of the company itself, and the companies employees, and the other shareholders who were convinced to be in it for the long term. And the insidious war criminals who are making blood money by fostering needless wars so they can rake in the money are particularly damned. These tempestuous bastards, politicians and corporate maggots, not only murder people for money, but they hide their money in offshore accounts, are obstinate in refusing to pay their fair share of taxes, and really get off on their dream of destroying the only lifelines that most people have before they are buried....they want to destroy the social insurances...getting THEIR government to thin out the population by starvation, illness, and homelessness.
These social INSURANCE programs benefit the people who worked and payed into the INSURANCE programs. There have been a few abuses, of course, but you cannot seek to destroy a proven effective INSURANCE program that has worked to keep it's citizens from the horrors of absolute poverty. The so-called Welfare Queens that have gamed the system for a few extra dollars cannot, by any means, compare to the Trillions of dollars that the casino capitalists...the real Welfare Queens...the Corporate Welfare Queens...have bilked out of our economy. But this doesn't stop the Republicans and their lap dog right-wing media from attempting to divert reality away from the Corporate Welfare Queens and try to make honest and equitable government of the people the scape goat in using lies or exaggerations like Welfare Queens and other "talking points" blather.
And, lastly, if our government can create money out of thin air, on computer keyboards, and hand over billions of dollars to bail out casino capitalists...they can do the same for all of the social INSURANCE programs. There is no excuse to deny people who paid into the system their due.
The October surprise is a ground invasion on Lybia.
Blackwell was right. Government does not have the job of spending and creating jobs - that is the private sector. Government should create a positive atmosphere and condition for the private sector to excel. And thom, we are not stupid as to think all government regulations are bad. Give us some common sense credit.
Thom, great show as usual.
Conspiracy update:
Nixon was not only spared investigation into Water Gate but also faced possible scrutiny in a possible further study into the Kennedy Assasination 11 years before Water Gate. That point was made in the book "Silent Coup" which offers a lot of insight into Water Gate. (Some of it wrong)
In 2003, one of the Discovery / Learning Channel programs, I forgot which one, did a week's worth of interesting digging and showed lots of historical footage for the 40 year rememberance of the assasination. One of them stood out to me as I read Silent Coup only a couple of years earlier. Nixon was in Dallas the night before Nov 22, 1963 and attended a party at an influential Dallas family. Present were among others Nixon, L.B.J. and Jay Edgar Hoover. During that party and after a private get-together among a smaller group, L.B.J. was overheard by a couple of witnesses commenting to the fact that Kennedy would never embarrasing him again. This in no way implies any complicity by the aforementioned three in what was to happen the next day in Dallas, and has probably more to do with the daily grind of politics and referred to the Bay of Pigs / Cuba crisis earlier in the term. (Think of these three; [Pres.] Nixon - Bay - of Pigs - cuban missile fiasco)
Here is my question: Did Gerald Ford take this into consideration when he granted a full pardon? After all, Congressman Gerald Ford was a member of the Warren Commision in 1964 and had more insight than most. It is mentioned in Silent Coup that a full investigation of Nixon could have gone back to 1963.
We just might unearth more in 2013, if we make it past December 21st, 2012, and I'm sure more mystery will mark the 50 years since that fateful day.
greg
Nude, bound woman found dead in Big Pharma CEO’s home; no criminal investigation yet
If a dead woman was found naked, with her hands tied behind her back and her feet bound hanging from a balcony, most people would think it would become a criminal investigation from the outset.
When the home in which the woman is discovered belongs to the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Scottsdale, Arizona based Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, this is not the case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/17/jonah-shacknai-medicis-ceo-son-...
They said they have not ruled out suicide, even though she was found dead hanging nude from a balcony at the mansion, her hands and feet bound. Hmmm...
Michigan is giving away schools to private sector, legislation pending to SPANK teachers for striking - could lose teaching license, extreme fines.
Michigan has legislation in process to cut Welfare Benefits to LIFETIME of 48 months --- AND they plan to ENFORCE! Oct 1 about 12,600 families will be dropped! First cuts!
Re: and if the Obama administration will actually investigate and prosecute Murdoch
Fat Chance!
There is an article on Raw Story about how the original whistle blower in the Rupert Murdock scandel was found dead in his apartment.
Reporter who blew whistle on Murdoch found dead
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/18/reporter-who-blew-whistle-on-murdoch-found-dead/
Wanted to let Thom know that Bill Bob Neck is satire - the soccer-sodomy guy.