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For most Americans Reagan is an icon and at least one half of Americans view Reagan as a god!!! I am very surprised that the Catholic Church has not canonized him a saint by now!!! Saint Ronald Reagan, patron saint for the disenfranchised Americans!!!!!
Interesting, very interesting! Paul Ryan is a Catholic!
A second window will need to be opened to view the video!
Paul Ryan refuses to accept the Holy Bible as a gift!!!
http://www.facebook.com/FaithfulAmerica/posts/224857490876058
Why is there no talk of shared sacrifices???
My wife heard it this morning (June 3, 2011) from Alan Greenspan that America cannot spend any more money. When Americans reach a certain age ALL BENEFITS AND SAFETY NETS WILL BE TERMINATED!!!!! But, the American rich and American corporations will remain exempt from paying any income taxes and they will be able to hoard their money. THERE WILL BE NO SHARED SACRIFICES FROM THESE LOW LIFE ENTITIES!!!!! But, there will be more money for the killing of God’s children through immoral and wrong wars. Yes, there is an orchestrated effort to kill Americans. The United States of Mortal Sin does not have a future for the poor and for working Americans!!!!!
For those of you who have for years swallowed the Republican Kool Aid and bought into their long standing contention that what is wrong with America is that Democrats want to take away from the white people and give to the colored people it's finally time for you to make a choice as to the way of life to be available to the average American citizen. This is real. Our way of life is at stake. If you vote for the Democrats you vote to repeal tax cuts for the wealthy, to end subsidies for the oil and gas industry, to take away tax incentives given to companies exporting 8 million jobs and give them to U.S.companies who hire us in this country, to find reasonable solutions to strengthen Social Security and Medicare such as increasing payroll tax for Social Security above $108,000, reduce the staggering amount spent on the military, and stop for profit health care companies from rationing health care and breaking the bank. Vote for Republicans and you get unregulated Wall Street, unregulated banking industry, total loss of protection of our land, water, and air, ridiculous trade agreements costing us jobs, and increased taxes for middle class and reduced taxes for the wealthy. The real enemy just may be the guy in the mirror who fails to do the right thing for all of us.
Here is what I don’t understand. Obama has been president for 2 ½ years. The first two years he had a huge majority of democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and he couldn’t get it done. The republicans were blamed. Now democrats are still a majority in the Senate, the President is still a democrat and still it’s not getting done.
Regan had a democrat House and democrat Senate. He accomplished so much, that according to those who post here, what he accomplished hasn’t been undone and is still a problem today. That makes me believe, if you want something done, have a republican as president. They get it done. Why would I want a democrat to be president if he can’t get it done even when he has huge majorities in the House and Senate, and can’t get it done even though democrats still control half of the legislative branch, and the entire Executive branch? Would someone please explain this to me?
Whatever you think of Reagan, the Republicans always point to him as the one who fixed our economy. But what they don't tell you is that he had a Democratic controlled Congress who was willing to work with him. At the present we have a Republican House and minority Republican Party in the Senate, who is unwilling to work with this President, on anything.
The states who elected Republican governors are waking up to Republican governors and because of the their ideological extremism, are working to get rid of them as their polls show.
This message should be passed on to your Republican friends.
Can we stop having an explanation of the difference between the Japanese and English pronunciations of "Fukushima" every time it's mentioned? We're speaking English here, how about we just use that pronunciation and leave it without comment. When talking about Argentina, we don't comment every time that it's pronounced /arhentina/ in Spanish.
BTW, Japanese has many dialects, and they often differ in where they place the emphasis in a word. To add to this, if you really want the Japanese pronunciation, you have to pronounce the f as a bilabial fricative rather than as a labio-dental fricative, pronounce the u's unrounded, and use a pitch accent instead of a stress accent.
The Ronald Reagan utopia has failed, the rich have gotten richer and more arrogant. They do not make jobs. They take jobs. And FDR type work program improving infrastructure in the United States for hard-working Americans. Yes!
As for Mitch Daniels maliciously endangering lives by crashing Medicare system in Indiana, in one case manslaughter 10 cases mass murder, put him on trial. Bring charges first given a fair hearing if the leaders of this country recklessly endanger citizens, they should be accountable.
On the Florida law that penalizes humanitarians for feeding the homeless. The cost is 60 days in jail would be way too expensive. This guy must have wrote Medicare parts C and D. Probably took part in Bush energy policy, we all want to pay three times more than some things worth,!
I don't see as how we can possibly deal with this and neglect tariffs. I see no effort here on either side to repair what has to be repaired here in order to "put America back to work" which is the battle cry from all sides.
It's worse than that. The prison population is not included . The active criminal population is not included. The barter population is not included , the working under the table population is not included. Many of the homeless living out of dumpsters and hand outs are not included.
Obviously No one knows the true stats but common sense dictates that the situation is worse than reported based on on figures derived from registration with governments efforts at employment services which are relatively ineffective in the best of of times and anyone who has been there and done that a time or two can attest to that .
I agree with the fact that we need to use new forms of energy, invest more money into our flailing education system, and reduce military spending (this is happening all over Europe, I just don't understand why the GOP is so against it, seeing as how it would bring profit in the future...and that is what they're after, right?). However, I think that we need to get the citizens of this country to protest against what the GOP is trying to do. Unless we mobilize and tell the GOP to stop putting the wealthy before the poor, nothing will change. We have the power to get them out of office, but it is also our duty to make our voices heard (our wellbeing may well depend on it!), if we sit back and enjoy the ride, we will only have ourselves to blame for whatever calamities the GOP put us through.
I doubt there are many Kamikaze pilots left from WWII, their job description sort of doesn't lend itself to high survival rates afterall Thom.
BTW, I think Kamikaze translates to something like Divine Wind.
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This article from Washington's Blog notes that the numbers for this recession are actually worse than for the Great Depression, and how Roosevelt's policies brought unemployment down over a 4 year period from about 23% to about 10% :
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/06/unemployment-during-great-depression.html
"When will we once again start throwing banksters in jail for fraud and fraud alone – like Reagan did with the S & Ls?"
Great point, with a big flaw: why "and fraud alone"? Shouldn't they be thrown in jail for trying to rape hotel maids as well? And who knows how many this predator raped before one complained and something was done.
From reading this tragic story, it seems obvious considering the amount of time it took for this man to eventually drown himself, that he was hoping for someone to stop him. He kept looking back at the shore, possibly thinking that someone was going to try to talk him out of this. The fact that no one did, and that he could see firemen watching him from shore and not trying to assist him might have led him to think that no one really cared, so why should he? Obviously no one cared enough. They said it was budget cuts that kept them from going into the water, and maybe that's true, but budget cuts or or not, the right thing would have been to make some kind of effort to talk this man out of what he was trying to do. Eventually a private citizen went in to the water to pull him out, too little, too late. I just don't know what is happening in this country when the people who are supposed to protect us let us drown, and let our houses burn down, and take too long to respond to our 911 calls for help. Now our Republican legislators want to cut more money from our first responders....Police, Fire, Rescue, Lifeguards because they want to privatize those services. It's all about MONEY. So, if that happens, when someone invades my house, or my house catches on fire, or my child needs an ambulance, if I haven't PAID whatever fee is required to this private corporation who will be in charge, will they say, SORRY, we can't help you, and let someone assault me or steal my belongings, or let my house burn, or LET MY CHILD DIE? Well, as you can see it's already happening. The only thing I can think of to do, is what you, and we here are already doing, Thom. Let readers know at every opportunity just what these horrible people in the Republican congress are trying to do.
I chose "no" (we will keep the war going) because obomba appears to be a blue dog (IE: republican lite, who will lean in the direction of whatever our republican enemies want him to do).. Phiolosophically I wonder if we would have been better off with mccain as president (who would do so many crazy harmful things that voters would have to start thinking; while obama placates the left into more inaction and in-fighting among liberals)..
Tom- My only thought was that the Democrats need to take your message (s) (ie about cutting funding for first responders )and build a platform that is the real Republican platform- Republican policy kills US citizens! I can't respond to the comment above because I can't relate to it. Is this the proper place to comment on your column? Please advise. I do appreciate getting your blog.
David L
My wife heard it this morning (June 3, 2011) from Alan Greenspan that America cannot spend any more money. When Americans reach a certain age ALL BENEFITS AND SAFETY NETS WILL BE TERMINATED!!!!! But, the American rich and American corporations will remain exempt from paying any income taxes and they will be able to hoard their money. THERE WILL BE NO SHARED SACRIFICES FROM THESE LOW LIFE ENTITIES!!!!! But, there will be more money for the killing of God’s children through immoral and wrong wars. Yes, there is an orchestrated effort to kill Americans. The United States of Mortal Sin does not have a future for the poor and for working Americans!!!!!
Information is power!!!!!
Our fascst-Nazi leaders must curtail information that gives power to the people.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/02/hersh/index.html
If I Was President
This is an open letter on If I Was President.
Our troops would be well paid and if they are killed or maimed their loved
ones would receive full military pay of their husbands. If they had children money would set aside for financial aid to go to college or a trade school until the sons and/or daughters were 25 years old. Medical plan would the same as the Congressional medical plan or even better.
Every time Congress receives an increase in salary, the minimum wage would increase and so would the increase in soldiers’ salaries or for their loved ones if the soldier was killed or maimed in the military service.
I would have a mothers’ committee of no more than twenty mothers to give recommendations about going to war or not going to war.
Our beautiful environment will be protected and a quality education will be available for all students, K-12 grades. Higher education and trade schools will be affordable for all students.
Employers who hire illegal immigrants would be heavily fined, such as $250,000 per illegal immigrant. Employers would also receive a jail sentence of one year per illegal immigrant.
I would put Christ back into the word, Christianity. I would not be afraid to say the word Jesus because it might offend someone. People who came to the White House during Christmas would be able to see the Christ child in plain view and not given an obscure setting. Our soldiers in Saudi Arabia would be permitted to show the Cross on Saudi soil.
These are some things that I would do If I Was President.
When I was in my 20s, I answered the call of the leaders of the Flower Generation who were as much Anti-
Vietnam War and Civil Rights activists as they were rebellious believers in "sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll".
I think the time when it might have been useful to form picket lines and hand out information pamphlets has may be passed already. I also think we must observe the course of the "spring" in the Mid-East and issue the call to lobby, face-to-face, the men and women for whom we voted and to whom we gave time and money to achieve their election. Fortunately, it still holds true that even the richest contributor can only cast one vote.
That said, remember Ross Perot and remember the Philadelphia Inquirer's series, later published as a book titled, "America, What Went Wrong," and Bill Moyers' television documentary about the book, written by Barlett and Steele, who have continued to write. Corporate media are flagrantly ignoring - as far as they dare - the later work of these fine investigative reporters. Perot paid for TV broadcasts explaining the economic issues of that election that put Bill Clinton in office. And Perot was right about unemployment of American workers, and the loss of industrial independence that has resulted from our leaders' signing of trade treaties that leave our nation incapable of making its own electronic consumer products.
Our president has recited the words we wanted to hear. His tragedy and ours is that he hasn't taken up the task of public education about how our national economics works. He has abandoned the real power of the bully pulpit in favor of going along to get along. Somebody must step forward to lead the way.
THE SUPER RICH and their REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS are SOCIAL DARWINISTS.
THEY believe the government should help the rich live long and prosper. THE government should allow the rich to exploit the working class until they die from hard work and exhaustion. AND the government should just let the poor die off from disease and starvation because they will never amount to anything anyway and are just a drain on the rich.
WITH the republicans - no matter what the issue is - health care, education, energy, someone has to get rich - usually at the expense of the working class and poor.
THE ""FINAL SOLUTION"' was the extermination of the JEWS of GERMANY. THE first solution was to make it difficult for them to earn a living by restricting the occupations in which they could work. THE second solution was to force immigration by enacting further restrictions making it impossible for JEWS to live in GERMANY. REPUBLICAN governors want the poor to immigrate out of their states by cutting social services, cutting education budgets, and increasing taxes on the poor making it impossible for them to live in their states.
They have a large Coast Guard Station there. Why not just call them. With the CG so close, the $40,000 would be better spent somewhere else. Also, what did they do in 2008?
They're too addicted to the money from the military-industrial-Congressional complex.
Greed is an excessive desire to possess wealth or goods with the intention to keep it for one's self. Isn't this the root of the problem here.
Of course, the founding fathers of this country understood this simple human sinful nature for which we are capable.
This is WHY WE HAVE A GOVERNING BODY, to save us from ourselves. At least, that was then.
Now look at what we have. A Government that is completely caught up in the greed that they are suppose to be protecting us from. They are out of control , and worst of all, deception and lies are completely acceptable and normal behavior between our so called representatives.
But I am a strong believer in karma, and I have no doubt that the day will come when truth and justice prevail. So for those of us who know the truth, it is our responsibilty to plant the seeds of truth to others we come in contact with through work, clubs, churches, or wherever we commune.
Recall all republicans. Which is what will happen as more people realize that there is no republican party. What calls itself the republican party is just a bunch of sociopathic corporate hacks, vicious fascists, morally deficient frontmen and frontwomen who are incapable of rational thought, and hyper-wealthy sociopaths who only feel happy when they make other people suffer.