Who campaigns saying "We must take our country back" It's always a white candidate. You can figure out who they want to take it back from.

I would like to share with you a story that was relayed to me by a friend. Joe and John were very close buddies. They both loved baseball. They would spend many days in the summer visiting major league games and stadiums. They both wondered if there was baseball in heaven. They would talk about if one of them died to try and find a way to let the other one know whether or not there is baseball in heaven. Joe died and John was saddened by his friend’s death. John prayed to God to have Joe visit to let him know if there was baseball in heaven. There came a day when Joe was given permission to visit John. John asked Joe if there was baseball in heaven. Joe said that there was good news and bad news. Joe said to John that the good news is that there is baseball in heaven and the bad news is that John will be pitching on Friday.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/01/free_speech?source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110

Criminalizing free speech?

I have worked at every job you never want to do. In these jobs you always start at minimum then as you stay you get alittle more each year until you are replaced by another guy who is paid minimum again. This is the way of business in America, not the image we see of high paid jobs with benefits. So I went to college.

I am also a disabled Veteran who has to fight the policies just to keep my rating where it is, and yet each day I am hurting worse then the day before due to the many injuries which happened in the Army.

I have also been out of work for over two years due to an injury which happened over twenty five years ago on duty and took that long to catch up with me.

Before I stopped working I was making $15/hr and most of that went for insurance, food, gas, rent. Now I receive $600 month just in food stamps, free insurance, disability pay only covers rent. So in order to make it worth my while to work again, I must be paid at least $25/hr or whats the point? Two college degrees, graduated at the top of my class, honorably discharged, no crimes, yet to get hired at that pay grade is a pipe dream.

Romney/Blackwater Connection

Mitt is poised to be the next Raygun. His connection with the path to the complete marriage of military/espionage and corporate activity is a committed one. This is a very dangerous combination -- and Mitt's connections to Blackwater and Total Intell must be taken very seriously.
Let's not forget about this:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J._Cofer_Black

In February of 2005, Cofer Black took a vice-president position at the private military corporation, Blackwater USA.

In February of 2007, Black merged his own company, The Black Group with two others to form Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC, an commercial-intelligence company which services are meant to "bring CIA-style intelligence services to Fortune 500" companies. [1]

On April 27, 2007, Mitt Romney's campaign announced Cofer Black would assume the position of Senior Adviser for counterterrorism and national security issues for Romney's presidential campaign.

Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC is an intelligence gathering and analysis company launched by Cofer Black and Robert Richer in February of 2007, which Black stated in a media release "brings the intelligence gathering methodology and analytical skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room."[1]

Black, with a 28 year career at the CIA in the Directorate of Operations ending as Director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, along with Richer, former Associate Deputy Director for Operations at the CIA, merged The Black Group, Terrorism Research Center, Inc., and Technical Defense to "bring CIA-style intelligence services to Fortune 500" companies.[1]

Thom There is a represenative in congress that is willing to look into helping Abraham bolden his office ask me for documents . i was wondering if i can send you an email with the Congressman Aid name and email and with you knowledge of the Mr. bolden situaction if you can help?

You're right, in that the minimum wage is intended for the high school employee or entry level worker. The problem today is that companies don't give raises to employees to help them get to the point where they are making a decent wage. Corporate America puts no value in the working class anymore; this is the shame of what's happened in our country. I work with people in retail merchandising who haven't seen a raise in their pay in 8-10 years. Must of these folks make around $10/hour, and do this kind of work because it is first shift work. These folks work hard everyday, and deserve to make a better wage than what they do.
Competition among the food brokers they work for is why we've gotten to this point. This is why regulation within industries and worker unions originated in the first place; because it's too easy to for a corporate executive to get greedy and do whatever it takes to make sure he has his, at the expense of whoever (which 9 times out of 10 is the working class).
The larger the Corp., the more regulation we need.

Liberals need to talk about the fundamentals. The minimum wage is intended to prevent employers from exploiting workers. A pure capitalist system decides wages purely on supply and demand. In terms of wages, there is nothing magical about the market that demands that this price point will be high enough to support life in the long term. It only needs to be enough to keep the worker alive while they are working.

This is, in fact, why we have Medicare and Social Security. These are not government spending. They are transfer payments intended to make sure that employers (in the aggregate) pay enough that workers can survive not just while they are working but when they are unable to work (because of disability or reaching retirement age). They are a form of minimum wage.

Someone above said that the minimum wage was designed for entry-level workers. Well, that just speaks to the stupidity of Congress. What we need is a living wage. It should be illegal to pay someone a wage that's insufficient for their long-term survival (and that of their child). Because if you don't have that then employers are free to exploit workers. They can employ them until they get sick or old and then just discard them to their death or off-load them on their families. Right now they just externalize the costs by offloading them on society. When a company (I’m thinking of a very large company) pays its workers so little that they qualify for food stamps then they are offloading their costs on society.

But a more fundamental problem, Thom, is that we can't support even a minimum wage in this country without an international minimum wage. As long as employers can use wage arbitrage to make a profit they will and they will continue to export jobs overseas, leaving the U.S. economy impoverished.

Right now, as a result of unrestricted globalization there are 1.4 million Americans out of work. This is the difference in the average unemployment rate before and after industrial capacity peaked in this country (multiplied by the work force). Our unemployment rate is 0.9% higher than it was before globalization.

And wages have stagnated as a result. Real wages for production workers (in other words, leaving out the stock brokers and other non-productive workers that kick up the national average) is down about 8% since the 1970s. But worker productivity is up 80%. Prior to the 1970s (and for decades) productivity and wages rose together. Since we opted for unrestricted globalization, they have separated. That's one reason that income disparity in this country has grown so much over the past few decades.

Congress should demand an international minimum wage and instruct the President to renegotiate each trade deal so that products coming into this country meet those new standards. That IMW should be set high enough to make it attractive for companies to move production capacity back to the U.S.

Wealth comes from production. Production turns resources into a product that has a higher utility than the resources going into it. Production is where wealth comes from. We have systematically exported our wealth-producing jobs. An economy cannot survive if it does that. Wealth-distributing jobs are valuable, but they are only valuable if they distribute wealth that has already been created. When you push wealth-producing jobs out of a country you impoverish it. That is what "free trade" has done. In effect, free trade isn't free. It costs us our wealth-producing jobs.

But Congress will only act if the people demand it. And for that to happen, they must be educated. I appreciate you being part of the education process.

Ronald Reagan is a convenient name to attach to what we're seeing. But I have a better name. I call these people "The Bandits". I call them The Bandits because they are looting the U.S. to line their own pockets. And, while Reagan set in motion some of the worst policies we've seen, he is not to blame any more than any other sap that sells out is to blame. The persons to blame are The Bandits, the people behind his policies that invented them to enrich themselves at the public's expense and suck the lifeblood out of our economy.

But we are going to see a change in this because the economy's had it. People kept up their lifestyles by selling off their assets. They sold off their stakes in the savings and loans. They sold off their stocks and bonds. They sold off their houses. They've nearly sold off their pensions. There are no more deep pockets to pick. So, the ride is over for The Bandits. And now the workers are going to have to clean up the mess. When the money's all gone we are going to have to depend on the workers to earn it all back. And that's going to come with power. Workers will have power because there is no place else to turn now, except to workers, to pay the bills.

The thing to do is to get in on that wave early. We’ll see which politicians are smart enough to do that.

The reason there is no talk about such is that the majority fail to recognize that we are now in a fascist state. This country meets all the criteria of fascism and was puncuated by US Supreme Court rulings. The media won't touch this. I hear often on this show how the Republicans call everything "socialism" to throw fear into everyone. Yet, the Progressives (really a laughable term) are too cowardly to stand up and call what the Republicans are doing "fascism". Is the GOP the only one capable of "talking points"? It certainly seems so. Fascism is the truth whether you believe it or not. Republicans and Corporate America are too corrupt to govern. Democrats and Progressives are too cowardly to govern. Re-read the definition of fascism and then take a look at what is going on in this country. If you can't come to the same conclusion, then God help you.

It is too sad. And what you say is too true! What did Richardson say back to you?

Web You can not blame Libs for this one. You are ignoring actual events of GOP history . 1981 Reaganomics trickle down / deregulation of ruling class aka Big Banks, Wall ST- energy- airlines and trucking industries and more started us o n the long path to the Bush Cheney 2008 global crash / edge of deep depression / TARP . Pushed along by the GOP congress - that W had for 6 yrs and Goldman FED's wealth favoring policies, con judges, 3 huge GOP Unfunded corp / billionaire tax cuts -giant tax loopholes & OIL SUbsides. on backs of our kids education, low- mid income seniors, Pell Grants, head start , school lunches, the poor who spent all their cash - then had to go on Medicaid. Even the disabled was cut as Fla GOP Gov cut funding for the disabled- yes even kids. Bush lied us into Iraq - had NO clue how to get out of a 7 yr long war . So they just dumped all their failures on a new Pres Crash - panic - near depression. - low paying jobs - Bush even gave cuts to Co that sent jobs overseas. and kept war cost off budget . Keep watching Fox and you will remain ill informed .

Thankfully it looks like the American capacity to dominate the rest of the world for purposes of economic exploitation will be brought undone by bankruptcy. It is a pity so many innocent civilians have lost their lives in countries from Afghanistan to Chile to Guatemala to Indonesia in the process of bringing this to pass.