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It's the standard bribery model of legislating that has come to characterize Washington in the era of oligarchy: if you want to put food on the table of the unemployed, you must lavishly wine and dine the CEOs and bankers who laid them off. Obama didn't create this system, but he is making it stronger before our very eyes. - Chris Hayes
http://www.thenation.com/article/157016/tax-cuts-forever
Why does Thom persist in advocating working within the current system? We need Revolution not Reform!
Although, I'm afraid of my government. You better believe Chris Hedges is now on the FBI terror watch list.
To me this is scary. But what's scarier is that many Americans agree with it. Let's face it, many people don't believe in freedom of speech, freedom of the press, democracy in general.
Personally, I believe surveillance cameras are a violation of the 4th Amendment but that those who are in power do need to be surveilled. Because power corrupts. And those who wield it can do tremendous damage. But does it matter what I think? What we think? Our government doesn't seem to be listening to us. And most Americans have no clue as to what is happening to this country right now, so I think those of us who are concerned about these things and who are able to think differently from the Fox News pundits are in a tiny minority...
I have to admit, I haven't been thinking much about the war either--too preoccupied with the falling economy and its impact on me and everyone I know. It's a shame Americans are so addicted to mass media. I really feel that if we could form communities again, if people started talking to each other directly, face-to-face again, rather than spending so much time in front of that TV set, that that would make a HUGE difference.
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I've asked a number of acquaintances about the wars since they have started. It seems the middle of the road is too preoccupied or too uninformed to care one way or another. It is a shame. Most of those I ask support the wars and our troops. It is hard not to agree to support troops but "Support our Troops" have become the branding method to conceal deceit.
I studied Structural engineering in school which included stress testing of structural steel and concrete in a lab in order to determine it's load failure. I was good at it. Always maxed classes with A's. I've studied structures and building a great deal and I still can't buy the twin towers story. Especially building 7. It just dose not compute. I know, I know conspiracy theory ! Problem is, I don't believe it is a theory. In fact, I know the official story can be disproved mathematically. I may be referred to as a nut case but I am not naive. Did airplanes hit the buildings ?
Absolutely ! That didn't cause them collapse within their own foot print. Impossible ! Really impossible for building 7. So the US engaged in two wars for a lie. I believe prior intelligence was available to stop the high jackers. They lied about WMD's so why not everything else. Is one worse than the other ? It may be said innocent people were killed on 911. So have innocent people been killed in Iraq, which had a significant population of christians (catholics). Rather than solving a crises
with war, we will have a war follow us home. That is what we have accomplished at great expense to world. Disclosure of the truth by media would be met with denial by a comfortable naive half of the US and outrage by the other 30% with the remaining 20% still uninformed.
MarSt nailed it--- totally to the point good job man !
Thom,
Thanks for bringing a much needed alternative voice to the ADHD picture. I don't know yet what I believe on this topic, but your irreverent yet reasoned analysis will hopefully force mainstream medicine/psychology to take a deeper, more nuanced, and wholistic look at what we're calling "ADHD."
James G
Hartmann correlates tax brackets to the economy in such simple terms that it almost seems as his argument is accurate. Of course it is sheer idiocy to state that tax cuts in the 20’s directly led to the Great Depression without factoring in any other economic conditions of that time. Broad generalizations such as these serve to sway and confuse the reader, as statistics can prove to be useful as well as detrimental. if you wish to understand the actual effect of increasing tax brackets on the upper tax brackets you need to ignore misleading statistics and get down to the heart of the matter.
These articles always place the emphasis on billionaires of whom there are less than 500 in North America, and a poor representative of the actual number of US citizens who make up the bulk of the upper income tax brackets. These people include large to small business owners, who although make a higher profit they also face higher losses, and these losses directly affect job growth within the US. The current tax-bracket is already grossly unfair. Why should employers who typically work 2-10x as much and as hard as their employees have to pay more in taxes when those same profits can be used to put more money into the company and thereby create more jobs?
And as for those billionaires, Ive heard the redundant liberal hogwash about the billionaires holding on to their money, which simply isn't true. Look at Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Zuckerberg, etc.. donating Billions to charitable causes worldwide: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_wealth_philanthropy_billionaires. I know for a fact that most of their additional income taxes (tax income percentage deducted from the average tax income percentage) are not being spent by the federal government anywhere nearly as wisely. What we actually need is the same income tax percentage across the board, only then can we begin calling things “fair and equal”.
Why should billionaires, millionaires and the rest of the hard working Americans fall victim to careless government overspending and be punished with higher taxes through no fault of their own? The sad truth is that the entire public sector feeds off of the private sector and the silly arguments brought forth in this article serve nothing more than to overfeed the severely obese public sector.
It helps to know. For anyone interested, this is point-for-point what the journalist Naomi Klein predicted in her book Shock Doctrine. In that book, she explored, diagrammed and provided case analysis for how the power brokers of our time use one crisis after another to justify cutbacks and reductions in our standards of living so that the rich (the top 2% who own 80-90 percent of the worlds wealth) can take more for themselves. Social Security represents trillions of dollars that the rich want to get their hands on. It's as simple as that.
Thom does such a great job educating us and making us aware of how all this works. I wonder if some of the posters to this blog are paying attention. Social Security is not in trouble. It is doing just fine financially. It has no connection to the "financial ills" of the United States, and it is independently financed, so it has no connection to any deficit. The financial deficits are not a problem. They were never a problem in the past either. If we want to fix the so-called deficits, all we have to do is: 1). Re-engage 'progressive taxation' so that the rich pay their proper share of taxes, and 2). re-engage trade tarriffs back up to 1950s levels. These two things alone will get rid of the so-called deficits.
By the way, re-engaging the trade tarriffs will also bring back our jobs because it will simply be too expensive to make stuff in overseas sweat shops. Alan Greenspan and his clan can try to make economics sound scary and complicated, but, as a business owner myself, I can tell you that economics is not complicated.
The biggest problem we (the public) has is, we are vastly under-educated. Thom works every day to rectify that. He spends hours explaining how this stuff works and why the rich are doing what they are doing. All of us need to pay attention to the teacher. Thank you Thom for the incredibly amazing and courageous work you do for all of us. Keep it up. For us students, I have one piece of advice--turn on your ears and bring your pencils to class next time.
Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit since it is separately funded. It is criminal to maintain otherwise and any government official who does so should be impeached.
The question of why is important but the question of how is more important. Not why we educate children but how we educate children! We need to spend more time on the how question of educating children.
Teaching to the test is not helping children to learn the material. We need to challenge children to learn the material. We need to also excite children in the learning process. Learning is an exciting experience and so we need to know the how in motivating children in the learning process.
Dubya was getting his morning briefing, when Rumskull told him that two Brazilian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday. Bush sat in shock for a few seconds, and said , "my god, that's just horrible!"
Dubya then turned to Dick and asked, "how many is a brazillion?"
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/17/news/economy/state_unemployment/index.htm?iid=EAL
We will never recover from our economic mess. - Gerald
When I was first presented with Abraham Maslow's "Heirarchy of Needs," I was flabbergasted. I thought that it was so obvious that children were not ready to learn if they were hungry, or cold, or homeless, or transient or otherwise involved in very unstable social conditions. Then I learned that the professional reformers blamed the educators for the students' readiness to learn. As a child, Dick Gregory once turned down a free turkey because his mother had no way to cook it.
As to Obama cutting social security, what we will end up with is "chaos". Just what the fascists/corporatists/neocons want to see happen in America.
What I hope would happen is that America wake up to the fact that Obama deserves to be impeached for his failure to defend the Constitution. He is a vindictive narciscist that is mentally unfit to hold the office of President. Just ask Charles Rangel and the other Democrats in Congress that Obama has turned his back on.
Look at what George Soros is up to. His misnamed Center for American Progress (CAP) put out a 54 pag document last month putting pressure on Obama to rule through unitary executive methods, using Executive Orders, Federal regulations and any other trick he can think of to violate the Constitution and bypass Congress altogether. This document also goes on to state that if he can't bypass Congress then cut a backroom deal with the Senate Republicans and shove it down the throats of the Democrats (sound familiar?). Remember Charlie Rangel's words last week that the House takes up all legislation related to taxes and budgeting. It is in Article I, Section VII of the Constitution which Obama knowlingly violated. Obama committed an impeachable offense!
I had to post just to add something to your insightful and seemingly obvious argument.
Jobs - the right loves to make the argument that raising taxes on the rich, who comprise 100% of my clients, by the way, will lead to job losses. The fallacy of course is that American business owners hire employees based on demand from consumers, not extra cash on hand. Conservative pundits seem to believe that if employers had an extra $55,000 in tax savings that they would hire an additional employee, when of course that employer will only hire that extra employee when they can earn a return above and beyond that $55,000 cost by adding staff and taking that investment risk. Without that investment in new a employee being profitable, that $55,000 will merely fall to the bottom line and end up in one of my investment accounts per your argument.
@Maxrot, "It's just business," said the hitman as he pulled the trigger.
December 21, 2010
Inhoffe (sp), the Reich wing senator from Oklahoma, will not release money to help the Haitian people. I cannot judge Inhoffe but I can give you my perceptual opinion. The same holds true for Coburn, a senator from Oklahoma and he is not permitting health care money for the first responders in New York for ground zero. We cannot tax foreign companies and foreign investors to help ease our monetary deficits. Doing harm or wishing harm to a person or persons is a mortal sin. Mortal sin damns the eternal soul. We in the United States of Mortal Sin are breaking the Fifth Commandment. We are a nation of sinners, mortal sinners. Many are called and few are chosen! Who will be the few chosen in the United States of Mortal Sin? When I reflect on the United States of Mortal Sin, I am reminded of Lot and the destroyed cities in the Old Testament. These cities were destroyed because Lot could not find good people. I believe the same fate awaits the United States of Mortal Sin because our nation may have only a few good people but not enough good people to hold off America’s damnation and destruction.
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/12/20/inspector-general-wasted-us-aid-in-afghanistan-costs-billions/
And we talk about waste in our country that is centered around our safety net programs.
http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/12/20/thoughts-at-the-white-house-fence/
Hats off for McGovern!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/21-1
Read the small print!