Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians!!!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Palestinians-Denied-Access-by-Stephen-Lendman-100806-566.html

MAY AMERICA REST IN PEACE!!!!!

@Minny, you offer salient comments.

I truly LOVE the idea of doubling Social Security payments, but until we begin manufacturing products in the USA, much of that extra money will go (once again) to buy imported products. We need to create manufacturing here first and THEN seek to stimulate our own economy, hopefully with the assistance of fair trade laws and fair taxation of those wealthy few who have benefitted so greatly over the last 30 years. They have brought this country down, and they must bring it back up again.

School Education

American education is a disaster. We know that public schools have been a disaster for many years. Private and parochial schools are functioning close to public schools in being a disaster.

Students, especially teenagers, are into fairness and idealism not just for themselves but for friends and other persons.

The school dropout rare is at thirty percent plus. That percentage is too high and we are losing many students who are discouraged. Teenagers know that we are in a Great Depression. They know that unemployment will remain high for many years. They see the unfairness between the rich and the middle class. They also know that the return of jobs will take generations.

About twenty-years ago I read that some states have been hiring foreign students to teach math and science classes for high schools and middle schools. American students are avoiding math and science classes because they want to keep their Grade Point Average to remain high. When they are refused entry to certain colleges and universities, the reason will be that their transcripts have lacked completion of quality courses.

Our son has talked to his former college advisor and the advisor has not had an American born student to counsl in the past fifteen years. Our son was his last American born student.

Our K-12 schools systems face many problems to overcome. It will not happen in my lifetime and it will not happen in our sons’ lifetime.

America is a divided nation and she will not heal for generations. America is a disaster in many areas. Here are some of the areas – politics, economics and the economy, religions, social justice, education, environment, and the filth and garbage in our movies and on our televised programs.

I have not even discussed America’s murderous appetite and the killing of God’s children that delight most Americans.

Education

It is difficult to stay with an article or a topic when so much is happening in America and the world.

During the Bush II years as the appointed president by the Supreme Court I was listening to Greenspan and Snow before a Senate Committee meeting. John Kerry asked the question on education. He said that we were giving tax breaks and not investing in education. He went on to say that China and India graduate 200,000 engineers each per year. That number does not include how many engineers graduate per year from Taiwan, Japan, other Asian countries, and the European countries.

America does not have to invest in education because the trained engineers can be recruited more cheaply from foreign countries. We already know that foreign countries train more computer science and information technology majors than the United States.

If Americans watch very closely we can see the noose tightening around the neck of every American. I have only mentioned the job situation and I have not even discussed the rigged of American elections, the sale of American companies to foreign countries and foreign nationals. And, I haven’t even mentioned that our democracy, freedoms, and rights are taken away. I did not even mention that our middle class has received the death notice. Employers are also dropping their hired slaves from health care coverage.

America is growing in two areas. Preachers (Evangelists) and service jobs, like flipping burgers. I take the burger flipping jobs back. These jobs are being taken over by illegal immigrants. We rank second to none with preachers on each corner of our communities. Let me also say that under the Hitler Bush Family employment will proliferate in military service, military adventures, and nuclear weaponry beyond our wildest dreams in order to continuously fight for the Hitler Bush Family’s empire building schemes.

America’s demise is eminent!

I favor a new constitutional amendment that would protect marriage and family life by seeing to it that marriages and families have the financial resources to help make their lives viable. We can help marriages and families with no federal income taxes for a family income of $100,000 or less. Deductions for social security would still be necessary. Social security deductions would continue up to a five million dollar income per year cap. Plus, a progressive income tax formula should be in place. A ninety percent tax on people earning over three million dollars. Offshore tax havens for Americans and American corporations should be illegal and treasonous acts with a life imprisonment for all offenders.

I would favor a doubling of my social security but I would need more information. Presently, we have a three year moratorium on cost of living increases for social security. All hidden taxes should receive deductions from our 1040 federal income taxes, such on any sales taxes for furniture, cars, oil at the pump, heating, water, electricity, telephone etc. Average Americans are being screwed royally by rich Americans and our American corporations.

We should also impose a one century moratorium on wars!!!

Expand Our World

I will share with you four sources that have expanded my world. These four sources are Dave Belden and the Tikkun Daily Blog, Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine, Network of Spiritual Progressives and its co-founders, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Sister Joan Chittister, and Dr. Cornel West, and Uri Avnery, an Israeli writer. All four sources are pro-Israel but they will criticize Israel in favor of justice and peace.

Another silly rant: The Tea Party movement is calling for tax cuts, pretending to follow in the foot steps of the patriots who dumped tea in the Boston Harbor. The issue though was no taxation WITHOUT representation, which by default implies that taxation is fine, so long as the people who are taxed have a say about what those taxes are spent on. It didn't mean that we the Americans of the revolutionary period were anti-tax.

Morons.

N

So where IS the report?

C'mon, folks, it's not that hard to do a hyperlink or just paste in a URL.

Thom was talking about a "47-page report" from New America Foundation. I haven't found any such report. There is a shorter, 16-page report, out that I did find. And here's the link:

http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/secure_retirement_for_all_amer...

Here's the direct link to the PDF:

http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Hill%20-%20S...

There, wasn't that easy? Took me thirty seconds or less to use the Copy and Paste functions provided to me by computer's OS and every other graphical OS that's come out in the last 25 years. It took me considerably longer to hunt down the report itself, which presumably the Thom Hartmann Program has already seen -- and it would be trivial for them to link to something they've already found. And if there's a 47-page paper out there, it isn't easily accessible from the NAF website. Or maybe Thom is just wrong and it's only 16 pages, and Thom sent me off on a wild goose chase.

See, some of us like to READ this stuff, and read the ORIGINAL document under discussion. I don't mind doing some of my own research, but I do mind reinventing the wheel when someone else has already done it and it would be trivial to privide a link.

Thom, the NAZI's were not a Government, they were a political party. Fascism is more a form of Goverment. NAZI's were a political party that took control of their government, like... I don't know, say the Republican'ts.

N

I'm just waiting for someone to start crying "minority rights" because the uberrich are being attacked in the tax codes.