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When will people realize there is a Christian Agenda:
1. Put prayer back in schools.
2. Make the bible the law of the land.
3. Ban ALL abortions, even if the mothers life is in danger.
4. Criminalize un-wed motherhood.
5. Jail AND execute all non-heterosexuals.
6. Deport all non-Christians.
...and the list goes on.
And when Christianity collides with Capitalism, we are all done for.
Alice and Mr. Hartmann should find it very scary that anti-safe motherhood Rethugs love punishing unwanted forced-birth women like myself with wage theft, workplace bullying and firing as punishment for NOT being aborted. That's right! -- I got brutally fired back in Nov. from a well-known Washington, D.C. GOP bully pulpit for being facially disfigured, by my anti-contraception childbirth-ruined Catholic Munchausen by proxy mother, while typing accurately at their premises next to the National Arboretum! Their "official excuse" was that disfigured me was "mean" to the department playboy drunk! It was OK for him to be drunk at work and insulting to old maid me for never attracting a husband, but not OK for me to say anything mild in my own defense, never mind that I have undergone $100,000 in plastic surgery to avoid offending looksists and worked hundreds of unpaid overtime at that publication to compensate for my still-ruined face! The EEOC has given me permission to sue in court and I probably will.
What should people learn from my egregious illegal firing? -- that the GOP and anti-contraception Catholic thugs support bullying, under-paying and firing all women based on their inherited and parental abuse-scarred looks, in addition to any birth control they might be using!
You're correct, we have to protect those tax cuts and so people will just have to die. I'm not being satirical. I think decisions have been made to abandon the American People for other markets where they don't have pesky rules and regulations and can use starving workers for nothing. That's what the TPP is all about! I'm 67 so I'll be around a little longer but I wonder how long it will take people to understand the ramifications of a Wall Street World and International Banksters profiting from desparation and calamity. Maybe it will be a Geezer that strikes back at the machines of our ruin.
I agree! That IS a really good question. Just how do these idiots intend to test for birth control? They already don't want it covered by the ACA. Now they want to forbid women from purchasing it on their own? How far do they have to overreach their bounds before we put an end to their reign of terror, once and for all.
By the way, for all you right wing fundamentalist religious nuts, the Bible doesn't say a word about birth control or abortion. You have all been lied to and mislead by your clergy into judging, controlling, and condemning your fellow man; and, that IS something that the Bible clearly forbids. So does the Constitution, for you religious patriot fanatics out there.
Well we have to protect all those TAX CUTS Reagan started and that means people will just have to die,
. That's OLIGARCHY!
From you Loren, man of letters, that is the ULTIMATE compliment. Be watching your e-mail.
There should not be a profit motive in anything that is for the commons, utilities,broadband,public transit etc.
Kudos to Alice for the best (and best written) comment I have ever seen on Mr. Hartmann's site.
(Aside: lost your email address -- actually my entire address book -- in the worst computer crash of my life, from which I am still recovering. Please email me and I'll put you back on the OAN list too.)
What is your solution if utilities were not operated for profit? I know some communities own their own utilities. Where I live, the electric company is a cooperative; however, we buy from an even larger cooperative who constantly upgrades equipment which means the cost is passed onto us.
What is your solution outside of Federal control which I would be opposed to.
All I can say is -- WOW. Just one question though: how the hell would employers even know whether someone uses birth control? I'm not aware of any birth control methods that are visually apparent to the onlooker.
Beyond that, I keep wondering how far these pigs have to raise the bar on fascism in America before enough people wake up and we see widespread rebellion occuring. I keep waiting, wondering, hoping...
So hey ladies- You want your boss peeking in your underwear?! Seriously.
As long as Congress supports the wishes of their wealthy private owners that are moving this country toward a Third World sweatshop economy, then Congress must feel that any infrastructure spending would be a futile effort as the infrastructure should reflect that eventuality ! Congressman Alan Grayson made some disturbing comments on Democracy Now this week regarding a similar trend tied to the pending Fast Track Legislation that will hasten the passage of the secret TPP trade legislation, an action that Congressman Grayson said, "if passed would leave average Americans with one option, to kiss their country goodbye" !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIUHm19HqM
In that case, JaO, maybe it would also be easier to raise corporate taxes.
ALEC has been around for some time now and we're hearing of similar activities being set up at the local and state levels. Can we make a case that TPP is just an international version of ALEC? -- (Corporate subversion of governmental protections and functions.)
Given that the Fast Track limits debate on any legislation pertaining to "business" and given that Sanctions are by definition a restriction of business, could the Fast Track make it easier for Obama to reduce sanctions against Iran as part of a nuclear deal?
Since it was first (1st) celebrated in 1970, this is actually the 46th Earth Day.
After all, 2015 - 1970 = 46 - 1.
GOP pledged in Jan 2009 to do whatever it took to crush Obama - make him fail. They have kept that promise and then some. GOP policies hurt our country , our economy, old folks in nursing homes. .waiting to die. GOP GOV 's across the US have made deep cuts in funding the disabled, mentally, ill, public education, care for foster kids, school lunches. Powerful Corps Are KINGS. Millions of peope vote against their families best interest GO figure. Ignorance is NOT Bliss Its very dangerous.
Hillary says she wants to topple the 1% and yet her main campaign donors are the 1%: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-calls-for-toppling-the-1whi...
Is Hillary Clinton lying or do her donors not mind funding someone who will topple them? Which seems the most plausible answer: a lying politician or suicidally-benign corporations?
Bill Clinton can't be Vice Presdient anyway, because he's ineligible to be President again. It's amazing that this has to be explained every 4 years. Why don't people remember that the potential loopholes are taken care of?
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Hey Thom, we don't have a functioning democracy or even a pretense of democracy anymore. We don't invest in America infrastructure because there is no need for it. We invest in Southeast Asia infrastructure and development. American Business, which function as our de facto government, hates American citizens for their freedoms, even more than the Taliban hates our freedom. So, why invest government dollar, the public's money, into America when business interests are overseas?
The supposedly transiently temporary Leninist dictatorships are usually well intentioned but seem hopelessly doomed to fail as socialism.
Cuba is probably the last real such - but don't count 'em out yet.
Any genuine socialism is democratic - and any genuine democracy is socialist. What socialists call "bourgeois democracy" - or capitalist "democracy" that glosses over and ignores the differences in political power between the different socioeconomic classes falls far short of genuine democracy. It is what it's called, bourgeois democracy, i.e., democracy for the bourgeoisie and tyranny for everybody else.
Mark J S -- I think you should always call it democratic socialism.
SaxnFlutman -- I think SCROTUS has their tongue, not a cat. Open your mouth and you are no longer in office. I think Eliot Spitzer was our greatest hope against wall st. Look what the billionaires did to him.
Lydannder Spooner, socialiism is the beginning - of a brave, new world of bright promise for all mankind!