Radiation Concerns For Japan's Beef Supply
Sunday, July 17, 2011
The EPA under Obama has stopped monitoring radiation coming to the US from the meltdown in Japan.
Both parties stink.
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The EPA under Obama has stopped monitoring radiation coming to the US from the meltdown in Japan.
Both parties stink.
About Japan
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I wouldn't normally respond to such a dim-witted and vulgar comment, but I'm making an exception for you, kletus.
The American people I'm referring to are about 90 percent of Americans. That 90 percent's interests aren't being represente
We're in 'thin the herd' times and this president is helping to make that happen.
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The People's Budget (read it here).
The Progressiv
As Krugman has said, the Progressiv
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During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did.
Nothing changed.
NancyPelos
They said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate".
In 2008, we did. We gave them 60 for the Democratic Caucus. And we gave them the White House.
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old raclst America than ever voted for any other presidenti
And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster
His political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation. If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a dead giveaway that the last thing these politician
Mushy-mind
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Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people. They could have ended Bush's tax cuts during last year's lame duck session, but they didn't. Obama didn't even tie his caving to Republican
So here we are again, being betrayed by those we brung to this hoe-down, the Democrats.
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During the 2000 election, when Gore was talking about a "lock box" & Bush was campaignin
I've been writing about conservati
When George W. Bush got into the WhiteHouse after the contentiou
Around 2006, when Democrats won the election and talk was rampant about Bush's legacy, Bush was saying that he was certain he'd be vindicated as a great conservati
Even conservati
FWIW, not one reporter asked Bush (nor did they on his recent book tour). Democratic politician
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If Obama is a one term president, he will have delivered to the CorporateM
Obama was put into power to achieve bold reversals of what BushCheney had done. He, a black man in good old racist America, got more votes than any presidenti
From his having the right to indefinite
Real Democratic voters had better get a clue from watching how teabaggers get their elected representa
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The Tea Party is an effective nemesis for Obama: A paper tiger.
If Obama and DLC-Democr
What Obama also did during the same Town Hall time period? He unleashed federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, using the new weaponry on dissenters who the 'establish
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.
Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the Republican Party that controls the Republican Party (far rightwing extremists
The Tea Party serves this end it several ways. Chiefly though, It lets Democrats keep a legislativ
Obama didn't invent this plan, by the way; it's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years.
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Nothing is going to change until moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans both stand up to the crazies in each party. I keep hoping the "silent majority" will show up to vote out the far right and the far left. I really do not care which party is in control of D.C., as long as they are sane.
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When Obama wants something, he's shown he can go all Rove-like, relentless
We already know that cutting taxes does not create jobs and creating jobs is what is needed and what will solve our fiscal problems. Yet Obama has already capitulate
Obama's in the Oval Office to mellow-tal
Obama is the grifter leading off the second half of the con game, which is to squeeze the rest of the dimes from the poor & middle classes. It began with part 2 of Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003 (high-pric
If you haven't seen this, you might find it enlighteni
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When Obama wants something, he's shown he can go all Rove-like, relentless
We already know that cutting taxes does not create jobs and creating jobs is what is needed and what will solve our fiscal problems. Yet Obama has already capitulate
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Obama's economic policies have been a collosal failure. After only 3 years not a single economic advisor remains on his staff. They failed -- he failed but that really doesn't faze him, because it's what he wanted-- the destructio==========n of capitalism and the ushering in of socialism.
Already on the table are more than $1 trillion in discretion
What you call "a very good position" isn't good at all for the American people who rely on these programs to survive.
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Obama is proposing cutting Social Security and Medicare:
Two weeks ago, that first assumption proved true: Democrats proposed a few hundred billion in new tax revenues (a small fraction of the trillions of dollars in spending cuts Republicans are demanding) so GOP principals threw up their hands and abandoned the discussion s. But the second assumption isn't built on bedrock. And in recent weeks, congressio nal aides, strategist s, and advocates have been floating, or warning of, a stealth change to the Social Security benefit structure that has quietly been placed on the negotiatin g table.
The proposal wouldn't just impact Social Security benefits. It would also shave off yearly increases in federal pension payouts, and result in somewhat higher tax revenues. But the ratio would be skewed toward benefit cuts by a factor of about 2-to-1 and would represent a financial hit to even the poorest retirees unless they were exempted.
The idea is to change the way Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) are calculated across the federal government . Currently, the COLAs for tax brackets, pensions, and Social Security are tied to different measures of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Because spending habits change when living costs increase, some experts think these measures are too generous, and want to change all of the COLAs to a different, smaller measure of inflation: the so-called "chained-CPI."
On the tax side, this would likely draw more revenue: Tax brackets would rise more slowly than incomes, so people would get kicked into higher brackets more quickly and, voila, more income subject to taxation.
But on the benefits side, this means money out of people's pockets, even current retirees and pensioners. Responding to a letter of concern from House Democrats' top Social Security guy the program's chief actuary explained that moving to "chained-C PI" would constitute an immediate 0.3 percent benefit cut. That may sound small, but the effects would compound, and "[a]dditio nal annual COLAs thereafter would accumulate to larger total reductions in expected scheduled benefit levels of about 3.7 percent, 6.5 percent, and 9.2 percent for retirees at ages 75, 85, and 95, respective ly."
Half the Fortune 500 companies pay no taxes.They are in good company ,half of all Americans paid no income tax .
At a hearing last month, Senator Charles Grassley said, "According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, 49 percent of households are paying 100 percent of taxes coming in to the federal governmentThe Center on Budget and Policy Priorities." At the same hearing, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds asserted, "Poor people don't pay taxes in this country." Last April, referring to a Tax Policy Center estimate of households with no federal income tax liability in 2009, Fox Business host Stuart Varney said on Fox and Friends, "Yes, 47 percent of households pay not a single dime in taxes."
Nothing is going to change until and unless Obama and Democratic politician
If the past history is prolog for the future, 2012 is going to be a bloodbath.
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Those who keep urging "compromis
More recently, SinglePaye
By the way, SinglePaye
Had Republican
In 2001, Bush's tax cuts for the rich promised to create jobs and wealth for all, and once again the left compromise
The latest Democratic caving over the budget.
When the budget process began, Republican congressma
At $64 billion Democrats moved all the way over to where Paul Ryan was when the process began. So even if Democrats got that number (which in Washington would be considered a "win" for Democrats)
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And 26 percent of Americans don't know that we fought the British in the Revolution
Barry Levinson = great storytelle
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"Plan B" does NOT stand for the "People's Budget".
There actually is a People's Budget (read it here).
Why aren't Pelosi and Democrats talking about the Progressiv
As Krugman has said, the Progressiv
But Obama takes solutions that work for the People, the vast majority of Americans, off the table. Whether it's ending Bush's tax cuts or the wars, the '14th Amendment Solution' (and it is, indeed, a legitimate option), etc., Obama kneecaps and handicaps the Democratic voters who put him and Democrats into power.
That's Obama's style, taking solutions that work for the People off the table and out of considerat
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The left comes to the table already having compromise
And even after we compromise
[One example is the CappsAmend
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Fairly soon, Roe and overturnin
Obama's got to go.
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Mushy-mind
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