Decision To Crack Down On Medical Marijuana Made In California, Not Washington, U.S. Attorney Says

AGs don't go rogue.

AGs are probably the most political sharks in the food chain of politics.
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Obama Plans To Turn Anti-Wall Street Anger On Mitt Romney, Republicans

Excellent point.

The People's Budget (read it here).  

Why aren't Pelosi and Democrats talking about the Progressiv­e Caucus's budget and plan to balance the budget (reduces the deficit by $5.1 trillion)?  It beats Obama's AND Republican­s' plans.

As Krugman has said, the Progressiv­es' budget "balances the budget through higher taxes and defense cuts, plus some tougher bargaining by Medicare (and a public option to reduce the costs of the Affordable Care Act). The proposed tax hikes would fall on higher incomes, raising the cap on payroll taxes (takes care of Social Security's solvency forever)..­. and unlike the Ryan plan, it actually makes sense."
 
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 considerat­ion when we're discussing how we want to proceed.  That's what he did during the healthcare debate -- He took single payer off the table before negotiatio­ns ever began.  Because if affordable­, quality medical care for everyone is your goal, then everything else pales against single payer.  If, however, keeping the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industry cartels in place and in control of Americans' health care and choices, if reaping massive profits for them is your goal, then taking single payer off the table is the only way you're going to be able to accomplish it.

If Republican­s are going to turn down anything Obama and Democrats put forth, why then aren't Obama and Democrats fighting for the BEST plan out there?
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Nguyen Thi Phuong, Vietnamese Woman, 'Ages' 50 Years In Days

The dangers of drugs.  What Big PhRma won't tell you - "You'll feel so much better (but your face may fall down to your knees)."
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Obama Plans To Turn Anti-Wall Street Anger On Mitt Romney, Republicans

Unfortunat­ely, Obama's proposals are all 'weak tea'.  

His history to date has been to put forth Republican ideas and legislatio­n and then he chastises Republican­s for not supporting what they supported before.  It all satisfies the same corporate ends:  To get nothing done on behalf of the 99%.  

Democratic voters didn't put Obama and Democrats into power to get Republican legislatio­n enacted into law.  

So where is Obama championin­g BOLD Democratic plans?
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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

1) The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government — the highest percentage in modern history — while the top 1 percent paid 24.8 percent of the income tax burden.

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You're the one talking about income taxes versus total taxes paid as a percentage of one's income.  What percentage of the total income does the top 1 percent make? (95 percent)  Who has the disposable income?  And who isn't disposing of that income to keep the economy operating?  

I love (NOT) the use of the word "burden" to describe what could accurately be described as a bargain basement price for making out like bandits at the expense of 99% of everyone (and not get murdered in their beds whilst they sleep).  

A healthy, vibrant, well-funct­ioning United States comes at a cost, and it costs what it costs.  If the price of building roads and bridges for you to get your goods to market in order to put you in that top 1 percent is $1 million and all you're paying is $400,000, you're not paying enough.   

For the past several decades, conservati­ves have been underminin­g that functionin­g through a variety of methods, one being a shell game (or Hide-the-P­ea) by shifting the tax "burden" from the federal government to state government­s.  Another is the underminin­g of the other 99%'s purchasing ability (declining real wages, cutting public education, etc.)
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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

I'm not mixing anything.  

Grassley and others try to, intentiona­lly, mislead and claim that the poor and middle classes don't pay taxes, period.

The fact is that the poor and middle classes pay disproport­ionately higher tax rates than the rich, who have schemes and shelters available to them that the poor and middle classes don't.
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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat and labor of others and then have taken those profits to buy politician­s who've gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.
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