Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than are necessary for the workforce right now?
Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Sounds ridiculous. Apparently not to Senators John Kyl of Arizona and Sentor Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Bunning held up unemployment insurance [...]
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Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics, jobs
Tags: Bush recession·domestic manufacturing·Economics·health care reform·job creation·jobs·national debt·recession·Social Security and Medicare·unemployment
Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, jobs, wars and militarism
Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g., a Neocon. He had been a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives. He was in favor of cutting taxes. (Not very controversial.) He was in favor of preventing [...]
Tags: hypocritical politics·Lobbyist politics·neocon·Neocons·Neoconservatives·propaganda and conservatism·Right Wing Neoconservatives
Are You an American or Are You a Neocon?
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Politics
The actions of John Kyl and Jim Bunning recently bring into sharp focus, as Dr. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate has said, the differences between the two most prominent political parties. But it goes beyond that.
When are you a citizen of a country? If I move to France to live, am I automatically a [...]
More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe
March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics
The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish.
Be assured of one thing. We are in no [...]
Tags: Bush administration·health care lobby·health care reform·Neocon lunatic fringe·Neoconservative propaganda·obstruction·propaganda·Republican propaganda·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
The Communist Fallacy
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics
You might want to take everything you know about our country and have a second look.
We all used to participate in the defense of our country. Now we have young people, mostly poor, trying to get ahead, who risk their lives for a college education while others, not risking their lives, go to college [...]
Tags: Communist·CPAC·Democratic·health care reform·Neoconservative propaganda·racist right wing media·Senator Bunning·Socialist·tea baggers·tea party
Torts, Filibusters, Health Care Reform and Disastrous Supreme Court Decisions
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Health Care, Politics
We are now well into this session of Congress. The Senate has already begun a pace of filibusters that will exceed that of the last session, which was already double the highest number ever. It is very clear. The Neoconservatives are committed not to the constituents who elected them but to large industrial corporations, [...]
Tags: health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·Neoconservative·Republican health care plan·Right Wing·Supreme Court
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Secuirty·tax cuts·tax reform·wars
Do Americans Really Want Health Care Reform?
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
We have spent an entire year listening to politicians talk about health care, argue health care, debate health care and even do their best to obstruct health care. When Senator John McCain and then Senator Barack Obama were campaigning on the issue of health care 76%, over three-quarters of all Americans surveyed said that they [...]
Tags: health care reform·Obamacare
The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs
As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]
Tags: clean energy·economy·energy·food banks·Health Care·health care lobby·health care reform·homelessness·hunger·jobs·reconciliation·Rupert Murdoch·stimulus·Supreme Court·tea parties·tent cities·unemployment·unemployment insurance
Health Industry Greed and Democratic Reform
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….
Yes, indeed. It was the best of times for the health care industry in 2009. And the worst of times for their customers. And it continues in 2010.
Let’s get right to it.
Wellpoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna and Humana…the top five health insurers, earned [...]
Tags: Democratic health care plan·health care debate·health care fraud·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·health insurance industry greed·House health care plan·Obamacare·President's health care plan·Republican health care plan·Right Wing obstruction·Senate health care plan
Beck at CPAC: Libertarian…maybe; Populist…definitely not!
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Glenn Beck made a splendid keynote speech at the CPAC Conference. He was in rare form as are many speakers with great imagination who place no importance on the veracity of their words.
He did, however, do something unusual and to some probably dramatic, although not impressive to those who have beaten addictions. It is [...]
Tags: Beck's Keynote address·Conservative meeting·Conservative Political Action Conference·CPAC·Glenn Beck·Right Wing conference
CPAC Conference: Armey Firing Blanks
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Dick Armey gave a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. He walked in wearing a cowboy hat. He was ready to take aim and fire at the Obama Administration. Unfortunately, he was firing blanks.
Almost every word that came out of his mouth was a complete fabrication. Not only did he, frankly, lie [...]
Tags: Conservative Political Action Conference·CPAC·Dick Armey·John Boehner·Michelle Bachmann·Right Wing political attacks
The Neoconservative Republican Agenda Is Quite Simple. Lie and Lie Again.
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
In the cool, rarefied air of Senate multi-millionaires it may be possible to conduct policy discussions with great civility. At least on the non-producing Democratic side. On the other side, the Neocon Obstructionist Party smiles, makes sarcastic comments in the legislative chamber and then votes against everything. No exaggeration. They have voted against everything by [...]
Tags: health care reform·lobbyist-paid politicians·lobbyists·neoconservative agenda·neoconservative lies. Neoconservative·Republican lies·stimulus plan
Who Is Going to Pay the National Debt?
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
There was a wonderful line once in an old movie. A very savvy and skilled old billiards player, a hustler, was about to take the money from a slick and smart-alecky young man who had just ridden into town. And as the hustler chalked his cue stick, and leaned over the table to take [...]
Tags: Deficit reduction·Neocon programs for deficit reduction·Pete Peterson·Social Security and Medicare·tax cuts·tax increases
Budget Crisis Commission: Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare
February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics
In Washington today, a whole hall full of white-shirts and rimless glasses sat at attention while the gurus of fiscal policy told us that we need to cut our biggest areas of expenditure—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—in order to save us from disaster that they make sound worse than the Spanish Inquisition.
The Peterson-Pew Budget [...]
Tags: budget commimssion·cuts in Social Security·cutting Medicare·national debt·Peterson-Pew Budget Commission