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So, you don't want to see your taxes go up? I've got news for you: you won't...unless you are a millionaire, or at least make more that $250,000 per year.
"Just about every time there has been significant legislation before Congress, the (health insurance) industry has been able to kill it (the legislation)," he said. "Yeah, the status quo works for them. They don't like to have any regulation forced on them or laws forced on them. They don't want to have any competition from the federal government, or any additional regulation from the federal government. They say they will accept it. But the behavior is that they will not." Continue here
YouTube, that marvel of the 21st. Century is allowing us to watch possibly the most important documentary of this Century.
Now that President Obama is trying to get Universal Health Insurance, including a public insurance option --the key to control the greed that has created the mess we live in this country now-- everyone must see this documentary. It is too important.
Chapter 1 of 13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzRsH-1Xjs
2 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r376kSH9DkM&feature=related
3 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTzfB5eKPeQ&feature=related
4 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQM5wDV1Vu4&feature=related
5 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OTm4C4SVPA&feature=related
6 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU742EtabOw&feature=related
7 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_05qRb9Oyw&feature=related
8 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhK4oOrqvOw&feature=related
9 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1kDAkWFDI&feature=related
10 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYLN6RMbF4g&feature=related
11 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IixrPpa9YY&feature=related
12 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLbzwA0hS6E&feature=related
13 of 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0s9Ww5dDBc&feature=related
Barack Obama is the most intelligent President since Thomas Jefferson. Read his full speech in English and Spanish below
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum. Aside from the tone, delivery, no notes, no teleprompters, an incredibly smooth poise, and an obviously profound knowledge of the subject, Obama also showed a historical perspective seldom heard on any politician, including Presidents. His mention of the tolerance experienced in Andalucia and Cordoba during Islam's "Golden Age", is an historical jewel worth mentioning and an example of Obama's thoughtfulnes. Read the rest of the article here and its Spanish version here
Brian Morton continues his excellent articles at City Paper
It didn't take long for Limbaugh to call Sotomayor a "reverse racist" (whatever the heck that's supposed to mean), Gingrich to tweet that she is a "Latina woman racist," or Washington pundit and GOP water-carrier Fred Barnes to imply that she is "not the smartest." It never fails to amaze how the most privileged section of American society can get its undies in a bunch the second someone not of its number is tapped for a post of authority where he or she might have some influence over "the clique."
The Republicans, particularly Newt Gingrich, have crossed the line and, to their credit, have apologized for their immediate, savage, and, yes, racist remarks:
Obama is not a socialist although, in this capitalist country it may appear to be so. Billy Wharton, a card carrying member of the party should know:
The first clear indication that Obama is not, in fact, a socialist, is the way his administration is avoiding structural changes to the financial system. Nationalization is simply not in the playbook of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his team. They favor costly, temporary measures that can easily be dismantled should the economy stabilize. Socialists support nationalization and see it as a means of creating a banking system that acts like a highly regulated public utility. The banks would then cease to be sinkholes for public funds or financial versions of casinos and would become essential to reenergizing productive sectors of the economy.
Continue reading here his excellent article in the Washington Post.
Nothing like humor to explain the horrible situation we are all in with this Republican economy. Funny thing is that those Regan Republicans are now blaming Obama of "socialism" and other ills. Jon Stewart knows better and, in a hilarious 8 minute video shows us how CNBC lead us all astray.
Republicans are right. It is class warfare that is developing in this country. But they started it more than 30 years ago with the Reagan doctrine. Since then the rich have become insanely richer while middle class income has remained stagnant and the poor are poorer than ever
By the end of the Bush administration, Bloomberg reported that the average tax rate paid by the richest 400 Americans dropped a quarter to a stunning 17.2 percent and their average income doubled to $263.3 million, mostly because of the steady Bush effort to keep cutting capital gains rates. The Congressional Budget Office points out that the average post-tax income of the top one percent of households, adjusted for inflation, jumped by a million dollars since 1979, while the pay for most families has only barely climbed faster than the inflation rate.
If this is class warfare, the tanks of the rich have been grinding the rest of us down into the mud for 30 years. Lawrence Summers, the former Clinton treasury secretary turned Obama economic advisor, used to say that, in effect, families in the bottom 80 percent of earners were each sending an annual check of $7,000 to the top one percent.
President Barack Obama is about to turn the tables on this outrage and the Republicans, led by Rush Limbaugh (?) are attacking him and hoping "he fails"
This is what racism, xenophobia, and a hatred of the unknown does to otherwise decent Americans.
Purportedly based on SSA no match letters, five Schaumburg, IL Pizza Hut employees were fired on Monday, February 16th. More employees are slated to be fired on March 2nd at a Lake Zurich, IL location. All of these employees have been asked by Pizza Hut management to re-verify their eligibility for employment under the threat of termination. Many have worked at Pizza Hut for more than a decade.
Back in December many national organizations, under the banner of the Low Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition, sent a letter to Yum Brands CEO, David Novak informing him that employers are not required to implement a proposed Department of Homeland Security SSA no match safe-harbor rule because it is under court injunction and blocked. As explained in that letter to Pizza Hut "Currently, the only obligation of an employer upon receipt of an SSA no-match letter is to notify the employee". The employee may correct the error with SSA, but is not required by law to do so. The employer is not required to provide SSA with corrected names and numbers. Moreover, employers are not prohibited from continuing to employ individuals with mismatched Social Security numbers. In fact, the SSA's clear position is that employers should not "take any adverse action against an employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing, or discriminating against that individual, just because his or her social security number appears on the list" and that "doing so could, in fact, violate State or Federal law and subject you to legal consequences" (emphasis added).
Call Pizza Hut's President, Scott Bergren, at (972) 338-7700 and tell him to stop firing immigrant workers and to re-hire those he has already fired!
Let's stop the madness!
Republican lunacy does not see reality. The consequences are the total alienation of the party with the main stream American society as well as many of its "natural" constituencies such as conservative Hispanics and small and medium bussinesses.
"Deportation would mean expelling 6.6 million “illegal” families containing 15 million individuals, 4.9 million children, and 3.5 million American citizens. It would not explain how the pro-life movement will survive the mass alienation of its fastest-growing demographic; or why the employers of 7 million illegals would willingly rat them out."
Conservative Richard Nadler tries to open his fellow conservatives' eyes. Probably to no avail
