Gop will gain more power without that messy voting thing.
You Won't Believe These Suez Canal Conspiracies
3 years ago
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Show Me Progress:: How Claire McCaskill's enables GOP "zombie" ideas
Show Me Progress:: How Claire McCaskill's enables GOP "zombie" ideas
click link above. Claire McCaskill, keep this up and Missouri will soon have another Gop senator
click link above. Claire McCaskill, keep this up and Missouri will soon have another Gop senator
Stark, Herger vow to reintroduce Medicare fraud bill next year - The Hill's Healthwatch
Stark, Herger vow to reintroduce Medicare fraud bill next year - The Hill's Healthwatch
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click link above for article.
I do not like Stark, nor do I trust him; but this is a good idea. Rewarding Medicare fraud is insane
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click link above for article.
I do not like Stark, nor do I trust him; but this is a good idea. Rewarding Medicare fraud is insane
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Obama style--some not happy
seems some union folks not timid on 'Obama style'. This snip from today's countdown.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Ron Paul--Fed bailout of foreign banks
Rarely do I agree with Ron Paul, but he is right on this one.
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SPREADTHISINFO2 | December 02, 2010 | 13 likes, 0 dislikes
One may be forgiven to believe that via its FX liquidity swap lines the Fed only bailed out foreign Central Banks, which in turn took the money and funded their own banks. It turns out that is only half the story: we now know the Fed also acted in a secondary bail out capacity, providing over $350 billion in short term funding exclusively to 35 foreign banks, of which the biggest beneficiaries were UBS, Dexia and BNP. Since the funding provided was in the form of ultra-short maturity commercial paper it was essentially equivalent to cash funding. In other words, between October 27, 2008 and August 6, 2009, the Fed spent $350 billion in taxpayer funds to save 35 foreign banks. And here people are wondering if the Fed will ever allow stocks to drop: it is now more than obvious that with all banks leveraging the equity exposure to the point where a market decline would likely start a Lehman-type domino, there is no way that the Brian Sack-led team of traders will allow stocks to drop ever... Until such time nature reasserts itself, the market collapses without GETCO or the PPT being able to catch it, and the Fed is finally wiped out in one way or another.
The 35 companies in question:
UBS
Dexia SA
BNP Paribas
Barclays PLC
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Commerzbank AG
Danske Bank A/S
ING Groep NV
WestLB
Handelsbanken
Deutsche Post AG
Erste Group Bank AG
NordLB
Free State of Bavaria
KBC
HSH Nordbank AG
Unicredit
HSBC Holdings PLC
DZ Bank AG
Republic of Korea
Rabobank
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Banco Espirito Santo SA
Bank of Nova Scotia
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
Syngenta AG
Mitsui & Co Ltd
Bank of Montreal
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Corp
Aegon NV
Royal Bank of Canada
Sumitomo Corp
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defaul...
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SPREADTHISINFO2 | December 02, 2010 | 13 likes, 0 dislikes
One may be forgiven to believe that via its FX liquidity swap lines the Fed only bailed out foreign Central Banks, which in turn took the money and funded their own banks. It turns out that is only half the story: we now know the Fed also acted in a secondary bail out capacity, providing over $350 billion in short term funding exclusively to 35 foreign banks, of which the biggest beneficiaries were UBS, Dexia and BNP. Since the funding provided was in the form of ultra-short maturity commercial paper it was essentially equivalent to cash funding. In other words, between October 27, 2008 and August 6, 2009, the Fed spent $350 billion in taxpayer funds to save 35 foreign banks. And here people are wondering if the Fed will ever allow stocks to drop: it is now more than obvious that with all banks leveraging the equity exposure to the point where a market decline would likely start a Lehman-type domino, there is no way that the Brian Sack-led team of traders will allow stocks to drop ever... Until such time nature reasserts itself, the market collapses without GETCO or the PPT being able to catch it, and the Fed is finally wiped out in one way or another.
The 35 companies in question:
UBS
Dexia SA
BNP Paribas
Barclays PLC
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Commerzbank AG
Danske Bank A/S
ING Groep NV
WestLB
Handelsbanken
Deutsche Post AG
Erste Group Bank AG
NordLB
Free State of Bavaria
KBC
HSH Nordbank AG
Unicredit
HSBC Holdings PLC
DZ Bank AG
Republic of Korea
Rabobank
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Banco Espirito Santo SA
Bank of Nova Scotia
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
Syngenta AG
Mitsui & Co Ltd
Bank of Montreal
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Corp
Aegon NV
Royal Bank of Canada
Sumitomo Corp
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defaul...
Fed Bank Documents Revealed --shame
amazing facts in this short. Thanks to Senator Sanders whose work made this disclosure possible.
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TheYoungTurks | December 01, 2010 | http://www.theyoungturks.com WASHINGTON — As financial markets shuddered and...
WASHINGTON — As financial markets shuddered and then nearly imploded in 2008, the Federal Reserve opened its vault to the world on a scope much wider and deeper than previously disclosed.
Citigroup, struggling to stay afloat, sought help from the Fed at least 174 times during one remarkable 13-month period. Barclays, the British bank, at one point owed nearly $48 billion to the Fed. Even better-off banks like Goldman Sachs took advantage of Fed loans offered at rock-bottom rates.
The Fed's efforts to stave off a financial crisis reached far beyond Wall Street, touching manufacturers like General Electric, the Detroit automakers and Harley-Davidson, central banks from Britain to Japan and insurers and pension funds in Sweden and South Korea.
Under orders from Congress, the Fed on Wednesday released details of more than 21,000 transactions under the array of emergency lending programs and other arrangements it conjured up in response to the crisis.
The disclosures, which the Fed had resisted, offer the most detailed portrait of a panicky period in which the Fed lent money to banks, brokers, businesses and investors to keep the financial system functioning.
The documents show that some of the biggest names in American business were either coming to the Fed in need of a bailout, or trying to make money at a time when the Fed was trying to entice investors back into the markets. Among the latter were prominent investors and entrepreneurs like John A. Paulson and Michael S. Dell, and the pension funds of the Philadelphia Teamsters and Omaha's teachers, who were betting they could profit if the rescue worked.
At its peak at the end of 2008, the Fed had about $1.5 trillion in outstanding credit on its books. The central bank, in essence, pumped liquidity, the lifeblood of credit markets, into the circulatory system of an economy that was experiencing a potentially fatal heart attack.
"I think our actions prevented an even more disastrous outcome," said Donald L. Kohn, who was the Fed's vice chairman during the crisis. Without the Fed's help, he said, "liquidity would have dried up even more than it did, asset prices would have fallen even more than they did, and economic activity and employment would have fallen further and faster then they did."
But Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, who wrote a provision in the law requiring the disclosures by Dec. 1, reached a different conclusion.
"After years of stonewalling by the Fed, the American people are finally learning the incredible and jaw-dropping details of the Fed's multitrillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and corporate America," he said. "Perhaps most surprising is the huge sum that went to bail out foreign private banks and corporations."
Mr. Sanders said the Fed should have forced banks to restrict executive pay and reduce the financial burdens on mortgage borrowers as a condition of its aid.
The Fed, already reeling from attacks from both the right and the left over its latest effort to spur the economy, a plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury securities, braced itself for another moment in the spotlight.
In a statement accompanying the disclosure, the Fed said it had fully protected taxpayers. "The Federal Reserve followed sound risk-management practices in administering all of these programs, incurred no credit losses on programs that have been wound down, and expects to incur no credit losses on the few remaining programs," it said.
The 21,000 transactions span the period from December 2007 to last July.
Even as investors began poring over the disclosures, details emerged from the trove of new data.
From December 2007 to October 2008, the Fed opened swap lines with foreign central banks, allowing them to temporarily trade their currencies for dollars to relieve pressures in their financial markets.
The European Central Bank drew the most heavily on these currency arrangements, the records show, but nine other central banks also made use of them: Australia, Denmark, England, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and Switzerland.
At home, from March 2008 to May 2009, the Fed extended a cumulative total of nearly $9 trillion in short-term loans to 18 financial institutions under a credit program.
Previously, the Fed had only revealed that four financial firms had tapped the special lending program, and did not reveal their identities or the loan amounts.
The data appeared to confirm that Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley were under severe strain after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. All three tapped the program on more than 100 occasions.
The American subsidiaries of several foreign banks also benefited substantially from the program. Those institutions included UBS of Switzerland; Mizuho Securities of Japan; and BNP Paribas of France.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/bus...
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TheYoungTurks | December 01, 2010 | http://www.theyoungturks.com WASHINGTON — As financial markets shuddered and...
WASHINGTON — As financial markets shuddered and then nearly imploded in 2008, the Federal Reserve opened its vault to the world on a scope much wider and deeper than previously disclosed.
Citigroup, struggling to stay afloat, sought help from the Fed at least 174 times during one remarkable 13-month period. Barclays, the British bank, at one point owed nearly $48 billion to the Fed. Even better-off banks like Goldman Sachs took advantage of Fed loans offered at rock-bottom rates.
The Fed's efforts to stave off a financial crisis reached far beyond Wall Street, touching manufacturers like General Electric, the Detroit automakers and Harley-Davidson, central banks from Britain to Japan and insurers and pension funds in Sweden and South Korea.
Under orders from Congress, the Fed on Wednesday released details of more than 21,000 transactions under the array of emergency lending programs and other arrangements it conjured up in response to the crisis.
The disclosures, which the Fed had resisted, offer the most detailed portrait of a panicky period in which the Fed lent money to banks, brokers, businesses and investors to keep the financial system functioning.
The documents show that some of the biggest names in American business were either coming to the Fed in need of a bailout, or trying to make money at a time when the Fed was trying to entice investors back into the markets. Among the latter were prominent investors and entrepreneurs like John A. Paulson and Michael S. Dell, and the pension funds of the Philadelphia Teamsters and Omaha's teachers, who were betting they could profit if the rescue worked.
At its peak at the end of 2008, the Fed had about $1.5 trillion in outstanding credit on its books. The central bank, in essence, pumped liquidity, the lifeblood of credit markets, into the circulatory system of an economy that was experiencing a potentially fatal heart attack.
"I think our actions prevented an even more disastrous outcome," said Donald L. Kohn, who was the Fed's vice chairman during the crisis. Without the Fed's help, he said, "liquidity would have dried up even more than it did, asset prices would have fallen even more than they did, and economic activity and employment would have fallen further and faster then they did."
But Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, who wrote a provision in the law requiring the disclosures by Dec. 1, reached a different conclusion.
"After years of stonewalling by the Fed, the American people are finally learning the incredible and jaw-dropping details of the Fed's multitrillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and corporate America," he said. "Perhaps most surprising is the huge sum that went to bail out foreign private banks and corporations."
Mr. Sanders said the Fed should have forced banks to restrict executive pay and reduce the financial burdens on mortgage borrowers as a condition of its aid.
The Fed, already reeling from attacks from both the right and the left over its latest effort to spur the economy, a plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury securities, braced itself for another moment in the spotlight.
In a statement accompanying the disclosure, the Fed said it had fully protected taxpayers. "The Federal Reserve followed sound risk-management practices in administering all of these programs, incurred no credit losses on programs that have been wound down, and expects to incur no credit losses on the few remaining programs," it said.
The 21,000 transactions span the period from December 2007 to last July.
Even as investors began poring over the disclosures, details emerged from the trove of new data.
From December 2007 to October 2008, the Fed opened swap lines with foreign central banks, allowing them to temporarily trade their currencies for dollars to relieve pressures in their financial markets.
The European Central Bank drew the most heavily on these currency arrangements, the records show, but nine other central banks also made use of them: Australia, Denmark, England, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and Switzerland.
At home, from March 2008 to May 2009, the Fed extended a cumulative total of nearly $9 trillion in short-term loans to 18 financial institutions under a credit program.
Previously, the Fed had only revealed that four financial firms had tapped the special lending program, and did not reveal their identities or the loan amounts.
The data appeared to confirm that Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley were under severe strain after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. All three tapped the program on more than 100 occasions.
The American subsidiaries of several foreign banks also benefited substantially from the program. Those institutions included UBS of Switzerland; Mizuho Securities of Japan; and BNP Paribas of France.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/bus...
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Chairman Skelton's Farewell Address -bye Ike
another dem hits the dust
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On October 8, 2009, Skelton, after addressing fellow Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a Republican, on the House floor, said to Akin, "stick it up your ass." The comment was picked up by the microphone and could be heard on the C-SPAN broadcast. Skelton's spokeswoman, Jennifer Kohl, said the comment was not intended to be broadcast and was "said out of frustration in the heat of debate." Akin's spokesman, Steve Taylor, said the remark was "shocking and not characteristic of Skelton's behavior."
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Fiscal issues
Skelton voted against the 2001 Bush Tax cuts. In 1981, he voted against Reagan's tax cuts. He is supportive of labor. The League of Conservation Voters recently rated Skelton at 53 percent on environmental issues. He was one of the few Congressional Democrats to vote in favor of CAFTA and mostly supports free trade deals. He is a supporter of TRiO programs.
[edit] Social issues
Skelton is fairly conservative on social issues. He opposes abortion and gun control, and helped craft the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Skelton
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On October 8, 2009, Skelton, after addressing fellow Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a Republican, on the House floor, said to Akin, "stick it up your ass." The comment was picked up by the microphone and could be heard on the C-SPAN broadcast. Skelton's spokeswoman, Jennifer Kohl, said the comment was not intended to be broadcast and was "said out of frustration in the heat of debate." Akin's spokesman, Steve Taylor, said the remark was "shocking and not characteristic of Skelton's behavior."
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Fiscal issues
Skelton voted against the 2001 Bush Tax cuts. In 1981, he voted against Reagan's tax cuts. He is supportive of labor. The League of Conservation Voters recently rated Skelton at 53 percent on environmental issues. He was one of the few Congressional Democrats to vote in favor of CAFTA and mostly supports free trade deals. He is a supporter of TRiO programs.
[edit] Social issues
Skelton is fairly conservative on social issues. He opposes abortion and gun control, and helped craft the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Skelton
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Jan Schakowsky--remarks today--cat food commision
go Jan, go. Other dems, where are u?
c-span today---
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go go Janice Schakowsky
I suggest all catch her remarks today about catfood committee. true democrat
AmericasFuture | November 30, 2010 | http://ourfuture.org interviews Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., on the last-minute internal jockeying in advance of the White House deficit commission's release of its budget recommendations on December 1. Schakowsky is a leading liberal member of the commission and has issued her own deficit reduction plan. Many of its elements are included in the report of Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future, online at ourfuture.org/citizenscommission.
AmericasFuture | November 30, 2010 | http://ourfuture.org interviews Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., on the last-minute internal jockeying in advance of the White House deficit commission's release of its budget recommendations on December 1. Schakowsky is a leading liberal member of the commission and has issued her own deficit reduction plan. Many of its elements are included in the report of Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future, online at ourfuture.org/citizenscommission.
The Debt Crisis Is a Scam - WNYC
The Debt Crisis Is a Scam - WNYC
click link
snip:
Brace yourself: the phony debate about the government’s deficit and debt “crisis” will kick into overdrive this week as we hit the December 1 deadline for the federal deficit commission's final recommendations. We’re being told it’s time to tighten our belts because the government is spending too much money. But the debate is an illusion and false: there is no government deficit or debt “crisis.”
We have plenty of money, or access to money, and any money issues we have are all quite manageable. This is still the richest nation in the history of the planet. One day, the debt/deficit “crisis” will assume its ranks among fairy tales such as Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and trickle-down economics.
The question before us is simple: what are our priorities as a country, how should we spend our great wealth and who should pay to advance those priorities?
In my new book, It’s Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis, I look at the foolish statements made about the phony “crisis." In 1946, for example, the country’s debt-to-gross domestic product ratio—meaning, how much we owed compared to how much we produced—was 108.6 percent. In other words, the adults living right after World War II were handed the greatest debt the country had ever had, but that generation experienced the greatest prosperity in the country’s history—and maybe even in the history of humans. Today, the debt-to-GDP ratio isn’t even close to that.
click link
snip:
Brace yourself: the phony debate about the government’s deficit and debt “crisis” will kick into overdrive this week as we hit the December 1 deadline for the federal deficit commission's final recommendations. We’re being told it’s time to tighten our belts because the government is spending too much money. But the debate is an illusion and false: there is no government deficit or debt “crisis.”
We have plenty of money, or access to money, and any money issues we have are all quite manageable. This is still the richest nation in the history of the planet. One day, the debt/deficit “crisis” will assume its ranks among fairy tales such as Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and trickle-down economics.
The question before us is simple: what are our priorities as a country, how should we spend our great wealth and who should pay to advance those priorities?
In my new book, It’s Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis, I look at the foolish statements made about the phony “crisis." In 1946, for example, the country’s debt-to-gross domestic product ratio—meaning, how much we owed compared to how much we produced—was 108.6 percent. In other words, the adults living right after World War II were handed the greatest debt the country had ever had, but that generation experienced the greatest prosperity in the country’s history—and maybe even in the history of humans. Today, the debt-to-GDP ratio isn’t even close to that.
jobless
from Afl-cio
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From the AFL-CIO’s James Parks, Nov 22, 2010 “Dec. 7: Show Your Solidarity with Long-Term Jobless Workers on Facebook, Twitter”
But here is the meat of the militant actions the AFL-CIO leadership are proposing that you “Mark your calendar for a Dec. 7 day of online solidarity with America’s long-term jobless workers.”
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Call Congress on November 30th --2010
Call Congress on November 30th to Protect Social Security!
The Social Security Works & Strengthen Social Security (SSS) Campaign wants your help in flooding Capitol Hill with thousands of phone calls to protect Social Security on Tuesday, November 30, a national call-in day. The goal of each call will be to urge elected officials to oppose both benefit cuts to Social Security and the raising of the retirement age. As time nears for the full Fiscal Commission to release their official proposal, it will also be important to urge elected officials to oppose the Commission’s proposals to cut Social Security.
The SSS Campaign is providing an email message, call-in script, and the following phone number for November 30: 1- 866-529-7630. Watch for these materials to come by e-mail from the Alliance next week. Tell Congress “NO!” to Social Security benefit cuts, and to keep their hands off Social Security!
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The Social Security Works & Strengthen Social Security (SSS) Campaign wants your help in flooding Capitol Hill with thousands of phone calls to protect Social Security on Tuesday, November 30, a national call-in day. The goal of each call will be to urge elected officials to oppose both benefit cuts to Social Security and the raising of the retirement age. As time nears for the full Fiscal Commission to release their official proposal, it will also be important to urge elected officials to oppose the Commission’s proposals to cut Social Security.
The SSS Campaign is providing an email message, call-in script, and the following phone number for November 30: 1- 866-529-7630. Watch for these materials to come by e-mail from the Alliance next week. Tell Congress “NO!” to Social Security benefit cuts, and to keep their hands off Social Security!
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
crack dealers--business ethics
TEDtalksDirector | January 16, 2007 |http://www.ted.com Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isnt lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you.
some of the dealers could be wall street big shots---same ethics. certainly same ethics apply with canco insurance folks
beware some bad language.
some of the dealers could be wall street big shots---same ethics. certainly same ethics apply with canco insurance folks
beware some bad language.
Crash Course on Hyman Minsky--mini economic lecture
INETeconomics | June 08, 2010
L. Randall Wray, professor at UMKC, talks about Hyman Minsky, an American economist who, even in the relative stability of the 1950s, predicted financial collapse because of "speculative euphoria." Interviewed by Peter Leyden at King's College, April 2010.
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L. Randall Wray, professor at UMKC, talks about Hyman Minsky, an American economist who, even in the relative stability of the 1950s, predicted financial collapse because of "speculative euphoria." Interviewed by Peter Leyden at King's College, April 2010.
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message-to-tea-party-what-took-you-so
good list from another blog : click link
http://alterx.blogspot.com/2010/11/message-to-tea-party-what-took-you-so.html
from blog entry:
Message to the Tea Party - What took you so long to get angry?
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq .
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq .
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.
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http://alterx.blogspot.com/2010/11/message-to-tea-party-what-took-you-so.html
from blog entry:
Message to the Tea Party - What took you so long to get angry?
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq .
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq .
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.
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everything on the table? I'd fire that speechwriter
McCaskill says: "A Lot of My Colleagues Don't Get It"
I say: Neither do you. If dems put Social Security and Medicare on the table---goodbye democrats in upcoming 2012 election and hi to next Gop senator and governor of Missouri.
I say: Neither do you. If dems put Social Security and Medicare on the table---goodbye democrats in upcoming 2012 election and hi to next Gop senator and governor of Missouri.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
speculation? will Obama use powers of presidency
good question asked by Keith on Countdown last evening. Obama has powers under exectutive orders.
Will he be the first president to "cave" and not use executive order ability in last 100 years is a question his supporters are asking? Will he cave on the issue of letting tax cut for rich sunset?
If either of this is true, one termer lad is real possiblilty
Will he be the first president to "cave" and not use executive order ability in last 100 years is a question his supporters are asking? Will he cave on the issue of letting tax cut for rich sunset?
If either of this is true, one termer lad is real possiblilty
Monday, November 15, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Lead for 2012 DNC Convention
Sources: St. Louis and Charlotte In the Lead for 2012 DNC Convention
FOX2's Charles Jaco reports that St. Louis and Charlotte, NC have risen to the top of the four finalist cities for the 2012 DNC Convention.
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FOX2's Charles Jaco reports that St. Louis and Charlotte, NC have risen to the top of the four finalist cities for the 2012 DNC Convention.
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
A few thoughts on election 2010
Howdy folks.
Looking at some of the exit polls and other data, there seems to be some lessons to be learned from the disaster of the democrats.
First: Low to no turn-out in the ranks. About 50% of the registered voters turned out to vote and we know what party and ideas they represented. Worse than normal democratic support among union families and older americans; worse among women voters. I am awaiting more detailed "exit poll data" before going further.
Second: Money. Dems won in areas they turned on the money tap for the most part. Pubs had endless money supply and attacked everywhere at once. By the way, $4 billion spent is the current estimate. Perhaps we should have an election every year, seems good for the economy as a stimulus.
Third: lack of enthusiasm, messaging and more: Most voters did not understand or know of the democrats improvements and most voters viewed achievements as very poor or destructive. PR is not the strong suit of the losers this election.
Four: Most of the survivors of the dems are going "right" on issues to try to protect their seats. Alas, that is most likely to be a losing tactic in the upcoming elections. Dissing the base is not a wise political move for dissing the base is why dems lost many an election.
Five: looks as if some of the democrats sabotaged their own (historically repeating theme with blue dogs and party). Many dems bailed rather than fact tough election. We can go on and on, but many view the democrats as craven cowards, turncoats and worse. No wonder teabaggers kicked behinds.
Six: Many dems ran a poor, poor campaign. In some places, results were very tight and if the bases would have turned out; dems would have won. Going right among the survivers is not a winner for it will alienate base in next election.
Seven: dems did not field canidates in a variety of elections. Hell, they did not even run a canidate for US Senate in one state. Looks to me (and many others) dems took a position of a cutting and running campaign; something not a winner.
Eight: Dems did not oppose teabaggers early on, letting them frame the issues. In Missouri, there was no opposition for instance of Prop C (rejection of Obamacare). The teabag victory helped Mr. Blunt get elected to the senate riding on a wave of right-wing enthusiasm. We could go on and on.
Nixon, Claire, Obama and dems in general; time to get off duffs and get working for the people unless you are thinking of unemployment next election. You were elected to lead, not run like craven dogs in the face of special interests. The major lesson of this 2010 disaster is that you are failing to lead and that the GOP was not given a mandate on the issues. If you cave to right wing tax breaks and more, you are giving up your day jobs in 2012. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect not.
Looking at some of the exit polls and other data, there seems to be some lessons to be learned from the disaster of the democrats.
First: Low to no turn-out in the ranks. About 50% of the registered voters turned out to vote and we know what party and ideas they represented. Worse than normal democratic support among union families and older americans; worse among women voters. I am awaiting more detailed "exit poll data" before going further.
Second: Money. Dems won in areas they turned on the money tap for the most part. Pubs had endless money supply and attacked everywhere at once. By the way, $4 billion spent is the current estimate. Perhaps we should have an election every year, seems good for the economy as a stimulus.
Third: lack of enthusiasm, messaging and more: Most voters did not understand or know of the democrats improvements and most voters viewed achievements as very poor or destructive. PR is not the strong suit of the losers this election.
Four: Most of the survivors of the dems are going "right" on issues to try to protect their seats. Alas, that is most likely to be a losing tactic in the upcoming elections. Dissing the base is not a wise political move for dissing the base is why dems lost many an election.
Five: looks as if some of the democrats sabotaged their own (historically repeating theme with blue dogs and party). Many dems bailed rather than fact tough election. We can go on and on, but many view the democrats as craven cowards, turncoats and worse. No wonder teabaggers kicked behinds.
Six: Many dems ran a poor, poor campaign. In some places, results were very tight and if the bases would have turned out; dems would have won. Going right among the survivers is not a winner for it will alienate base in next election.
Seven: dems did not field canidates in a variety of elections. Hell, they did not even run a canidate for US Senate in one state. Looks to me (and many others) dems took a position of a cutting and running campaign; something not a winner.
Eight: Dems did not oppose teabaggers early on, letting them frame the issues. In Missouri, there was no opposition for instance of Prop C (rejection of Obamacare). The teabag victory helped Mr. Blunt get elected to the senate riding on a wave of right-wing enthusiasm. We could go on and on.
Nixon, Claire, Obama and dems in general; time to get off duffs and get working for the people unless you are thinking of unemployment next election. You were elected to lead, not run like craven dogs in the face of special interests. The major lesson of this 2010 disaster is that you are failing to lead and that the GOP was not given a mandate on the issues. If you cave to right wing tax breaks and more, you are giving up your day jobs in 2012. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect not.
Friday, October 29, 2010
China extends embargo of crucial minerals to U.S., Europe
China extends embargo of crucial minerals to U.S., Europe
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Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:00 am
HONG KONG • China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly halted shipments of some of those same materials to the United States and Europe, three industry officials said Tuesday.
The Chinese action, involving rare earth minerals that are crucial to manufacturing many advanced products, seems certain to further ratchet up already rising trade and currency tensions with the West. Until recently, China typically sought quick and quiet accommodations on trade issues. But the interruption in rare earth supplies is the latest sign from Beijing that Chinese officials are willing to use their growing economic muscle.
"The embargo is expanding" beyond Japan, said one of the three rare earth industry officials, all of whom insisted on anonymity. They said Chinese customs officials imposed the broader shipment restrictions Monday morning, hours after a top Chinese official summoned international news media Sunday night to denounce U.S. trade actions.
China mines 95 percent of the world's rare earth elements, which have broad commercial and military applications. Any curtailment of Chinese supplies of rare earths is likely to be greeted with alarm in Western capitals, particularly because Western companies are believed to keep much smaller stockpiles of rare earths than Japanese companies do.
China's commerce ministry has repeatedly denied that it has imposed an embargo on shipments to Japan, even though Japanese ministers and industry executives say the shipments to their country have been blocked by Chinese customs officials since Sept. 21.
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note: update. China has changed policy on exports of raw materials. Will update later with details.
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Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:00 am
HONG KONG • China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly halted shipments of some of those same materials to the United States and Europe, three industry officials said Tuesday.
The Chinese action, involving rare earth minerals that are crucial to manufacturing many advanced products, seems certain to further ratchet up already rising trade and currency tensions with the West. Until recently, China typically sought quick and quiet accommodations on trade issues. But the interruption in rare earth supplies is the latest sign from Beijing that Chinese officials are willing to use their growing economic muscle.
"The embargo is expanding" beyond Japan, said one of the three rare earth industry officials, all of whom insisted on anonymity. They said Chinese customs officials imposed the broader shipment restrictions Monday morning, hours after a top Chinese official summoned international news media Sunday night to denounce U.S. trade actions.
China mines 95 percent of the world's rare earth elements, which have broad commercial and military applications. Any curtailment of Chinese supplies of rare earths is likely to be greeted with alarm in Western capitals, particularly because Western companies are believed to keep much smaller stockpiles of rare earths than Japanese companies do.
China's commerce ministry has repeatedly denied that it has imposed an embargo on shipments to Japan, even though Japanese ministers and industry executives say the shipments to their country have been blocked by Chinese customs officials since Sept. 21.
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note: update. China has changed policy on exports of raw materials. Will update later with details.
Poor economy hurts steel industry
Poor economy hurts steel industry
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Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:00 am
The steel industry's outlook has dimmed with the unevenness of the global economy. Sales have dropped with prices while costs have risen, leaving companies pessimistic about the rest of the year.
Two of the world's biggest steel manufacturers turned in third-quarter performances Tuesday that demonstrated how much expectations have changed since mid-year as many countries and regions fail to generate significant growth.
ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel maker by output, and U.S. Steel Corp., the biggest U.S. steel company, said the lack of recovery in the construction market, a huge customer, is a primary drag on results. Other key industries, such as autos and appliances, are faring better but still aren't using steel at pre-recession rates.
Argus Research analyst Bill Selesky said steel customers are worried about future growth, which has cut into their orders. "They don't see it picking up noticeably down the road," he said.
As a result, U.S. Steel, which in July predicted a profit for the third quarter, instead reported a $51 million loss. The company, which owns Granite City Works, blamed the decline largely on the choppy recovery in North America and Europe, a weak construction market and seasonal buying patterns.
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click link above for full story
Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:00 am
The steel industry's outlook has dimmed with the unevenness of the global economy. Sales have dropped with prices while costs have risen, leaving companies pessimistic about the rest of the year.
Two of the world's biggest steel manufacturers turned in third-quarter performances Tuesday that demonstrated how much expectations have changed since mid-year as many countries and regions fail to generate significant growth.
ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel maker by output, and U.S. Steel Corp., the biggest U.S. steel company, said the lack of recovery in the construction market, a huge customer, is a primary drag on results. Other key industries, such as autos and appliances, are faring better but still aren't using steel at pre-recession rates.
Argus Research analyst Bill Selesky said steel customers are worried about future growth, which has cut into their orders. "They don't see it picking up noticeably down the road," he said.
As a result, U.S. Steel, which in July predicted a profit for the third quarter, instead reported a $51 million loss. The company, which owns Granite City Works, blamed the decline largely on the choppy recovery in North America and Europe, a weak construction market and seasonal buying patterns.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Jaco reports on yesterday's meeting
if you did not get to yesterday's American manufacturing meeting, your loss. It ws good meeting. Kudos to Jeff Rains and lads.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Keep it Made in America" Town Hall Tour
some background info on today's meeting. October 27 | 5:00pm | Moolah Shrine Center | St. Louis, MO
This non-partisan event is free and open
to the public, but an RSVP is required. CALL 866-365-2203
Please specify the city of your event.
Email rsvp@aamfg.org
Website:
www.americanmanufacturing.org
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AmericanManufacturing
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As we begin our last week on the 2010 "Keep it Made in America" Town Hall Tour, we're stopping in St Louis, Missouri. Participants at the event include:
•Scott Paul, Executive Director, Alliance for American Manufacturing
•Rep. Russ Carnahan, (D-MO) 3rd congressional district
•Robyn Hamlin, 1st congressional district MO Republican candidate
•Arthur Lieber, 2nd congressional district MO Democrat candidate
•Don Robinson, SLCC
•Rev. Charles Burton, Attorney, St Louis School District and President, UCM (an affiliate of Gameliel)
•Dan SinCLair, Dave SinClair Automobiel
•Bob Farrar, President, Lunar Tool
•James Wiley, Attorney, Intellectual Property Rights
Like many states, Missouri has been hit hard from the recession and outsourcing of jobs. Here are a few statistics that outline the magnitude of job loss in the state:
•Between 2000 and 2008, Missouri lost 75,800 manufacturing jobs.
•Since the recession began in 2008, the state has lost over 13% of manufacturing jobs.
•Between 2001 and 2008, Missouri has lost 38,300 jobs due to trade with China alone, that's 1.38% of employment.
Be sure to RSVP for our St Louis event as well as our final events in Concord, NH and Wausau, WI.
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at our Soar meetings, the topic of American jobs comes up all the time
This non-partisan event is free and open
to the public, but an RSVP is required. CALL 866-365-2203
Please specify the city of your event.
Email rsvp@aamfg.org
Website:
www.americanmanufacturing.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
AmericanManufacturing
http://aamfg.org/
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As we begin our last week on the 2010 "Keep it Made in America" Town Hall Tour, we're stopping in St Louis, Missouri. Participants at the event include:
•Scott Paul, Executive Director, Alliance for American Manufacturing
•Rep. Russ Carnahan, (D-MO) 3rd congressional district
•Robyn Hamlin, 1st congressional district MO Republican candidate
•Arthur Lieber, 2nd congressional district MO Democrat candidate
•Don Robinson, SLCC
•Rev. Charles Burton, Attorney, St Louis School District and President, UCM (an affiliate of Gameliel)
•Dan SinCLair, Dave SinClair Automobiel
•Bob Farrar, President, Lunar Tool
•James Wiley, Attorney, Intellectual Property Rights
Like many states, Missouri has been hit hard from the recession and outsourcing of jobs. Here are a few statistics that outline the magnitude of job loss in the state:
•Between 2000 and 2008, Missouri lost 75,800 manufacturing jobs.
•Since the recession began in 2008, the state has lost over 13% of manufacturing jobs.
•Between 2001 and 2008, Missouri has lost 38,300 jobs due to trade with China alone, that's 1.38% of employment.
Be sure to RSVP for our St Louis event as well as our final events in Concord, NH and Wausau, WI.
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at our Soar meetings, the topic of American jobs comes up all the time
cnn political ads and fake steelworker
with all the unemployed steelworkers, one thinks they could have found a real one
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here is the pulled tv ad
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here is the pulled tv ad
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
America for sale--countdown--Leo Gerard
Mr Blunt cares not to answer donation questions. What could one expect from buddy of Casino Jack
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Mis-Informant-
http://www.stopspewman.com/
HealthCareForAmerica | October 11, 2010 --10-15, 2010 part 2
Call the Spewman Hotline: 206-438-3964 Jack Black & America Ferrera bring you The (Mis)Informant
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A project by Health Care for America Now
Starring: Jack Black, America Ferrera and Caitlin Carmichael
Project Founder: Gloria Bremer
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HealthCareForAmerica | October 11, 2010 --10-15, 2010 part 2
Call the Spewman Hotline: 206-438-3964 Jack Black & America Ferrera bring you The (Mis)Informant
http://www.twitter.com/NSpewman
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A project by Health Care for America Now
Starring: Jack Black, America Ferrera and Caitlin Carmichael
Project Founder: Gloria Bremer
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Blunt--Chamber of Commerce--foreign funds-
amazing story. Perhaps voters should ask questions, but that would a strech to ask the media.
Foreign companies can make a good deal--so many for sale and cheap
Foreign companies can make a good deal--so many for sale and cheap
Monday, October 4, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Ed Martin jeers at Russ Carnahan on health care
healthcare snips from 3rd congressional debate in Missouri
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
privatize everything
from yesterday's Rachel Maddows show talking about private VA
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
social security reminder for election
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note: Mr Blunt wishes privation and the "cat food committee" probably is going to recommend cuts
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
small business-death, taxes and the rich get richer
from today's Msnbc countdown.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
dead babies
I have known criminal scum who has more compassion for children. from today's countdown.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Whooping Cough
note: Missouri is dead last among the states in rates of childhood vaccinations. remind kids to have little ones get shots.
in fact, things have gotten worse since this report. time for feds to act.
Waiting for the "Jefferson city hillbillies" to act could mean cart-loads of dead babies.
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in fact, things have gotten worse since this report. time for feds to act.
Waiting for the "Jefferson city hillbillies" to act could mean cart-loads of dead babies.
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Roy Blunt "Not Opposed to" Putting Your Social Security into "Private Accounts
audio not the best, but you get it. Robin by the way opposes cuts to social security and is against privatization
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Medicare?
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Medicare?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Strengthen Social Security... Don't Cut It
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remember find out where your fearless leaders stand on the issues. many a teabagger favors "phase-out" of social security
Thursday, September 9, 2010
nukes and cat food--.Simpson not the only catfood commission problem member
intresting link between cat food commission and Usw lockout at Metropolis, Il.
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Simpson not the only catfood commission problem member
1by Joan McCarter
Fri Sep 03, 2010 at 06:16:04 PM PDT
You might remember Honeywell CEO David Cote from this story about his role on the catfood commission.
A source familiar with the proceedings of the working group on discretionary spending tells TPM that some commissioners, including one military contractor, would prefer to save money by freezing military pay and scaling back benefits, rather than by eliminating waste in defense contracting.
The source said that different members of the commission come down on different sides of the issue. The discussion group is led by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), whose primary aim is trimming fat on the contractor side, but, according to the source, David Cote, the Honeywell CEO who was appointed to the panel by President Obama, is pushing to find savings elsewhere.
That raised a few eyebrows, but that's not the only problem with Cote's presence on the committee. Not by a long shot.
A second member of the deficit commission is coming under fire from an ally of President Obama, as the Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees is pressing him to remove Honeywell CEO David Cote from the panel, charging that his ongoing lockout of workers makes him unfit to sit on the commission....
The specific offense that has the steelworkers calling for his dismissal is related to a lockout at the company's Metropolis, Illinois workers. Cote is attempting to cut the union's health benefits, but employees there argue that their exposure to carcinogens and toxic substances means that such insurance is necessary. Given the dangerous nature of the factory's work, the employees offered to continue working through the negotiations under the old contract, but Cote locked them out, replacing them with poorly trained temporary workers....
"A profitable company's demands that workers and retirees relinquish health benefits and its locking out workers who offered to continue demonstrate that its CEO, David Cote, is out of touch with mainstream America and has absolutely no compassion for his fellow man," they wrote. "Anyone who would force their workers onto the streets in these times of economic uncertainty cannot competently or justly serve on a Commission charged with issuing recommendations that may impact our nation's citizens for decades."
The lockout of those workers doesn't just make him unfit for the deficit commission, but has also led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop the facility's uranium enrichment production.
Currently, the workers running the plant are unfamiliar with the system they are using and unfamiliar with the processes. This is a uranium enrichment facility from which even the slightest leak of UF6 could wipe out the entire town.
For this reason, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not allowed the plant to resume production of UF6 according to local community and union sources. Local community and union officials claim that Honeywell is currently using all the political connections it can to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to re-open it.
Honeywell originally said they would start up production of the deadly UF6 on Wednesday, however, Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors would not allow it. The Nuclear Regulatory Inspectors informed local community and union officials that they would not allow it because on Aug. 25 a round of urine tests on workers showed an unusually high amount of uranium in workers' urine. The workers were not permitted to return to working with the uranium. Neither the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Honeywell could be reached for comment to confirm the claims of local community members and union officials.
So it's no surprise that this guy who is willing to risk wiping out the town of Metropolis, Illinois and who is perfectly wiling to ruin the lives and livelihoods of his own employees also wants to also cut benefits and pay for military service members and veterans. But what is a surprise is that he's a member of the catfood commission in the first place, and remains there.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/3/898574/-Simpson-not-the-only-catfood-commission-problem-member
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Simpson not the only catfood commission problem member
1by Joan McCarter
Fri Sep 03, 2010 at 06:16:04 PM PDT
You might remember Honeywell CEO David Cote from this story about his role on the catfood commission.
A source familiar with the proceedings of the working group on discretionary spending tells TPM that some commissioners, including one military contractor, would prefer to save money by freezing military pay and scaling back benefits, rather than by eliminating waste in defense contracting.
The source said that different members of the commission come down on different sides of the issue. The discussion group is led by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), whose primary aim is trimming fat on the contractor side, but, according to the source, David Cote, the Honeywell CEO who was appointed to the panel by President Obama, is pushing to find savings elsewhere.
That raised a few eyebrows, but that's not the only problem with Cote's presence on the committee. Not by a long shot.
A second member of the deficit commission is coming under fire from an ally of President Obama, as the Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees is pressing him to remove Honeywell CEO David Cote from the panel, charging that his ongoing lockout of workers makes him unfit to sit on the commission....
The specific offense that has the steelworkers calling for his dismissal is related to a lockout at the company's Metropolis, Illinois workers. Cote is attempting to cut the union's health benefits, but employees there argue that their exposure to carcinogens and toxic substances means that such insurance is necessary. Given the dangerous nature of the factory's work, the employees offered to continue working through the negotiations under the old contract, but Cote locked them out, replacing them with poorly trained temporary workers....
"A profitable company's demands that workers and retirees relinquish health benefits and its locking out workers who offered to continue demonstrate that its CEO, David Cote, is out of touch with mainstream America and has absolutely no compassion for his fellow man," they wrote. "Anyone who would force their workers onto the streets in these times of economic uncertainty cannot competently or justly serve on a Commission charged with issuing recommendations that may impact our nation's citizens for decades."
The lockout of those workers doesn't just make him unfit for the deficit commission, but has also led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop the facility's uranium enrichment production.
Currently, the workers running the plant are unfamiliar with the system they are using and unfamiliar with the processes. This is a uranium enrichment facility from which even the slightest leak of UF6 could wipe out the entire town.
For this reason, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not allowed the plant to resume production of UF6 according to local community and union sources. Local community and union officials claim that Honeywell is currently using all the political connections it can to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to re-open it.
Honeywell originally said they would start up production of the deadly UF6 on Wednesday, however, Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors would not allow it. The Nuclear Regulatory Inspectors informed local community and union officials that they would not allow it because on Aug. 25 a round of urine tests on workers showed an unusually high amount of uranium in workers' urine. The workers were not permitted to return to working with the uranium. Neither the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Honeywell could be reached for comment to confirm the claims of local community members and union officials.
So it's no surprise that this guy who is willing to risk wiping out the town of Metropolis, Illinois and who is perfectly wiling to ruin the lives and livelihoods of his own employees also wants to also cut benefits and pay for military service members and veterans. But what is a surprise is that he's a member of the catfood commission in the first place, and remains there.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/3/898574/-Simpson-not-the-only-catfood-commission-problem-member
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note--I attended demonstration some weeks ago against lock-out
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Roy Blunt and Social Security
Roy-boy has two positions on social security---phase out program and or privatazion
here are a couple comments:
“[The private Social Security accounts proposal] is a transition for younger workers. It might have been better if we had done it quicker, like a decade, decades ago, but we didn't.” [CNN, 11/10/04]
“Blunt favors personal accounts that would allow workers to invest up to 4 percent of their salary in a diversified, low-cost mutual fund of stocks and bonds.” [Springfield News-Leader, 3/30/05]
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since running for senate, Roy-boy is silent on the subject
remember, ten trillion dollers of wealth gone in last wall street bubble burst. How much do you believe would be gone if massive amounts of social security funds were in stocks?
here are a couple comments:
“[The private Social Security accounts proposal] is a transition for younger workers. It might have been better if we had done it quicker, like a decade, decades ago, but we didn't.” [CNN, 11/10/04]
“Blunt favors personal accounts that would allow workers to invest up to 4 percent of their salary in a diversified, low-cost mutual fund of stocks and bonds.” [Springfield News-Leader, 3/30/05]
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since running for senate, Roy-boy is silent on the subject
remember, ten trillion dollers of wealth gone in last wall street bubble burst. How much do you believe would be gone if massive amounts of social security funds were in stocks?
Friday, September 3, 2010
cat food king and women
Kudos to Mr Simpson, rare is a guy who insults disabled vets, seniors and women in such a short time frame. Where is the outrage in the media, or among dems, howabout unions or the public?
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suggest good investment---cat food stocks
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suggest good investment---cat food stocks
Thursday, September 2, 2010
more debt com babble --cat food king strikes at vets
vets might find folling of interest
from today's Dylan Ratigan Show
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even more cat food commision vids
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yes social security paracites, tea baggers are coming. ask Roy B, next senator from Missouri. Start stock piling your 'senior vittles' now. sale on at walmartco.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
fox news--social security blather
'fair and balanced'? how about bullshit and blather
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got some sad news for fools, not only will we keep social security intact, it will expand and improve. flash to dems--get off assesor you deserve to lose election.
also Mr One termer: should you allow bullshit changes to social security, you are out and so might be the dems for a long time. I would worry about the base on this issue.
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got some sad news for fools, not only will we keep social security intact, it will expand and improve. flash to dems--get off assesor you deserve to lose election.
also Mr One termer: should you allow bullshit changes to social security, you are out and so might be the dems for a long time. I would worry about the base on this issue.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
more countdown--debt and social security
watch vid and see if you agree
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Demonstration August 27th--marking St. Louis history
Event
» 47th Jefferson Bank & Trust Commemoration March & Rally
Date
Aug 27, 2010 - 04:00 pm
Friday, August 27, 2009, 4 p. m. to 6 p. m.
2301 Market Street (One block east of Jefferson Ave.)
Its purpose is to commemorate the struggle to get employment from a bank that was
earlier considered to be a black bank when located in the black community.
When the bank rebuilt in a white business area (Jefferson & Washington), the bank got
rid of all of its Black employees, thereby causing great concern from the Black
community.
Nineteen (19) Black and White St. Louisians were arrested and spent time in jail in
1963. Norman Seay was one of those arrested and jailed fighting for those jobs.
» 47th Jefferson Bank & Trust Commemoration March & Rally
Date
Aug 27, 2010 - 04:00 pm
Friday, August 27, 2009, 4 p. m. to 6 p. m.
2301 Market Street (One block east of Jefferson Ave.)
Its purpose is to commemorate the struggle to get employment from a bank that was
earlier considered to be a black bank when located in the black community.
When the bank rebuilt in a white business area (Jefferson & Washington), the bank got
rid of all of its Black employees, thereby causing great concern from the Black
community.
Nineteen (19) Black and White St. Louisians were arrested and spent time in jail in
1963. Norman Seay was one of those arrested and jailed fighting for those jobs.
Monday, August 23, 2010
msnbc countdown--tax cuts and social security
this is from today's countdown.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
William Greider on the Looting of Social Security --over looked warning
might want to take notes
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Monday, August 16, 2010
roy b on social security
Some might wish to know how Roy Blunt has voted on Social Security.
This is Ara ratings and more.
Representative Roy Blunt (MO)
Current Office: U.S. House
Current District: 7
Office Seeking: U.S. Senate
First Elected: 11/05/1996
Last Elected: 11/04/2008
Next Election: 2010
Party: Republican
Biographical
Voting Record
Issue Positions
(Political Courage Test)
Interest Group Ratings
Position Papers
Speeches and Public Statements
Endorsements
Additional Biographical Information
Campaign Finances
Senior and Social Security Issues
2009 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 11 percent in 2009.
2009 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans - Lifetime 1 percent during their legislative career up until 2009.
2008 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2008.
2008 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans - Lifetime 0 percent during their legislative career up until 2008.
2007-2008 In 2007-2008 The American Geriatrics Society gave Representative Blunt a grade of F.
2007 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2007.
2006 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2006.
2005-2006 Representative Blunt supported the interests of National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 33 percent in 2005-2006.
2005 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2005.
2004 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2004.
2003-2004 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 2003-2004.
2003-2004 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Retire Safe 86 percent in 2003-2004.
2003 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2003.
2003 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging 50 percent in 2003.
2002 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2002.
2002 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 2002.
2001-2002 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare 31 percent in 2001-2002.
2001 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2001.
2000 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Council of Senior Citizens 0 percent in 2000.
1999-2000 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 1999-2000.
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Voted YES on reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits.
Vote to pass a bill that would reduce the percentage of Social Security benefits that is taxable from 85 to 50 percent for single taxpayers with incomes over $25,000 and married couples with incomes over $32,000. The revenues that would be lost for the Medicare trust fund would be replaced by money from the general fund.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Archer, R-TX; Bill HR 4865 ; vote number 2000-450 on Jul 27, 2000
Voted NO on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox.
Amending the Social Security Lockbox bill to require that any budget surplus cannot be spent until the solvency of Social Security and Medicare is guaranteed.
Reference: Motion to Recommit introduced by Rangel, D-NY; Bill HR 1259 ; vote number 1999-163 on May 26, 1999
---Roy was also a privatizer for Bush.
This is Ara ratings and more.
Representative Roy Blunt (MO)
Current Office: U.S. House
Current District: 7
Office Seeking: U.S. Senate
First Elected: 11/05/1996
Last Elected: 11/04/2008
Next Election: 2010
Party: Republican
Biographical
Voting Record
Issue Positions
(Political Courage Test)
Interest Group Ratings
Position Papers
Speeches and Public Statements
Endorsements
Additional Biographical Information
Campaign Finances
Senior and Social Security Issues
2009 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 11 percent in 2009.
2009 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans - Lifetime 1 percent during their legislative career up until 2009.
2008 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2008.
2008 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans - Lifetime 0 percent during their legislative career up until 2008.
2007-2008 In 2007-2008 The American Geriatrics Society gave Representative Blunt a grade of F.
2007 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2007.
2006 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2006.
2005-2006 Representative Blunt supported the interests of National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 33 percent in 2005-2006.
2005 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2005.
2004 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2004.
2003-2004 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 2003-2004.
2003-2004 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Retire Safe 86 percent in 2003-2004.
2003 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2003.
2003 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging 50 percent in 2003.
2002 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2002.
2002 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 2002.
2001-2002 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare 31 percent in 2001-2002.
2001 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 0 percent in 2001.
2000 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Council of Senior Citizens 0 percent in 2000.
1999-2000 Representative Blunt supported the interests of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association 0 percent in 1999-2000.
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Voted YES on reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits.
Vote to pass a bill that would reduce the percentage of Social Security benefits that is taxable from 85 to 50 percent for single taxpayers with incomes over $25,000 and married couples with incomes over $32,000. The revenues that would be lost for the Medicare trust fund would be replaced by money from the general fund.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Archer, R-TX; Bill HR 4865 ; vote number 2000-450 on Jul 27, 2000
Voted NO on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox.
Amending the Social Security Lockbox bill to require that any budget surplus cannot be spent until the solvency of Social Security and Medicare is guaranteed.
Reference: Motion to Recommit introduced by Rangel, D-NY; Bill HR 1259 ; vote number 1999-163 on May 26, 1999
---Roy was also a privatizer for Bush.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Prop C Victory Night--vid
These folks are celebrating the victory of prop C in Missouri. Thanks social organizatons, labor and Democratic party for your pre-election silence, for your inaction allowed the Gop a major political victory.
WELCOME SENATOR BLUNT.
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WELCOME SENATOR BLUNT.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
the roots of social security frances perkins
Frances Perkins was secretary of labor for the 12 years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post. She brought to her office a deep commitment to improving the lives of workers and creating a legitimate role for labor unions in American society, succeeding admirably on both counts. Always a consummate politician, Perkins profoundly influenced the political agenda of her day, moving it closer to the values she embraced: economic justice and security for all Americans.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/perkins.cfm
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/perkins.cfm
Thursday, August 5, 2010
The Missouri Gop and Prop C
Kudos to the Missouri Gop. Tuesday you did well getting your folks to the polls. You also nominated your folks (not teabagger canidates). You also got to besmirch the Obama health-care law.
Clue to the dems: never give opponents an easy victory, for it will cost you dearly.
Gop got tens of millions of dollars free advertising yesterday and today as talking heads of media go over "the will of the people".
What they do not mention is that there was no real organized opposition to Prop C. Not labor, not social organization and not democratic party. Yes, there some minor last minute "inform the voter" efforts, but very lame and small.
I walk about Southcity almost every day. I only noted one vote no to prop C sign---mine. Support Prop C, scores of signs. Same riding thru St. Louis county and other Missouri locations, seas of "vote prop C signs".
I am somewhat displeased to "defend" Obamacare being a supporter of single payer healthcare, but healthcare law is an improvement (flawed improvement at best}
Yes, we on the left handed a victory to Gop once again.
Clue to the dems: if you do not get off lethargic butts; welcome senator Blunt.
You win politics by getting folks to the polls, informing the voters and the standard stuff. Never under-estimate your opponents and never "assume" you are going to win.
Clue to the dems: never give opponents an easy victory, for it will cost you dearly.
Gop got tens of millions of dollars free advertising yesterday and today as talking heads of media go over "the will of the people".
What they do not mention is that there was no real organized opposition to Prop C. Not labor, not social organization and not democratic party. Yes, there some minor last minute "inform the voter" efforts, but very lame and small.
I walk about Southcity almost every day. I only noted one vote no to prop C sign---mine. Support Prop C, scores of signs. Same riding thru St. Louis county and other Missouri locations, seas of "vote prop C signs".
I am somewhat displeased to "defend" Obamacare being a supporter of single payer healthcare, but healthcare law is an improvement (flawed improvement at best}
Yes, we on the left handed a victory to Gop once again.
Clue to the dems: if you do not get off lethargic butts; welcome senator Blunt.
You win politics by getting folks to the polls, informing the voters and the standard stuff. Never under-estimate your opponents and never "assume" you are going to win.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Andy Griffith reflects on the 45 years of the Medicare program
CMSHHSgov | July 29, 2010
Andy Griffith reflects on the 45 years of the Medicare program and explains the new benefits under the Affordable Care Act.
demonstrations all over the nation celebrating birthday of Medicare. Alas we did have one in St Louis.
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Andy Griffith reflects on the 45 years of the Medicare program and explains the new benefits under the Affordable Care Act.
demonstrations all over the nation celebrating birthday of Medicare. Alas we did have one in St Louis.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
more social security cutters
Time To Cut Social Security & Medicare - Tucker Carlson. theme of this short
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Can Obamanomics solve the crisis--increase,not cut, social security
some economists argue increasing social should be done such as James K. Galbraith
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part two
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Mother Jones 'Letter to the Governor'
Mother Jones was a superactive union organizer. I would invite her to join Soar were she alive. many unions owe this woman
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Therese Diekhans, from her award winning one woman show 'The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Machine Guns, Coal Dust, Mother Jones and the Making of the American Dream. Recorded live in Seattle 2010.
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Therese Diekhans, from her award winning one woman show 'The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Machine Guns, Coal Dust, Mother Jones and the Making of the American Dream. Recorded live in Seattle 2010.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Salt of the Earth - Herbert Biberman (1954)
Movie made by people that had been blacklisted by the McCarthyism at that times. It's about the strike of mexican workers, fighting for better work conditions. Public domain film.
folks still doing these sort of documantaries
folks still doing these sort of documantaries
The Wobblies Documentary
interesting labor history doc. believe or not, my grandfather belonged. 1979 is date of film I believe
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Rand Paul In The '90s: Medicare Is Socialism And Social Security Is A Ponzi Scheme
from my understanding, fellow still feels this.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Call-In Day, July 13: Tell Congress to Pass Currency Legislation
Now that the Treasury Department once again has refused to label China as a currency manipulator, it is more important than ever for Congress to pass strong legislation quickly to stop the unfair and illegal advantage against U.S. producers that China and other nations gain by undervaluing their currency.
On July 13, tens of thousands of manufacturers across the country—members of the Fair Currency Coalition and the Coalition for a Prosperous America—will join with union members and citizen trade groups in a National Currency Call-In Day to ratchet up the pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to hold currency manipulators accountable.
A bipartisan group of senators is considering attaching S. 3134, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2010, to legislation that may pass at anytime. Introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the legislation would give our government the tools it needs to address currency manipulation.
Tomorrow, call your senators and representatives at 202-224-3121 and tell them to support legislation to reign in currency manipulators
On July 13, tens of thousands of manufacturers across the country—members of the Fair Currency Coalition and the Coalition for a Prosperous America—will join with union members and citizen trade groups in a National Currency Call-In Day to ratchet up the pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to hold currency manipulators accountable.
A bipartisan group of senators is considering attaching S. 3134, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2010, to legislation that may pass at anytime. Introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the legislation would give our government the tools it needs to address currency manipulation.
Tomorrow, call your senators and representatives at 202-224-3121 and tell them to support legislation to reign in currency manipulators
Ron Paul Heroically Stands Up to Chris Matthews --soial secrity and more
4-10-2010 is the date of interview. Ron Paul gives views on social issues.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Are you one of the "lesser people"? sucial security comments
anyone really believe the commision will do other than recommend cuts in social security better watch this vid.
Friday, July 9, 2010
GOP: "Cut Social Security to Pay for the War!"
some wish to have social security privatised and others wish it cut
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