On the Left: Bold Vision for a Sane World |
May we be a tolerant nation. North Koreans Mourn Death of Leader |
How might we teach the children harmony?
Carter: USA a Most War-Like Nation |
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The utter insanity of war
The Tragedy in Afghanistan
The Tragedy in Afghanistan
We've been fighting in Afghanistan 10 years. The USA is intervening in a civil war to prevent the Taliban from taking control.
The Taliban is an Islamic Republic, which is socialist, similar to North Korea.
Ten years after Bush invaded, the Taliban won't yield.
General McChrystal says we're only half way done. I guess that means he wants 10 more years of war.
In 10 years, the Afghani's won't have any more sons to send to war and that will allow us to claim victory.
They will then have Western style democracy, but no form of government will be effective, because already, they are a nation of widows.
Now Newt Gingrich is wanting to invade Iran, which is also a socialist country.
Will the Christians bring Gingrich to power?
The Bible says, "Woe unto those who call bad good and good bad." War is a profound evil -- unthinkable and shocking to the human imagination. Yet Pres. Carter says since he has left office, the USA has used its military forces 50 times.
But during Carter's administration, no bombs fell! I love him so much!
During the 12 years of Reagan-Bush, Carter says the military was used 32 times.
The USA has troops in 120 countries with military bases in 63 of them.
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The utter insanity of war
Nobel Winner and Harvard Economist: Iraq War Costed Taxpayers $3.3 Trillion
Nobel Winner and Harvard Economist: Iraq War Costed Taxpayers $3.3 Trillion
Digging at the roots of deficits, high interest rates and unemployment
Our Monstrous Immense Defense Budget
Our Monstrous Immense Defense Budget
President Carter said the USA spends about as much on the military as the whole world put together!
It really creates a budget deficit, which causes unemployment since the banks must raise the interest rates to attract money to fund the deficit. People then can't get loans to build or buy equipment etc.
This is was on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan show, which is on the internet.
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California always leads the way.
Fixing Our Election System with Rank Choice Voting
Fixing Our Election System with Rank Choice Voting
Did you know there is a new election system in place in Oakland, California, that would allow third party candidates to participate, without spoiling the election?
Here's how it works. Let's say there are three choices in the election, Ralph Nader, Al Gore and George Bush. Let's say I want Nader -- really really want Nader. I mark my ballot this way: first choice, Nader, second choice Gore.
Then, if Nader really bombs out and gets very few votes, he is threwn out of the election and those who voted for him now get their second choice counted. My second choice was Gore, so now my vote goes to Gore instead of Nader (since Nader was threwn out.)
This way you are not threwing away your vote if you vote your heart for a third party.
Bring this about in your city!
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It's a dirty dirty system!
Free Air-Time for Political Candidates
Free Air-Time for Political Candidates
"The United
"Politics would be transformed beyond recognition if free air time were given to candidates," wrote Mary McGrory in the Washington Post. "Aspirants could rise up from their knees if they didn't have to spend so much time groveling for funds, 40 percent of which is eaten up with purchasing television time. The average Senate campaign requires $4.3 million; for a House seat, the going rate is $545,000."
Reed Hunt, who was Clinton's Federal Communications Commision Chairman said, "The average Senate candidate must raise approximately 15,000 a week, every week for six years starting the moment he or she is sworn in office."
Raising money for advertising has the potential for deeply corrupting the system. For instance, after the petroleum refining industry gave members of Congress $2,002,703 in 1993-1994, the House of Representatives barred the use of EPA funds to develop, issue or enforce air toxics standards for the petroleum refining industry, according to Joan Claybrook, the former head of Public Citizen.
These standards would have reduced hazardous emissions from 190 petroleum refineries by 68 percent and reduced total hydrocarbon emissions by some 750,000,000 pounds per year, according to Claybrook.
UCLA professor of law Daniel Hays Lowenstein says the great majority of campaign contributions are bribes "made to influence legislators."
The Supreme Court gave us a mandate to fix our dirty system. In the Buckley decision, the court said "facilitating communication by candidates with the electorate and freeing candidates from the rigors of fundraising" meet the general welfare clause.
Here the court was applying the principle to the public financing of campaigns. But certainly the principle would apply to free air tie for candiates as well.
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Recreating our political system
Nominating Candidates for Office
Nominating Candidates for Office
We stand around and let the super rich dominate our elections.
Some of the rich -- like Bill Gates -- are like fathers to the country. Generous and kind. Using their power to protect us. (Take a look at MSNBC news.)
But some wealthy individuals are war mongering and bent on holding back every form of progress! We must strip them of power.
What we need is a very progressive, intelligent strategy for nominating our candidates for office.
I say we should entrust our college professors with the responsibility of nominating candidates for office. We must get the money out of the system.
Those professors who are Republican could come together to nominate some Republican candidates to participate in the primaries. Those professors who are Democrats could nominate candidates to particpate in the Democratic primaries.
Our scholars are our treasure.
They are the well informed ones who study on a daily basis so they know the urgent problems we face and know what the solutions are.
A nation that listens to its scholars will be blessed and will find amazing solutions in every area.
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The country is lost without this.
Cleaning Up Our Election System
Cleaning Up Our Election System
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Creating a better world for the children Cleaning Up a Dirty Dirty System |
No to Newt Gingrich for president Newt Gingrich for War in Iran! |
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How the rich would rule.
Newt Gingrich Would Shut Down the EPA
Newt Gingrich Would Shut Down the EPA
Newt Gingrich is in favor of closing down the EPA, which he calls "increasingly radical."
He sites as evidence a regulation in Iowa to control "particulate matter," which he said is a regulation to control "dust." But particulate matter is a whole lot more than dust.
The EPA estimates that particulate matter in the air kills as many as 160,000 people in just one year many and sickens many others.
The particles are so tiny, they lodge deep in the lungs where they can cause serious damaage.
Particulate matter from coal burning power plants or industrial smoke stacks can often contain such substances as free radicals, mercury, lead, benzene, carbon monoxode, PaHs, heavy metals and even radioactive substances such as uranium and thorium.
Particulates have been linked to irregular heart beat, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, infant mortality, chronic bronchitis, impaired lung function, asthma, as well as reproductive and developmental harm.
Particulte matter can take nine years off the lives of vulnerable residents, such as those with asthma.
Babies and children are very sensitive to pollution. A wrong chemical signal during growth can cause development to go awry.
Researchers in the UK estimate that one in every 50 heart attacks in London may be triggered by air pollution.
There is technology for preventing the release of particulate matter. The EPA has to force businesses to use it.
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Be alert. The primaries are coming.
Nobel Prize Recipient: How Gingrich Would Impact Medicare
Nobel Prize Recipient: How Gingrich Would Impact Medicare
Here is a quote from the book "The Conscience of a Liberal" by Dr. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Princeton and a columnist with the New York Times:
"Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the house, was trying to impose a plan that would sharply cut Medicare's funding and, equally important, give healthy seniors an incentive to drop out of Medicare, undermining the program's universality and its financial base.
"In effect, Gingrich wanted to subject Medicare to slow death by strangulation. Gingrich had enough votes to get his plan though Congress, but he didn't have the votes to override a presidential veto.
"So he tried to force Clinton's hand by denying the federal government the funds it needed to keep operating. ... Clinton's impeachment three years later, which seems otherwise a bizarre event, is best understood as Gingrich's attempt to take revenge."
"...And Gingrich, who was carrying on his own affair with a subordinate even as he denounced Clinton's immorality, displayed a combination of grandiosity and hypocrisy rare even among politicians."
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Don't be silent.
Why Gingrich Should Not Be Our Next President
Why Gingrich Should Not Be Our Next President
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Be alert. The primaries are coming.
Rick Santorum Sold Out to Narrow Interests
Rick Santorum Sold Out to Narrow Interests
Here is a quote from the book "The Conscience of a Liberal" by Dr. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Princeton and a New York Times columnist:
"Until his defeat in 2006 forced him to take a new job confronting America's enemies, Sen. Rick Santorum held a meeting every Tuesday with about two dozen top lobbyists. Here's how Nicholas Confessore described those meetings in 2003:
"Every week, the lobbyists present pass around a list of the jobs available and discuss whom to support. Santorum's responsibility is to make sure each one is filled by a loyal Republican -- a senator's chief of staff, for instance, or a top White House aide, or another lobbyist whose reliability has been demonstrated. After Santorum settles on a candidate, the lobbyists present make sure it is known whom the Republican leadership favors."
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Be alert. The primaries are coming.
Republicans: A Danger to Your Health
Republicans: A Danger to Your Health
Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachman and Ron Paul all want to do away with the environmental protection agency!
That's a government agency with an army of lawyers that haul corporate interests into court and make them pay big big bucks for poisoning people's water and land.
Do we want to go back to the days when rivers were so full of solvents and other industrial toxins that they would catch afire?
Do you want to drink and bath in trichlorethylene, PBC's and mercury?
It's the babys that are the most vulnerable to chemicals. A wrong chemical signal when a baby is developing can cause development to go awry.
Chemicals in the water can cause lower intelligence, weaker immunity, hyperactivity, degraded genes, impulsivity, leukemia and much much more.
In Sweden, it's mothers that go to the government to complain of pollution. They say, "We can not have it."
CHECK OUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD OF REPUBLICANS:
One way to tell that Republicans are controlled by narrow business interests instead of being focused on the welfare of the people is how they vote on environmental issues.
The League of Conservation Voters publishes a scorecard every year.
The DIFFERENCE IN SCORES of Republicans and Democrats is amazing: Compare the leadership of the two partys for 2006. Out of a possible of 100 points:
Notice Santorum's record below:
HOUSE 2006
Republicans:
Hastert, Speaker of the House -- NA
Boehner, Majority Leader -- 0%
Blunt, Majority Leader and Whip -- 0%
Pryce, Conference chair -- 25%
Democrats:
Pelosi, Minority Leader -- 100%
Hoyer, Minority Whip -- 100%
Clyburn, Caucus Chair -- 100%
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SENATE 2006:
Republicans:
Frist -- Majority leader -- 14%
McConnel, Majority Whip -- 0%
Santorum, Conference Chair -- 9%
Democrats:
Reid, Minority Leader -- 57%
Durbin, Minority Whip -- 100%
Stabenow, Conference Secretary -- 76%
Here's another scorecard. I think it was in 2002:
In Alabama, EVERY congressman except one, a democrat, got all F's!
Shelby (republican) 4%, 6%, 0%, 0%
Sessions (republican) 4%,6%,0%,0%
Callahan (republican) 0%,0%,0%,3%
Riley (republican) 0%,0%,0%,7%
Aderholt (republican) 5%,0%,7%,3%
Bachus (republican) 5%,0%,7%,7%
Hillard (democrat) 64%, 63%,64%, 63%
Craner (democrat) 36%, 50%, 29%, 30%
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Congressmen from Massachusetts are among the finest in the country:
McGovern (democrat) 100%,100%,100%, 100%
Frank (democrat) 100%, 100%, 100%, 90%
Markey (democrat) 95%, 88%, 100%, 90%
Capuano (democrat) 95%, 100%, 93%, 97%
Lynch (democrat) 100%, 100%, 100%
Kennedy (democrat) 84%, 82%, 88%, 81%
Kerry (democrat) 92%, 94%, 88%, 94%
Olver (democrat) 91%, 88%, 93%, 97%
Neal (democrat) 77%, 88%, 71%, 90%
Meehan (democrat) 77%, 63%, 86%, 100%
Tierney (democrat) 100%, 100%, 100%, 93%
Delahunt (democrat) 91%, 75%, 100%, 93%
You can see the environmental scorecard on the website of the League of Conservation Voters: http://www.lcv.org/images/client/pdfs/2002_Scorecard_preview.pdf
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a newspaper article:
"George Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife.
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A candidate for U.S. president
Radical: Rick Perry on Social Security |
He may become U.S. vice-president
Radical: Marco Rubio on Social Security |
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One of the most crucial issues facing the nation
Experts: Voting Machines Can be Hacked
Experts: Voting Machines Can be Hacked
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Don't tell your wife, she'll divorce you.
You're Probably a Liberal and Just Don't Know It.
You're Probably a Liberal and Just Don't Know It.
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Author of "Why we're liberals"
Dr. Eric Alterman: Most Are Left Wing |
Columnist for Harper's Magazine
Deregulatory Agenda of Republicans |
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Understand the importance of good leaders.
The Radical Agenda of Modern Day Conservatives
The Radical Agenda of Modern Day Conservatives
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Renewable energy: no help from republicans Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Corruption of Republicans |
Understand the importance of good leaders.
Harvard Economist: Bush Mistakes Costed U.S. $10 Trillion |
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Know the agenda of the party you support.
Nobel Winner Criticizes Tea Party |
The whole world is shaken.
Nobel Winner: Republicans Radical |
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We are the 99 percent.
Scenes and Sounds From Occupy Protests Around the Country __________________________________________________________________
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Occupy Wallstreet
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Inequities in wealth and power
Is It Wrong to Charge Higher Taxes On the Rich?
Should the rich pay high taxes on their income?
The top 1 percent in America brought in 49.7 percent of total wages in 2007, according to Dr. Emanuel Saez, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The research was published in the Huffington Post. In fact, the top 5 percent has more wealth the the bottom 95 percent, according to New York University economist Dr. Edward N. Wolff, author of the book, "Top Heavy: the increasing Inequity of wealth in America and what can be done." Thats not only wealth but incredible power. Higher taxes on the rich mean $300 billion per year in revenue to the U.S. treasury. To the rich, it is just plain stealing to make them pay that and they are fighting a horrible war on the radio against democrats (labor). Consider this, the typical top wage earner makes 18,000 times the wages of the typical American. Has he done 18,000 times more work -- or did he have a lot of assistance? A businessman has taken out a hefty loan to purchase technology, but it is the labor of the workers who paid off the loan. Moreover, the technology was often created by research in our universities which are supported by tax dollars. Bill Gates created technology that made him a billionare, but he stood on the shoulders of researchers in universities across the world who helped develop knowledge of programming. Notice that his Microsoft and NBC's MSNBC vigorously supports Democrats and higher taxes on the rich. In one of my classes, an economist said in an ideal economic system, there would be no profit. The prices charged would be what is needed to cover salaries and the overhead costs. But a text book explained that a profit can be charged so there is surplus in order to invest in starting up new jobs. So the businessman is in effect taxing the public. The profit is a public investment. But we need some of it back in the form of taxes. If we don't charge higher taxes on the rich, there are huge budget deficits and the government just has to print money to pay its bills. This causes money to lose its value and prices to rise. Then savings for retirement lose their value. For example, $10 used to buy a lot. Now it buys nothing. While Jimmy Carter almost balanced his budget -- very little debt, Ronald Reagan quadrupled the debt. |
Integrity shines so bright.
President Carter Discusses Social Security, Money Corrupting Politics and More
President Carter Discusses Social Security, Money Corrupting Politics and More
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Solution to social security problem -- vote for Democrats.
MSNBC Guest Exposes Republican Propaganda About Social Security
MSNBC Guest Exposes Republican Propaganda About Social Security
In the video below, Fmr. Rep. Elizabeth Holzman, D-N.Y., tells a simple way Social Security might be fixed so it is solvent forever.
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Many will suffer if we ignore this issue.
Danger! Republicans Seek to Privatize Social Security
Danger! Republicans Seek to Privatize Social Security
The most important issue of this election is Social Security.
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Compares U.S. to Other Countries -- and more
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Compares U.S. to Other Countries -- and more
In this video, Dr. Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, economics professor at Princeton University and author of the book "The Conscience of a Liberal," gives insights into politics and our economic crisis, including how we can fix our Social Security system.
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Playing hardball for privatization
Republicans Crushing the U.S. Postal Service
Republicans Crushing the U.S. Postal Service
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Let your voice be heard.
Creating a Participatory Democracy
Creating a Participatory Democracy
How can we create a more participatory democracy?
One way is to study for the country -- keeping a wonderful journal of important facts and quotes -- and sending information to our journalists and Congressmen.
This is what Ralph Nader does. One of the great New York Times writers said he still has a letter from Ralph Nader helping him understand globalization.
For instance, Rachel Maddow, Ed, Dylan Ratigan, Chris Hayes and others on MSNBC are great! But you can make them even better!
Love the country.
Here are a few email addresses at MSNBC:
Ed at MSNBC: ed@msnbc.com
Rachel at MSNBC: Rachel@msnbc.com
Chris Hayes at MSNBC: Chris@msnbc.com
MSNBC investigates: msnbcinvestigates@msnbc.com
Also to help strengthen our democracy, we can invite people into our homes for a potluck and to watch documentary video on the environment and on politics and on petroleum depletion.
We can also form study groups to read great books together and hold discussions. See the section on Further Reading for suggestions of great books you could read.
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Class warfare at its finest
Jim Hightower: Thieves in High Places
Jim Hightower: Thieves in High Places
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We need to deepen health care reform.
We Need Single-Payer Health Insurance
We Need Single-Payer Health Insurance
Health insurance should not be a for-profit business.
A former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Physician Dr. Marcia Angell, said in a congressional testimony that in our for-profit health care system "it's been estimated, no one knows for sure, but it's been estimated that no more than 50 cents of the health care dollar actually reaches the providers."
In contrast, the overhead (for billing, profit, advertising etc.) of Medicare, a government-ran program, is less than 3 percent.
Across the country, millions of people yearn to see Medicare expanded to all citizens.
Making a profit off the sick
A Bill Moyers report on PBS said the country's largest health insurance companies recently increased their profit by 56 percent to $12.2 billion.
Below are the annual salaries of the top CEOs of some of our top health insurance companies:
Aetna -- Ron Williams -- $24,300,112
Cigna -- H.Edward Hanway -- $12,236,740
Wellpoint -- Angela Braley -- $9,644,212
Coventry Healthcare -- Dale Wolf -- $9,047,469
Amerigroup -- James Carlson -- $5,292,546
Since we are the only industrialized country without non-profit health insurance, our healthcare costs are twice as high as in other countries, which has dire consequences. For instance, it means many businesses have had to move their factories overseas and many families have been bankrupted.
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You are beautiful, Democrats
Democrats Pass Health Care Reform to Improve Care and Control Costs The video below, featuring then-speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), captures an emotional moment when after long years of debate and failed efforts, Democrats finally passed health care reform depite strong opposition from Republicans that weakened their efforts to control costs and efficiency. |
Learning from other countries!
Sicko: A Documentary by Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Michael Moore Below is a small snippit from one of the top ten highest grossing documentaries -- Sicko -- which discusses the failures of the U.S. healthcare system in comparison to systems in other countries. Click here to order it from Amazon.com. |
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Love the mother land.
Jezebel and the Dirty Underbelly of Capitalism
Jezebel and the Dirty Underbelly of Capitalism
"Let the nations gather together, let the people be assembled."
Something Worth Dying For: The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Something Worth Dying For: The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Many do not know it, but there is a powerful solution to the most vexing problem destroying the children -- the corruption of the entertainment
industry, which uses the most powerful means of teaching we know of -- example -- the example of the
nation's most glamorous people -- and to glorify yelling and slapping and murder and to errode values we don?t like but need in
order to protect the family unit.
On one sitcom, a young girl told a boy if he would help her with something she would let him touch her breasts. On one sitcom, a young girls nude photo showed up in the yearbook. Her boyfriend was trying to tell him that he didn't like that. Exasperted, she told him, "You are such a prude."
Another sitcom made marijuana look like the most fun thing in the world.
But parents have a powerful friend -- The United Nations. Through the UN, parents across the globe -- black and white, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Christian and all, have come together to look the beast in the eye.
The United Nations has a treaty for the protection and care of children called the Convention on the Rights of the Child that calls for protection of the child from "information and material injurious to the child's well being, protection from "illicit drug usage," and protection from "any kind of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's wellbeing.
If the U.S. Senate ratifies this treaty, they will clearly have to stop advertising alcohol and cigarettes. This means the treaty will have powerful unrelenting foes.
The treaty even calls for protection of the unborn child.
Bright lawyers affiliated with almost every country in the world came together to draft the treaty. There is NOTHING they have not taken into consideration. It took years and years of hard work to draft it.
Every country had a veto over everything in the treaty. Realize that Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution makes a treaty "Supreme Law of the Land" and says "the judges of every state shall be bound thereby."
Read the full text of the treaty on the website of the High Commissioner on Human Rights:
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Know the importance of good leaders
Sen. Dick Durbin (D) Majority Whip, Tells Radical Agenda of Republicans
Sen. Dick Durbin (D) Majority Whip, Tells Radical Agenda of Republicans
During elections in November, Sen. Durbin told told how Republicans are for privatizing Social Security, how they oppose legislation against tax breaks for corporations that move jobs overseas and how they filibuster 100 times in a year to obstruct reform.
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Know the importance of good leaders
Vice-Pres. Joe Biden Tells How Republican Mismanagement Costed U.S. $3 Trillion
Vice-Pres. Joe Biden Tells How Republican Mismanagement Costed U.S. $3 Trillion
In this video, Biden tells how the democrats get blamed for the bad economy, but it was mismanagement by Republicans (deregulation of the banks, immense tax cuts for the super rich, tax loop holes for corporations etc.) that caused the economic collapse.
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Senator Bernie Sanders Shows A Way to Reduce Deficit
Now I've Heard It All
Now I've Heard It All
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Even the conflict in Palestine may be related to resources.
Let all Be Said: Blood, Tears and Dispossesion in Palestine
Let all Be Said: Blood, Tears and Dispossesion in Palestine
One solution in eliminating unemployment
We Need Higher Taxes on the Rich to Redistribute the Wealth
We Need Higher Taxes on the Rich to Redistribute the Wealth
Good people do not tolerate unemployment.
Unemployment means women turning to prostitution. Men breaking into homes and stealing cars -- in your neighborhood. People marketing drugs to your sons and daughters. People committing suicide. Women with no rent money shacking up with men they hardly know and that they care nothing about. Families splitting up. People living on the streets. People losing their minds. Kids giving up on going to college.
One cause of unemployment is drastic inequality. In 1998, the top 5 percent had more wealth than the remaining 95 percent of the populationNew York University economist Dr. Edward N. Wolff, author of the book, "Top Heavy: the increasing Inequity of wealth in America and what can be done."
The gains in the productivity of labor are making their way to the top. It is not unusual to have top CEOs of corporations making $2 million. A labor union would have fixed that.
High taxes on the super wealthy is essential in capitalism to stimulate the economy -- increasing demand by redistributing the wealth. But its a bitter bitter pill for them to swallow.
Indeed, they are fighting a war in the truest sense of the word, trying to wrest control of government from the Democrats.
They buy out newspapers and radio stations -- churning out yellow journalism -- pure deceptive propaganda that shakes democracy to its roots.
They want tax cuts for the super rich, but they often use this money to send jobs overseas and merge, which costs us jobs, or they just sit on the money.
I think we must make it ENJOYABLE for the rich to pay taxes. The rich should be allowed to tell the government how to spend every penny of that portion of their tax dollars over 25% -- as long as the money is spent on projects that generate employment in communities.
For instance, a man might direct the government to give a grant in a specific community of his choosing to hire violin teachers and piano teachers for the children with his tax dollars.
He might direct the government to give a grant to people to write children's books.
He might direct the government to give a grant to put solar panels on libraries, schools, the zoo and churches.
He might direct the government to set up a store in a particular community to sell locally made goods.
He might direct the government to people to plant flowers or trees along the streets in the area of his choosing -- his own neighborhood if that's what he wants.
He might direct the government to give a grant to a specific community of his choosing to repair the roofs of low income elderly people.
He might direct the government to hire activists to study environmental activists to study problems and educate the people on those problems.
He might direct the government to give free bus passes to workers in businesses he specifiies.
He might direct the government to hire people to hold after school programs to tutor children, read to them and play games with them.
He might direct the government to provide free day care to underpaid women in a community of his choosing.
If he is making the world a wonderful much better place with his tax money, he will have joy.
Another cause of unemployment is that farming is being destabilized by free trade agreements as small farmers have to compete with huge subsidized agribusinesses across the world who dump cheap food on the market.
When millions of farmers in developing countries are threwn off the land, each of those farmers will take a job from the us.
The unemployed farmers trudge to the cities. Our factory owners hear about it and send them our jobs. Or, the farmers come to America and take our jobs.
By the way, the Democrats want to STOP giving tax breaks to those who take jobs overseas. But Republicans want tax breaks for them.
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A great hero of India
How A Violent King Repented and Became A Great Man of Peace
How A Violent King Repented and Became A Great Man of Peace
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