The facts are as clear as the nose on your face. Not only has this bastard-child of an economic scheme been responsible for the bulk of the U.S. debt over the last three decades, which the vaunted defenders of the faith fail to even acknowledge, it has been responsible for the biggest upward redistribution of wealth in this country since the 1800s – the time of the great land barons.
So you know how Republican Congressman and tea party darling, Mark Rubio (R-FL), used a riveting narrative involving his parents’ escape from communist Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Well, it was quite a riveting story. But there was just one tiny and insignificant problem with the whole story that makes Mark Rubio one of the worst people in the world: it didn’t actually involve Marco Rubio’s parents.
Where the Tea Party’s protests against TARP were directed only towards President Obama, Occupy Wall Street protests are directed to those elite few who have corrupted our government to suit their whims. Occupy Wall Street is a revolution in the making, as opposed to the Tea Party who only wanted to alienate liberals and Democrats.
Be grateful. That is what I am hearing from my conservative friends and I’m listening and would suggest that all my liberal and moderate friends listen as well. This is life changing information.
Herman Cain is smart enough to know that Americans love their jingles and their catchy phrases. He also knows about that special talent that few have mastered; to get strong approval from people who have power. Power, as it relates to being appointed to a CEO position, or to secure favor for one’s political aspirations, are the same.
Ten things that Herman Cain, political genius, should know the GOP is doing that doesn’t create a single job.
That seems pretty clear-cut to me; pretty transparent. It seems amazingly obvious that there is a clear secularity in American government, and that the separation of church and state should be just as guaranteed as our right to free speech.
Is it possible for someone or anyone to explain why targeting the Environmental Protection Agency is good for the nation? If you are going to try to help me with an answer, peruse the following photographs and links before answering.
Instead of dressing up like morbidly obese founding fathers and screaming about their leader being born in Kenya and some covert Muslim Socialist, the people of Iceland actually rose up against the overwhelming tide of corporate greed and deception and reclaimed their country.
It’s a movement that is growing by the minute. Millions of Americans across the nation have decided that now is the time to revolt against the greed of Wall Street.
Last month, the hanging suicide of Jamey Rodemayer- a 14-year old boy from Buffalo, NY who had been taunted and bullied since grade school by homophobic classmates, left yet another deep scar in the ongoing cultural and social debasement affecting the LGBT community.
As an African-American, I often hear African-American Republicans lament about how the Democratic Party has used our community. The nation recently heard Herman ‘Citizen’ Cain label the Black Community as 3/4 or 2/3 ‘brainwashed by the Democrats.’ I often see African American (highly paid) GOP operatives and pundits speak about their lack of understanding how the Black Community could solidly vote for Democratic tickets.
A Fox News interviewer tried to catch a protester off-guard with his question, and ended up getting caught off-guard himself.
Everyone agrees that owning a gun is a constitutionally protected right. But it’s something else completely to believe we have the right to threaten gun violence as protection against our own government. When you take the second amendment piece by piece, it doesn’t say anything remotely related to people protecting themselves from the American government.
We hear it all the time. The media, politicians, pundits, and even President Obama have endlessly referred to Social Security and Medicare as ‘entitlements’. Republicans talk about these programs as if people don’t actually pay for them, and distort the word ‘entitlement’ as if it means something horrible. The Right Wing, as always, is wrong.
I have a message for the Bill O’Reillys out there. Any time you’re feeling so repressed and burdened by your shackles that you just can’t bring yourselves to show up and collect your meager millions, just drop me a line. I’ll be more than happy to relieve you of your burden. In fact, we can trade places. You can have my slightly lower tax rate and I’ll just have to rough it with your slightly higher one. Deal?
The Left needs to snap out of their dreams of compromise and realize that they are not dealing with normal people. The Right has gone insane and the faster we understand that, the faster we can deal with this new reality.
Many in the US do not know that the republicans put a really large weight around the neck of the Postal Service and is trying to drown it by requiring them to prefund their retirement and pension benefits for the next 75 years…and do so in a 10 year period. A phenomenal and impossible feat that means that the Postal Service will have to find 5 1/2 Billion dollars each year to fund this. Instead of helping to create jobs this could cause at least 120,000 jobs to be lost.
The idea of the American dream is one of the most successful pieces of propaganda ever perpetuated. If we believe in the dream, we can dismiss or outright ignore economic, social, and demographic realities that have more to do with economic impoverishment than any supposed behavioral deficiencies on the part of welfare recipients.
