On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democratic Party Supports Marriage Equality, and More
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Happy (47th) Birthday Medicare!
Happy 47th anniversary for Medicare! It's a good time to fight for Medicare for All! We need a single-payer, national health insurance plan, Medicare for All!
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
GOP on Taxes: It Gets Worse
GOP on Taxes: It Gets Worse:
Republicans Will Raise Taxes — Just Not on the Wealthy As we discussed recently, Republicans are holding middle class tax cuts hostage in order to give the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans yet another extra tax cut. If that wasn’t bad enough, the Republicans are now affirmatively proposing to raise taxes on tens of millions [...]
Republicans Will Raise Taxes — Just Not on the Wealthy As we discussed recently, Republicans are holding middle class tax cuts hostage in order to give the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans yet another extra tax cut. If that wasn’t bad enough, the Republicans are now affirmatively proposing to raise taxes on tens of millions [...]
Sunday, July 22, 2012
American Crisis: Poverty Rate Highest Since 1960s
The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.
The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest level since 1965.
Why are American politicians ignoring the growing numbers of poor people and refuse to address the issue of poverty?
Saturday, July 21, 2012
After Colorado Massacre, Calls for Urgent Gun Reform
After Colorado Massacre, Calls for Urgent Gun Reform | Common Dreams
The NRA Has America Living Under the Gun (Bill Moyers)
Colorado Killer Got Guns With Ease (thanks to the NRA)
"Gun's Don't Kill"?
Thank You NRA!
Brady Campaign: Want Action, Not Sympathy, from Elected Officials
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns?
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns? - Businessweek
National Review Calls for Romney to Release Tax Returns
Romney Dismisses Republican Calls to Disclose Tax Returns
Eugene Robinson: Problems of Mitts Own Making
OK, my hunch is that Romney is hiding something, probably several things, in his tax returns back to 2000-2001. He probably paid little on no taxes some of those years (2008-2009), he put a lot of money in offshore accounts to avoid taxes, he has over $100 million in an IRA (retirement account) which is questionable if not illegal, he also likely reported income from Bain Capital, during the time he claims he was not connected with Bain at all, and when they "outsourced" a lot of American jobs.
And this is all another reason why Mitt Romney was the worst candidate the GOP could pick in this election (for the GOP). Romney exemplifies everything WRONG with capitalism today: "collateral debt obligations," "credit default swaps," outsourcing, growing inequality and poverty, low taxes on the rich while the debt grows, calls for austerity for the working class, but more tax cuts for the corporate rich... they couldn't have picked a worse candidate (well, there's Sarah Palin, but even she's looking pretty good to the the GOP right now..)
Romney may be toast.. the GOP is panicking.. they may need to withdraw his nomination and choose another candidate at the GOP Convention. I'm going out on a LONG, SMALL limb and predict now that if Romney is forced into releasing his pre-2010 tax returns, he will NOT be the GOP nominee.
Jim D. Maynard
Monday, July 16, 2012
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