Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
Campaign 2010
Countdown to Congressional Elections
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
“Senate Republicans, committed as they are to preventing the debt from mounting further, can’t approve an extension of unemployment benefits because it would cost $35 billion. But they are untroubled by the notion of digging the hole $678 billion deeper by extending President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans”.
Stimulus money and Wall Street; lobbyist jobs filled by ex-lawmakers and ex-staffers; interest groups spending like there’s no tomorrow; and Democrats who are hypocrites about fisical responsibility. [...]
If, in the name of self-preservation, we can’t use the non-military weapons in our arsenal to keep some rogue countries in line, then the day will come when we will be forced to use our military might. [...]
Are you seriously serious about your Tea Party movement? Do you really want to balance the budget and pay off the national debt? Well, here it is. Sit back, get comfortable and be sure your glycerin tablets are handy. And it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a paramedic standing by.