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An Old Man's View of Today's Headlines

COMMONER: A person without noble rank or title.

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!

Countdown to Congressional Elections

The Rise of Corporate Freedom of Speech
$1.45 Billion on 3-14-2010
$2.9 Billion Spent in 08 on Congressional Race

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Corporate money in politics is bad enough. Secret corporate money is intolerable.

Primary Election Results (UPDATED: July 28, 2010)

"The Great 2010 Incumbent (Non-)Revolt"

Senate Primary’s Incumbent Democrats 1 Loss; 3 Wins of 13 Incumbent Republicans 1 Loss; 8 Wins of 12
House Primary’s Incumbent Democrats 1 Loss; 135 Wins of 245 Incumbent Republicans 2 Loss; 103 Wins of 158

National Debt Clock

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WHEN Did You Become Fiscally Responsible?BEFORE Obama or AFTER Obama??

January 20, 2009$10,838,758,414,164.46 - ↑90% Discretionary Spending at 48.6%

January 20, 2001$5,719,124,940,098.04 - ↑36% January 20, 1993$4,192,107,025,882.17 - ↑62% January 20, 1989$2,601,104,000,000.00 - ↑189% January 20, 1981$909,041,000.000.00

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Debt by President

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This Week's Quotes (5) (Hover to Pause)

Dear Corporate America: Your taxes are NOT being raised. Your subsidy has expired! - The Old Man
"If we cannot as a nation move away from ideologically stimulated tribal warfare and scapegoating, we are in for a very unpleasant future" – Retired Army Gen. Montgomery Meigs
“For big business to now claim that the government is ‘anti-business’ is like the umpire complaining about how badly his game was refereed” – Kathryn Kolbert
“Rather than ‘all for one and one for all,’ the United States’ business leaders have adopted more of a ‘one for one and all for me’ approach, detrimental to our country's economic recovery” – Amy L. Fraher
“Corporate executives excuse their inexcusable refusal to hire more workers and invest in new products and technologies with the tired old saw that it’s all the government’s fault. The Wall Street financial crisis has brought the economy to its knees and now the corporate sector has the audacity to blame government for the catastrophe?” – Elizabeth Sherman

Obama Caving To Big Business – Again

Will Obama once again give big business what they yearn for? [...]

Susan Fulton Shocks ‘Fox News Two’

July 12, 2010

This is a video you don’t want to miss — one of Wall Streets’ own making Wall Streeter’s mouth drop open. In this case, Wall Streeter’s being the three political capitalist on CNBC’s “The Call” and another guest.

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Goldman Sachs “Defines” Core Of Financial Crisis – Video

Our current shadow government, Government Sachs (previously known as Goldman Sachs) has gotten to the “real” cause of last year’s financial crisis. It’s “all about bad lending”; not the market or traders of the market. [...]

The More We Learn, The Worse It Gets! (A Must-Read)

What’s so amazing for me is the fact that these very moral and responsible people decided this issue was so important that they needed to band together and get to the real truth using real facts without allowing political ideology and self-interest interfere with the results. [...]

API — Against Any And All Climate Bills

Naturally Gerard is not in favor of the climate bill. If those like Gerard turn out to be completely wrong, my question is ‘can we afford to find out the hard way just for the sake of the company’s bottom line’? [...]

Health Care Industry — The Common Peoples New “Friends”

If there is a single solitary sole in our country that believes the health care industry is going to volunteer to give up any money, they are living in a fantasy world. We can all bet that before the ink dries on any official document, the industry will come out ahead and the common peoples will once again pay the price. [...]

GM Follows Banks Lead — Shows Their Appreciation to Taxpayers

CEO Fritz Henderson seems to be trying to “justify” this intent by saying that GM was also canceling projects in Mexico, Russia, and India. Well, your highness Sir freaking Henderson, let me ask you this — just how damn much money did those countries contribute to bailing out your sorry ass? [...]

Who’s The Author?

What I couldn’t quite understand was, was the author saying we should just let bygones be bygones in favor of protecting the innocent, or if he was saying we should only dish out a punishment up to a point where the innocent wasn’t hurt. [...]