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
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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
Our “respectable” elected officials gave the credit card companies a year to continue credit card abuse. Now it appears they just needed the year to come up with different ways to rip off customers before they started “loosing” unearned money. [...]
He said “I think that’s all appropriate and our company is well positioned for it”. So if his company is “well positioned” for it, why do they have to wait for reform before they implement the very things President Obama is asking for? [...]
Bernanke is so full of crap that he couldn’t find a toilet large enough to dump it in. It makes one wonder if he truly thinks that the public believes him or if he just doesn’t care that they don’t. I vote for the latter. [...]
If O’Reilly was so happy that he played a major roll in Tiller’s murder, he must be beside himself with the closing of the clinic. And who says so-called news people can’t control an outcome? [...]
How does a politician flim-flam the public and help his corporate friends at the same time? Easy! In some cases, they can “delete a single word and insert two others in a bill”. [...]
I’d like to see what my friends over at CNBC would say in response to this information. Of course they have the information, but they’re avoiding any discussion on oil prices — they acknowledge it, but won’t discuss it. [...]
Thanks to a little known law passed on the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, the Senate voted to do just that — bailout Wall Street when it became necessary. [...]
One of the first things that comes to mind is all those nifty, catchy, “patriotic” names our political parties give to a new “charm campaign” when they are so out of favor — the same crooks are running the show, the same scam artist are involved, and the same intent to previous objectives — screw the public. [...]
Random Thoughts on Other Notable Headlines of the Day --- Issue XXXII
Our “respectable” elected officials gave the credit card companies a year to continue credit card abuse. Now it appears they just needed the year to come up with different ways to rip off customers before they started “loosing” unearned money. [...]