Evan Bayh & Kent Conrad back in action

While part of the Democratic Party fiddles with itself, Bayh and Conrad are working on solutions to immediate needs. I would expect when the dust settles, we will hear more from them, especially Bayh. If Hillary...

Real patriots don't whine about paying taxes

http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2010/11/09/real_patriots_dont_whine_about_paying_taxes"As Rachel Maddow pointed out Monday, the very first issue the Republicans seem to have planned will be tax cuts for the rich—which will add $700 billion to the deficit over the...

Stop buying made in China merchandise

How hard is it?http://www.ultimatetube.com/videos/4793/buy,-buy-american-pie Look at the tag. Does it say, “Made in China?” Put it back. Where it gets dicey is in consumer electronics and appliances because so...

Republicans want to protect top 2% from taxes

Democrats must say no the robbing more from the poor to give to the rich. Democrats must also say no to big government and have a plan to scale it down. That is the compromise looming ahead. Save the nation from...

How the Republican Party Destroyed the American Economy

http://grayson-green.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-republican-party-of-jeff-flake.html " IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would...

Tea Party's Math and Clinton Policies

This is my full response to the people in the Tea Party movement who are agitating for more tax cuts or claim that tax cuts have always resulted in prosperity. When Clinton raised taxes on higher incomes in a serious effort to tackle the deficit, that increased investor...

GOP Tax cuts – not now and not later either

The deficit must come down. There are several ways to do it. 1) Cut expenses; 2) Raise taxes; 3) Reevaluate the Chinese currency; 4) Rollback the Bush tax cut by letting it expire; 5) Let Republican conservative...

Fed pays down a little debt

Paying down a little debt is something. I think Robert Gates can affect the situation more by continuing to hack waste from Defense and making sure that the President and Congress follow through. After all, he is...

CNN Survey’s False Choice: Deficit or Jobs

CNN ran a survey today asking people if they favor one or the other: 1) Reduce Deficit or 2) Create Jobs? That is a false set of choices because both are required and it is not an either or set of choices. The...

NAACP Calling American Veterans the of the Tea Party Racist

The NAACP, this week, went on national media denouncing members of the Tea Party as racist. The NAACP would not allow news groups to record their resolution vote making their statement official. The NAACP would only...

Bush Tax Cut versus revenue decline: McConnell Kentucky windage

I am truly fair and balanced. I can whip up on a Democrat as well as a Republican when it is deserved. Mitch McConnell is not my favorite politician. He barely won in the last election though retained his...

Tea Party candidates and Clinton boom

Just when I thought that the Tea Party movement could not get any more ridiculous, I've found on the website of a Southern Tea Party candidate a claim that Bush and the Bush-era Republican Congress were liberals,...

Corey Poitier, A Black Man Perpetuating Republican Racism

When on March 22nd, as a congressional candidate for the 17th District in Florida, Corey Poitier, demanded that the President, "listen up, Buckwheat!"  It was no different than if he had said, "listen up nigger." But I don't think he did it because he wanted to call the...

UK Plunges into Red: "Faces Bigger Debt Crisis Than Greece"

Official figures sent the pound sliding yesterday as it was revealed the government had borrowed £4.3 billion in January.  Normally in January, annual tax revenues push the Exchequer into the black.  It is the first time there has been a deficit in January since...

Ed Rendell wants to bankrupt Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania continues to spend more than it takes in.For the fifth month in a row in the 2009-10 fiscal year that began July 1, the state spent more than it collected in tax revenues, resulting in a cumulative shortfall of $217 million at the end of November.While the...

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