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...

Highest property taxes in the country

Homeowners in the Northeast pay the highest property taxes in the nation, according to calculations of Census Bureau data made by The Tax Foundation, the organization that advocates for fair tax policy.

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...

Just do something

The best stimulation now is from tax relief to those who need it, excluding those who don’t. Even Boehner is getting the idea. A do nothing approach isn’t acceptable. Doing too much, i.e., borrowing $50 billion...

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...

Senior Citizens Are Not Free from Taxes

The state has decided that senior citizens are not free from taxes anymore, thanks to the foreclosure crisis. "The senior citizens of America reeling under property taxes are seeking help from the counties. The state has stopped providing aid following freeze in cash flow....

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...

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,...

New Sarah Palin Ad Features Moms Who Oppose Health Care - VIDEO

"Sarah Palin’s political action committee, Sarah PAC, released its first campaign video of the year. Titled “Mama Grizzlies,” the ad portrays Sarah Palin as a fiercely independent mom joined by other moms who oppose health care for all Americans per federal law and...

GOP Opposes Tax on Cancer Causing Tanning Salons - VIDEO

"Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee sand that “no amount of sunscreen or Aloe will relieve the pain of the Democrats’ impending 10 percent tax on indoor tanning beds" (which have been medically proven to cause skin cancer).  The Heritage Foundation...

Republican Lies: How do they get away with it?

As I continue in my political research to view the standpoints and platforms of Republican candidates, I feel like shouting at them. That I of course cannot do; but I can write what I think about their statements...

Addressing Republican Candidates

Presently doing political research, I encounter a lot of right-wing rhetoric on candidate sites. Here is my response to this rhetoric.How dare you claim to be America, and the rest of America to not be America?How dare you claim  that America is you?53% of American...

Government and Generations

In different generations, there is a youth sentiment that tries to carry the day until met with reality. In the baby boom generation this sentiment was anti-business, and it continued until it was met with reality of international economic competition. What was seen...

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