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Dear Paul Rosenburg:
I really appreciated what you wrote about LBJ. Too many people on the amoral left want to forget what that Congress achieved in only two years. They always use some vague campaign slogan like "Yes We Can" while telling us on the moral left what we can't do. That level of hypocritical cynicism is not only sickening, but it will destroy what's left of the democratic party. Those DLC sympathizers might be fine with the corrupt, political status quo, but a lot of people thought that they were getting change. Your documentation of LBJ's record is right on time, because it keeps the DLC sympathizers from redifining what change really is.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
I really appreciated what you wrote about LBJ. Too many people on the amoral left want to forget what that Congress achieved in only two years. They always use some vague campaign slogan like "Yes We Can" while telling us on the moral left what we can't do. That level of hypocritical cynicism is not only sickening, but it will destroy what's left of the democratic party. Those DLC sympathizers might be fine with the corrupt, political status quo, but a lot of people thought that they were getting change. Your documentation of LBJ's record is right on time, because it keeps the DLC sympathizers from redifining what change really is.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Dear Tom Harkin:
Yes, Harvey Dent is appeasing the regressive right with his revamped trickle-down stimulus. It was only about three weeks ago when some in the fantasy-based community were hailing the stimulus as the lone, "progressive" beacon of light in the parade of Clintonian cabinet appointments. I wonder what their fallback position will be this time. Surely, it can't be Harvey's trickle-down health scheme which does more for those who already have insurance than for those who don't. We'll see how this developes. Keep showing the young bucks what a Democrat is supposed to be. America needs a little bit of old school right about now.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Yes, Harvey Dent is appeasing the regressive right with his revamped trickle-down stimulus. It was only about three weeks ago when some in the fantasy-based community were hailing the stimulus as the lone, "progressive" beacon of light in the parade of Clintonian cabinet appointments. I wonder what their fallback position will be this time. Surely, it can't be Harvey's trickle-down health scheme which does more for those who already have insurance than for those who don't. We'll see how this developes. Keep showing the young bucks what a Democrat is supposed to be. America needs a little bit of old school right about now.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Dear Bruce Dixon:
Your commentary was on point. Photo-op politicians like Mayor Richard Daley and President-elect Harvey Dent don't care about the commons. They are more interested in telling us what government can't do. If these photo-op politicians were really interested in an effective, competent government they would enact tarriffs (something that is in the Constitution by the way), sales taxes on things we like the least, and income taxes on wealthy investors. I didn't even mention the military budget which consumes over 50% of the national budget even before supplementals. Folks in the reality-based community are tired of photo-op politicians passing our debt on to our children. That is especially irresponsible if there is no working plan to pay the debt off. Don't they know that we are going to have to pay China back one way or another? Engaging in "public-private partnerships", as you have noted, is just another short term scam that will catch up with us in the long run. The quality of the air we breath or the water we drink shouldn't have to go into a recession, just because some photo-op politicians are too corporate to fix the causes of this current recession.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Your commentary was on point. Photo-op politicians like Mayor Richard Daley and President-elect Harvey Dent don't care about the commons. They are more interested in telling us what government can't do. If these photo-op politicians were really interested in an effective, competent government they would enact tarriffs (something that is in the Constitution by the way), sales taxes on things we like the least, and income taxes on wealthy investors. I didn't even mention the military budget which consumes over 50% of the national budget even before supplementals. Folks in the reality-based community are tired of photo-op politicians passing our debt on to our children. That is especially irresponsible if there is no working plan to pay the debt off. Don't they know that we are going to have to pay China back one way or another? Engaging in "public-private partnerships", as you have noted, is just another short term scam that will catch up with us in the long run. The quality of the air we breath or the water we drink shouldn't have to go into a recession, just because some photo-op politicians are too corporate to fix the causes of this current recession.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Notice the rush of the Big Three Auto companies' executives to collect the bailout from Congress in time for them to pay themselves hundreds of millions in bonus for Christmas!!
Barack Obama must require that none of the auto companies' executives receive any bonus this year.
Further, Barack must require that they all work for $1.00, One Dollar annual salary in 2009.
Anything else is a total rape not just of the taxpayers, but a rape of all America.
Barack Obama must require that none of the auto companies' executives receive any bonus this year.
Further, Barack must require that they all work for $1.00, One Dollar annual salary in 2009.
Anything else is a total rape not just of the taxpayers, but a rape of all America.
Dear Jonathan Stein:
If you didn't already know, you should have asked somebody. Black people don't need a symbol. Black people need good paying jobs!
Sincerely,
pee-wee
If you didn't already know, you should have asked somebody. Black people don't need a symbol. Black people need good paying jobs!
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Dear Harvey Dent:
I just want to clarify something that I wrote to you the other day. When I said we needed a small business flat tax, I wasn't talking about what you or the other photo-op politicians currently call small businesses. Before we can have a small business flat tax (to go with the living wage) we must first redefine what a small business is. Any business that has offices in more than one state shall not be considered a small business. Any business that is part of a franchise shall not be considered a small business. Any business which is a subcontractor for a big business shall not be considered a small business. I know how you Washington types are. Any hint of something that might appease the regressive right is seen as a way to look post-partisan. You are not getting off that easy.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
I just want to clarify something that I wrote to you the other day. When I said we needed a small business flat tax, I wasn't talking about what you or the other photo-op politicians currently call small businesses. Before we can have a small business flat tax (to go with the living wage) we must first redefine what a small business is. Any business that has offices in more than one state shall not be considered a small business. Any business that is part of a franchise shall not be considered a small business. Any business which is a subcontractor for a big business shall not be considered a small business. I know how you Washington types are. Any hint of something that might appease the regressive right is seen as a way to look post-partisan. You are not getting off that easy.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
Dear Harvey Dent:
I hope that this new development forces some folks to reevaluate their allegiance to the fantasy-based community. I'm not that bothered, because I always knew you were a photo-op politician who would triangulate your way out of a circle. Since you've bought into the regressive, trickle-down economic philosophy (at least for the next two years) why not use this as an opportunity to challenge inequity in other parts of the tax code. I have a few suggestions that deserve more that just your political hitmen's attention:
*Small Business Flat Tax
*3-year Startup Business Tax Holiday
*Move top capital gains tax rate to 40%
*Property Tax Cap
*Wall Street Securities Sales Tax
*1% sales tax on Chinese products
*2% sales tax increase on alcohol (since you care SO much about crime and unwanted pregnancies)
The main goal is to create a tax code that will make the living wage a reality while simultaneously encouraging innovation and new ideas from *NEW* economic players. I am even willing to cut or eliminate dividend taxes since they tend to be long-term investments. You have shown yourself to be an establishment appeaser, but I am giving you a chance to prove me wrong.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
p.s. I didn't even mention a marijuana tax, but you haven't shown yourself to be socially liberal either.
I hope that this new development forces some folks to reevaluate their allegiance to the fantasy-based community. I'm not that bothered, because I always knew you were a photo-op politician who would triangulate your way out of a circle. Since you've bought into the regressive, trickle-down economic philosophy (at least for the next two years) why not use this as an opportunity to challenge inequity in other parts of the tax code. I have a few suggestions that deserve more that just your political hitmen's attention:
*Small Business Flat Tax
*3-year Startup Business Tax Holiday
*Move top capital gains tax rate to 40%
*Property Tax Cap
*Wall Street Securities Sales Tax
*1% sales tax on Chinese products
*2% sales tax increase on alcohol (since you care SO much about crime and unwanted pregnancies)
The main goal is to create a tax code that will make the living wage a reality while simultaneously encouraging innovation and new ideas from *NEW* economic players. I am even willing to cut or eliminate dividend taxes since they tend to be long-term investments. You have shown yourself to be an establishment appeaser, but I am giving you a chance to prove me wrong.
Sincerely,
pee-wee
p.s. I didn't even mention a marijuana tax, but you haven't shown yourself to be socially liberal either.
The plan, regardless of whose changes are applied to it, is still a short term reaction to a long term problem.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be liquidated. Government caused the problem. Throwing tax dollars down the toilet fixes othing.
This plan will destroy what is left of our economy.
We need a totally different long term plan to cure our totally messed up economy.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be liquidated. Government caused the problem. Throwing tax dollars down the toilet fixes othing.
This plan will destroy what is left of our economy.
We need a totally different long term plan to cure our totally messed up economy.
A few days ago I criticized the Repub for defrauding investors for permiting trading in the stocks of Fannie mae and Freddie Mac.
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/franklynch/CxMV
Today its was announced that 9 percent of mortgages are late or delinquent. Astoundingly, One of eleven mortgages are bad.
When those people become homeless, things will get much worse.
The cost to the economy and to us taxpayers for all the bank bailouts that will follow will place the US on the verge of bankruptcy.
Homeprices are going to continue to decline, which means more mortgages will be upsidedown (where the mortgage is larger than the home value). That will result in even more people walking away from their mortages, and HOME PRICES WILL DECLINE EVEN FURTHER
for years. . . .
and revene from property taxes will continue to decline, robbing our already short-changed schools of much needed revenue, so our children will pay the price of government lack of regulation
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One of our Party Builders, Robert Brooks, has written an excellent article on his blog at http://thewildernessvoice.blogspot.com/
I am not duplicating his excellent article, but making a major correction. As shocking as his article is, and with great respect to Mr. Brooks, he understates the problem.
He uses the example of the year 1967 for his computations that the dollar has lost 80 percent of its value in forty years, compared, among other things to the price of gold.
I beg to argue that the two most relevant benchmarks are the price of oil, and the median homeprice, since those two items determine the price of almost everything else we spend our money on.
In 1967 a barrel of oil was $2.90 a barrel. Today, Sept. 2, 2008 oil closed at a five year low of $105, which indicates a loss of 97 percent in the value of a dollar.
National figures on median home prices are subject to manipulation, so I will use my home.
My home was built in 1967, coincidentally the same base year used as a base by Mr. Brooks.
The current market value of my home indicates a 92 percent loss in the value of the dollar. People are mistaken when they think they have made money when a homeprice goes up. What you are really seeing is inflation: it takes more dollars to buy the same thing.
In the 39 or 40 years since 1967, Republicans have controlled the White House most of the time, but there is plenty of blame to go around for both parties.
What this really means is that our government has stolen 92 to 97 percent of the life savings that people had in 1967.
And every year they are stealing more of our life savings. Greenspan is a traitor who belongs in jail, because the statutory job of the Federal Reserve is to preserve a sound dollar.
Greenspan only missed the mark by 95 percent.
We need CHANGE
In case I did not state it clearly, WE NEED CHANGE
I am not duplicating his excellent article, but making a major correction. As shocking as his article is, and with great respect to Mr. Brooks, he understates the problem.
He uses the example of the year 1967 for his computations that the dollar has lost 80 percent of its value in forty years, compared, among other things to the price of gold.
I beg to argue that the two most relevant benchmarks are the price of oil, and the median homeprice, since those two items determine the price of almost everything else we spend our money on.
In 1967 a barrel of oil was $2.90 a barrel. Today, Sept. 2, 2008 oil closed at a five year low of $105, which indicates a loss of 97 percent in the value of a dollar.
National figures on median home prices are subject to manipulation, so I will use my home.
My home was built in 1967, coincidentally the same base year used as a base by Mr. Brooks.
The current market value of my home indicates a 92 percent loss in the value of the dollar. People are mistaken when they think they have made money when a homeprice goes up. What you are really seeing is inflation: it takes more dollars to buy the same thing.
In the 39 or 40 years since 1967, Republicans have controlled the White House most of the time, but there is plenty of blame to go around for both parties.
What this really means is that our government has stolen 92 to 97 percent of the life savings that people had in 1967.
And every year they are stealing more of our life savings. Greenspan is a traitor who belongs in jail, because the statutory job of the Federal Reserve is to preserve a sound dollar.
Greenspan only missed the mark by 95 percent.
We need CHANGE
In case I did not state it clearly, WE NEED CHANGE
Everybody is ranting about Sara Bara Cuda misusing her power to get her brother in law fired. Problem is, there are reports he had been caught driving his Police Car while drunk.
Do not underestimate the Republicans. They will try very hard to find a way to use this to generate sympathy for Palin as defending the health and safety of her poor little sister.
It is much safer for us to attack on the issues, and attack McCain.
Palin is a false target the Republicans set up to distract us.
It is entirely possible that the only reason they chose her is purely as a way to distract us.
And it is working. She is all we talk about.
It is as though Barack disappeared from the face of the earth.
Get the focus on our strength: BARACK
Attack where we have the most strength: on the issues of universal healthcare, free college, extending education, plug-in cars etc
Always attack from strength (our superior issues) instead of attacking a woman who can claim she is defending her family, thereby creating resentment of us.
McCain/Bush and the issues are our strength, use them and forget the distraction.
Do not underestimate the Republicans. They will try very hard to find a way to use this to generate sympathy for Palin as defending the health and safety of her poor little sister.
It is much safer for us to attack on the issues, and attack McCain.
Palin is a false target the Republicans set up to distract us.
It is entirely possible that the only reason they chose her is purely as a way to distract us.
And it is working. She is all we talk about.
It is as though Barack disappeared from the face of the earth.
Get the focus on our strength: BARACK
Attack where we have the most strength: on the issues of universal healthcare, free college, extending education, plug-in cars etc
Always attack from strength (our superior issues) instead of attacking a woman who can claim she is defending her family, thereby creating resentment of us.
McCain/Bush and the issues are our strength, use them and forget the distraction.
Register to vote, and send Voltage to play at the Democratic National Convention. We have songs that are perfect for the event already written, and I am already the number one democrat at the DNC.
The following is an analysis of the Bush Administration and its deficit spending as of June 2003. I am looking for more recent information. In the meantime, I have a question. How wold increased deficit spending under a Democratic administration be effective in dealing with a steepening recession and the problem of stagflation? http://www.ctj.org/html/debt0603.htm
Obama wins:
Guam
North Carolina
Indiana
Oregon
Montana
South Dakota
Clinton wins:
Penn.
West Virginia
Kentucky
Puerto Rico
Final Delegate Count w/supers
Obama 1906
Clinton 1790
+
- 8% of supers
Spread: Obama +116
Remaining supers decide.
Clinton need 71% to win.
Will Supers over-ride will of Popular voters?
Guam
North Carolina
Indiana
Oregon
Montana
South Dakota
Clinton wins:
Penn.
West Virginia
Kentucky
Puerto Rico
Final Delegate Count w/supers
Obama 1906
Clinton 1790
+
- 8% of supers
Spread: Obama +116
Remaining supers decide.
Clinton need 71% to win.
Will Supers over-ride will of Popular voters?
The news is bias. Quit watching. The goal is to make money- not to inform. Do you know what COINTELPRO is? Here are two links that might help you out.
I said before that Mississippi would be the new "bellweather" state. Include the votes from Florida and Michigan and Clinton might still be ahead but it should be by a margin of no more than 25,000 votes (est.) but Obama will be up by about the same amount in total delegates as before the Texas primary.
Check those delegate totals on March 30th.
On to Philly!
President Obama 2009
Check those delegate totals on March 30th.
On to Philly!
President Obama 2009
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