"If you were smarter, Michael, you would have put
IN NEW ORLEANS The massive government effort to repair the damage from Hurricane Katrina is fostering a stark divide as the state governments in Louisiana and Mississippi structured the rebuilding programs in ways that often offered the most help to the most affluent residents.
The result, advocates say, has been an uneven recovery, with whites and middle-class people more likely than blacks and low-income people to have rebuilt their lives in the five years since the horrific storm.
Gee, you mean in America, the cards are stacked in favor of the Rich? whodathunkit?
(WaPo)
If the George W. Bush tax cuts for rich people are working, why the hell have we been LOSING jobs since the cuts have been in effect and why is our economy still tanking? One would think that our country could use the extra $36 BILLION we'd get from letting the tax cuts expire.
Poor people don't provide jobs is a crock of shit. If people can't afford to buy things, then things aren't being sold, ergo no need to make more things, ergo no jobs.
It's not a difficult concept to grasp, for Christsake.
One more thing to chew on: If giving money to the poor is socialism, why does it not count when you're giving it to the rich? Or the Banksters?
Aaaarrrrrghghghgh!!!!!
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He knows the real reason Jesus died Link
"Screw the poor."
"I'm a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims." - What Obama really said to "those Muslims" Link
This blog is filled with examples of everything that is wrong with Republicans. Well, here is what's wrong with Democrats.
With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation's wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array of Bush administration tax cuts, at least through next year.
[...] a growing cadre of Democrats – alarmed by evidence that the recovery is losing steam and fearful of wounding conservative Democrats in a tough election year – are advocating a plan that would permanently extend tax cuts benefiting the middle class while renewing breaks for the wealthy through 2011, senior Democratic aides said.
Is there no issue out there which Democrats are not willing to water down or backtrack from? They have a strong argument for letting the tax cuts for the rich expire – namely that keeping the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% increases the debt by billions. And when did this chart stop being true?
I understand that politics is a cruel game of compromise where one cannot enact change unless they're holding power. But where does one draw the line? At what point does standing up for what is right and fiscally responsible win out over political expediency?
You can't be wimps all the time and expect to gain anyone's respect. You either stand for something or you don't and right now it's hard to determine what it is Dems do stand for.
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Drowning government in a bathtub
Fire departments around the nation are cutting jobs, closing firehouses and increasingly resorting to "rolling brownouts" in which they shut different fire companies on different days as the economic downturn forces many cities and towns to make deep cuts that are slowing their responses to fires and other emergencies.Philadelphia began rolling brownouts this month, joining cities from Baltimore to Sacramento that now shut some units every day. San Jose, Calif., laid off 49 firefighters last month. And Lawrence, Mass., north of Boston, has laid off firefighters and shut down half of its six firehouses, forcing the city to rely on help from neighboring departments each time a fire goes to a second alarm.
I bet most of them are just union members sucking at the government teat.
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Levi Johnston takes back his apology to Palin
