Showing posts with label AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2009

KEITH OLBERMANN FIRED UP - GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK!

I was about to write-off MSNBC talk show hosts (with 2 exceptions) for being weak-kneed, kowtow to corporate, don't do your homework, mealy mouthed, "talk about nothing" hacks ... and then I would walk away, never to look back. Keith Olbermann was on vacation for what seemed like forever, and all MSNBC really had to offer was Rachel Maddow.
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Morning Joe was getting on my nerves; because they hardly ever do their homework.
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And Joe and Mika and guests (especially Mika)? ... well, they act like stage actors. They have a script, and they just read from corporate script. Occasionally, there will be a fresh unscripted guest or two, but for the most part ... Morning Joe is not much to look forward to.
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Anyway, after yesterday's "Morning Joe" dribble, I was through with MSNBC ... through, through, through ... that is until I tuned into Keith Olbermann last night. Oh my God, .... Keith was back ... and I mean back ... yep, ... corporate wasn't controlling Keith last night. He let loose.
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Let's take a peak at what went on. ....
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The paid and/ or scripted whack jobs are coming out of their home state asylums (like Texas), and the friends of lobbyists and big industry special interest groups are reaping huge rewards for trying to derail or hi-jack health care reform.

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What troubles me is that the far-right of the Republican Party has never stopped their lying and scheming ways. They will do whatever, no matter how under-handed, to win. I don't think they have any other ideas; and I don't get it, because they are "cutting off their nose to spite their face" and they are getting dupes (the people who they're hurting) to help them.

Remember Robert Parry's (Feb. 25, 2009) article? The GOP's Anti-Obama Propaganda"
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We brought in some back up for Keith ... though he definitely doesn't need it.
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WATCH
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The Republican Party, the party of "no" and "no ideas (unless it involves lying and scheming)", has been operating behind closed doors for a long time, seeking to derail any legislation or policy or election that will be in the interest of the Middle Class. How do they get away with this crap?
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My mother last year told me about receiving an absentee ballot with Barack Obama's name spelled Barack Osama. She resides in an area that was controlled by Republicans.

Remember the GOP’s Voter Suppression scheme in swing states?

And the race card? Give me a break; ... the far-right plays "the race card" better than anyone or any group I know. For heaven sakes, Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist, and it looks like he got away with it!
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MORE REPUBLICAN NONSENSE:
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The popular "cash for clunkers" is helping the auto industry, auto dealers, the environment, and the American people, and Republicans don't like it. We don't GET IT!!!

Well, actually we do get it. The GOP hates government, even though they work for government (uh?). The American tax-payer pays their salary, much of their benefits, etc., and they hate the government? Hey people, these shysters are double dipping. They get money from tax-payers, who they screw over, so they can get paid by big business (lobbyists) to do big business bidding.

Oh you, the tax-payer, might end up with a crumb or two; however, these representatives rake in millions.

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More backup:
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yeah Rachel ...
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Friday night, our group wrote our Senators the following:

"The American tax-payer pays your salary, for your trips out of state and around the world (on government business of course), a large portion of your employee benefits which includes a wonderful Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. It's marvelous.

We pay for all the active military and veterans benefits and defense employees’ wages and salaries.

We also pay the president's salary and a large portion of his benefits and trips around the world (on government business, of course).

I know there are many, many other perks as a Senator.

So let me refresh, - the tax payer is making your life very safe, very healthy and very comfortable and pleasurable, while you may have a problem (can't be sure -if I'm wrong please forgive) with providing each and every American (who pays for the above), quality, affordable, comprehensive health care much like your own or similar to what our veterans or seniors receive.

You might want to think about that just a little while on break.

Have a nice recess."


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KEITH'S SPECIAL COMMENT: LEGISLATORS FOR SALE


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I'll grant you that Democrats have their problems and their issues; but they are the party for the Middle Class and the small business owner.
The GOP claims they're on the side of the small business owner; but you can't be for big business and the small business owner; because big business on many occasions discourages competition.
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How can it do that? ... Cause it’s too big, people.
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Big business can under-cut most small businesses. These big companies do high volume sales; and when the go to market to buy supplies or items for resale, they get better discounts. They also have a lot of advertising dollars to throw around; as well as lobbying monies to give to Congressman and Senators to create, influence or derail legislation that has to do with their interests.
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Most small business owners have a hard time competing, given those obstacles. Unless you've got a unique product or service, or dedicated audience, you're usually out-matched. And if you're really, really, really good, ... big ole corporate will try anything to bring you down; they might even buy you out (if nothing else works).
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Yep, folks, big ole corporates friend is the GOP; because the GOP, the Republican Party, will not stand in the way of them doing whatever it takes to be king of the land. If a Republican hears the words, "regulation" ... oh my God, ... they will call in the "commie" police.
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Remember those businesses that are still "too big to fail"? The legislation that created this economic mess was sponsored by Republicans. [Gramm-Leach-Bliley]
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How's the Democrats faring so far? ...
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Legislation:
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Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Signed: Monday, June 22, 2009
Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009
Signed: Friday, May 22, 2009
Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act
Signed: Friday, May 22, 2009
Helping Families Save Their Homes Act
Signed: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act
Signed: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
Signed: Wednesday, April 21, 2009
Omnibus Public Lands Management Act
Signed: Monday, March 30, 2009
Small Business Act Temporary Extension
Signed: Friday, March 20, 2009
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Signed: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
DTV Delay Act
Signed: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act
Signed: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Signed: Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Oh, ..... and then there's that new post 9/11 G.I. bill.
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Democrats, keep up the good work.
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GOP STRATEGIES TO DERAIL HEALTH CARE REFORM:


The GOP town hall script:http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/townhallactionmemo.pdf


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

AMERICANS SOLD A BILL OF BULL

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Americans have bought into a lie and cling to it despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Americans seem to think that there is more class upward mobility in the United States than there is in other industrialized Nations that have large welfare states.*** Well, their belief is not supported by the facts.
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Doesn't surprise me at all. Americans have been listening to the **wrong people for a long time and buying into an ideology that is designed to keep most Americans less mobile. **[There have been more Republican administrations than Democratic administrations.]
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I had hoped we were smarter. Probably Americans had the mistaken notion about upward mobility because of the availability of credit cards and refinancing which allowed them to run up a "shameful" amount of debt for things they could not afford ... giving the illusion of being well off or living comfortably.
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I would bet, that if these Americans who feel that there is more upward mobility in the United States than elsewhere, would gladly go back into "suck the life out of you" debt just to make a point ... a stupid point ... but Americans are stubborn and so easily "snowed".
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Below are graphs which show where Americans stand vs citizens in northern European countries in regards to upward mobility. Americans also have the highest crime rates, the most pollution, the fattest people, the least educated, the most people in prisons, the most people without health care, and we make less money per productivity gains. All this evidence and we still cling to a false belief that countries with large "welfare states" are just horrible and don't allow for upward mobility.
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So here's the evidence, but I would bet that the "Americans for Prosperity" would deny it ... even looking at the truth ... that's how deluded most Americans are.
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From: "Surveys: Americans grip to Individualism in Economic Storm"
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"Not only do voters continue to be convinced, by large majorities, that they, and not government or big corporations, control their own destinies in the midst of the current recession, but they do so despite more long-term evidence suggesting that there is less class mobility in the United States than in most Northern European countries, or in Canada, and that U.S. wages have not kept up with productivity gains for the past three decades.
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This conviction underpins the long-standing American hostility to a full-fledged welfare state -- along the lines of many European countries -- and underpins the lack of a strong socialist tradition in the US. It also shapes the debate over policies to deal with the current recession, including the Obama administration's rejection of bank nationalization."
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Update November 10, 2010
How the Wealthy Organized to Rip Everyone Else off -- And What You Can Do to Stop It | | AlterNet by Maria Armoudian



*Survey of 2119 respondents conducted by the Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies for the Pew Economic Mobility Project
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***Denmark has a free market capitalist economy, and a large welfare state,[3]. It ranks according to one measure as having the world's highest level of income equality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark
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"Norway has a Scandinavian welfare model and the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANADA
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"The French healthcare system was ranked first worldwide by the World Health Organization in 1997.[54] It is almost entirely free for people affected by chronic diseases (Affections de longues durées) such as cancers, AIDS or Cystic Fibrosis. Average life expectancy at birth is 79.73 years."
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Monday, March 16, 2009

SUPPORT FOR STIMULUS DWINDLING? BEWARE OF AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY AND CONSERVATIVES!

Read recently that American support for the stimulus was dwindling. They sited a poll from the Pew Research Center. The Americans who are now questioning the stimulus have been brainwashed by the "chatter" of Republicans, the conservative Americans for Prosperity and others, and polls from "think tanks" like the PEW Research Center .
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I don't want to call those Americans [who listen to chatter] ignorant, but anyone who listens to a Republican, whose entire mission in life is to embrace a laissez-faire attitude towards business (whether its oil, weapons, health insurance companies, financial services corporations, or corporations that pollute the air, etc.) and pass laws so that Big Business flourishes [and then they cripple labor by opposing fair labor laws], is being misled every step of the way.
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Republicans are so concerned about government becoming too big and tightening spending, they never get around to addressing the deep-rooted problems facing every American and their children.
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They never addressed global warming, which is now in crisis stage ... allowing Big Business to pollute our air ... giving them tax breaks even though they were and are killing us and our children.
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Republicans screamed "hands off" when it came to health insurance companies; and therefore let abuses and greed go unchecked while American's health suffered and people died because they could not afford health insurance and/or medicine. If you couldn't afford health insurance or the high cost of your life-saving medicine, well too bad ... not their problem.
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Republicans came up with laws that gave the financial services industry carte blanche ... and we see where that got us. [PHIL GRAMM, GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY ACT] Democrats eventually went along with Gramm-Leach-Bliley.
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Republicans hate regulation. They believe in letting the markets take care of themselves. This laissez-faire attitude allowed derivatives and credit default swaps to go unrestrained and unregulated. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which allowed corporations to get bigger and bigger, and the lack of regulation, allowed a company like AIG to spread and entrench their tentacles multi-nationally so that now we have little idea how to untangle this "multinational economic ticking time bomb".
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And this is part of Republican ideology people ... and it can be a life threatening ideology. Whenever you hear someone oppose the President's plans, look at the companies and people behind the opposition.
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The President wants this Nation to move into the 21st century and a "Green Economy" ... what everyone (world-wide) recognizes that this is the direction we have to go. The Big Oil/Natural Gas corporations don't want you to do this. So, I'm going to ask you to look at who's behind the PEW Research Center. Who do you see? Right, big oil ... Sun Oil. Who's behind Americans for Prosperity? Guess who's opposing "cap and trade" and their spurious reasoning behind it?
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Wake up ... Wake up ... Wake up People!
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