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Showing posts with label Stimulus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stimulus. Show all posts
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Friday, July 24, 2009
BOBBY JINDAL AND MORE REPUBLICAN LIES
Rudolph Giuliani (on MSNBC with Carlos Watson) said that stimulus money was going to areas where Democrats won. Well, considering that Democrats won in huge majorities in many states, and Republican governors rejected stimulus money, why is Guliani even bringing the subject up? Well, most of us who are paying attention know why.
-Republicans are in the minority and have taken a political beating and they are pretty much the party of no ideas, and have said "no" to almost every piece of legislation. Giuliani himself has not contributed anything since he left office other than to be an obstructionist who is hell bent on propping up his own Party and destroying President Obama and his agenda (even though the American people voted for that agenda). If you have no ideas (and think about this), what do you do? You try to beat up the other person. So Republicans are beating up on the Democrats and President Obama. They are engaged in propaganda and lies.
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Furthermore, Republicans are huge supporters of big business and insurance companies. They have consistently drafted legislation that benefited big business and hurt the consumer.
Ex: GRAMM-LEACH-BILEY which helped lead to today's crisis and "too big to fail". They helped create this financial crisis and these huge job lay-offs. Republicans don't want you to remember any of that. Nor do they want you to remember that they got us into two wars, one (Iraq) which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in a place where we should never have been.
Now Bobby Jindal is trying to take credit for something that he initially rejected. Jindal rejected the stimulus money. He wanted no parts of it. Now he's going around handing out money, half of which comes from the stimulus. HYPOCRITE!
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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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Sunday, February 22, 2009
GOV. BOBBY JINDAL TO TURN DOWN STIMULUS MONEY IN ONE OF THE POOREST STATES
Republican Govs. Haley Barbour (Miss.), Mark Sanford (S.C.), Bobby Jindal (La.) and Sarah Palin (Alaska) have all said they intend to turn down some of the funding. Other Republican governors have said they will generally accept all the funds allocated to their state, though some have hinted they may join the group over certain portions of the bill they oppose. [Source Politico]
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One of those threatening to not accept funds, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.), didn’t agree with Rendell’s estimation, but did concede that the perceived scope of the threat may be overblown. “I would think that 100 percent will take some percentage of the funding,” he said. Barbour added that he anticipates to turn down roughly $50 million in funding for social programs that he believes would be counterproductive. [Source Politico]
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Bobby Jindal's remarks on "Meet the Press" Sunday are suspect.
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Plus, many of the part-time workers who Jindal wants to exclude from unemployment benefits, are women with families in addition to low-income workers.
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Who is Bobby Jindal?
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In the aftermath of Katrina, when poor Whites were shooting at African Americans [see my post on Katrina], ... it's interesting that Jindal holds firm to anti-gun control ... or is that just Republican politics as usual?
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Jindal talks ethics reform, but, according to Nola.com [2/1/2008]:
"Jindal declined to say why he did not propose banning the use of campaign contributions to pay fines, which became a topic of debate last week when he was charged by the state Board of Ethics for failing to report $118,000 in contributions by the state Republican Party.
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Jindal's press secretary has said that the governor plans to pay a $2,500 fine to settle the matter, and that the money will come from his campaign account."
Jindal's press secretary has said that the governor plans to pay a $2,500 fine to settle the matter, and that the money will come from his campaign account."
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I remember Jindal at the Republican Governor's meeting in Florida after the Republican Party's big defeat in the Presidential election and throughout the United States. There was much talk about changing school curriculum's to reflect Republican values and highlighting people who Republicans touted as Conservative/Republican heroes [I heard every word ... I watch C-SPAN often... guess no one else does].
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Ever wonder why the poor and low-income people can't get a break? The Politico Source tells all."
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No one wants to stay poor or earn very little wages, but there is a vested interest in keeping this group of people (poor and low income Caucasian/Native American/Hispanic/African American/etc.) "in their place". Sound familiar... used to hear that from ....umm .... yep, the South. Well these GOP Southern Governors are proving that they still need to keep certain folks "in their place". Voters ... don't forget these guys!
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Ms. Palin has about 98,000 Alaskan Natives and 20,000 African Americans in her state (many poor and low-income) ... guess she doesn't care about them either.
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We often hear people say that poor and low income people are ignorant and have low values. Truth is ... the educational system, the health care system and political system have failed them. Since many poor and low-income people are clustered together, needed funds are often diverted from or never get to their districts.
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The other thing that has been successful in keeping this group "in their place", is getting them to blame each other for their plight and fight among themselves.
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Well, when you cluster people together like pack rats, and deny them good water and sewer systems, lack of access to good health and dental care (and that includes mental health), make illegal drugs and alcohol attractive money making enterprises ... add in overcrowded and ill-equipped classrooms, with poorly trained or under-staffed teachers and decaying schools, that's a "catastrophe waiting to happen" and a "time bomb" ready to go off.
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That is why ACORN is such a threat. They bring the poor and low-income together for a common cause and benefit to offer "hope" and a better life. [If you want to keep the poor and low-income "in their place", you never want them to vote or ask for anything... and you want everyone to despise them.] Well, we have plenty of evidence that the poor and low-income are despised, disenfranchised and the most likely to end up in jail or prison.
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Once you're in the prison system, you might as well forget it... cause if and when you get out, it will become incredibly hard to integrate into mainstream society.
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So people ... parts of the President's Recovery Plan is a threat to those people who wish "those people" would stay "in their place". Guess what parts those GOP Governors want to turn down?
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Unless you make this a country where everyone has a chance to live a good decent life with "hope" for the future, this country will stay fractured/ruptured/divided and teetering on the brink of disaster.
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One more thing ... I was listening to Rick Sanchez on CNN a few weeks ago, and someone from Jindal's state [LA] twittered ... [in reference to "services" in Louisiana]... The twitterer said "what services?".
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
UNBELIEVABLE!
NEWS FLASH EVERYONE!
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The "Minority Party", the "Party of Bad Judgement", the Party that the people of the United States did not vote for, the Party who ripped the economic fabric from this Nation and the World, the "Party of Nothing" is all over the air waves telling people the Recovery Package is BAD, BAD, BAD. They are everywhere ... CNN, C-SPAN (Oh my god!), FOX NEWS (no surprise), CBS, etc.
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IS THERE A NEWS AGENCY, STATION OR MEDIA CONGLOMERATE CHALLENGING THEM?
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Well we know there are, but except for Rachel Maddow and Keith Obermann, that news media has to beg for money to stay alive because they are not backed by the powerful Rupert Murdochs and various other media conglomerates of this world.
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IS ANYBODY LISTENING TO THE "PARTY OF "NO" the "PARTY OF NOTHING"?
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I DAMN SURE HOPE NOT!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
THE GOP- ALL ABOUT NOTHING
Why the GOP's "no" on the Recovery (part Stimulus) Package is really evidence that they're all about nothing.
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People, let's say it over and over again ... the Republican Party is the "Party of Nothing".
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People, let's say it over and over again ... the Republican Party is the "Party of Nothing".
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That said, there are 3 exceptions to the "Party of Nothing"; let us applaud and thank Pennsylvania's Alen Specter [who previously had voted for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - yeah!], Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine. Those 3 brave Republicans went against their Party and voted for the Recovery Package. BRAVO!
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