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Quick! Guess How Many Jobs Were Created Per Month During The Bush Administration...
"AVERAGE NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED PER MONTH BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: 20,000
AVERAGE NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED PER MONTH BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION EXCLUDING THE DISASTROUS LAST YEAR: 65,000
NUMBER OF MONTHS IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IN WHICH THERE WERE 500,000 OR MORE JOBS CREATED: 0.
(In fact, there were no months in the Bush Administration in which there were 400,000 jobs created).
Source: The BLS"
Not much more to it than that!
FROM Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/number-of-jobs-created-per-month-by-george-bush-2012-5
Our 14.3 Trillion dollar debt and who/how it accumulated in a nutshell...
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12/3/2011 - Obama pushes payroll tax cut extension; 4/24/2012 - Social Security closer to insolvency
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-pushes-payroll-tax-cut-extension-111137992.htmlhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/la-na-medicare-report-20120424,0,4992334.story
One must wonder if the administration chooses to be complicit in damaging social security, or if they are completely deaf to Progressives who offer the best solutions to the countries problems - such as raising the cap on SS taxes on those making over 1 million a year which will make SS solvent for at least 75 years, as in Sen. Sanders currently proposed legislation (see http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=f63d73c1-81df-4dfb-aac3-730092ed9406).
I hope he and his strategists realize just how much they need Progressives to win the election.
It would be nice to see him use the bully pulpit to continually push Sanders proposed legislation.
WEIRD: Wife of pro-life Rick Santorum had love affair with abortion doctor who delivered her as baby
"The wife of fiercely pro-life presidential hopeful Rick Santorum had a six-year love affair with an abortion doctor, 40 years her senior - who, incredibly, delivered her as a baby - it has emerged.
Karen Santorum, 51, who, like her husband, opposes abortion even in cases of rape and doesn't believe in using birth control, lived with Pittsburgh abortion pioneer Dr Thomas E. Allen for most of her 20s in the 1980s.
When she met Dr Allen, Mrs Santorum, who then went by the name Karen Garver, was a 22-year-old nursing student who shared his liberal views on abortion and enjoyed life as the younger lover of the 63-year-old divorcee and man-about-town, according to friends.
The image of Mrs Santorum living with her progressive playboy boyfriend stands in sharp contrast to the matronly devout Catholic mother of seven that she plays on the campaign trail. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087812/Rick-Santorums-wife-Karen-love-affair-abortion-doctor.html
Records show the Bales' (Afghan massacre suspect) own two properties, both of which are underwater..
From: Soldier suspected in Afghanistan massacre to meet with lawyers
http://news.yahoo.com/soldier-suspected-afghanistan-massacre-meet-lawyers-010636514.html
"Records show the Bales' own two properties, both of which are underwater, meaning the mortgage balances are greater than the value of the properties.
Their main home near Lake Tapps, a white house with four bedrooms about 45 minutes east of Tacoma, was recently listed for sale at $229,000, according to the online real estate service Zillow.com. But Zillow, citing public transaction records, shows they paid for $280,000 for it in 2005.
Another realty website, for John L. Scott Real Estate, promotes the property as a "short sale," which occurs when a bank is willing to allow a homeowner to sell at a price below what is owed on the mortgage, accepting the loss on the remaining balance.
A smaller second property in the city of Auburn, about 10 miles to the north of their Lake Tapps home, was purchased by Karilyn Bales, then Karilyn Primeau, in 1999 for $99,500. While the property is assessed at $148,000, property records show it was remortgaged for the amount of $178,500 in 2006.
That property is in poor condition and has a "Do not occupy" notice from city authorities, posted in November 2010 due to "lack of sanitary facilities, lack of water to building."
"Microsoft seeks patent on monetizing buttons of TV remote"
Here’s an excerpt from the filing.
For example, if a user initiates a navigation control input to advance past (e.g., skip over) an advertisement, the cost of a requested on-demand movie may be increased. Similarly, if a user initiates a replay of a sporting event, the user may be charged for the replay control input and for each subsequent view control input. This provides an advertisement revenue model that reflects user viewing choices and selections during playback of requested on-demand media, and enables targeted advertising and media content delivery, while maintaining consumer privacy. …
Control-based content pricing allows for user-personalized pricing where price is a direct function of user viewing interaction. Further, the pricing may be expressed as a debit function, such as a debit to receive an on-demand movie, or as a credit function, such as a credit to watch an advertisement or infomercial before receiving the on-demand movie. The credit and/or debit functions of the pricing may also be based on view control inputs, such as content navigation inputs, received as user-input commands initiated with a remote control device. http://www.geekwire.com/2012/microsoft-monetize-buttons-tv-remote
So let's say I'm reading a book, and I want to go back and re-read the last paragraph - should I now have to pay for that? Hell NO!
Or say I'm reading a magazine and I skip the full page ads - should I now have to pay for that? Hell NO!
Worst idea of the moment.
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners
"My legal battle against the TSA’s nude body scanner and pat-down molestation program continues in court, soon with a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. If you’d like to donate to this effort, send PayPal to: jon [at] fourtentech.com
Add me on Twitter: @tsaoutourpants (no “of”)"
This interesting video and article article from: http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners/
Oops.... Never mind!
Obviously nuclear power can never generate enough electricity cheaply enough to offset the cost of a Fukishima here in our country.
Especially when you consider that Wind, Biomass, Hydro, and Geothermal are ALREADY dollar for dollar cheaper - before you factor in the costs of waste storage and leakage over the next 30,000 years and the next inevitable nuclear disaster. Not to mention the plummeting costs of solar.
NO NUKES!
What Everone Needs to Know About Obama's Costly Corporate Tax Cut, and How to Fix It:
As we work to get Obama re-elected, let's also put pressure our Rep's to fix this latest tax decrease on corporations which will increase the burden on the rest of us.
Here is the critical issue, CUTTING THE RATE AND CLOSING LOOPHOLES WILL DECREASE REVENUES!
From the NYT:
Even so, the administration and Congress would have a political and mathematical challenge in eliminating or reducing tax breaks enough to lower corporate rates as they propose to do without adding to deficits. Underscoring the difficulty, just two popular tax breaks — for accelerated depreciation of businesses’ capital investments and write-offs of research and experimentation costs — account for the bulk of the revenue the government foregoes to benefit corporations.
Not only are those two provisions unlikely to be repealed; the Obama administration and both parties in Congress also support making a separate research credit permanent. " http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/business/economy/obama-offers-to-cut-corporate-tax-rate-to-28.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
So, Obama has proposed a straight up tax cut to the very same corporations that are corrupting our democracy and outsourcing our jobs.
How to make sure this doesn't happen: We must make sure that any proposal is vetted and scored by the Joint Committee on Taxation and the OMB. Any proposal that does not come out with a net tax gain must be scrapped, seems to me.
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