9 posts tagged “government”
There's this seesaw we've been trapped in since Nixon--one where the GOP runs up massive deficits and trashes trust in law and government as a force for good, then us Democrats have to come in and clean up but can't make real progress because of all the damage done, then the GOP comes back in and does the same thing again, then we have to come in and clean up again, etc...
I don't see an end to it, and i find it impossible to reconcile with any sort of real progress occuring, or even a halting of the reversals. It seems that we've been going backwards since the 70s, and watching the rest of the world go forward.
Each succeeding generation--as a result of this trashing, then cleaning, etc--has less faith in government as a force for good, and cynicism grows and grows so that even small improvements seem out of reach, let alone big things like universal health, or better lifelong public education, clean energy, etc.
Can it be stopped? We're stuck in it for 08 for sure.
He developed Quark, and is now targeting local and state officials who are trying to legislate hate and discrimination all over, instead of funding national or presidential candidates--The software mogul Tim Gill has a mission: Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started.
... On the same day that Britney was shaving her head, a guy I know who works in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders sent me an email. He was trying very hard to get news organizations interested in some research his office had done about George Bush's proposed 2008 budget, which was unveiled two weeks ago and received relatively little press, mainly because of the controversy over the Iraq war resolution. All the same, the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite.
Not only does it make many of Bush's tax cuts permanent, but it envisions a complete repeal of the Estate Tax, which mainly affects only those who are in the top two-tenths of the top one percent of the richest people in this country. The proposed savings from the cuts over the next decade are about $442 billion, or just slightly less than the amount of the annual defense budget (minus Iraq war expenses). But what's interesting about these cuts are how Bush plans to pay for them. ...
Unbelievable (altho nothing is anymore with this crowd in charge)
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You know your empire’s crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody laughs.
You know your empire’s crumbling when just about your entire military land force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less – not more – secure from external threat.
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You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.
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the speech is here--very very powerful!
