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Recent decisions by the Supreme Court have brought the integrity of this court under scrutiny.
From Bush v. Gore, to eminent domain, to Citizens United, to body searches, to ethics problems, a greater number of the nation’s highest court’s rulings defy common sense and judicial principles.
And it could get even worse!
That’s the most banks closed in one week since April 29, 2011 — one full year ago.
Bank foreclosures had slowed dramatically in the past six months. Only one was closed in April until Friday’s foreclosures. Only five were closed in March and four in February.
So what has changed?
Corporations have been crying for big tax breaks to bring their profits from other countries home. They are currently sitting on over two trillion dollars in domestic profits hoarded over the last few years.
Senators’, Kay Hagan, of North Carolina and, John McCain, of Arizona have introduced a new bill, The Foreign Earnings Repatriation Act, to allow multi-national corporations to bring over a trillion dollars in foreign profit back to the United States at a favorable tax rate. Too favorable!
The tax rate in the bill falls way short of what’s fair.
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The Republican mantra of smaller government may play well in Peoria but not in places where concerned and observant people gather.
Since I can remember, Republicans have been screaming about shrinking government — making it small enough to drown in the bathtub. It’s a good talking point and seems to get their followers frothing at the mouth. But saying you want to do something does not make it so. And Republicans reducing government? Sheer fantasy!
Reality is something quite the opposite.
There’s nothing more disgusting than to listen to the misogynistic rants of a fat bigoted drug addict. But Rush Limbaugh’s recent series of rants, calling Georgetown law student a ‘slut’ and a ‘whore,’ are not only disturbing, but low even for him!
His attack on Sandra Fluke, the brave young woman who was refused the opportunity to testify by an uncaring, and basically ignorant, Representative Darrell Issa, (R-CA49) in the hearing he held on contraception, was not only uninformed, but incendiary.
Limbaugh is, indeed, a pimple on America’s ass.
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Would you pay $1.00 per month to get rid of PAC’s, SuperPAC’s, and the ungodly amount of money being funneled into federal political campaigns?
It is estimated that more than $3,000,000,000 will be spent in the 2012 election. Outrageous! The cost of elections has spun out of control and must be reined in.
Money is not the root of all evil, but its corrosive influence was evident in the 2010 elections; a malignancy that will be even more destructive in this electoral cycle.
Though money in politics was a problem long before the Citizens United ruling, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision desecrated the 1st Amendment and is infecting our democratic elections — the cornerstone of a healthy, vibrant democracy.
So how can we reverse the Supreme Court’s mistake and get money out of politics?
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Romney feels that envy of his financial success, the envy of income inequality, is the driver of the current uprising against wealth — the driver of ‘class warfare.’ He also believes that envy is the reason for the anti-Romney movement of those opposing his candidacy. But the class warfare he alludes to is not generated by envy.
It’s only a talking point emanating from Romney himself to deflect from his obvious deficiencies and to fire up the Republican base.
True, some individuals are probably envious, but, is it envy that causes so many to dislike him?
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We’ve tried trickle-down and it hasn’t worked! All that’s trickled down is crap.
So as we near, bounce along, or bounce off the bottom in our financial recovery, let’s start thinking outside the pox.
Yes, supply side economics has been a pox on this country, on the world — a pox on capitalism with a predatory financial system and unfiltered greed becoming a malignant cancer.
What caused this insidious and unrelenting disease? How do we reverse it?