The Congressional Budget Office stated of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, "Extending the tax cuts for the 2011-2020 time period would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt, comprising $2.65 trillion in foregone tax revenue plus another $0.66 trillion for interest and debt service costs."
The Repuglicans, including the NEW ones, have painted themselves into a corner because 'their base' is limited in their commitment to party. That is completely obvious in the viciousness of the primaries of 2010. The Republicans cannot afford to lose that base and its extremism, so they are dragging the country into a fiscal spiral which will cause a greater recession.
Collective bargaining is not the enemy. It has built the Middle Class and while there are issues surrounding the longevity of poor performing members of a union, those issues are in the minority. It is not and never has been a union that has destroyed a company, it has always been the CEO and their demand for exorbitant bonuses that have destroyed Ameican companies, such as GM.
...About 40,000 public-sector employees (click title to entry - thank you) crammed into the Wisconsin state Capitol and surrounding blocks in Madison Thursday, hoping to sway three Republican state senators to block a bill they say is designed to wipe out 50 years of union labor laws in the state.
“We’re fighting for our very existence,” says Mike Lipp, president of Madison Teachers Incorporated, representing 2,500 public school teachers in the city....
We know public employees are invaluable, a real bargin that is a bonus to our democracy. There is no way the private sector could provide the services and economic base to an entire country that public employees provide today. No different than SSI and Medicare, the public employees are a guarantee to a stable economy while the private sector runs out of control and requires bailouts.
The Repuglicans, including the NEW ones, have painted themselves into a corner because 'their base' is limited in their commitment to party. That is completely obvious in the viciousness of the primaries of 2010. The Republicans cannot afford to lose that base and its extremism, so they are dragging the country into a fiscal spiral which will cause a greater recession.
Collective bargaining is not the enemy. It has built the Middle Class and while there are issues surrounding the longevity of poor performing members of a union, those issues are in the minority. It is not and never has been a union that has destroyed a company, it has always been the CEO and their demand for exorbitant bonuses that have destroyed Ameican companies, such as GM.
...About 40,000 public-sector employees (click title to entry - thank you) crammed into the Wisconsin state Capitol and surrounding blocks in Madison Thursday, hoping to sway three Republican state senators to block a bill they say is designed to wipe out 50 years of union labor laws in the state.
“We’re fighting for our very existence,” says Mike Lipp, president of Madison Teachers Incorporated, representing 2,500 public school teachers in the city....
We know public employees are invaluable, a real bargin that is a bonus to our democracy. There is no way the private sector could provide the services and economic base to an entire country that public employees provide today. No different than SSI and Medicare, the public employees are a guarantee to a stable economy while the private sector runs out of control and requires bailouts.
This is not rhetoric, but, facts.
The very poor decision making of CEOs in recent decades that have finally awoken to the fact, if they don't hire Americans, they destroy their own market share along with the stability of the USA economy and democracy.
The Middle Class was built on organizing and union labor. It is a fact.
If Republicans continue on the path of destroying the Middle Class, they will destroy their own country while Wall Street will have survived because the USA tax payer has bailed them out for the last time. The Republicans are dividing the country into two classes, the wealthy and the poor and they are doing 'in the name of job creation.'
The wealthy need to pay taxes to balance budgets and return sanity to fiscal stability in the USA. It is time for the States and Federal Government to 'own up to' the real fact, a strong Middle Class IS responsible for corporate profits and viability and the stability of the USA. Corporate America should be grateful for a strong Middle Class and should support the growth of it at every turn. Corporate America has contributed to the Greatest Democracy on Earth and they need to understand the dynamics they play in it and how vital unions are to the fiscal stability of 'their markets' and the country that has been the birth place of 'capitalism.'
There is nothing wrong with seeking to trim irresponsible spending, but, that isn't what is occurring in the House in DC or in the States now looking as though there are more amateurs at work after the 2010 elections are actually cutting into the fiscal stability of the 'base support' of the USA economy.
It can't be tolerated. These Governors and House members are hurting the USA while they play politics with the extremists in the USA that elected them. They are allowing the Elections of 2012 to dictate their actions at some of the highest offices in the land and it completely disgusting.
There is room for reform, but, not destruction. The rhetoric that elected the amateurs and some are former corrupt captialist such as Snyder and Scott is destroying the fabric of the Middle Class and it has to stop. The budgets in Florida and Wisconsin can be balanced through RESPONSIBLE spending reductions and increased taxes on the people and corporations that have achieved GROSSLY IMBALANCED 'bottom lines' and 'wind falls' while some many Americans have seen their hard work and dreams dissolve in front of them.
It is time to balance the budget of the States and Federal government in a meaningful way without 'the myth' of Republican rhetoric dominating the best interest of the nation and it's Middle Class.
Enough. The Republicans may have won elections, but, they won due to elaborate lies and vast amounts of spending. The Democrats and Middle Class have to stand up to the lies and set it straight.
The very poor decision making of CEOs in recent decades that have finally awoken to the fact, if they don't hire Americans, they destroy their own market share along with the stability of the USA economy and democracy.
The Middle Class was built on organizing and union labor. It is a fact.
If Republicans continue on the path of destroying the Middle Class, they will destroy their own country while Wall Street will have survived because the USA tax payer has bailed them out for the last time. The Republicans are dividing the country into two classes, the wealthy and the poor and they are doing 'in the name of job creation.'
The wealthy need to pay taxes to balance budgets and return sanity to fiscal stability in the USA. It is time for the States and Federal Government to 'own up to' the real fact, a strong Middle Class IS responsible for corporate profits and viability and the stability of the USA. Corporate America should be grateful for a strong Middle Class and should support the growth of it at every turn. Corporate America has contributed to the Greatest Democracy on Earth and they need to understand the dynamics they play in it and how vital unions are to the fiscal stability of 'their markets' and the country that has been the birth place of 'capitalism.'
There is nothing wrong with seeking to trim irresponsible spending, but, that isn't what is occurring in the House in DC or in the States now looking as though there are more amateurs at work after the 2010 elections are actually cutting into the fiscal stability of the 'base support' of the USA economy.
It can't be tolerated. These Governors and House members are hurting the USA while they play politics with the extremists in the USA that elected them. They are allowing the Elections of 2012 to dictate their actions at some of the highest offices in the land and it completely disgusting.
There is room for reform, but, not destruction. The rhetoric that elected the amateurs and some are former corrupt captialist such as Snyder and Scott is destroying the fabric of the Middle Class and it has to stop. The budgets in Florida and Wisconsin can be balanced through RESPONSIBLE spending reductions and increased taxes on the people and corporations that have achieved GROSSLY IMBALANCED 'bottom lines' and 'wind falls' while some many Americans have seen their hard work and dreams dissolve in front of them.
It is time to balance the budget of the States and Federal government in a meaningful way without 'the myth' of Republican rhetoric dominating the best interest of the nation and it's Middle Class.
Enough. The Republicans may have won elections, but, they won due to elaborate lies and vast amounts of spending. The Democrats and Middle Class have to stand up to the lies and set it straight.
