Could it be Conservatives are actually the true Un-Americans?

I simply can't believe the Political Right Wing is not as appalled as everyone else that a person given opportunity by the culture and governance of the USA doesn't have loyalty to it.


I don't know what party or political philosophy Edwardo Severin hails as his own, but, I do know he likes money and the opportunity to obtain it. The USA provided him that opportunity and now he wants to seek an advantage over that opportunity and forget about everyone else that seeks support for their government for that reason.


By Shawn Hess · May 16, 2012 
...You might recall last Friday (click here) when we reported on Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Eduardo attended Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg and helped Facebook arrange for much of the financing that got it to where it is today. Before the social network site really took off, Eduardo was forced out of the loop, but some years later he filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg and others involved in the creation of the site and won a sizable settlement along with a 4% share of the company....


Everyone can state this is all about politics, but, I sincerely think it is about $67 million US. Besides that Liberals have been called Un-American for as long as I can remember even though I don't recall any one of them making off with $67 million US.


Where this gets really, really ludicrous is to realize Severin would not even have his share of Facebook if he didn't access the USA Judicial System. Severin's ownership cost the USA Taxpayer plenty and we want what we are entitled to. 


As a man of an ethnic decent he is proud of, he might want to return to his homeland and seek to improve things there, but, that is best done by a foundation in his name or his parents name or something protected by US laws to provide that opportunity. So, if he thinks his personal wealth is more important than paying the government, he is sadly mistake. Perhaps, all the new millionaires at Facebook sincerely need some council to achieve their goals, personal or otherwise. I would not be so hasty to leave the country if I were Severins, but, then again he might be finished with fame and fortune.


Perhaps the argument that the TRUE Un-Americans reside in the Conservative Philosophy would be best understood by an article that believes Liberals are not Un-American, but, Punitive-Liberals. This one is a real eye opener. I explains itself quite well.

POSTED ON MAY 17, 2012 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN LIBERALS

It was James Piereson, (click here) author of the splendid book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, who I think first came up with the phrase “punitive liberalism.”  It’s a perfect description for the post-sixties liberalism that abandoned growth for limits, opportunity for entitlement, the rule of law for retribution, and whose egalitarianism—reasonable within limits—has degenerated into pure envy and resentment.

Nothing makes this more clear than the reaction of Democrats today to the news about Eduardo Severin, the Facebook co-founder who renounced his U.S. citizenship last fall in favor of low-tax Singapore.  Sen. Chuck Schumer, who, it should be noted, is the chief protector of the 15 percent tax rate for “carried interest” beloved of New York hedge fund managers, is outraged that he won’t be able to pick all of Severin’s pockets.  He’s proposing a law to make it difficult to renounce citizenship without paying maximum taxes to the U.S. and adds the twist that if someone does escape out tax net, he or she can be barred from ever returning to the United States, even as a visitor.  How’s that for punitive liberalism?...


All I have to say is; when conservatives need a bailout they are really happy Liberals have been punitive!

Romney, "80% of Bain investments made revenue."

No one doubts that, but, private sector equity revenue is very different than revenue achieved in government.


May 22, 2012, 03:05AM ET
By STEVE PEOPLES

The core (click here) of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.

Romney and his aides have struggled to respond consistently to intensifying criticism about his tenure at Bain Capital and how it would be reflected in his presidency. The lack of a cohesive message stems, in part, from Romney's fundamental belief that any debate that puts the economy front and center is a win for Republicans. Public polling shows most Americans are not satisfied with the pace of the recovery under Obama's watch....


Let's see, government has income tax, sales tax, property tax, leases of public land, but, is not a profit driven machine that destroys jobs and reaps profits. If anything government at any level is the complete polar opposite.


Raising taxes is NOT like raising prices on a product, everyone will pay it or pay the price of not paying. Either way, the only real way government raises REVENUES is to create more taxes or lease property. There are import taxes that take the burden off the citizen and place it on companies which also protects American made goods. But, basically taxes is the largest revenue source for government. So. unless Romney opens concessions in the White House Oval Office, I don't know what he is going to do differently, because, he won't raise taxes, if anything he'll cut them on the wealthy. 


For Romney to tout he was a successful CEO of what is basically a salvage operation of corporate America doesn't qualify him for President of the USA, if anything it disqualifies him and why this country fell into the pitfalls of bailing out banks that were TOO BIG TO FAIL.

Gabby Giffords Honored With Medal Of Valor

May 23, 2012 9:47 PM

Former Congresswoman (click here) Gabrielle Giffords was among a group of heroes honored Wednesday evening at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Beverly Hills.

Giffords stepped down from her congressional seat to concentrate on her physical rehabilitation. She and eighteen other people were shot during a public meeting held January 8, 2011  in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona. Six of the wounded died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll; one of Rep. Giffords’ staffers; and Christina-Taylor Green, 9.

This evening, an audience applauded Giffords as she accepted a medal of valor award, for her resilience.

Hand in hand with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords stood in front of a capacity crowd. As the honor was bestowed around her neck, she was told “It is a special honor.”...

Social Security a focus of debate in Arizona seat (click here)

Posted: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:57 pm | Updated: 6:11 am, Thu May 24, 2012.

Associated Press

Republican Jesse Kelly and Democrat Ron Barber clashed on Social Security, the health care overhaul and taxes during a Wednesday evening debate in the race for a U.S. House seat formerly held by Democrat Gabrielle Giffords.

The major party nominees and Green Party nominee Charlie Manolakis, who also participated in the debate sponsored by The Arizona Daily Star, are running in a June 12 special election....

"...no net new job in ten years..." and Romney states 6% unemployment in four years.

Six percent is going to happen even without Romney in the White House. All the rhetoric in his speech is simply Republican mind speak, there is nothing new here.


President Obama is pro-business, too. The difference between President Obama and Romney is; President Obama doesn't only count on Wall Street and Big Box Supply Chain stores to participate in the American economy. President Obama believes in "Made in America" and that has been the slogan of unions for decades.

By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times

May 24, 2012

New home sales are up. (click here) The unemployment rate is falling. Companies are buying one another, signaling confidence in the economy.
But investors are turning their back on positive economic signs, looking nervously at Europe's seemingly never-ending debt troubles and Facebook's flat IPO, wondering whether the global economy is beginning yet another deep dive....

Wall Street is leaving the American job market. They aren't interested and haven't been interested in investments where a labor force is necessary. They are playing with commodities, currency and futures; they don't make rock solid investments anymore. They like the adrenalin rush of 'money now' too much. They are even laying new Trans-Atlantic cable to play that game. Romney can't do anything here, his methodologies are old and out dated. President Obama is on the ground with people that have been stalled in the economic platform for so long their trades were picked up by China. Romney's ideas won't work and he is not willing to move the needle for new business opportunities that come with paradigm shifts. 

President Obama is doing a great job. He is even covering the hole left where one was not believed to exist when the final numbers were in on the global economic collapse from 2008. He is incredible for what he preserved of our culture and where it is headed. I honestly believe there isn't anyone else with the 'city kid' diligence that would have reached as far and took the risks to keep the USA stable and growing. I might have the 'city kid' philosophy wrong, but, I've never seen him on a horse or milking a cow, so I think I am right about that.

The President needs to talk about his record, too.

I remember this moment. How could anyone forget? Dignity and grace all in one moment and a testament to American exceptionalism.


I sincerely believe President Obama is one of the most genuine and qualified Presidents of our time. He is correct to seek to define the To Be Candidate of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney, in the light portraying him as qualified for the job. I sincerely believe Mitt Romney is not. 


People like to portray President Obama, even with all the successes he has enjoyed while in office, as unqualified. I would like people to be confident of their President as I am confident of him. He and Biden make a great team. Joe doesn't let anyone forget what the Middle Class is all about and he is exactly where he needs to be at this time in our history.


The First Lady has taken on what I consider the most difficult topic next to healthcare and that is insuring our nation's children are healthier than their parents and able to meet the challenge of tomorrow. She along with Second Lady Jill Biden have moved opportunity for our returning military forward while protecting and supporting their families at home. I was sincerely touched by the effort they put forward on Mother's Day. That was more than compassionate, that was pure dedication to some of our most brave women.


I am proud of the people of the Executive Branch. The cabinet has been consistently working hard to improve the nation's recovery and there are no slackers.


I want them to talk about their record. I want them to prove to the people of this country they are admirable, steadfast, trustworthy and doing the absolute best of any to return sustainable prosperity to the USA. I don't know that I have ever witnessed a team as committed to the best outcomes to this country in a nearly impossible fiscal and financial environment.


The nation wants to address the deficit. The President had a resolution by Simpson-Bowles, but, it wasn't ready to hear it and there was no sense to push it when all other venues of expenditures by the federal government hadn't been exhausted. The entitlements are important to protect and support, the tax structure needs to have the reset button pushed and our children need to have a secure future, both in their health, their dreams and their fiscal viability on a global scale. The nation is ready to do some of the tough stuff and we need to begin the conversation, too. President Obama is capable of leading that conversation and he should. I am quite confident he sees the way forward, but, he needs to share it along with defining his unqualified opponent.

Sex parties with gangster at the Vatican? WHAT!

Italian teenager Emanuela Orlandi is believe to have been kidnapped after a music lesson in Rome on June 22, 1983 when she was 15 (AP)


Thursday, 24 May 2012

A Catholic priest has claimed a missing schoolgirl was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties and has implicated diplomatic staff and members of the Holy See.

Italian priest Gabriel Amorth, 85, said girls were recruited for parties at the Vatican and said the death of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, last seen alive in 1983, “was a crime with a sexual motive”.

The priest spoke out last week as investigators broke into the grave of a known gang boss in Rome following an anonymous tip that the key to Emanuala’s disappearance would be “found there”.

But so far bones which do not belong to mobster Enrico De Pedis, have not be positively identified as the girl’s....

It is more than interesting how New York has started an amazing trend. Police Commissioner Kelly deserves a lot praise for his focus and efforts. This is not only important, but, these cases give police insight to such criminals.

Etan Patz case: NYPD says New Jersey man implicated self in 6-year-old’s ‘disappearance and death’ (click here)

Commissioner Kelly says ‘further details’ to come later today

Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 6:55 AM

Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 7:12 AM

The NYPD may have solved the heartrending mystery of little Etan Patz’ disappearance 33 years ago, police brass said Thursday morning.

"An individual now in custody has made statements to NYPD detectives implicating himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz 33 years ago,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement. “We expect to provide further details later today."

The man is from New Jersey and was picked up Wednesday, a source told the Daily News....

Second day of extradition hearing for Assange.

Extradition showdown: UK Supreme Court to rule on Assange (click here)

Published: 23 May, 2012, 18:08

Julian Assange’s legal battle in the UK may be close to its end. Next week the country’s Supreme Court will decide whether the scandal-stirring whistleblower is to be extradited to Sweden, where he faces several sex crime allegations.

A panel of seven Supreme Court judges will make their decision next Wednesday, May 30. 

Assange’s lawyers are calling on judges to block the extradition. They say that the initial European warrant that put Assange under house arrest in Britain over 500 days ago was “invalid and unenforceable” and that Swedish prosecutor had no authority to issue it....

A Los Angles Class Submarine is destroyed?

This is the Wiki (click here).

US nuclear sub ablaze in Portsmouth shipyard (click here)

Published: 24 May, 2012, 10:52
Edited: 24 May, 2012, 14:46

...Crews from at least three states worked for six hours at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, but only just managed to stop the fire from spreading.

Workers from the dry docks where the submarine was maintained, had to be evacuated when its living quarters turned into a scorching inferno on Wednesday evening.

Four of the six firefighters injured have received treatment, shipyard officials reported.

The fire broke out in the forward compartment of the submarine, where the ship’s living quarters and command and control center are located....

Who do these arrogant idiots think they are?

This very brief article appeared in Reuters today and when I looked up the name on the net I found the resume below. Evidently, the real power in Pakistan is influenced heavily by USA investment and wealth. 


If this is correct, then the Taliban have control over an entire Plutocratic network in that country. The CIA would know, I would hope they would know if this is accurate, because, having one person control this much wealth in Pakistan is dangerous to the country's sovereignty and to the security of the international security.


The article by Reuters was very odd to me and I didn't take it for face value. It was short and the person in the article wasn't identified, except, for the name. If this person holds this much power in Pakistan then it is easy to control the country.

U.S. should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden: Pakistan (click here)

ISLAMABAD | Thu May 24, 2012 5:39am EDT

(Reuters) - The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

"I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other's legal processes," Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters.

(Reporting by Rebecca Conway; Writing by Qasim Nauman)

The picture above came compliments of "Linked in". This is the resume (click here). The resume states Kahn is a power broker. By every estimate, Kahn is a very powerful man and pulls many strings in Pakistan. I am sure Kahn receives many perks in life for the role played in that country.

This is the logo for Unilever Pakistan. 

Below is an article explaining how networking works well in Pakistan for the supply chain.

...Using a systematic approach (click here)  to networking – a social activity where the implicit objective is to form professional relationships that may increase one’s future business and employment prospects – each participant was made to interact with at least five supply chain professionals he or she did not know before.

“I ran out of my business cards today during the networking session,” a chemical engineer working in the supply chain of ICI Pakistan toldThe Express Tribune. “That was the most orderly and useful networking opportunity I’ve ever had.”...


This is a link to a Supply Chain Conference (click here). It is on Facebook. Somehow having Facebook become an IPO makes sense if one wants to control the viability of connectedness. I am sure that is what Morgan Stanley was thinking when underwriting it.

Regardless, this level of connectedness in the supply system of Pakistan has to dictate, the Taliban are involved. They have expanded their reach to major cities of commerce in Pakistan. If USA intelligence is expecting to find drug trades and monies as the only source of income to these criminal networks, they aren't looking hard enough. If what I am looking at is correct; then the Taliban not only have the potential to intimidate a government, but, control its wealth as well.

So, let me get this right, Occupy Wall Street is a covert organization for Left Wing Violence. Is that Right Bill?

Let's look at the facts, because Murdoch's Boy has got any.


#Occupy Wall Street is not funded by the Institute of Policy Studies. If anything I would expect the Institute of Policy Studies to be seeking funding from #Occupy. If one recalls there funding was given to them as donations within the first month of their organizing. A total of $500,00.00 as a matter of fact. I doubt seriously the #Occupy Movement is going to be impressed with the grant from the Tides Foundation to the Institute of Policy Studies in the amount of $162,000.00.  In case one cannot read the numbers accurately the Tides Foundation gave the Institute for Policy Studies a total of One hundred-sixty-two thousand dollars in 2011 (click here). Page 20 on that PDF.


Jay Carney is probably not the best person to ask about #Occupy, but, Vice President Joe 
Biden would probably say they are not affiliated with any movement in the USA, they are affiliated with the DNC. But, Vice President Biden would more than likely go on to say that after the global economic collapse Wall Street bailed on the citizens of most major countries. 


See, Bill, it goes like this, when the bailout for $800 Billion came down most everyone believed the 'status quo' of the USA and the Free World would remain STATIC (the same). We thought all the banks needed was their cash flow back again. Boy, were we "W"ronged! 


So, when Wall Street left with the USA Treasury we were left in the breech. Now, someone like Bill O'Reilly, whom sells books to a right wing conservative audience would not understand that. He would not have felt the pinch of the Wall Street abandonment, but, for those that did; they quickly realized an entire generation of Americans were now abandoned and could not find work. Wall Street banks left without an apology, but, only the money. The job market hasn't been the same since and only lately the housing market is actually picking up steam. Bill, MIGHT remember; poor man at his age still cranking it out for Murdoch, no rest for the weary I am sure; the housing market in October 2008 had a glut of housing and business property and the VALUE of land and homes fell drastically causing huge problems for many, many people. I think about 1 in every 5 affected homeowners is still underwater. So the recovery is very slow. I mean we are not printing money fast enough to hand it out to everyone. But, then there is such as a thing as the VALUE of the USA Dollar.


Now, I don't know about Bill O'Reilly, but when I was younger and faced with seeking employment I was ready. Dressed for success and everything. So, was this generation of Americans and the hopes and dreams of that readiness was destroyed when Wall Street decided to gamble with their bailout monies instead of providing stability to an economy that was fairly good to them all these decades.


The #Occupy Wall Street movement makes strong statements about their insight to their lives. Lives I might add that no one outside that generation can even begin to understand. So, for anyone like Bill O'Reilly to presume to speak for them is outrageous and for him to scandalize a single incident of a movement anchored in peaceful protest is even more exploitative than outrageous.


Bill O'Reilly was frustrated with not being noticed after last night's program at the You Tube video posted above; so I thought I'd accommodate him so he wouldn't feel as abandoned in his point of view and passion as the #Occupy movement often feels. This is the United States of America, Bill and everyone is supposed to count, so since you "...have a powerful program..." that wasn't being very powerful I didn't want you to be frustrated. One American to another.


Police have dangerous work and no doubt Chicago Police have some of the most dangerous work in the country along with a number of other large cities. Having NATO in Chicago was going to INVITE controversy on the street. It just was. I am confident there were also globalists among the #Occupy people as well. So, the globalists tend to be more overt about their anger and I think it went very well, all considering.


I apologize to the Chicago Police Officer that was injured. It is not condoned by #Occupy and if it were one of their members, perhaps, they were afraid of the police. It was not long ago when a very talented and wonderful young USA Veteran was smoke bombed and nearly died. He recovered, thank goodness, but that certainly sent a chill down the spine of the people in #Occupy.


I like those kids, Bill. They are young, full of passion with the will their American heritage left to them. I am sorry you want to demonize them and worried about their demonstrations getting out of control. I don't them hurt. I don't want them shot. I don't want them beaten. I want their dream back and the American Dream returned to the citizens of this country. Maligning people like George Soros is not becoming. He is a hugely generous man that have improved the lives of people globally. He is a decent man, seems rather humble to me and his generosity at a time when countries like the USA can't provide all the help others need, certainly is welcome.


The Tides Foundation has existed for 35 years. I doubt they would allow any of their grantees to promote violence. I find Bill O'Reilly's critique wrong and offensive of people not able to change their circumstances. 


I hope Bill O'Reilly has a better week rather than a propagandized one.

There is a solution to the drone strikes for Pakistan. Hand over all your international murderers.

(Reuters) / 22 May 2012

CHICAGO - President Asif Ali Zardari (click here) pressed the United States during a Nato meeting on Sunday to help find a “permanent solution” to US drone strikes that have fuelled tensions between the two uneasy allies.

“The president said that Pakistan wanted to find a permanent solution to the drone issue as it not only violated our sovereignty but also inflamed public sentiments,” Zardari spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement after the Pakistani leader met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the summit.
The statement did not specify what such a solution might entail. The tempo of drone strikes, the centerpiece of US strategy to fight militants based in Pakistan, has increased substantially since President Barack Obama took office in 2009....

Does Pakistan actually expect to receive praise for protecting Osama bin Laden?

By ISMAIL KHAN

Published: May 23, 2012

...A tribal court here found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, (click here) guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan, the administrator for the Khyber tribal region. Along with the jail term, the court imposed a fine of $3,500. Dr. Afridi, who may appeal the verdict, was then sent to Central Prison in Peshawar.

He had been charged under a British-era regulation for frontier crimes that unlike the Pakistan criminal code does not carry the death penalty for treason. Under Pakistani penal law, he almost certainly would have received the death penalty, a Pakistani lawyer said....

No sovereign nation can respect this decision by Pakistan to say Mr. Afridi acted against the state. That would indicate Pakistan willingly protected the most dangerous international criminal in the world. And the USA wants routes through this country? You've got to be joking. There needs to be sanctions placed on Pakistan until there is a reasonable government in that country rather than anarchy empowered by archaic law that has no place in the 21st century. This is outrageous. Mr. Afridi should be pardoned for his bravery in acting to end the life of the Pakistan's ruler of terror.

Pakistan is an illegal nuclear power that is out of control both internally and internationally. They are a danger to the global security and the country needs to be treated as such.


The top of the government of the United States of America sat huddled together to supervise the final act resulting from the bravery of Mr. Afridi to stop an international criminal responsible for killing thousands of people, assaulting government installations on multiple continents, including, the London Bombing, the Madrid Bombing, attacks against US military instillation and deploying trained members of al Qaeda to seek to kill more innocent civilians on airlines and Pakistan jails the man.


Osama bin Laden took a religious sect that has no legitimate ties to Islam or the Quran and dominated killings and fear in a region of the world that cannot recover a stable government and this is the result? Pakistan and Afghanistan are in ruins with generation after generation of war weary citizens facing chronic impoverishment, disease and desperate lives. Has Pakistan no interest in the future of their children? This is not the Zadari I know. Has the will of the people of Pakistan diminished so much that the memory of Benizar Bhutto is lost to brutal regimes seeking power rather than prosperity?


This decision, to treat a hero as a criminal, is wrong. It is more than wrong, it is profoundly wrong.

"Bowling for Columbine" turns ten and Fahrenheit 911 will be soon enough.

May 27th, 2002 12:00 AM

"Bowling for Columbine" Wins Cannes Prize (click here)

Dear friends,

By now you may have awakened to the news that last night, in Cannes, France, my new film, "Bowling for Columbine," was awarded the Special Prize of the 55th Cannes Film Festival. It had already made history by being the first documentary chosen to be part of the official festival competition in almost 50 years. And, last night, it was the only prize awarded that received a unanimous decision from the festival jury. The film's crew and I have never experieced anything like this.

Now, you're probably wondering what happened to that guy who wrote "Stupid White Men?" I know it seems like I disappeared for the better part of April and May. Contrary to the wild rumors I helped to initiate, I was not abducted by the Ashcroft Aliens for violating the new Patriot Act.

In truth, the book tour spun out of control when I couldn't say no to all the places that asked me to come and speak. Before I knew it, I had done 64 appearances in a total of 47 cities. Then, on the morning of my birthday, I was awakened with a call from France, asking me if I would allow my film to be shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. What do you say to a call like that? "Hey, it's my birthday, dammit, I'm trying to sleep!"...

...To now have this record-setting response to "Bowling for Columbine" happen here at Cannes is beyond belief. It's more than I deserve and I feel truly blessed and privileged. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish there was some way to repay all of you, like an internet version of let's all go out for a pizza. Maybe someday!

Thanks again.

Yours,
Michael Moore
Filmmaker
Author
Lifetime Member, N.R.A.

mike@michaelmoore.com

Michael Moore was victorious and as a consequence, so were we.

Two years apart, the victories were glorious.

BY ROGER EBERT / May 19, 2004
...In any event it was "the longest ovation in the history of the festival," according to Thierry Fremaux, the festival's director. At a party Monday evening, I asked Moore. "It depends on when you start counting," he said. "Do you start with the beginning of the closing credits or when the lights go up? When they just wouldn't stop clapping, I walked out and they kept applauding in the lobby."...

 'Fahrenheit 9/11' won the festival's top prize the
Palme d'Or on May 22nd, 2004 on its way to becoming
the highest-grossing documentary in history

RAW 250,000 Massive Montreal Rally marks 100 days of Student Protests

100th day of demonstration marked at the Vancouver Art Gallery today (click here)

By Janet Steffenhagen

Vancouver 

Sun May 22, 2012 7:59 PM

VANCOUVER -- A call for British Columbians to support Quebec students on the 100th day of their strike attracted only a small gathering in Vancouver Tuesday, while tens of thousands of people marched in downtown Montreal in defiance of a law declaring such protests illegal....


...B.C. students pay higher tuition than Quebecers attending post-secondary schools in their own province — a yearly average of $4,852 compared to $2,519. Quebec’s fees are the lowest in the country, where the national average for tuition at public post-secondary institutions is $5,366....

Tens of thousands (click here) of demonstrators have filled the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since protests began against a planned rise in student tuition fees.

Jobs and Growth Bush Style. Just a reminder.

Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 05/04/2012

The Bush 2003 “Jobs Tour”: the “real” story? (click here for video)

By Al Kamen

In 2003 The Bush Economic Team campaigned for Tax Cuts. The story was in the "Kentucky New Era" on July 29, 2003 (click here for newspaper article).

By this time the USA was entrenched in two wars and Bush wanted more tax cuts. We are still paying for both the wars and the tax cuts.

The Daily Show (click here)

Monday August 11, 2003

Jobs and Growth Tour

You can keep your Ozzfest and your Lollapalooza. The hottest tour this summer is the Jobs and Growth Tour 2003, starring the monsters of government.

This is from the Office of Budget and Management on April 18, 2012; regarding continued and NEW tax cuts for the wealthy.

Job Training Cuts in the Republican Budget (click here)

Posted by Martha Coven on April 18, 2012 at 06:42 PM EDT

Earlier today, President Obama visited Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio to highlight how federal job training funding is helping unemployed workers get the skills they need to compete for jobs in high-demand, high-growth industries.

In communities like Elyria all across the country, federal job training programs are helping meet a critical need. As manufacturing jobs have shifted from assembly-line positions to advanced manufacturing, schools like Lorain County Community College have partnered with non-profits, business, and government to develop job training programs that help equip dislocated workers with skills that match employer needs. Many of these programs depend on federal funding through the Workforce Investment Act, which supports employment services and training programs that serve millions of workers across the country each year.

And yet just a few weeks ago, House Republicans passed a budget resolution that would cut spending for these kinds of services by over 5 percent in 2013 and 19 percent in 2014 – all while showering families making more than $250,000 per year with over $1 trillion in tax cuts. It’s an approach that fails the basic test of balance, fairness, and shared responsibility, and it would be a devastating blow to struggling middle class families in communities like Elyria across the country. Check out this (click here) chart to see how your state would be affected by these cuts.

NOW.

What is it going to be; growth or increased poverty, national stagnation and more contraction in the housing market !

Uniquely American

People are saying Democrats only focus on the failures of Bain under Romney's leadership.

Fair enough. Let's look at one success story that Romney touts has his best success. It is the company he holds as example to the jobs he can create for Americans.


Staples Founder -- Romney will clean up Obama's economic mess (click here)

By Tom Stemberg, Published May 22, 2012

FoxNews.com

I first met Mitt Romney in the fall of 1985 when he took a chance on me and my idea to sell discount office supplies. Together we then worked to found Staples. 

From the very beginning, I saw that he was super-frugal. He didn’t want to pay more than he had to for things like paper clips. 

That was the idea behind Staples. 

And for Mitt, cutting costs and running things well has been a consistent animating idea, whether he’s been in business or government or running the Olympics. 

Now that he’s campaigning for president, Mitt’s brand of leadership could not come at a more critical time....


Now, those in the work force in the Middle Class and Lower Middle Class that are basically without a trade or education will recognize 'The Easy Button" of Staples. We have all seen the commercials and we ALL KNOW THE BUSINESS MODEL. Now, I suppose Mitt Romney is going to deny many of the products sold at Staples are NOT produced by his own STAPLES COMPANY, but, imported from China.


This is the exact methodology promoted by Bush's Commerce Secretary. SUPPLY SIDE economics that deprive the American worker of benefits and good pay. These are the companies whereby employees usually have two jobs in order to support the family. 

It is the "Uniquely American" job market that has put our Treasury at risk, our homes at risk, our ability to achieve at risk and our lives in shambles. The people of the USA 'Have been there and done that." We don't want it back. 


Companies, like Staples, cause hardship in local economies and they do not benefit them. They close down small businesses without adding quality of life to citizens. 


President Obama has worked long and hard with the Small Business Administration when the banks left the USA behind for monies to expand or renew them the global economic collapse/depression hit. We have been building our small businesses over the past four years. We don't want to be abandoned by banks that don't care about us or businesses that count profits before sexual harassment, good medical benefits or whether at the end of the week when the paycheck arrives they'll have to take Food Stamps anyway. We have all had enough of the "Romney ideology of job creation' and we don't want it back!!!!

Murdoch is selling this rowdy classrooom encounter as a national trend in oppression.

How does FOX get away with calling an incident that should have ended at the Principal's office a national trend in oppression? How do they manage to indulge a video by a teenager as a Gold Mine of how our students are treated across the country. That isn't at all the case.


This teacher needs some peer review of how to conduct Freedom of Speech in the classroom. This is the worst classroom behavior in the country; by teacher and student. There is no order in that classroom. She is treating students as friends rather than students. That is a mistake on her part, but, this is all person opinion by the students and the teacher. There is nothing prioritized nationally for any point of view.


This 'venue of fear' is a chronic focus with Murdoch's media. They hate it when there are songs sung about President Obama or school activities honoring him as the First Black President. They seek to create paranoia about mind control and this episode with Murdoch's propaganda is just another event.


To the right is Mr. Rogers, the teen with the video.


Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:00 AM

SPENCER — The Rowan-Salisbury School System (click here) was propelled into the national spotlight over the weekend after a video featuring a heated political exchange between a North Rowan High School teacher and student went viral.

The student, Hunter Rogers, said Monday that he was surprised by how much attention the video has received. And at their regularly scheduled meeting Monday night, school board members said the system is taking action.

Views of the nearly 10-minute video skyrocketed from about 1,000 Friday to more than 740,000 by this morning.

A number of conservative news outlets on TV and online have picked up the story, which originally appeared in the Post on Saturday…

It is a good idea for teens to have an interest in the way their country works, they will be voting at the age of 18. Mock elections can be run in schools if there is that intense interest, but, it has been my experience young teens often hold the opinions on politics of their parents. It is still good exercise if a grade level has the will to vote on Presidential elections. Nothing wrong with it.


The class was "The Debate Club." Perhaps the teacher would be better to contain her lessons to material necessary for good grades, good grammer and critical thinking while being one of the advisors for extracurricular debate. The debating sounds promising. 


There is a chance she believed she intervened in a racial problem in the classroom, but, it still is not the place to correct that. An unruly and disrespectful student should not be tolerated in a classroom where instruction is taking place. Mr. Rogers should have been dismissed to the principal's office rather than have it all escalate. THAT by the way should have been the discussion on Murdoch's media service. Not extrapolating, as they always do, how student minds are poisoned by this President and his administration.