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US Asset Distribution

This is the pie chart featured in the recent PBS report on Income Inequality in the US. GW Bush said that it's no use trying to tax the rich, since they have tax lawyers and will do everything they can to not pay (their fair share).

A meme is also going the rounds that you couldn't possibly get enough out of the rich to alleviate our problems, even if you took all they have. (wtf?)

The answer, for these people, is to tax the lowest 40% - that would be the tiny sliver top center with two arrows pointing to it.

HUH?

Jon Stewart pointed out in his recent, excellent segment that if the government were to take ALL of the assets of the lowest 50%, it would equal $1.5 Trillion, or the amount they want to cut from the budget in the near term.

Me? I say TAX THE RICH - it's a no-brainer.

Open Letter to Pres Obama

Dear Mr President,

We hired YOU to fight for US in Washington.

First You negotiate away all of our most important ideas - Medicare for all, adequate stimulus, tax the rich... then you "put on the table" our most cherished programs - Social Security, Medicare, support for the destitute...

Now you want US to fight the republicans for YOU? have you not been listening and learning these last three years? The republicans do what their corporate overlords want as expressed through their oracle the tea party. They don't even listen to their own constituents, why would they listen to an out of state liberal?

I thought that fighting for Democratic values was YOUR job. YOU have the bully pulpit.

If you don't want to do the job, please step down so someone else with intact balls could do it. Maybe we could get Alan Grayson or Mr Weiner to fight for our values. At least they know what the Democratic Party stands for.

Signed: Who's our champion now

I swear, if a real progressive populist would throw his/her hat in the ring, I'd vote for them without a second thought.

So, i went to a block party this weekend...

... and every time the tax cut cut cut issue came up, I made sure to say - "and you know that all these cuts they are talking about are JOBS that they are cutting...

Remarkably, I got lots of nodds, and no head shakes at all.

Quote of the day

Question, how come the Anti-Christ gets to be president and Jesus only shows up on moldy cheese sandwiches? You ever wonder about that?

~Jim Wright @ Stonekettle Station

Quote of the day

The only way this deal was two sided was that the Dems had to take it at both ends.

~ Stephen Colbert

Laid Off

I've joined the ranks of the unemployed. I've spent the last three weeks (when I wasn't calling on jobs) wandering around wondering what to do with myself. I always thought that if I didn't have to get in the car every morning and race to work, I'd jump on all those projects that I've been putting off for years - like writing, and blogging, and art projects and getting some exercise...

It turns out that self discipline is a whole lot harder than you'd think.

True, I did stain the deck, and do a little painting, but I still feel out of sorts. And then too, all of a sudden I had more time to pay attention to Washington.

That'll make you sink deep into despair if nothing else will.

Thank Goodness for Jon Stewart

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Thank Goodness for Spring

Winter's finally over!

Bush a no-go for NY 9/11 appearance tomorrow

Obama invited Bush to Ground Zero for tomorrow's appearance... Bush said no.


I think Bush took a good look at the last three times Obama has invited a Republican to sit front and center at a venue where Obama's going to speak, and decided that the treatment afforded to Trump, Paul Ryan, and Boehner was not something that he wanted to go through. Heh Heh Heh.

Oh my allergies

I have the tree and the mold allergies. Right about now I'm miserable, with weepy itching eyes, and sneezing and sinus headaches. Oh well

I know that trees need to mate, but I ask you, do they have to jizz in my nose? really?

The People's Budget

Quote of the Day

As the crisis in Cairo’s Tahrir Square unfolded, respected opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei complained bitterly that Washington was pushing “the whole Arab world into radicalization with this inept policy of supporting repression.” After 40 years of U.S. dominion, the Middle East was, he said, “a collection of failed states that add nothing to humanity or science” because “people were taught not to think or to act, and were consistently given an inferior education.”

Sound familiar?

Famous last words

"These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland ... They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - Ronald Reagan

Wisconsin Battles On

FROM CROOKS & LIARS' Nicole Belle:

And another one bites the dust...

Wisconsin Democrats announced late Monday that they are filing recall signatures against a fourth Republican state senator [Sheila Harsdorf of the 10th District], in the political battle over Republican Gov. Scott Walker's anti-public employee union agenda. And with this development, the momentum is growing for control of the chamber to be up for grabs in the coming months.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press, whose readership includes people across the Minnesota state line in Harsdorf's northwestern Wisconsin district, reports:

Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesman Graeme Zielinski said a petition will be filed with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board on Tuesday. While he didn't have a total signature count Monday afternoon -- signatures were still coming in -- Zielinski said the number is well over the 15,744 needed.

Democrats on Monday filed petitions against Republican state Sen. Luther Olsen, and had previously filed petitions targeting state Sen. Dan Kapanke and state Sen. Randy Hopper. These petitions are still being reviewed by the state Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections.

There's More..

Long Past Time for Solar and Wind

...and this is just the subsidies, they don't include the nearly $5,000.00 per year that we spend per household for the Oil Wars in the Middle East and Africa.

hattip to The Immoral Minority

I watch Youtube.

Amazing Video:




I can so relate to this vid - I've also been feeling overwhelmed and cut off lately.