Archive for the 'big business as usual' Category
NAFTA, Welfare Reform, and Bailouts.
Buck Owens, “Waiting In Your Welfare Line”
In the 1990s, the Clinton Adminsitration passed NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, widely despised by progressives and anyone who cares about working Americans for its effects on our nation: thousands put out of work or pushed into dead-end jobs, empty promises of health care (I am still [...]
Burnouts, Bailouts, and Bullshit.
I work in human services as a grantwriter. It’s not the highest paying job in the world, and in fact I frequently have trouble paying my bills, but it gives me the opportunity to write for a living. Furthermore, I’m actually pretty good at grantwriting: in the first few months of the new fiscal [...]
Read More..>>Phil Gramm and Alan Greenspan Should Be Publicly Executed
Three Times is Enemy Action
Even so, by 1999 Phil Gramm — who had entered the Senate two years after McCain and quickly become the economic guru of the Keating Five maverick — put forward the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. This Act passed out of the Senate on a party line vote with 100% Republican support, including that [...]
No.
Open letter to Congress:
No. No bailout. Not without substantial strings attached: I want help. My neighbors want help. We need foreclosure relief. We need unemployment extensions. We need a tax-cut that benefits middle- and working-class families. We need national health care. The people who ran our economy into a [...]
Bailout
Coming home from Boston yesterday, I was appalled to hear the details of the bailout for Wall Street.
Let me get this straight: it’s a three-page plan (written in blue or green crayon, I wonder), which demands $700,000,000,000 from the taxpayers, with no strings attached, no punitive measures to prevent CEOs from doing this again, no [...]
Major Deficits Prevent New Programs
Writing in the New York Times, Floyd Norris has a question about the latest bailout:
It will be interesting to see if that cost leads politicians to revise their proposals. Will Senator McCain conclude that we cannot afford to renew the Bush tax cuts, and that taxpayers must actually bear a burden when the government does? [...]
I Want to Be a Republican Politician
No Charges for Boy-Buggering Closeted Homosexual Right-Wing Nut Job Pedophile Mark Foley
After an exhaustive two-year investigation, former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn’t expected to face charges for sending salacious messages to underage pages, two federal law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press.
Results of a state investigation were to be announced Friday. An FBI investigation [...]
Round and Round We Go
I called Senator Bob Casey’s office this morning about the AIG bailout. Casey’s office told me the Senator had nothing to do with the Fed’s actions, and told me to call the US Treasury.
The U.S. Treasury first denied that AIG had been bailed out by the taxpayers, so i read them the front page [...]
I Own an Insurance Company
Last week, my fellow taxpayers and I became the owners of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, even though none of my Senators or representatives could tell me whether I’d be seeing a dividend check anytime soon, or whether I’d be invited to take part in a profit sharing plan (odds are pretty steep as to [...]
Read More..>>AT&T Having Obtained Immunity, Now Seeks to Spy Openly
Talk about your undertstaements: At&T Mulls Watching You Surf:
AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
While the company said it hadn’t tested such a system for monitoring display advertising [...]
