Ravenclaw
History geek
Politics junkie
"Loyalty to country, always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it." --Mark Twain
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Caesar Flickerman’s Theme Song // The Hunger Games Score
I WANT THIS TO PLAY EVERY TIME I WALK INTO A ROOM.
EVERY.
SINGLE.
TIME.
I JUST LOVE THAT.
REPUBLICAN LOGIC.
And yet Jon Stewart felt the need to berate the government agency that spent $800,000 on a conference. Sorry, I know that was like two weeks ago but it still rubs me the wrong way. ANYWAYS. yeah. I love how billions are a pittance unworthy of increasing taxes, but a few million to make reproductive healthcare accessible is a morass of evil government spending. -Jess
You know what I noticed on Fox News last night, that was on Fox News
(Source: msllemon)
Raise the Minimum Wage. A Lot.
What would workers do with the raise? They’d spend it, creating jobs for other workers. They’d pay down their mortgages and car loans, getting themselves out of debt. They’d pay more taxes — on sales and property, mostly — thereby relieving the fiscal crises of states and localities. More teachers, police, and firefighters would keep their jobs.
Would this hurt competitiveness? Not at all. That’s an issue for manufactured goods and traded services like insurance and banking, sectors in which everyone already earns far more than $12 an hour. The jobs we’re talking about are in non-traded services like checkout clerks, haircutters, domestic help, and food-service workers — you can’t run a deep fryer in Terre Haute from Bangalore.
Would prices go up? Some would. But rich people can afford it — and workers would have extra income to pay the higher prices, so most of them would come out ahead. Women in particular would benefit because they tend to work for lower wages. With more family income, some people would choose to retire, go back to school, or have children, making it easier for others who need jobs to find them. Working families would have more time for community life, including politics; Americans would start to reclaim the middle-class political organization that they once had. Because payroll- and income-tax revenues would rise, the federal deficit would come down. Social Security worries would fade.
The minimum wage must be $12-14 because the 99% can then survive.
James: Heyyy bff you should totally be our secret keeper yeah??
Sirius: Nah dude. My animagus form, the reflection of my innermost soul, is a dog, the most loyal animal ever. You should probably go with guy who turns into a rat instead, the universal symbol for betrayal.
James: Ahh yeah dude you're right omg kay cool thanks bro
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GOP called out for economic sabotage.
Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama’s re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth.
The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that when Congress raises the nation’s borrowing cap in early 2013, he will again insist on big spending cuts to offset the increase. Boehner, R-Ohio, continues to reject higher tax rates, which Democrats demand from the wealthy.
That led Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to say Boehner is virtually assuring another debt-ceiling crisis as bad or worse than the one that shook financial markets nine months ago.
“The last thing the country needs is a rerun of last summer’s debacle that nearly brought down our economy,” Schumer said in a statement. In an interview, Schumer added: “I hope that the speaker is not doing this because he doesn’t want to see the economy improve, because what he said will certainly rattle the markets.”
Looking back at the House since 2010, it’s hard not to believe Schumer’s right. Nearly every economic bill House GOP has passed amounts to an attack on consumer demand — these Republican ideas couldn’t screw the economy up more if they tried. So is it that the GOP are trying — or are they just hopelessly clueless and incompetent.
Either way, the result is the same.
The GOP is attempting to ruin the US economy, then place the blame for its ruin on the convenient scapegoat President Obama.
They think that their plan will work without a hitch. Americans are waking up to their devilish antics.
