Obama/Buffett tax: Close but NO CIGAR! THE GE tax!!!

Dear President  Obama.  It's not the Warren Buffett's we need to fix. 

We need to refine this, and relabel this the GE tax.

Very simply, as I have said for many years...

Make over a million dollars?   Your new tax will be calculated as a minimum of one percent of your GROSS income, including ALL capital gains, dividends, etc.

NO reductions for ANYThING at all.

Think of it as the new millionaire's minimum tax (MMT),,,

Arguh (talk like a pirate day...)

Argh, ye mateys.... No pay taxes in US? Walk the plank!!!!!

SOS: Bush 43: Make your reputation: Pardon Jonathan Pollard!

Hey Bushkie

Wanna make your long term reputation LAST?

Jonathan Pollard NEVER had a trial, because he plead GUILTY.

How about pardoning him after 20 YEARS of HARD, severe jail time??

Casper Weinberger unfairly had him sentenced for LONGER then
the Freedom fighters from PR against President Eisenhower.


It's time to grant him a conditional pardon
COMMUTE his sentence until time served.

That'd be a heck of a legacy for you when leaving office.

As a matter of fact, it will balance EVERY other action that occurred during the eight years you ran our country.

Cheers.

I know I'm dreaming, but it would be a real great dream, and make your reputation last forever!



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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Depression and NPR: not the mental kind

hMM. A few months ago I mentioned I was starting to log news articles about the great depression, and that the incidents of citations was rising very much.

Well today, NPR had an interesting story, talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the campaign trail offering voters solutions to the Great Depression.

Very interesting, and VERY Pertinent to what I keep saying... (We're ALREADY in a F#&#king Depression people!)
and that FDR didn't exactly keep HIS campaign promise to CUT taxes and GOVERNMENT either
Listen to the Whole 8 minutes here: Here's the link to the story

Now

What I get from this is:

The depression had people THINKING about how to get the country OUT of it.
That's what I've been hoping people will see, and start to read (and talk about) when they read my blogs.

If you read this, please comment, even anonymously! thanks in advance

mark brown
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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Today's McCain vs. Yesterday's

Hey All. I actually like John McCain. Or the John McCain that he USED to be

before he:
* Changed his policy on Immigration
* Changed his policy on no negative campaigning
* Changed his policy on NOT making the BUSH tax cut permanent.
* Changed his morals to win the republican nomination.
* Gave up his moral standing (by nominating an empty Dress and Bra for Vice President)

The man he WAS stood for a lot. The man pretending to be John McCain on the campaign trail
is but a shell of the MAN that he was.

*WHY did McCain Fire his advisers, and hire all the republican advisors that do NEGATIVE campaigns? WHAT happened to his ethics?
*Why did McCain decide NOT to nominate a qualified candidate, and make this a NON-partisan race for the white house (by nominating Joe Lieberman for VP?)


I really don't understand how someone can look at the moral gaffes that McCain has made in this campaign, and still say he will be better then Obama.

In my mind, the only two arguments that come up, are from former Hillary supporters who say

He isn't tested. He isn't experienced enough.
or from someone
who just can't openly admit that they are still bigoted, and can't vote for a black for president.

7 days and counting.
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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Obama:Black majority? or Jesse Jackson?

Give me a break.

I (as a white american) think the question of Obama immediately changing our country to
favor blacks, is really quite chilling.

I've spent almost 45 years trying to live down my parent and grandparents views of black relations. (The yiddish word schvatze [prounounced sch-vaart-che], literally meaning 'black')
was not really used as a nice word in their generation.

It's taken almost 40-50 years for this to go away. I'm grateful it has.
A black president? My first question is NOT , as they may have said, "A schvatze?", but instead "is he qualified?"

I'm really happy it's come this far.

Now. Is John McCain Qualified?

John McCain on economics: "I know nothing about economics"
Barak Obama on economics: Here are some ideas to get us OUT of this economics mess.

John McCain on government regulation: CUT, CUT, remove all regulations. (typical republican!)
Barak Obama? : Regulate, regulate, regulate.

Which do YOU think is more important???

oh, and don't forget: John McCain's economic advisor is Former Senator Phil Gramm, the SAME guy who singlehandedly INSERTED a last minute (11:59PM) paragraph DEREGULATING ENRON (and the entire financial marketplace) literally 10 minutes before he retired from the senate, and told NO-BODY he did this!!!!

It's been documented, and PROVEN this is the cause of this fall's financial crisis, since these financial instruments were UNREGULATED by this provision, and caused the problem.

I say Wall Street's greed was caused by UNDER-regulation.

back to original topic:

Will Obama order all Whites to walk in the gutters?
Will Obama have Jesse Jackson as the Secretary of State?
Will Obama force all whites to become slaves??

I don't think so....

More another day...



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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Election'08: It's my party, I'll blog if I want to..

You'd (cry/blog) too, if it happened to you...

And since it's my blog; I am going to be posting daily until after the Election.

Some real interesting feelings:

1) I am not an Obama '"Stepford Wife". I am supporting him with GREAT misgivings.
He is NOT perfect. He IS too 'poised', he is NOT 'heavy with experience', like McCain.

Some positives:

1. Obama IS qualified to be president on day one (and on day Two, unlike Sarah Palin).
2. Obama IS (just like Pepsi was), the hope of a NEW Generation.
3. Obama IS more qualified then John McCain to lead us in this period of UNKNOWN financial UNCERTAINTY. (Remember John McCain Admitted to knowing NOTHING about economics!)
4. Obama has PLANS for saving our society (sound familiar?-see other blog)
5. Unlike John McCain, he will actually TAX people with incomes OVER $250,000 per year. Note To (readers)... Do you actually MAKE $250,000 per year? I can only dream of that...PS: MY Proposal says start at 1million, not a quarter of a million!!!, and imposes a MINIMUM Millionaire tax of no less then one percent of GROSS income!

I am very fearful. I see a huge 'alleged' support of Obama. But I fear that if Obama does not win, the 'race' card will have been played by the white majority.

This having been said, I am very very fearful of our country being divided, this time worse then in the stolen Y2K election, where the Supreme Court (forced) the election of the republicans.
(in the survey of votes the next year, it was proven that the democrats would have won!)

I am stating now, that I will be out in force protesting, if more dicey election tactics are revealed this year. Especially since in 2000, and 2004, Republican 'tactics' to split/divert the vote were shown to have occurred.

My worse fear is that this issue will become violent, and will create a new 'UN-CIVIL war'.

It is quite possible, if one thinks about it, that if tactics leading to the rejection of valid voting takes place, it will absolutely lead to a war.

Will prisoners be taken??

Will we be forced to declare sides?

Will we ever have peace after this??

These are all valid thoughts.

And.

I hope that you are thinking, of voting for John McCain, these issues will
help to dissuade you from going out to vote.

If you were a Hilary supporter, I bet you think he is a "wishy-washy" and not a competent leader. If you really want to vote AGAINST Obama, just stay HOME. That's the safest way
to do this in my opinion

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Waste Your Vote? Why vote Palin? A personal question

To those I personally know who claim they are voting for John McCain.

1) Get real. He AIN'T a muslim. You listen to too much Rush Limbaugh and radical talk-shows.
2) The REPUBLICAN (read RIGHT WING John Birch Society) Nuts have LOST. THIS Financial crisis was the DEATH KNOLL of the conservative movement.
3) Waste your vote?? Are you crazy? Do you know how dangerous John McCain is today?
4) NOW is NOT the time to punish the Democratic party because Hillary isn't the nominee.
5) Barak Obama, UNLIKE the republican candidate, has NOT resorted to NEGATIVE campaigning, Negative ROBO-Phone calls, or even claiming Obama is not qualified, or is simply a terrorist.
5a) FOR SHAME to you for think you're better off then you were 8 years ago.
6) Are you better then you were 30 days ago? NO. Why vote for the guy that has NO FINANCIAL Knowledge?
7) Do you really think Bill Ayers is a Terrorist? You lived through the sixties.
One of you was actually in the ARMY.
Give me a break. He paid his DUES. Call me a terrorist then!

8) and WHY the heck is McCain so desperate that he's resorting to THAT?!

and FINALLY

9) are you buying that "obama will raise taxes bull-turds? Do you REALLY make OVER $250,000 per year? Gee I never knew that.

10) Even MY plans raise taxes (mine above 1million, with a new MINIMUM Millionaire Tax (MMT) of 1-5% of GROSS income!)

Yes, I like John McCain. Until he decided to go for the "Republican Base" (read the conservative base of ANTI-Abortion, PRO GUN, PRO CHRISTIAN and evangelical groups).

He has TOTALLY sold out his policies:

a) He reversed his policy on Drilling for Oil in Alaska. ALL of a sudden, it's fine
b) HE admits HE HAS NO FINANCIAL Knowledge. And he was PROUD of this last year!
b1) NOW is NOT THE TIME for a FINANCIAL NEOPHYTE to be in the WHITE HOUSE. We have JUST (almost) gotten rid of the WORST President in The ENTIRE HISTORY of this country.
b2) Now is NOT the time for someone who said, "The economy is FINE" IN SEPTEMBER of 2008. (and then reverses himself less then three hours later.)

c) John McCain and Joe Lieberman? That would have been a ticket that I could not have avoided supporting. Sarah Tina Palin? Let's vote to have her KICKED off Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey does a better Sarah Palin.

Don't insult me by saying that Sarah Palin is ready to be Governor, let alone the President.
Don't insult me by saying that Sarah Palin isn't going to be President. It has happened.
Don't insult me by saying that Sarah Palin is a great alternative to Barak Obama.


Please Answer This message (I will re-post it anonymously for you)

Feel free to CITE sources,


Mark

PS: for the record, I am STILL voting for OBAMBA, even if I hold my nose while I do it.

I think it's the better choice for our country.
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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

The failed party: do you trust this Woman with your black button?

Need I say more?

Yes: conversation today... At temple: I can't wait to hear the Vice Presidential Debate tomorrow.

First Question:

Governor Palin. Please tell us two things you would do to fix the economic crisis we're currently experiencing?

Excuse me, could you define crisis? Is it similar to a caribou?



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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Arguh: Yet another SaraPalin Mess.

Go Away Sarah. You are making too many appearances in my blog!

ABC news reports that

Sarah Palin (has again), shifted her tactics for the second time in three weeks on the "Troopergate" investigation, this time calling to end the very investigation that she herself called for and the one the McCain campaign had said was the only proper venue for a probe.

The Alaskan Attorney General, who initially launched an internal probe into Palin, before the legislature began theirs, is now asking the legislators to withdraw their subpoenas of Palin aides and Palin's husband.

Despite her earlier vows of full cooperation with the (leglislature's) probe, she declared it unlawful. The legislature lacked the authority to investigate the matter, she said. Instead, it should be handled by the state personnel board, Palin asserted -- a panel which is under her authority.

Gee. If it SMELLS like a RAT
and it Feels Like a Rat,
and it LOOKS like a RAT

There's a pretty good chance it's a RAT in front of you!!!

Go away Sarah. Go Far Far Away, and slink your way back to Alaska.

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Palin as President

Now. This Palin's for YOU...

Oh. By the Way...

To quote:

" I am....practicing very hard (and cursing very liberally, while trying to practice saying
the following...)

• President McCain. OK I can accept this one.
  

• Vice President Palin (See picture above)
  

but I am having much trouble saying...

President Palin??

and of course, after this the inevitable (in 2012) President Hil. OR President Clinton.

And consider this my election Preview.

Obama has lost.

Totally. Historically. Without a prayer.

and a conversation with someone ELSE (NOT me ... for a change, who said...)

What, you expect Palin to be a political Veep, no way, she's got five kids, with a special needs one too. She'll be in the Veep's mansion breastfeeding for the next four years..

And I answered, "besides being Sexist that's a terrible thing to say...", and they said, "You're right, she's totally unqualified and a terrible choice. But he screwed up, and the Republican base, as well as the entire rest of the population is gonna vote for her because her daughter rebelled and got knocked up.

And I said, well doesn't the fact that she believes in Abstinence only sex education mean her value systems in today's day and age are screwed up? It just goes to show that her values are so out of touch with what our country needs...And to say it was just a rebellious daughter bemoans the fact that the daughter might never heard of what a condom was FROM who her PARENT, who SHOULD have been teaching something USEFUL to her.

And then he answered, " Well you know, that's the exact reason Obama's gonna lose. ONLY because it became such an issue, and any parent, no matter what the religion can understand the rebellious teenager."

ARGUUUH.

OK. Practice again.
President McCain.
Vice President Palin.

No calls in the middle of the night.

Although, if that happened, we'd have a female president AND vice president (Pelosi)..

Hmmm.... Hormone alert.

cheers. (practice saying Republican President...1,000 times)

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Community Organizing: Mandatory Draft

OK, This I believe:

We are headed into a period of time when we will have VERY VERY high unemployment,
and especially with the "traditionally under-employed" population segments (hispanic/black teenagers...)

I think that one of the best things we can do as a society is to create a NATIONAL time of SERVICE, after High School (mandatory).

This service can be of two types (and will serve two different purposes), and would be up to the individual teen-ager and family.

Type One: National (US only) Service (and training)
Type Two: Traditional Military Service (and training)

Type two (military service) would ALSO go towards removing the volunteer (and CONTRACTOR) army.

Type One service would work to rebuild the country, as well as teaching valid skills to many different worker classes.

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

President Sarah: IT's the BUSH doctrine STUPID

I cant believe this ...

The bush Doctrine....

Is she ready to be a BUSH 43 clone (after McCain44) dies... Palin/45???

Yeah... Right..

And apparently she was sleeping (or INHALING) too much when she took
her SIX years to GET her undergraduate degree IN SIX DIFFERNT Schools.

(SIX schools in SIX YEARS???--{2 were the same school, different years}



What about Weapons of Mass Destruction?? Huh??
What about WaterBoarding ISN't Torture?
What about ILLEGAL wiretapping of United States CITIZENS without legal permission?


Huh?

Resign Sarah, at least let McCain win with Joe Liberman?

HorseDung: Sarah Lies AGAIN...

It's worse then a political HOT POTATOE...

That's POTATO with a FINAL E, Ms. Palin.

In her FIRST EVER interview AFTER being Nominated for the SECOND most IMPORTANT Position in the United States, MRS. PALIN was assked:
Do you still believe that global warming is not man made?" Gibson asked Palin.

"I believe that man's activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change. Here in Alaska, the only arctic state in our Union, of course, we see the effects of climate change more so than any other area with ice pack melting. Regardless though of the reason for climate change, whether it's entirely, wholly caused by man's activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet -- the warming and the cooling trends -- regardless of that, John McCain and I agree that we gotta do something about it and we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution."

In the past, including in an interview with Newsmax.com in August just ahead of her nomination, Palin said: "I'm not one though who would attribute [global warming] to being man-made."

GEE Sarah, "

Too dumb to drink the Electric Kool-AID?"

Next Question:

Did you INHALE?

Next Question:

Did you FORGET to EXHALE?

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What DRUGS are the REPUBLICANS ON, Anyway???

Vote Hilary... I mean, VOTE PALIN...I mean... I'm John McCain, and I forgot to Approve this Blog post...But vote...

EDIT

Oh, Just Read Maureen Dowd's Column from Tuesday 9/9 Here (NYTimes)
To quote the McCain Campaign:

This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

Horse-DUNG (again!)

It's the ISSUES, STUPID beotch

ARGUH


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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Politics: Palin vs. McCain (2)

Hey: Boys.
Senator John McCain decided to nominate Governor Palin.

Apparently (according to ABC Newss' The Notes )
reports that:

1. The "advance team" only got to Alaska last Thursday, one day before the announcement.
2. She is against 'earmarks'. The Note reports that...
   

Palin, who decried the practice of budgetary 'earmarks' sought, as the state's chief executive and as mayor of Wasilla, hundreds of millions of dollars in such federal funding for local projects."

AND... She also employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor," The Washington Post's Paul Kane reports. The items she got while mayor included:

• $500,000 for a youth shelter
• $1.9 million for a transportation hub
• $900,000 for sewer repairs
• $15 million for a rail project
  

"In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million in earmarks -- about $1,000 in federal money for every resident.
By contrast, Boise, Idaho -- which has more than 190,000 residents -- received $6.9 million in earmarks in fiscal 2008,"
Kane adds. "

All told, Wasilla benefited from $26.9 million in earmarks in Palin's final four years in office. . . . In February, Palin's [governor's] office sent Sen. Stevens a 70-page memo outlining almost $200 million worth of new funding requests for Alaska."

3: She was once a member of a "fringe" Alaskan Political Party called the Alaskan Independence Party which says that Palin was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States," ABC's Jake Tapper reports. "And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is 'Country First,' the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- 'Alaska First -- Alaska Always.' "

Country First my Arse.

So much for party unity...

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Politics: Palin vs. McCain (1)

OK. I'm gonna be good.

This blog is MINE. The other one is about the NEW-deal.

Thus, Sarah Palin and problems go HERE...not THERE!

1) The question of her Preggy Daughter.

Is it private (a family matter?) or a matter for the public:

Pro public:

Governor Palin is a public figure, and has been in the public spotlight (as mayor/commissioner/governor) for At LEAST 14 of the 17 years in Her daughter's life.

I will propose that FAMILY VALUES i.e., the discussion that PARENTs and CHILDREN should have about the facts of life (AKA the birds and the bees) talk with their children.

TO ME (at least), it is apparent that her daughter MISSED that talk, and I am wondering if she ever got one in the BUSY, rushed life that Governor Palin must lead with five children.

Anti-public

Hey We ALL have families. Kids, especially teen-agers almost NEVER listen to their parents, and this has been happening for several hundred years.

Grant her the right to wallow in her misery in private.

Yeah Right.


I feel a song coming on... Here's a start... (the times, are a changin)
Come on... All you preggy teens
and you teen-aged boys


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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

8-28-08: I can't believe I predicted the WHOLE thing

I can't believe this.

After almost a YEAR with ABSOLUTELY NO readers (or comments) at all!

I finally get a reader.

But wahat a reader!

I was listening to Barack Obama's Acceptance speech earlier (about 10:30 Eastern time)

What did I hear?

Every single thing I believe in and have posted to this blog

Barack Obama Just stole (just kidding) from me..

Maybe I should give him my resume and tell him I want a job.

yeah right.




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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

8-26-08: VP Prediction: The McCain bombshell

J'accuse (or actually PREDICT)

John McCain will be making this Obama's campaign to lose.

Footnote: I am a solid Democrat, NOT a republican.

McCain will become UNBEATABLE

when he nominates Senator Joseph Lieberman as his VICE president.


You Heard it here... (and I've postponed putting it up 2 weeks already)

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

RacE: Why I am against HILLARY

(placeholder)

WHY am I not for Hillary?

NOTHING to do with Sexism (even though I'm a male! I swear!)

Reasons why I don't like Hillary (for President)

1. She's related to Bill
2. I don't really want the Second coming of the Clinton "dynasty"
   
1. Someone on WNYC discussed the fact that between BUSHes and the Clintons we will have had TWENTY-EIGHT (28) years of the BUSH/CLINTON dynasty when and if Hillary wins in 2008 and 2012.
   
3. Was I that hateful of Bill's Presidency? NO.
4. And of course, the hateful minority that would NEVER vote for a woman for president.

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2008 Haiku: Impeach Cheney; Pelosi Pardons ; Democracy Restored-- Pass it on

RacE: Why I'm AGAINST OBAMMA

(placeholder)

WHY am I not for OBAMA?

NOTHING to do with RACE (even though I'm white! I swear!)

Top Reasons why I don't like Obama (for President)

1. He's a great Senator, and has great potential once he's seasoned.
2. He's NOT Seasoned.
1. He has (only 2 years) National Service
2. He was a STATE senator before this
3. He's unproven in national and international situations.
3. He is competing against the first woman with a chance to be president.
1. AUGH, could she lose the election (a la Ralph NADER?)
1. Don't FORGET 2000 The Supreme Court annointed the Loser president!
2. Do we REALLY want to split the ENTIRE party NOW?

IN SUMMARY, I am against OBAMA because I am afraid.

NOT of a Black President (may I be alive to see the day when it comes...)
BUT...

Because I am afraid of another REPUBLICIAN RULING (and removing) our failing democracy. for the next four years.

AND I need to explain why I don't (REALLY!) support HILLARY either (see HERE- Eventually!)

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2008 Haiku: Impeach Cheney; Pelosi Pardons ; Democracy Restored-- Pass it on

PoliticS: BloomBerg for President 2008??

Political QUESTION for the community....
President 2008.

(My opinion: Hillary and Obama are deeply flawed, with excess baggage.
Richardson is interesting, I like John Edwards (and he 'ain't a senator now!)

BUT.... against Rudy Gulianni (as ex ny'er I can safely say Dictator in WAITING)
and ...

They aren't what I've wanted to DEVOTE myself to this time

BUT now

MICHAEL Bloomberg (who is term-limited from having another term as mayor of NY)

has declared as independent.

I say "Go Mikey Go!!!!"

ALL THE WAY

Positives:
* Built a multi-billion dollar business in less then 20 years
* Good administrator, has proven in NY, he is Chief Executive officer/)PRESIDENT material
* SELF FINANCING is a NO BRAINER. He spent $150 MILLION to win his 2 terms in NYC
* almost 80-90% (not sure. need details) approval rating
* Possible savior to campaign financing Scandals??? to push reform through?
* Viewed as a positive or consencious builder, not a "tear-down" or dicatator, or wishy-washy.
* No NEGATIVE perceptions of him vis-a-vis "9-11", as opposed to "Rudy"

Negatives:
* A jew for President, in my lifetime??? Be still my heart (shades of JFK!)
* MUCH question about motives.
* Buying presidency?
* Vs. Rudy and Hilary? A 3 way NY race?
* Will rest of country think of this as viable?
*3rd party candidate for President?
* Will this only elect the REPUBLICIAN in 2008

Your thoughts? all welcome

Ideas? comments? thoughts?