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Saturday, August 13, 2011
While Ayn Rand rants on...
I wonder if she realized that it wasn't those little poor people, organizing and pooling their bucks, in an "irresistible" effort to force congress to "redistribute" wealth from the rich to themselves?
I have to wonder what she, or her followers, would have said, if someone were to point out that it was the concerned rich themselves, who organized and pushed the government to create and even enhance those entitlement programs? What does that do to her arguments? She seems have been thinking that the young, the poor the infirm and the elderly, were all engaged in some devilishly fiendish scheme to force the gov't to rape the rich, then shower themselves with "diamonds and Cadillacs" at the expense of the wealthy. When, in fact, these programs were the efforts of those very same wealthy people!
People who knew that a wealthy and prosperous society depended upon social and national unity. Thus did they give us programs that actually created more jobs, taking care of our own, while raising our standard of living to a level that became the envy of the world.
I have to wonder what she, or her followers, would have said, if someone were to point out that it was the concerned rich themselves, who organized and pushed the government to create and even enhance those entitlement programs? What does that do to her arguments? She seems have been thinking that the young, the poor the infirm and the elderly, were all engaged in some devilishly fiendish scheme to force the gov't to rape the rich, then shower themselves with "diamonds and Cadillacs" at the expense of the wealthy. When, in fact, these programs were the efforts of those very same wealthy people!
People who knew that a wealthy and prosperous society depended upon social and national unity. Thus did they give us programs that actually created more jobs, taking care of our own, while raising our standard of living to a level that became the envy of the world.
Friday, August 12, 2011
FOCUS: Clarke Alleges CIA Cover-Up Prior to 9/11
Philip Shenon, The Daily Beast
Shenon writes: "Clarke's theory addresses a central, enduring mystery about the 9/11 attacks - why the CIA failed for so long to tell the White House and senior officials at the FBI that the agency was aware that two Al Qaeda terrorists had arrived in the United States in January 2000, just days after attending a terrorist summit meeting in Malaysia that the CIA had secretly monitored."
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Soldier Comes Home to Find Real Enemy Is Bank Taking His Home
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
11 August 11
On the same day Tim Collette welcomes his soldier son back for leave from Iraq, he loses his Oregon house to foreclosure. But unlike many homeowners, Collette is fighting back.
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The People vs. Goldman Sachs
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Matt Taibbi: A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges
by: Matt Taibbi
They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it.
Thanks to an extraordinary investigative effort by a Senate subcommittee that unilaterally decided to take up the burden the criminal justice system has repeatedly refused to shoulder, we now know exactly what Goldman Sachs executives like Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks lied about. We know exactly how they and other top Goldman executives, including David Viniar and Thomas Montag, defrauded their clients. America has been waiting for a case to bring against Wall Street. Here it is, and the evidence has been gift-wrapped and left at the doorstep of federal prosecutors, evidence that doesn't leave much doubt: Goldman Sachs should stand trial.
This article appears in the May 26, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available now on newsstands and will appear in the online archive May 13.
Maddow and Ehrenreich on Unions, Verizon Strike: Unions Equal a Middle Class
The organized labor fight in our country is taking place both in the public sector--as Wisconsin's epic protests and recall effort demonstrates--and the private, as indicated by the massive Verizon strike.
Watch Rachel Maddow and Barbara Ehrenreich talk about how vital a strong labor movement is for maintaining a middle class in this country--and how hurting labor will end up hurting that middle class, below. And send it along to your union-skeptical friends. This is good stuff.
Watch Rachel Maddow and Barbara Ehrenreich talk about how vital a strong labor movement is for maintaining a middle class in this country--and how hurting labor will end up hurting that middle class, below. And send it along to your union-skeptical friends. This is good stuff.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Kentucky Gives Creationist Theme Park 75 Percent Tax Discount For The Next 30 Years
In May, ThinkProgress reported that Kentucky approved a $43 million tax break for Ark Encounter, a Bible-themed amusement park that religious organizations are building outside Williamstown. Now the state is giving the creationist project another kickback in the form of a 75 percent property tax discount over the next 30 years:
Mayor Rick Skinner said the offer is laid out in a memorandum of agreement that will be followed by a formal tax-increment financing deal with Petersburg-based Ark Encounters LLC in coming months. Read more
Mayor Rick Skinner said the offer is laid out in a memorandum of agreement that will be followed by a formal tax-increment financing deal with Petersburg-based Ark Encounters LLC in coming months. Read more
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