While George W. Bush was touting his tax cuts, mostly for his rich pals,
New York Times By EDMUND L. ANDREWS Published: January 8, 2007 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study. The study, by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, also shows that tax rates for middle-income earners edged up in 2004, the most recent year for which data was available, while rates for people at the very top continued to decline.
he had a game plan to simulate the economy with middle class 401K money. Let me make my case:
9-11 should not be a political statement for anyone. It should be a sad day of remembrence that many people died because of hatred and incompetence. However, since the very day it occured it has constantly been used as a hammer to pound the agenda of a miguided bunch people with an unenlightened vision of the world down everyone else's throat.
Today Americans learned what the total price of giving total control of our government to Republicans may be. While there is much self-righteousness and gnashing of teeth among Republicans now, the real unavoidable fact is it was Republican policies, enacted by Republicans during the six years of a Republican Congress with just enough Corporate Democrats and a Republican President that could and did do real, lasting damage.
The complete and total hypocrisy of the Republicans sometimes is too much to bear. I seem to remember one party totally in power for six years that gave birth to all the failed policies that crashed our economy. That was the Republican Party with Boehner as one of it's "leaders". Now he is worried about a lot of things that used to make him happy.
I don't agree with Cornette's glowing assessment of Obama, because it's obvious that the Democrat is George W. Bush's third term. But I do share his frustration and anger with the right-wingers.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to the latest figures released by an internationally regarded measuring station in the Arctic.
The measurements suggest that the main greenhouse gas is continuing to increase in the atmosphere at an alarming rate despite the downturn in dip in the rate of increase of the global economy.
Levels of the gas at the Zeppelin research station on Svalbard, northern Norway, last week peaked at over 397 parts per million (ppm), an increase of more than 2.5ppm on 2008. They have since begun to reduce and today stand at 393.7ppm. Prior to the industrial revolution, CO2 levels were around 280ppm.
And the second:
The thickness of sea ice in the Arctic dramatically declined last winter for the first time since records began in the early 1990s. The research by British scientists shows a significant loss in the thickness of the northern ice cap after the record loss of ice in the summer of 2007, although the weather was not abnormally warm.
The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, raise the possibility that the loss of the Arctic sea ice could accelerate, because as the ice recedes the water temperature rises. This summer the sea ice recorded its second-lowest extent after the record low of 2007, again despite relatively cool air temperatures.
During the previous administration many Progressives were very critical of the "torture" policies enacted by Bush/Cheney. Many of us felt that they represented a failed vision of the world. Many of us also felt that Enlightened societies simply do not torture people. Besides, when America starts torturing her enemies, it sets a bad precedent in war and risks the same treatment of our own captured troops.
After rubber-stamping the disgraceful failed Bush years in foreign policy Republican leaders are trying to act like they know what they are talking about and that thinking folks have not seen through their facade. Across the board they offer no new vision on any issue foreign or domestic and still continue to spew forth the same failed policies that voters rebuked. You would not know that they are so void of real ideas though, because they sure can critisize those that do have a few.
