You know with all the Republican railing against the stimulus bill one thing that the CBO is confirming is that without it things would be much worse. Of course, it is easy for Republicans to criticize it they caused all the problems that created a need for it. After they conveniently bailed out the bankers, they had hoped to leave the American people high and dry. However now the CBO is reporting that the stimulus both created jobs and lowered the unemployment rate.
John Boehner gave his little sales pitch on why he should be Speaker of the House today. Of course, he conveniently left out the part where the same failed policies he recommended for the future failed so miserably in the past giving us the mess we are so desperately trying to clean up without the help of Boehner and his ilk. But then again why should they help?? They already got their bailout. Another thing missing from the Prince of Orange's radar today was the fact that he, like the whole Republican Party is trying to steal your Social Security to pay for tax cuts for the rich and Corporate Welfare.
Well, the Prince of Orange in revving up his campaign to be Speaker of the House of Representatives. As with everything Republicans do nowadays, his campaign is long on bluster and short on memory and facts. Of course, like Mitch McConnell on Sunday he has to conveniently hope the American people forget his role in rubber-stamping President Bush and his policies which crashed the economy. He also has to hope you do not look at the way he has voted.
One of the most fierce debates going right now in the political arena is whether to extend the Bush Tax Cuts. While most folks favor extending the cuts for those making under 250k, a fight has been brewing over whether to extend them for the very wealthy, adding $830 billion to our deficit over the next ten years. Now, despite the fact that Republicans are trying to paint themselves as "fiscally conservative" by opposing anything that helps working America because it "adds to the deficit" of course the one thing they are always ready to add to the deficit for is money for the rich. Unfortunately, many Democrats are buying into it as well. However, if they cared about the will of the American people they would scrap them.
One of the worst things happening all over the right-wing media right now is a continual blaming of President Obama for things that President Bush did while being enabled by a Republican Congress for six years. Yes, all over the country Republicans are going to extremes to paint Obama as the cause for a clearly Republican crash and several of the bailouts that followed. They even go as far as trying to say Obama has been in office for three years. However, as always with Republicans the facts just never bear out the crap they try to feed the American people.
Of all the great myths pushed off on America as fact one of the ones with the most far-reaching implications for many people is the myth that Social Security is insolvent. Of course this myth is perpetrated by those who have hated Social Security since it's onset but have been forced to remain silent because Social Security is such a beneficial and popular program to so many. However, some within Corporate America, Wall St., and the Republican Party have long salivated over destroying the only retirement many millions of Americans will ever afford and in fact they almost did completely destroy it once. Just think what would have happened if George W. Bush would have been able to privatize Social Security like he wanted before he crashed the economy off a cliff. The modern robber-barons who pull the strings and REALLY steal freedoms would have gotten their wish yet again.
Disclaimer: Here at Hillbilly Report, we do not condone the use of the Hillbilly Heroin. It makes you into Rush Limbaugh.
Well, the Oxymoron is at it again. Yes, the fattest, ugliest, and most drug-addicted cheerleader to ever don a mini-skirt for the greediest and least patriotic among us must be high on the Hillbilly Heroin once again. He just cannot seem to get his facts straight in his stoned-out stupor. I have been trying to show some real facts on this site lately about the real cause of America's debt and our deficits but of course after popping a few Oxys like M&Ms, Limbaugh loses all his memory.
Poor Rand Paul. He thought he would use the fundraising base of his father and cruise to tea-party victory. What he did not depend on however was his extremist views on just about everything being completely exposed by those who are voting. Now, in a state rich with farming some of those statements are coming back to haunt him as rural Kentucky sees that he scorns them as much as everyone else. Of course, in typical McConnell Republican fashion the Mad Doctor is just flip-flopping and floundering.
Two things that have taken a lot of heat lately is the Economic Stimulus and the Social Security insurance for America. In front of the federal budget deficit commission he argued that deficit spending is the best way to reduce and stabilize the national debt by stabilizing the economy and creating jobs. Meanwhile, others are defending Social Security against those who would continue to eliminate or privatize it.
A lot of the Republican politicians and talking heads say it is time that we quit "blaming Bush" for the problems besetting this country. They constantly maintain how Democrats have driven the deficit to new highs. However, as always with these hypocritical Republicans the truth is far from their own twisted sense of reality. You see, far away from tea-bag wonderland here in the real world many of the problems we face were caused by the very people that rail so hard against them.
Ah, the Republicans. Behind the guise of Christianity, fiscal responsibility, small government, or whatever they are calling it this week they constantly are seeking to find ways to show their complete scorn and hatred for their country and the folks within it who are just hoping to make enough money to move their families into the middle-class. We all remember how Jim Bunning, the most maniacal looney toon junior Senator from Kentucky sought to deny benefits to the workers Republicans policies displace by crashing the economy. Now, it appears as if that move was not heartless enough and another Republican has decided to once again show the American worker just how much scorn and hatred Republicans have for them. Yes, Tom Coburn is seeking to "Out-Bunning" the master himself, Jim Bunning.
In what has become a recurrent theme the big banking industry is setting it's site on fleecing yet another group of Americans. As if crashing our economy and being bailed out by the taxpayers for their own greed were not bad enough, banking institutions have set their sites on the fleecing of American students, and are attempting to keep them in recurrent debt for the rest of their natural lives, much less their careers. Well, now it is time to fight back against these crooks who care little for their country and the people within as long as the bottom line is preserved.
While I have been disappointed by the direction of this Administration one thing remains true. When they took office our country was disasterously close to a Great Depression. A Depression wrought by the irresponsible policies of greed enacted during the Bush years of being rubber-stamped by an uncaring Republican Congress. While I personally feel the stimulus did go far enough, the Looney Tunes on the right are now deeming the whole bill a failure. Yes, talking heads like Glenn Beck may bark like a dog, but the facts show they are just licking their own butts.
(We have all dealt with these folks at one time or another. - promoted by RDemocrat)
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Ever have that come up on your caller ID. It's PNC bank, or at least the people who collect for PNC bank. My car payment was due December 27, 2009 and they have been calling almost hourly starting 2 days ago. They start at 9:30am and they won't stop till 9:00 pm. You may be wondering how I know it's them, it's because I've talked to them when they've called. That doesn't matter to them though because no matter what deal I make they will call back once or twice before the date that I set with them so I don't answer anymore.
I have fought back financially despite being unemployed. I have my bills caught up for the first time, I'm only 4 days behind and I'm sorry but I deserve a bit more respect than that. It's New Years Eve for crying out loud. Of course I found out the hard way when it comes to PNC bank, how customer friendly they are. When I had first got the car I was laid off for about 3 months. During that time I feel behind 30 days. I had previously opened a checking account with PNC bank because they had a branch across the street from my work, I though that would be convenient for paying my car payments, I didn't realize just how convenient it would be. One evening, at work, I got a call from PNC bank, a young lady informed me that since my check had just been deposited they were going to take my car payment out of my checking account and it didn't matter that I'd just mailed my rent check a few days earlier and that my landlord deposited the check that very day.
You know, President Obama has disappointed me in a few regards. First, backtracking on single-payer and then placing mandates over a public option in the healthcare debate. His policies in Afghanistan also leave much to be desired for the Progressive activist who hopes to quit wasting lives and treasure in that country on a failed policy started by a failed President. However, there are instances in which we must also defend President Obama.
We have been detailing at some length of the diminishing opportunities faces the young in this country. Not only the diary just linked, but an earlier one here. Now, as if young Americans needed it even more disturbing news is coming out about how the policies of the last several decades, some supported by both parties are killing opportunity for young workers and threatening to make them the first "Lost Generation" in our history who actually will make less and be worse off than their parents or grandparents.
Ah the "tea party" movement. A bunch of folks assembled to protest the economy they crashed. Banded together to show fear and anger at death panels, death books, illegal immigrants, poor folks without health insurance, Marxists, Facists, Nazis, Communists, and anything else they can dream is chasing them especially an ethnic President. They have much rage to display and many quetions to ask and aren't afraid of shouting them over fellow citizens heads, and in their ears. Of course, when you have a gloc 9 hidden in your waistband courage is easy to come by.
Boy, to hear many Republicans tell it they have been the watchdogs of fiscal responsibility. They have recently begun squawking about deficits and spending. They try to say our country is spending too much and we cannot afford Universal Healthcare. Of course, they conviently leave out the facts about why our deficit is where it is right now.
All over the country right-wing folks have made a special effort to make it to various townhalls to protest- and make sure that anyone with positive things to say about the healthcare bill do not get heard. These folks are angry about many things, from what they percieve as a "government take-over" of healthcare, to the debt and deficits they see as being caused by Barack Obama, and most ridiculously to their parents and grandparents being put before Obama's "death panels" whose sole purpose they believe is to murder the elderly and sick children who are not worth the cost to keep alive.
All over the nation we just witnesses many tea parties. Tea meaning, Taxed Enough Already. In my own hometown of Paducah, Ky we witnessed one such spectacle. In the end we must ask ourselves just what did this really prove? These protests on spending and running up debt. Did all this fire and anger not spread up a little too late??
