The COBRA subsidy runs out next week. 7 million Americans are receiving that subsidy so next week the first wave of them loses their health insurance.
Well, they don't technically lose their insurance, they just have to pay hundreds of dollars' [...]
Christian_Dem_NY, a commenter over at Open Left has an idea,
... Enact a tax that applies ONLY to those that make $250,000 or more per year, and that only raises their top rate to 50% (which was the LOWEST [...]
Have you heard about the emails?
The emails prove that the ice isn't really melting. Those ships that you saw in the news crossing the Arctic in the summer were actually photoshopped, according to one of the emails. As were the satellite photos that show the ice receding. All the' [...]
I'm sitting in for Chris Bowers over at Open Left today. I'll cross-post a few things here.
[...]Digby writes about a scam by Bank of America, where they switched the envelope to look like junk mail, so people threw it away, and they collect million upon millions in late fees. Credit Card Companies Are Using Dirty Tricks' [...]
Have you noticed signs of "bubble mentality" in the housing market in your area? In my area the bubble is reignited by cheap credit and government subsidies. Just this week a relative told me that "housing prices will come back" because "housing always goes up." People are talking again about [...]
Apparently having any laws or regulations at all means that things are "under the control of the government."
P.S. Oh, and this is supposed to be a bad thing.
[...]From Payback Time - Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government - Series - NYTimes.com
With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt [...]
This is really funny, except it was Bush, not Obama, who borrowed all that money from China, and who bailed out the banksters.
[...]I have an op-ed in today's San Jose Mercury News: Opinion: Why America needs to go back to taxing the wealthy. Here is a bit of it:
While America has always been a place where a person could get rich, it used to be that you got rich a [...]
The Johnsons have two cell phones and a landline. Pretty much the only calls we get on the landline are telemarketing calls, but for some reason we keep it around.
It would be nice if the government kept a database of people who do not want to be called at home [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
The country needs a jobs program and needs it right now. Cash for Caulkers would be a [...]
In two weeks the first wave of unemployed who qualified for COBRA health insurance subsidies under the "stimulus plan" will start losing their health insurance, and Congress has not acted.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will start losing their health insurance each month as their COBRA subsidies expire.
Of course, [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
President Obama is visiting Asia, and is blasted over and over about America's supposedly "protectionist" policies. [...]
Everyone thinks this huge deficit is Obama's doing. For example, a letter in today's San Jose Mercury News,
Deficit story should have been Page 1
The brief Associated Press story "October federal deficit is a record'' (Page 9A, Nov. 13) should'" [...]
Paul Rosenberg nails it: Open Left:: The "Entitlement Problem": Racing ourselves to the bottom
But to a very large extent, the culture wars are a war of constructed tribal identity, fronting for elite corporate interests, and their primary historical achievement has been to [...]
In the intro to tonite's NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, led with "Sarah Palin's Book, you can't get it yet, but we've got it."
The second segment of the "news" broadcast was entirely Palin and her book. It started with all the "buzz' about the book, just a huge'" [...]
Food for thought: Attention Lloyd Blankfein: The Public Purpose of Banking,
... WHO controls the banks is ultimately less important than HOW we control the banks’ activities. Oversight is all very nice, but at times it pays to get back [...]
Bush's last budget year wrapped up last month, leaving us a deficit of over $1.4 trillion. But everyone blames Obama because the right's noise machine has repeated over and over that Obama is "spending" -- and no one shows up to explain the truth.
On the NewsHour the moderator just said "new taxes slows down the economy at a time when people are hurting." This is in a discussion of how to fix state budgets. The panelist responds, "That's exactly right."
This is just absolute nonsense. This shows what happens when something is repeated over [...]
This is what "externalizing" pollution costs looks like: Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush
[...]This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
Here is another story about Wall Street’s war on the real economy.
US Steel was planning to invest $1 [...]
I just came across this: How Wall Street bought Tim Geithner -- DailyFinance.
Have you ever wondered why Wall Street was able to get $23.7 trillion from the federal government after making some bad bets that wiped out $30 trillion [...]
In James Boyce: Chamber Me This. some guy named James Boyce writes about the head of the Chamber of Commerce and their climate-denial efforts to prevent us from reducing CO2 emissions.
Did you know that Tom Donahue, head of the Chamber of Commerce, is on the Board [...]
Have you ever been required to click that you agree to an agreement before you can register a domain name, use software, etc?
This is a scam.
I am willing to bet that no human has ever read one of these agreements -- and the companies requiring you to agree know [...]
In other countries the government's exist for the public good. The understand that health care is a human right, and provides health insurance, paid for by taxing companies and the wealthy.
America's health care "reform" bill solves the problem of people not having health insurance - and insurance companies dropping people [...]
I'm waiting and seeing. I see that right-wing blogs are in an intense anti-Muslim hate frenzy.
This is a terrible tragedy.
' [...]Republicans are blocking everything, Dems seem unable to do anything. Here is a really good idea for changing the rules.
Of course, the weak Dem leadership won' want to rock the boat. They prefer "bipartisanship" with extremists over actually getting things done for the' [...]
ABCE: American Businesses For Clean Energy
American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) is a forum for leading U.S. businesses to register their support for swift Congressional action on clean energy and climate legislation.*The ABCE mission is simple: Demonstrate large and small business support for Congressional [...]
Digny writes about The Most Important Election In The History Of The World | OurFuture.org
[...]This post originally appeared at Speak Out California.
There are a few lessons to take away from last night's elections. The main one is that Democrats should act like Democrats if they want Democrats to show up and vote. Low-turnout elections are base elections: you have to turn out your [...]
The other day I had a post, Creigh Deeds Tells Dems Not To Vote. Well, they didn't.
People are dying because of the health care situation. Get off your butts and pass a good health care bill, and then start doing things that inspire Democrats to show up and vote.' [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka [...]
Of course President Obama hasn't been in office for a year, but everyone seems to be doing "first year" wrapups because the election was a year ago... So here is mine. I'll have a longer post on "signals" later.
Everyone is disappointed. It seems like nothing has changed at all. Of [...]
Take a look at Fight Clean Energy Smears!
The site looks at the smears and front groups that are working to keep good climate policy from passing.
[...]I am working at the polls today. Not a single voter yet...
Update - 8:45am - still no voters. Not one.
Update - We had a flurry of two voters at around 9:15am.
Update - 3:30pm - nine voters so far today. A few people dropped off their absentee ballots.
Final Update - Total [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.
The Supreme Court may decide as soon as tomorrow on the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case involving a corporate-funded anti-Hillary smear ad. It is likely the [...]
This is an important read, to understand the bug crash that is building up: Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust,
Since March there has been a massive rally in all sorts [...]
Over at Commonweal Institute, Brad Reed has a great post: Glenn Beck Peddles Populism for Rich Guys,
The irony is that Beck is only really opposed to big government when Republicans aren’t controlling it. For instance, he has no issues with allowing the government to torture prisoners and is [...]
At the New Economy Conference, Leo Gerard of the United Steelworkers just said that deregulating Wall Street was like leaving a 3 year old in a candy store unsupervised for a day. When you come back the kid is stuffed full of candy, candy falling out of the pockets [...]
I am in DC at the Building The New Economy conference. There is a Listen Live button at that site, so you can attend as well. My computer clock says 5:40am as I type this so California readers are discovering this half way through the conference. :-0
Yesterday I attended [...]
Mary Bottari from BanksterUSA.org, part of the Real Economy Project, is blogging from the bank protest showdown in Chicago actions. See (most recent at top):
Bill Scher interviews me on Building The New Economy:
Building The New Economy: The Interview | OurFuture.org
[...]So I updated to win 7 last night. It took almost 5 hours.
Partway through it stops on something like "checking files 21%..." It just stuck there, so I started checking online, and people were saying it does that and to just wait. So I waited and AFTER AN HOUR it [...]
Who do the words "moderate" and "centrist" always and only apply to those who take the position of the largest corporations against the interests of and positions held by most people?
These words are a linguistic seizing of the high ground, rather like the use of the word "protectionist" as [...]
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF.
The other day I wrote about how the dollar is falling - but not against the Chinese [...]
