Source:Senate Democrats giving the floor to ironworker Ron Borza.
“Senate Democratic leadership press conference, 8/1/13, following GOP obstruction of T-HUD bill”
From Senate Democrats
Infrastructure investment is important to the manufacturing industry because of the tools and parts that would be needed to do this work. Which creates work, jobs, contracts and money for our construction and manufacturing industries.
Source:Senate Democrats– U.S. Senator Susan Collins (Republican, Maine) sounding like people do when they live and work on Planet Earth.
“Senate floor remarks, 8/1/13, during debate on the Transportation appropriations bill.”
From Senate Democrats
Senator Susan Collins easily one of the most responsible Republicans Senators as well as Republicans in Congress as a whole, talking about the need for the Senate and House to go to conference on the federal budget. Not the most fascinating topic even for yours truly political junky, but still very important.
Economic Growth
Van Hollen discusses Democratic Caucus meeting with President Obama – YouTube.
President Obama would be smart to bring in some Senate Democrats and Republicans who are knowledgable and interested. And in position of leadership to deal with infrastructure investment and tax reform especially for business. Bring in a bipartisan coalition that he could work with in these areas and if there are any House Republicans in these areas. Willing to work with the President on these things as well. Great bring in those Representatives as well along with House Democrats who work in these areas and can work with Republicans. And tell these members of Congress from both the Senate and House that this is what I believe we. Should do to get economic and job growth going in America and I want to work with you in these areas. And I want your ideas in these areas and put this into one package and send it to Congress for them to act on it. And the Republican House unless Speaker Boehner is in on these discussions probably won’t take this plan up right away. But the Democratic Senate would and maybe a deal is reached by the end of the year in the Senate.
President Obama has already put on the table both infrastructure investment and tax reform that encourages. Business’s to invest and make money inside the United States rather than moving those jobs and profits oversees. That means lowering business taxes on companies that invest, expand and hire in the United States and keeps those jobs in the United States. Get rid of corporate welfare and use those subsidies to pay for tax cuts that encourage. Economic and business growth inside of the United States. For expansion as well as hiring and also develop a 5-10 year infrastructure plan at around one trillion dollars. That includes a national infrastructure bank that would prioritize infrastructure projects in America. Whether it is repairs or expansion and this would be financed by the private sector. They would put up money and make profits on those investments from the people who use those roads. And bridges, buildings, airports and other things and the NIB would get a cut of that to pay for their operations as well.
President Obama and Congress could put together an economic growth package of around one trillion dollars or so over 5-10 years. And pay for the whole thing through the private sector and moving current subsidies around that are already in place. But do not contribute to economic growth and add to our debt and deficit. And new infrastructure investment and tax reform for business’s already has the support of President Obama. And already has bipartisan support in the Congress as well. That is what we should be doing to create economic and job growth in this country.
Source:Associated Press– President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) 44th President of the United States in Tennessee.
“Seeking to ease Washington gridlock, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Republicans to accept a new fiscal deal to cut corporate tax rates in exchange for more government spending on jobs programs.”
From the Associated Press
I like the idea of giving business’s that invest in America tax cuts and make that as part of tax reform. That any dollar they make inside the United States and every job they create in the United States, they would pay lower taxes on those investments than they would had they invested that money oversees. Which would make American business’s more competitive with foreign business’s that are based in countries that have lower business taxes than we do.
This should be part of tax reform that goes along with eliminating corporate welfare all together. And replacing it with what I would call corporate workfare: those subsidies would be transferred over for things that benefit the American economy. Like training low-skilled workers and other workers so they can move up in these companies. Pensions, health insurance, opening up new plants, offices, factories and so-forth. Rather than cutting business taxes and hoping for the best and then those business’s just pocketing the money.
Source:ABC News– Pope Francis of Argentina.
“New pontiff also makes surprising statements about gay believers.”
From ABC News
I don’t want to make too much of this and overplay it, but Pope Francis’s statement of “who am I to judge”, referring to homosexuals, is exactly what it means to be a Liberal and what liberalism is about.
What the Pope is essentially saying here, is that it’s one’s sexuality that determines if one is moral or not, but their character and who they are as a person.
Source:Film is Now– Katherine Heigl as a bounty hunter.
Source:The Daily Press
“One for the Money – Movie Trailer: Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin’s bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.”
From Film is Now
When I first heard about and watched One For The Money, I thought Katherine Heigl was way too cute to play a bounty hunter. I don’t care how tall she is and how great of a body she and she’s tall and very sexy physically, but she comes off as a big kid. Like a baby-face teenage girl many times and didn’t look much older in this movie than she did in that 1998 Chuckey movie she did. So in that way she was sort of perfect for this part, because the people she was trying to catch wouldn’t take her seriously and she would perhaps be underestimated.
But then you watch the movie and see the scenes where Katherine Heigl is actually involved in bounty hunting and catching suspects and she handles herself very well and even tackles a guy running away from his home suspected I believe on drug dealing. So her persona and appearance of: “aw, you’re so cute and sweet, I have nothing to worry about with you.” Worked very well for her and her character because she did know what she was doing once she learned the ropes and handled herself very well as a bounty hunter.
What I was expecting from One For The Money when I finally saw it on demand this summer, was perhaps somewhat cheesy bad written movie that was mostly about a sexy, gorgeous baby-face goddess kicking ass in tight skinny jeans in boots. With some explosive action scenes and car chases and perhaps some humor in it. This movie has all of that, except the writing is much better and it is actually a very good action/comedy and fairly well-written and Katherine Heigl and Jason O’Mara the two main bounty hunters do a very good job in it.
Source:VOA News– with a look at Rebels With a Cause.
Source:The Daily Press
“Two new films focus on fringe groups who take social justice into their own hands. With a tongue-in-cheek approach, the films The East and Now You See Me offer 21st century Robin Hood-type plots where young vigilantes target corporate greed. VOA’s Penelope Poulou has more.”
From VOA News
“Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is the state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster of the United States of America. It is the largest[3] and oldest of the U.S.–funded international broadcasters.[4][5] VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 48 languages,[6] which it distributes to affiliate stations around the world. Its targeted and primary audience is non-American.
VOA was established in 1942,[7] and the VOA charter (Public Laws 94-350 and 103–415)[8] was signed into law in 1976 by President Gerald Ford.
VOA is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent agency of the U.S. government.[9] Funds are appropriated annually under the budget for embassies and consulates. As of 2022, VOA has a weekly worldwide audience of approximately 326 million (up from 236.6 million in 2016) and employs 961 staff with annual budget of $252 million.[10][11]
Voice of America is seen by some listeners[who?] as having a positive impact while others[like whom?] see it as American propaganda; it also serves US diplomacy.”
From Wikipedia
Sounds like the Symbionese Liberation Army of the 21st Century. The Symbionese from the early and mid 1970s were also New-Left (if not Far-Left radicals) who were fed up with poverty and what they called corporate greed. And saw the wealthy as the main if not only culprit with these issues. And took it upon themselves to kidnap Patty Hearst, the daughter of a very wealthy California family. And would give the Patty back only if her father paid the SLA off. And then the SLA would give the money to poor people in poor Oakland communities and other towns in California. Rebels With a Cause, aren’t kidnappers, but people who also have a similar Robinhood image.
Apparently this movie was first put forward in the fall of 2011 when Occupy Wall Street came out. And they became the New-Left radicals of this decade that were going to fight against what they saw as greedy capitalism and private enterprise. If not capitalism and private enterprise all together. And fight for new wealth redistribution to tax money from the wealthy to take care of the poor. But by in-large there haven’t been any terrorists linked to OWS. Just people protesting for not having permits and causing disturbances, but not actually robbing banks and taking people hostage. Unlike the SLA.
Whether you’re a fan of what’s corporate greed and crony capitalism, or not and I’m sure as hell not as a Liberal, there are ways of fighting bad things and ways not to do that. Violence, almost never accomplishes political objectives when you don’t have the people behind you and you’re just a fringe group.
The way to fights injustice in America, is to have the people behind you and build a movement and get the resources that you need from the people behind you. And then form a protest movement to accomplish your objectives. Publish articles, put together publications about what you’re trying to accomplish and back politicians and political candidates who believe in what you want. And will then fight for it. Instead of violently trying to overthrow the system and creating new victims.
Source:ABC News interviewing U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (Republican, Texas)
“Jonathan Karl goes on the trail in Iowa with the Tea Party favorite and potential 2016 candidate.”
From ABC News
Anytime you are real popular in your party even if you’ve only been office for a short period of time, like in U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s case and you are a Governor or U.S. Senator, you have to at least consider running for President at that point. Because it might be the best shot that you get and you may never get another shot at it.
And if you are a U.S. Senator or a Governor of a major state and you are popular, you would almost be silly not to consider running for President. Because of what you would be able to do for your state and country. Which is what Senator Cruz is doing right now.
This is why Senator Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Rand Paul, are all looking at running for President in 2016. Because they may never get another opportunity like this again. And may have issues in the future that prevent them from ever running for President again.
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Source:Brookings Institution– Robert P. Jones.
“Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute: When it comes to social and religious conservatism, there is no daylight between the perspectives of Tea Party members and Republicans.
On July 18, 2013, the religion, policy and politics project at Brookings co-hosted an event with the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) to release the 2013 Economic Values Survey, which tackles a range of topics, including perceptions of economic wellbeing and upward mobility, the role of government, how well capitalism is working, the importance and availability of equal opportunity, values that should guide government policy on economic issues, and specific economic policies.”
From the Brookings Institution
Source:Black & Right– Nation of Islam Minister Malcolm X.
Malcolm X: “Black Democrats are ‘chumps'”
Source:Black & Right
The reason why there were so many Democratic members of Congress in the 1960s was because of the Dixiecrats the Southern Caucus in Congress who were famous for blocking civil rights legislation in the Senate and the African-Americans who could vote back then, were voting for more liberal or progressive Democrats and Republicans.
Yes, Republicans were competitive back then with African-Americans as well as in the Northeast, because they weren’t controlled by the Religious-Right, or people who I today call Neo-Confederates. Who are still fighting the Civil War let alone the Culture War who back then were blocking civil rights legislation in Congress. Today they are pushing these so-called Voter ID laws bills that are a solution in search of a problem. But are actually designed to prevent traditional Democrats like African-Americans, Latinos, young people from voting in swing states, so Republicans can stay in power there.
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“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that Ukraine has to confront the possibility of losing its dignity or risking the loss of a key partner as it figures out how to respond to a U.S. peace proposal to end Russia-Ukraine conflict. (Produced by Elaine Carroll).” Source:Associated Press with a look at President Volodmyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. […]
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