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Republican con job of the day: remember before the last election the Republicans kept asking, “where are the jobs?”

Do you remember before the last election the Republicans endlessly asking, “Where are the jobs?” Well, guess what? They have been in office all year and they have not proposed one job bill yet. They proposed more tax cuts for the rich, extensions of tax subsidies for big oil companies, the end of medicare, and cuts to social programs, but no job bills. Continue reading

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War on the middle class. Corporate profits are way up, but there is no trickling down to middle class, and no creating of jobs for middle class.

Remember that trickle down nonsense of the Ronald Reagan years, if you give huge tax breaks to the rich, the money will trickle down to you? Well, it didn’t. All it did was pass huge deficits onto you and your children. So once we wised up to that voodoo economics, the Republicans reworded the trickle down nonsense into the following con: if you give huge tax breaks to the rich and big corporations, then the big corporations and rich will create jobs. Well, the rich have had huge tax breaks since the Bush tax cuts, extended by Obama. And guess what? Even though the big corporations profits are way up this year, there are not any jobs? Why? Because labor in China work for $.25/hour. So those corporations keep sending the jobs to China. Continue reading

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Republicans are running from Paul Ryan’s budget plan because of the medicare proposal in the plan.

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein and Sirius Radio’s Bill Press talk about the beginnings of a Republican surrender on Representative Paul Ryan’s plan to privatize Medicare. Continue reading

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GOP – Grand Oil Party. Republicans vote down measure to end tax breaks for big oil companies.

The GOP stands for the Grand Oil Party, and no longer the Grand Old Party. Why? Yesterday the Republicans voted down a Democratic measure that would have ended the tax breaks for the five largest oil companies. Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, shares his thoughts on the GOP opposition to a Democrat-led measure that would end a tax break for the five largest oil companies. Continue reading

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Dick Durbin video: How can we send one more American soldier to fight and die in Afghanistan? How long are we going to continue to spend $12 billion a month in Afghanistan?

Dick Durbin video: How can we send one more American soldier to fight and die in Afghanistan? How long are we going to continue to spend $12 billion a month in Afghanistan? Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, how long are we going to spend resources fighting in Afghanistan? Continue reading

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The future of Afghanistan. Mission accomplished, so let’s leave and save hundreds of billions of dollars!

With Osama bin Laden dead, pressure is mounting on President Barack Obama to end the Afghan War, et the U.S. troops back home and to stop spending tax dollars funding it. Democratic Representative from Maine, Chellie Pingree discusses. Continue reading

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OK, we finally got Osama. Now it’s time to get Obama…out of office!

Obama and Clinton are very much alike in that they both represent the interests of Wall Street and not those of middle class America. Continue reading

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The Constitution of the United Corporate States of America….as amended by all the crooks in Congress and the White House

Have you read the Constitution of the United States lately? Have you noticed any changes? I found an amended copy and decided to publish it for you to see how it has been changed over the past decades. Perhaps you should read it. Continue reading

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Video of Entire Speech of Donald Trump in Las Vegas on April 28, 2011: Why the Donald continues to lead in the polls among the other GOP candidates!

Donald Trump delivers his cross of gold speech to 600 Republican women in Las Vegas on April 28, 2011, full of F-words, and even some M-F words, for shock value. Middle class America is angry and is in search of a voice. Enters Donald Trump. Continue reading

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The Official Republican Version of the Pledge of Allegiance. Read their lips!

Have you read the lips of the Republican Congressmen and Congresswomen when they recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag? Do you know what they are really saying?! Continue reading

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