http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 07:48:43 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:48:43 This is link to a file of the opening remarks by Senator Carl Levin and testimony made to the committee investigating

Note in 10 years the $100 Billion per year would result in increased revenues of $1 Trillion or about two thirds of the program cuts the Congressional 'Super' committee is ch... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/311 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:15:17 [link:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-obamas-passion.html?pagewanted=all|"What happened to Obama?"]
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...when faced with the greatest economic crisis, the greatest levels of economic inequality, and the greatest levels of corporate influence on... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/312 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:21:11 People, when confronted by difficult challenges, have always been subject to descending into ignorance. This has been the challenge to society ever since it was initiated by huddling humans.

Without a rational approach to problem solving, whenever men are driven by fear to fall back on supe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/310 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:04:57 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/19/how-goldman-sachs-created-the-food-crisis.aspx

Food is becoming more expensive around the world. In fact, world food prices rose to near a record high this April as grain costs continued to increase. The cost of living in the U.S. has ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/309 Wed, 25 May 2011 19:26:25 http://www.demos.org/inequality/numbers.cfm

The top one percent of households received 21.8 percent of all pre-tax income in 2005, more than double what that figure was in the 1970s. (The top one percent's share of total income bottomed out at 8.9 percent in 1976.) This is the greatest concentrat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/304 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:41:46 as a way of helping to reduce the deficit.


http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=cc6563d9-58dd-4509-8a9d-de0029911f60
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[font color="blue"]"It would be morally wrong for the United States to balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/307 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:32:21 I asked here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x590855

if DUers thought it was worth sending an email urging Senators to amend the budget bill passed by the House to repeal the tax cuts extension for the top income categories, that was extorted... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/303 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:18:58 to give Corporate Lobbyists a chance to show if they are serious about Deficit Reduction.

This idea was first mentioned here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x588597

I thought it was a good idea... to reduce the deficit $100 Billion in tw... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/302 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:09:52
Waiting 20 years to get some results will mean we'll never get Global Warming under control. As the permafrost defrosts and organic matter begins to decay [b]the quantity of methane will be so great no amount of CO2 reduction will be enough to counter-act the impact of the decaying organic matt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/301 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:03:32 http://robertreich.org/post/3317811319
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Would a Democratic president be insane to propose such a thing? Not at all. In fact, polls show an increasing portion of the electorate angry with an insider “establishment” – on Wall Street, in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/299 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:41:34 Mr. Obama went to the Chamber of Commerce a couple days ago reportedly to mend some fences with that body of corporate interest. It was an effort to mend fences and to make friends. I really wish he had included something like the following in his comments..

"I've heard it said that I am 'co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/298 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:40:48 [link:http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2010/11/plug-in-evs-could-comprise-9-of-us-auto-sales-by-2020-bloomberg-study-says.html|Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts plug-in electric vehicles could account for up to 9% of US auto sales in 2020 and 22% in 2030]

Plug-in electric vehicles su... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/300 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:54:26 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47762.html

Eric Cantor has dared Harry Reid to have a vote on repealing Affordable Health Care.

Reid should tell Cantor -- "We'll have a vote as soon as you Republicants can give us something to vote on. Come up with a constructive, realistic alte... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/296 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:25:39 I've heard talking heads of M$M repeatedly saying "A Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows the public is about evenly divided on HCR law."

What they don't say is when polled on specific features of HCR law (if they know their in there)..the majority of people are FOR them.


http://www.kff.o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/291 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:28:26 People acting surprised AT the attempt on a Democrat's life is disingenuous. There are those who predicted it:


[font size="3"]Driehaus confronted Boehner about the interview on the floor of the House. "I told him it was inexcusable," Driehaus said. "It doesn't really matter the way you mea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/292 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:03:02 [font size="3"] Who'd a thunk it! Nightly Business report scoops PBS News Hour with a bit of reality checking that you're NOT LIKELY to hear on PBS NewHour which is establishing itself as FoxNews-light Hour.

In an interview with David Cote, CEO of Honeywell, Cote said the unthinkable (in the C... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/294 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:28:46 Democrats received before the Health CAre reform vote. 10 House Democrats in all recieved threats. (well, as of Mar 25, 2010)

http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/25/1240377/democrats-threatened-after-vote.html|Democrat receives death threat after health care vote]

Mar 25, 2010

A caller to Rep.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/290 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:34:04 and a Shame upon America if Congress doesn't do something to take a stand against Hate-speech in the place of meaningful debate of issues. The GOP just admit they have no ideas when they spew out verbal assaults on those who are just trying to serve their country and solve our problems, confront ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/295 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:28:53 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/repeal_consequences.html

Conservatives are starting to implement their onslaught to repeal the Affordable Care Act this week as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives. They have scheduled a vote on January 12. If conservatives have... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/293 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:02:32 Obama: "I just made a really good deal with our friendly GOPers. In return for voting to accept the new START treaty agreement with Russia, which the entire security and defense community supports, all they demanded was a negative income tax for all corporations, ....in perpetuity.

I thoug... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/289 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:48:28 http://underneaththestairwell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Gesch5.jpg


“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few”_Adolf Hitler

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”_Adolf Hitler

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the compreh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/280 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:01:18 Henry Hudson the judge who decided the healh care individual mandate is unconstitional has financial ties to the Attorney General who filed the case that was heard by Hudson. From Huffington Post back in July:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/henry-hudson-judge-in-hea_n_665240.html

T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/288 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:36:37 In his press conference yesterday, Obama said that "this is the Public Option debate all over again." (not an exact quote). Then he went on to say Dems were angry at him for giving up the P.O. which would affect "a few million people" (this is based upon the CBO's estimate of how many people woul... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/285 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:07:36 [link:www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20101110/1abluecross10_cv.art.htm|Taking on Blue Cross - USA Today]

Last month, the U.S. Justice Department sued Michigan's Blue Cross, accusing the insurer of a different kind of anticompetitive behavior: paying hospitals higher prices for medical care in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/279 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:10:04 http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/pm171

Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner recently proposed a two-step job creation plan consisting of a full extension of Bush-era tax changes and cuts to domestic spending. His plan calls on Congress to cut non-security related spending back to fi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JohnWxy/286 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:48:20