Romney and Ryan’s disdain for the working class. This is not about free enterprise, and it’s not about personal liberty; those fundamental principles are unquestioned. But for at least the past 100 years, we have understood capitalism and freedom to exist within a larger context — a complicated, real-world, human context. Some people begin life at a disadvantage, and it’s in the national interest to open doors of opportunity for them. Some people make mistakes, and it’s in the national interest to create second chances. Some people are too young, too old or too infirm to care for themselves, and it’s in the national interest to secure their welfare. This sense of the balance between individualism and community fueled the American Century. Romney and Ryan apparently don’t believe in it. What about Romney? When he delivered that line in Manassas on Saturday with Ryan in tow, Romney drew wild applause. What I hear Romney saying, and I suspect many others will also hear, is that the little people don’t contribute and don’t count.
PolitiFact | Sorting out the truth in politics. Virginia | Rep. Gerry Connolly says Reagan raised taxes during five years of presidency. U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-11th, recently invoked the name of Ronald Reagan to drum up support for raising taxes for a new stimulus program. During a June 5 floor speech, Connolly lamented the refusal of House Republican leaders to allow the American Jobs Act to come up for a vote. The bill, proposed by President Barack Obama, calls for $447 billion over 10 years to pay for infrastructure and school improvements, new job training programs, unemployment insurance, and temporary tax cuts for working families and small businesses.
The stimulus would be funded by levying taxes on corporations and people earning more than $1 million a year. Connolly said the House, in considering the legislation, should ask, "What would Ronald Reagan do? " "Many Republicans decried the use of additional revenue to help offset any increase in national debt," Connolly said. Did the Gipper really raise taxes during five years of his presidency? Our ruling Some of the increases were modest in scope. The Working Class Gets Little Support for Training - Room for Debate.
Each decade, 30 million American children enter high school but only 6 million of them ever receive a college degree. The remaining 24 million kids either drop out; complete high school and enter the work force; or attend a community college or university for a couple of years. Each year, over half a trillion dollars of local, state and federal monies is focused on students bound for college. Technical and vocational education, by contrast, receives less than two percent of that amount. That is patently unfair. Increasingly, blue-collar kids find the path to college blocked by exorbitant tuition costs, intense academic competition, static enrollment levels in colleges and universities, and the financial realities facing their families. Entering the work force immediately after high school seems their only option. Today, blue-collar and white-collar families alike watch their kids struggle to find gainful employment, and pitting them against each other is counterproductive.
Let’s Draft Our Kids. Why Are Acts of Evil Always Attributed to "Crazy People" or "Muslim Terrorists"? Early this morning, 12 people were killed in the Denver suburb of Aurora at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Numerous others were injured and medical teams are hard at work saving lives to keep that death toll from rising any higher. My thoughts and those of the rest of the xoJane team are with all of those affected by the shooting. To say that this event is a tragedy is not really an adequate word. It was horrible. And every time they happen, I am reminded of other sinister things woven deep into our culture. When I woke up this morning and checked my Twitter feed, I didn’t know about the shooting yet. Even before a suspect was positively identified, people were speculating that the killer was “clearly insane,” and they were more than happy to take to the Internet with this carefully considered diagnosis.
Had the killer been a person of color, people would have been saying that he was a Muslim, and a terrorist. I can't come up with a witty caption today. Arab spring support by Anons. Political Critic. :: Download Free Political Documentaries And Watch Many Interesting, Controversial Free Documentary Films On That You Wont Find On The TV! :: Facebook Thinks You Probably Don’t Need To See This. By Matt Algren. June 14, 2012, 12:03 PM CDT38 Time was, if you clicked the “like” button on a Facebook page, the page’s posts were automatically served to your Facebook news feed. That was the point of “liking” a page — for the more internet-capable, it was touted as a replacement for RSS.
But just as Facebook now tries to automate the publication of your internet reading habits, the company has been steadily moving toward letting a computer decide which posts you want to see, most recently with late May’s unannounced functionality change. At this point, even if you adjust your Facebook newsfeed to display all posts in chronological order instead of their default computer-selected “Top Stories,” you don’t get all the posts. In fact, you can’t get all the posts. Instead, Facebook has decided that you really only want to see information from a Facebook page if you regularly and aggressively interact with that page, through clicking on, commenting on, reposting, or “liking” posts.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Political Comedy - Fake News | Comedy Central. The Word - Sink or Swim - The Colbert Report - 2012-04-06. How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives. Nick Hanauer.