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Social Not-So-Security
I haven’t touched the social security debate simply because I do not feel I have the economic knowledge to argue intelligently about it. All I knew was that sending those funds to a wildly fluctuating stock market sounded like a very bad way to ensure the security of the nation’s elderly. But this little animation is very illuminating:
Social Security Debate Simplified
Yeah. Why is there a cap on social security contribution so that the wealthy don’t contribute as big a percentage of their income as the middle to lower class?
Abu Ghraib Trials.
Is it just me, or should Jerry Springer be presiding?
While I agree that the people currently on trial are being forced to throw themselves on their swords for their superiors, the trials are revealing that they were a truly fucked up bunch.
What If We Threw a War and Nobody Showed Up?
In April, the Army missed its recruiting goal for the third month in a row, short by nearly 2,800 recruits, or 42 percent off its target.
And for the first time in 10 years, the Marine Corps missed its recruiting goal for the last four months....
"This recruiting problem is not just an Army problems, this is America's problem," he said. "And what we have to really do is talk about service to this nation — and a sense of duty to this nation."
With all due respect to danger and horror that American troops have to deal with everyday over there and that fact they are doing a job we won't, the problem is that nobody, at least nobody with a brain, belives that what is happening in Iraq is protecting American people. It may be protecting the Iraqi people, but recent events have shown that a great many of them don't want our protection. But what is happening there has nothing to do with national security whatsoever. American citizen are not safer for what is happening in Iraq and in fact the invasion may have placed tham at more risk by inflaming anti-American hatred. The abuse the military has put the troops through doesn't exactly help sell a military career either. Not only the cuts in benefits to families and veterans, but we are looking at the longest average tours of duty since the Civil War.
I'm sorry if the Military and the Adminstation are reaping what they sowed, but America's citizens did NOT create this problem, her politicians did. Perhaps it's time to start sending those recruiters to Crawford Texas to sign the Bush girls up. Or maybe, just maybe, it's time to start seriously thinking of an exit strategy.
Pressure From the White House on GOP Senators Opposing Bolton Nomination.
Damn straight principles are on the line: The principle for a senator, a man or a woman, to make a choices independent of improper influence. The principles of checks and balances. The principle of making appointments based on qualifications rather than political loyalties.
Like I have said before, this is the single most openly corrupt administration the country has ever seen.
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I haven’t touched the social security debate simply because I do not feel I have the economic knowledge to argue intelligently about it. All I knew was that sending those funds to a wildly fluctuating stock market sounded like a very bad way to ensure the security of the nation’s elderly. But this little animation is very illuminating:
Social Security Debate Simplified
Yeah. Why is there a cap on social security contribution so that the wealthy don’t contribute as big a percentage of their income as the middle to lower class?
Abu Ghraib Trials.
Is it just me, or should Jerry Springer be presiding?
While I agree that the people currently on trial are being forced to throw themselves on their swords for their superiors, the trials are revealing that they were a truly fucked up bunch.
What If We Threw a War and Nobody Showed Up?
In April, the Army missed its recruiting goal for the third month in a row, short by nearly 2,800 recruits, or 42 percent off its target.
And for the first time in 10 years, the Marine Corps missed its recruiting goal for the last four months....
"This recruiting problem is not just an Army problems, this is America's problem," he said. "And what we have to really do is talk about service to this nation — and a sense of duty to this nation."
With all due respect to danger and horror that American troops have to deal with everyday over there and that fact they are doing a job we won't, the problem is that nobody, at least nobody with a brain, belives that what is happening in Iraq is protecting American people. It may be protecting the Iraqi people, but recent events have shown that a great many of them don't want our protection. But what is happening there has nothing to do with national security whatsoever. American citizen are not safer for what is happening in Iraq and in fact the invasion may have placed tham at more risk by inflaming anti-American hatred. The abuse the military has put the troops through doesn't exactly help sell a military career either. Not only the cuts in benefits to families and veterans, but we are looking at the longest average tours of duty since the Civil War.
I'm sorry if the Military and the Adminstation are reaping what they sowed, but America's citizens did NOT create this problem, her politicians did. Perhaps it's time to start sending those recruiters to Crawford Texas to sign the Bush girls up. Or maybe, just maybe, it's time to start seriously thinking of an exit strategy.
Pressure From the White House on GOP Senators Opposing Bolton Nomination.
Damn straight principles are on the line: The principle for a senator, a man or a woman, to make a choices independent of improper influence. The principles of checks and balances. The principle of making appointments based on qualifications rather than political loyalties.
Like I have said before, this is the single most openly corrupt administration the country has ever seen.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Or...
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Same Guy
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