Displaying 3,691 To 3,720 Of 16,275 Comments Well put k’es, Pretty amazing, and I heard Trump say that Mr. Cain may have to amend it. I wonder if that amendment will be just as long? » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 6:11 pm š Are those electric wires on that? » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 6:04 pm A long look at apples and oranges! Believe me, this graph really does end! The 9-9-9 plan in one (very long) graph In my previous post decrying the extreme redistribution of the tax burden from the wealthy to everyone else, I had to use two graphs to tell the story. I couldnāt fit the increase in tax liabilities for the bottom 80% on the same graph that includes the over $1 million decrease in tax liability for the top 0.1%. But my CBPP colleague Brian Highsmith could. So here you have it: the change in tax liabilities, compared to current tax policy, under 9-9-9, for different income groups, in one incredibly unsettling graph. But it’s NOT a tax break for the rich, right Herman? » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 5:29 pm KQ, Ah that little gem from Mr. Smoot and his buddy Mr. Hawley! Or as Ms.Bachmann says “Hawley-Smoot.” » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 3:05 pm And that is how trade wars start, KQ. Last quarter we sold more PV solar panels to China than they sold us so they could just as easily slap a 30% tariff on those and other goods. While we may have a trade deficit with China, we do sell many billions of dollars of goods and services to them and if can no longer sell to them our unemployment rises. » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 2:48 pm Sue & j’avaz, I totally disagree with him and his assessment! First of all I don’t trust one of those facts that used, he has a real problem with the truth, IMO and China going into a depression is 6 steps below idiotic. Their depression would not stop at their borders but would throw the world into one. Exactly who wold pay this 25% tariff? We would as consumers. What is the largest single part of our trade-debt? Imported oil not underwear and Barbie Dolls from China. Is there a trade imbalance with China? Absolutely, but a tariff war is not the answer. They are terribly destabilizing. » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 12:40 pm While the total budget for all prisoners my be the same, the private prisons have an incentive to house them – PROFIT. k’es posted a story on it the other day showing how they “cherry-pick” their inmates and only keep the low-maintenance and less costly inmates. http://mycuentame.org/2011/10/17/timothy-b-ray-floridas-private-prison-fiasco/ They lobby for longer sentencing, more laws and against comprehensive immigration reform. In AZ their prisons are understaffed, the guards are paid less with fewer benefits and the corporations are very profitable. There have been stories of inmates having their release dates extended over bogus “discipline” charges just so the corps can make a few extra bucks. The very idea that people are incarcerated for profit is corrupt and wrong. » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 11:43 am Krhirad, #@!%&#@@###!!!!!, I really need to study my precinct but it does look very close. I am pissed that Gabby has lost so much in Tucson and probably her seat. Bas-turds. » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 1:07 am Whoa! BIG KITTY is right e’cat! Little kitty looks like lunch. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 9:56 pm Cool, Sue! Sorry I was slow on my reply. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 5:21 pm Sue, from the FAQ: How do I set up an image (an Avatar) to appear with my username? To select an image for yourself, go to http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup and register the same email address you used here when you signed up. After responding to a confirmation email from Gravatar, you can select an image from your computer or the internet to assign to your email address and that image will appear here with your user name (and on any other Gravatar-friendly sites you visit). Remember that it may take some time before it shows up On the site. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 5:18 pm āCity by the Bayā? Did Sue move to Green Bay? š » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 4:51 pm Well I guess we could just not deport the criminals and house them on the taxpayers dime in private prisons as an alternative, unless as k’es posted yesterday that if they are really troublesome, and cost them too much money, send them back to the state prisons. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 3:58 pm That is great news AB! Wishing the Blov a full recovery and there is no one that deserves it more than you guys, our wonderful givers. BTW, on your new house, are you looking at the 15,000 sq ft one or the 20,000 one? š Hate for you having to get any thing too small that you have to let any of the staff go. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 2:05 pm k’es, a perfect example of “Privatize the Profits-Socialize the Losses.” Wis this was just a rarely used motto, not a common practice. The AZ situation was brought up in the last election but Brewer still won with many of her money people from these outfits. I would like to see, perhaps it has been done, a full disclosure of ALL the stockholders. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 1:52 pm OMG AB, I just saw this! This news IS overwhelming!! More than the best to the Blov, the Pup and YOU. You and the Blovs kindness and goodness will shine through and help him to full recovery, it has to! Please know that your family here is wishing you all our best. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 1:37 pm Where in the hell did he get the “liberal court” KT? An occupying foreign government/Army with an appointed governor equals a kind, benevolent and liberal court? » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 1:21 pm j’avaz, can we please get a new Senator? This man gets more looney and bitter daily. He’s worried about a friggen bus while 25 million are looking for work, people losing their homes, HC costs,… !!! Here is more on the bus from when the R’s first started making a stink out of it from Lynn Sweet: Fact check: Obama’s new bus » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 1:11 pm This is a HUGE case before the SCOTUS to watch! How can they possibly let the Second Circuit court decision stand? They ruled that corporations have the rights of people in Citizens United, will they be shown as complete hypocrites and now say corporations are free from any liability, even for atrocities? Even the Roberts Court?! Supreme Court To Hear The Mother of All Corporate Immunity Cases Indeed, as Judge Pierre Leval explains, if the Supreme Court upholds a Second Circuit decision holding that corporations have total immunity from a law holding the most atrocious human rights violators accountable to international norms, it would enable corporations to profit freely from some of the greatest acts of evil imaginable. […] The new rule offers to unscrupulous businesses advantages of incorporation never before dreamed of. So long as they incorporate (or act in the form of a trust), businesses will now be free to trade in or exploit slaves, employ mercenary armies to do dirty work for despots, perform genocides or operate torture prisons for a despotās political opponents, or engage in piracy ā all without civil liability to victims. By adopting the corporate form, such an enterprise could have hired itself out to operate Nazi extermination camps or the torture chambers of Argentinaās dirty war, immune from civil liability to its victims. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/18/346449/supreme-court-to-hear-the-mother-of-all-corporate-immunity-cases/ Watch this case! Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum If they rule to uphold the 2nd, it will make a complete mockery of the US and our justice system world wide, IMO. » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 10:53 am Herman Cain on Jesus: āThe liberal court found Him guilty of false offenses and sentenced Him to death, all because He changed the hearts and minds of men with an army of 12. His death reset the clock of time. Never before and not since has there ever been such a perfect conservative.ā Herman Cain Crazy Quote of the Day The āliberalā court? I attended Catholic school for years, and spent a lot of time in church and CCD as a child. I donāt remember anything about liberals crucifying Jesus. And Jesus was a conservative? Really? I guess it was his āturn the other cheekā teachings, his radical rejection of the Roman and Jewish power structure, his disdain for money changers, and, of course, his lower class background. Totally conservative. Hey, I wonder if, like most conservatives, he supported torture and capital punishment? What bible verse was that in that had the part of killing people if they cross your border? Or the one about taxing the poor to give to the rich? If Jesus was a real conservative, I’m sure he said something about those. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/17/345531/herman-cain-liberal-court-killed-jesus/ And to see Cain’s article: http://www.redstate.com/thehermancain/2010/12/20/the-perfect-conservative/ For three years He was unemployed, and never collected an unemployment check. Nevertheless, he completed all the work He needed to get done. He didnāt travel by private jet. He walked and sailed, and sometimes traveled on a donkey. Wonder why he didn’t use a private jet, I have often wondered that, hmmm » Posted By bito On October 18, 2011 @ 9:55 am “Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them,” Limbaugh said on his radio show, according to a transcript. The LRA is a guerilla group that roams through Central Africa, and is accused of horrific atrocities, having killed an estimated 30,000 people over the last 20 years. Under its messianic leader, Joseph Kony, the LRA is accused of mass rape, mutilation of victims by cutting off body parts such as lips and noses, kidnapping young girls to use as sex slaves, and forcing young boys to become child soldiers. Kony has said he is a “spokesperson” of God. Just your average everyday Christian, eh Rush? » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 7:39 pm You lost me on “logarithmic,” food! š » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 6:29 pm OK, who is the math and statistics whiz? I wonder if this is close? proudlib2 » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 5:30 pm Obama hits one million donors: Data and dollars for 2012 http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/10/obama_hits_one_million_donors_.html WASHINGTON–The Obama re-election campaign hit a big metric on Monday afternoon, one million donors. That translates into dollars and into a valuable organizing data bank. As of Sept. 30, team Obama had $60 million cash-on-hand. Meanwhile, the GOP White House contenders are scrambling, according to new third quarter reports: To follow on some of the comments about the negative reporting on PBO, I heard not this but PBO is losing some Of the Wall St. donors to Romney and PBO collects this reporting period ! Well yes, he did collect less, but his donations were still more than twice the “front cash runner” for the GOP, Romney. » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 5:09 pm Hey AB! I seem to keep missing you! Pure genius, girl, I think you just solved my marketing dilemma Secondary Harvest! Now I need some investors for some “seed” money. You have some experience, interested? You can be the CEO? š » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 3:59 pm cyrano (You need a convincing sales pitch though.) I think my profits may be all go to some marketing firm, looks like it maybe a pretty tough sales job. š » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 3:46 pm KT, Where to start on that critique or should I say the slaughter on Perry’s 1) The promise of 1.2 million new jobs is subject to a deadline of ā¦ 2030! These are not new jobs that would be created in the here and now, but over a long timeline of future production. Or this towards the end? Last thought: Whereād Perry get these numbers? Answer: he found them in a pre-existing study conducted for the American Petroleum Institute. (That same study also undergirds the Senate Republicansā job plan.) Why doesn’t he just say “This is a plan that the oil industry paid me large bucks to push. Got a problem with that? Don’t mess with Texas!” » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 3:40 pm Em, I read a study some time ago on The Monkey Cage, one of those wonkish things, that it wasn’t a set number but the trend line of the unemployment numbers. If it is steadily falling, no matter the number, it is good for the sitting president. » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 3:00 pm KT, Huh? Used food for brains? š » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 2:54 pm I think I have found a business niche under Cains 9-9-9 plan, a real money maker! I just need to work out one small glitch, what exactly would qualify as used food? š » Posted By bito On October 17, 2011 @ 2:42 pmComments Posted By bito
After that little act unemployment was never back down to ’29 levels until WWII.
Trade/tariff wars are like Cain’s 9-9-9 plan. A simple answer to a complex problem and wrong.
Even with all the faults of the WTO, that is why we have it and the Obama administration has been using it with some very good results.
Where does their profit come from? The taxpayers.
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My best, AB.
He also did a strange semi walk back on his electrified border fence yesterday.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/10/fact_check_obamas_new_bus.html
http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/06/major-new-corporate-case-at-court/
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/10/crazy-quote-of-the-day-9.html
If minimum wage increased at same rate as CEO pay, then our new minimum wage would be abt $31 an hour. #ows
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich scrapped together $807,962 in the third quarter. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney collected $14.2 million. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who started in the third quarter, took in $17.2 million.
That is funny, from the “you-can’t-make-this-up” file “oil” “jobs” plan?
The first point:
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