Displaying 1,711 To 1,740 Of 16,275 Comments So simple, so logical: If corporations are people, just ask the same question to corporations and your self. What do corporations want? http://www.nationofchange.org/what-do-corporations-want-1337864442 So, if corporations are people (a special class of people with lots and lots of money and influence and power), it’s fair to ask what they want. Do they want the same things as the average citizen? Do they want decent pay for all, adequate health care for all, a solid education for all, and democratic structures that foster individual creativity, informed dissent and equitable power-sharing? To ask these questions is to answer them. Generally speaking, major corporations prefer minimal pay and benefits for workers, a largely uncritical and powerless workforce and minimal taxes, as well as unlimited power for themselves, which they can then employ to influence elections and maximize profits. Better schools at lower cost, the legal right to organize the workplace, more schools, fewer private prisons…… If we are equal in the eyes of the SCOTUS, what question would ask? » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 8:40 pm “Governor Romney came to Des Moines last week and warned of a prairie fire of debt,” he said. “But he left out some facts. His speech was more like a cow pie of distortion.” Then he quipped, “I don’t know whose record he twisted the most – mine or his.” Did he mean “bullshit?” Obama: Romney’s speech ‘a cow pie of distortion’ » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 8:10 pm Yep, that brothels or casinos part was an especially good dig, freaked the Faux people right out! » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 6:12 pm Rotten eggs or something else picked up around the barnyard! 😉 » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 5:43 pm Take your pick: how is President Obama doing in his reelection? Obama Prospects Improve as Swing State Economies Improve ~~~~~ Moody’s Projects That Obama Will Romp Over Romney In November ~~~~ Moodys predicts an Obama romp http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/05/moodys-predicts-obama-romp.html ~~~~ Chart of the Day http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-44.html ~~~~~ All from the same article, and it seems Bloomie isn’t quite sure of what the article said. Wonder what other sites are saying? http://bobcesca.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/barack-obama-mitt-romney-electoral-map.jpg » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 5:34 pm Kalima, while I agree with Tomasky about Booker screwing up and him turning the show to his own self interests, I am equally angry at the MSM/MSNBC taking some of his comments out of context. Going so far as to cut off his comments mid sentence in their clips–just to make a story bigger. » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 5:21 pm And Stan the Man’s bat aimed at his face. Closed door ceremony? Huh? Just the bigots were invited on the taxpayers dime? » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 4:51 pm Living in sin, living together out of wedlock, shacking up, and now “Trial Marriage.” » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 4:44 pm 😆 😆 😆 “Wine coolers in the tent with Levi gave me a baby on board in the van.” » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 3:11 pm Many things I don’t like this story, one being Stockman being the architect of “trickle on” economics under Raygun and two the complete fraud that Fox is with this BS: So you have these two economic models. You have one exemplified by Bain Capital, which fails sometimes, but I think it has a success rate of about 70 percent and you have one of the federal government involvement in the economy….. Only Bain has those numbers along with the net employment records, which they haven’t/won’ release (think Mitt has anything to do with that?) Anyway, It seems Stockman grasped the obvious on Faux: Stockman: Romney Can’t Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business Stockman:On the other hand, I don’t think Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. […] Cue David Asman and his co-host Melissa Francis heads simultaneously exploding at the same time. ASMAN: But hold on David, he had so many new jobs created for all the jobs that were lost, it was a net gain, no? STOCKMAN: I don’t think so. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal that, you know, they got out of long before it got to its current size. You know, the LBO business is legitimate, free enterprise business, just like, you know, running a brothel if that’s what you want to do, or a house of gambling. FRANCIS: Nooooo… STOCKMAN: But it’s not a good model for how we rebuild an economy or grow jobs. It’s irrelevant. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/former-omb-director-stockman-romney-cant-s I’m looking forward to the debate between Melissa Francis and David Stockman! Pay-per-View, maybe? 😉 » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 3:02 pm Am I hoping too much that this will quiet, at least for awhile, the holier-than-thou pompous Palin? » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 2:35 pm Thanks C’Lady, You know that we mutual admiration society and it is rare that I don’t learn something from your comments. A large thanks goes to our members for their comments and posts, which has added much to what gets tweeted. » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 2:30 pm Thank You AdLib, it may have been someone on Catherine Crier’s staff, but it caught me off-guard. Could very well mean that she reads PPOV. Now to get her to write some posts!! » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 2:22 pm But what’s with this ex-wife living with her ex-husbands sister’s ex boyfriend? HEY! That makes it triple XXX ! 😆 » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 1:43 pm Anther good quote on Romney, this time from President Clinton: “When you become president, your job is to explain where we are, say where you think we should go, have a strategy to get there and execute it,” he began. “By that standard, Barack Obama deserves to be re-elected president of the United States. And I’m going to tell you the only reason we’re even meeting here. I mean, this is crazy — he’s got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids (laughter) — which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids (more laughter).” Where’s the Beef? Clinton’s answer to Romney’s Snark http://www.nationofchange.org/where-s-beef-clinton-s-answer-romney-snark-1337866641#comments » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 10:24 am Morning Diversion (part of “you can’t make this up” ‘Born-Again-Virgin’ Bristol Palin To Shack Up With Cool Boyfriend, Renames It ‘Trial Marriage’ This has to be the best part: The ladies on The View should have had Levi Johnston’s sister Mercede on to talk about this, since Bristol Palin’s terrible greasy boyfriend, Gino Paoletti, is Mercede’s ex. Wonder if this will slow S’arah’s pious preaching to others down at all? Just think, she could have been in the WH!!! » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 9:31 am 😆 😆 It’s old news after 2 news cycles? » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 10:33 pm CL. I thought the guy was minding his P’s and Q’s also, just asking questions that Joe couldn’t answer. 🙂 (Wonder what that means too? Middle English?) » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 8:36 pm “I’m running to pay down our debt in a way that’s balanced and responsible. After inheriting a $1 trillion deficit, I signed $2 trillion of spending cuts into law,” he told a crowd of donors at the Hyatt Regency. “My opponent won’t admit it, but it’s starting to appear in places, like real liberal outlets, like the Wall Street Journal: Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years. Think about that.” President Obama Denounces Republican ‘Wild Debts’: I’m Not an Over-Spender I posted the study early yesterday morning: Obama spending binge never happened http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-spending-binge-never-happened-2012-05-22 [img]http://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2012/05/21/Photos/ME/MW-AR657_federa_20120521151828_ME.jpg?uuid=c49a7602-a379-11e1-827e-002128049ad6[/img] » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 8:14 pm Ahem, Miss k’es, one more thing : If you don’t behave, I’ll have to ask you to leave! 😆 » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 8:05 pm You’re right k’es and it got 5-10 times the number of signatures than the e-mails he got. Unicorn or not, I want to see a functional MRI on his brain! » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 8:02 pm Which “Dream Act” is Mitt for or not for? Senator McCain’s original one, the Durbin Compromise (to get 5 R votes or the Rubio one (which leader Reid says that hasn’t even been written up or submitted- just talked about by Rubio at campaign events. Correct KT, it’s been filibustered by the R’s every time it’s been brought up. No debate, no amendments, NO VOTE! » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 7:39 pm k’es, yep that Joe Walsh is consistent, isn’t he? He ran against the banks and TARP but soon changed his tune quickly, but be consistent! He even can yell about it. Little bit of a mind bender there, Joe. You are against TARP, bailouts and also against regulations that caused the need for them. Can you have it both ways? Seems so if the payout is big enough. On Jamie Boy, I was just rereading the Paul Krugman piece on it and tweeted it and Mitt’s nonchalant reaction to J.P Morgan’s “little ‘oopsies'”. Remember, according to Mitt, that when the investors make mistakes on your pension fund, according to Mitt: Well, when someone loses, someone else makes money.” My Tweet: PlanetPOV Dimon’s Déjà Vu Debacle nyti.ms/JIVfny an Mitt’s non caring response.”Lose your pension? Well remember, someone made money off that » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 7:24 pm I wonder if some of these TP congresspeople are thinking “Damn, would you look at this list? I sold out way too cheap, I’m worth as much as Joe Walsh, he misses most of the votes! Must have been his rant that got national coverage: “Don’t blame banks, and don’t blame the marketplace for the mess we’re in right now! I am tired of hearing that crap! This pisses me off!” And just is so bloody hot about Fincher? (well he has voted with the banks EVERY time) It’s going to cost them a hellava bunch more this election, I’ll show them I can bow deeper than anyone, let the banks melt again, we don’t need any of those Obama regulations. Besides, I need a new “campaign” car! HOW BANKS BOUGHT THE TEA PARTY: Cash Transforms Populist Insurgents To Reliable Vote For Financial Industry The 15 freshmen Republican representatives in the House Tea Party Caucus each ran in 2010 on a populist anti-Wall Street message, highlighting their opposition to bank bailouts like the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and criticizing Washington for enabling the banking sector as it became “Too Big to Fail.” After winning, all fifteen received significant PAC contributions from the banking industry — and have become a reliable vote and mouthpiece for the financial industry, a ThinkProgress analysis of campaign contributions, voting records and public statements reveals. [….] ….the Tea Party has toed the line for big banks. Eleven of the 15 have become co-sponsors of H.R. 3461, a top priority for the ABA. According to Americans for Financial Reform, the legislation would “tilt the playing field further in the direction of excessive deference to industry interests and tie the hands of regulators attempting to protect the public interest.” The bill would make it harder for bank examiners to do their job, giving regulatory responsibilities to an industry that’s already shown it can’t police itself. More and to see the great graphic>>> http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/21/484283/how-banks-bought-the-tea-party/ » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 4:55 pm 😳 TY, k’es. » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 4:08 pm OK, I’m impressed! We have few followers but some very quality followers on our Twitter account. Today Catherine Crier Thanks again. » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 3:49 pm Hope it works out, Khirad, Ron Barber needs every vote against that flip-flopping buffoon. * Arizona House candidate Jesse Kelly’s sit-down with a local TV station was cut short when the Republican’s spokesman began attacking the professionalism of the interviewer. John Ellinwood took issue with KGUN9 anchor Jennifer Waddell’s characterization of an endorsement Kelly accepted from a controversial anti-immigration group in 2010 as “recent.” Kelly, who faces Ron Barber (D) for the seat vacated by Gabrielle Giffords (D), himself politely deemed the question “out of bounds.” EDIT: Oh now I see, she just wanted to know if he was STILL hanging around with neo-Nazi’s, I guess that question is way out of bounds—NOT! The group the KGUN9 viewer wanted to ask Kelly about is a political action committee known as ALIPAC – “Americans for Legal Immigration.” It’s been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center and by Senator John McCain, a prominent leader of Kelly’s own party. Some of those critics — McCain among them — have accused ALIPAC of having ties to white supremacists and the like. Regardless of what did or did not happen in 2010, there is no question about whether the issue is still current. Recently — and by “recently” in this case we mean last week — ALIPAC renewed its endorsement of Kelly. http://www.kgun9.com/news/local/153220355.html » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 2:53 pm As I said below, with all these “job creators” our unemployment rate should be at 0.2% (gotta leave some room for the feeble, like me 😉 ) » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 2:41 pm And what a perfect example of the roles of commerce/free enterprise and government. The role of commerce is not to employ more people, that is an expense. President Obama got it exactly right at the NATO presser (paraphrase) ” to understand business, being a businessman, is not what it takes to be a president, you don’t understand what the task of president means.” » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 2:36 pm Must be that all those profits for Exxon are going to the science teachers (e.g. the commercials on MSNBC) , because they don’t seem to be in any hurry to lower the pump prices. In poll after poll, people say they are tired of high pump prices and if they fell it would give a bump to the President, hmmm, could it be that big oil doesn’t want Obama to win? Oil Falls Below $90 For The First Time Since October Crude oil futures fell below $90 per barrel just after noon. This is the first time since last fall prices fell below $90 since October. Prices for July delivery of West Texas Intermediate contracts dropped 2 percent. Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips were all down more than 1 percent.>> http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-falls-below-90-2012-5#ixzz1vjEMsztm http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4fbd4a83eab8ea4370000002-619-459/chart.png » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 1:57 pmComments Posted By bito
Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s
So sorry you’re 55 and lost your pension, J.P. Morgan made money on that deal. See, even-Steven, right?
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And the role of government is to offer these people some help, a safety net, to keep them out of poverty. Poverty being a detriment to the whole of society.
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