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GOP infrastructure funding proposal is off by 5,505 percent
September 10, 2011
One of the Republican Party’s proposals for how to create infrastructure jobs without spending a dime has a gigantic pothole right in the middle of it. The proposal, which has been advanced by top GOP leadership, involves eliminating a law that requires states to set aside 10 percent of the federal transportation funding they receive […]
Congress eyes increasing corporate welfare via another ‘tax holiday’
June 22, 2011
Did you know that the Obama administration – fueled by about two dozen Republicans in Congress and the lobbyists for Microsoft, Oracle, Pfizer, Apple and several other major firms – are pushing for a corporate tax “repatriation” holiday? The plan is to give select multi-national corporations “special dispensation from tax laws” on the more than […]
Cantor’s devotion to Israel overshadows his duty to Joplin and America
May 26, 2011
Eric Cantor needs to make up his mind about which country he belongs to, and more importantly, which country he represents. Cantor not only demands that Congress unilaterally approve the continued free gift of $10 Billion annually to Israel, he wants to INCREASE IT. Note to Congressman Scumbag: That $10 Billion IS NOT FUNDED. If […]
Cantor balks at tornado relief; tells Missouri “Them’s the breaks”
May 23, 2011
The No. 2 House Republican said that if Congress doles out additional money to assist in the aftermath of natural disasters across the country, the spending has to be offset by cuts in other domestic spending. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — the living embodiment of the term “number two” — said “if there […]
GOP & Paul Ryan: The party of no answer.
April 11, 2011
In September 2006, the House of Representatives passed what they called earmark reform. The legislation was co-authored by Congressman Paul Ryan. The legislation was meant to require lawmakers to identify the special projects that they slip into legislation. Now Ryan is trying to play a track from his greatest hits album by proposing almost identical […]
GOP seeks to slash to tsunami warning funding
March 25, 2011
Do you ever get the felling that the problem with our “distinguished leaders” in Washington isn’t that they don’t *get* what the problems facing average Americans are; but they simply don’t *CARE* what the problems are? The official death toll in Japan from last week’s 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami topped 10,035. And what “critical […]
Gary St. Lawrence
August 16, 2012
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