The proof is in the pudding - when it comes to jobs, Scott Walker’s reactionary agenda in Wisconsin has been an unmitigated disaster. On Tuesday, we have a chance to end that disaster and start fixing the mess that Walker made.
Let’s remind Mitt Romney that reproductive freedom is not just a “shiny object” - it is an issue of critical importance to tens of millions of women (and men) throughout the country.
In this economy, when so many folks are already working harder for less and struggling to get by, the last thing they can afford is losing part of each month’s paycheck to simple and plain discrimination.
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President Obama on the day he signed his first bill into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Another step forward—the Paycheck Fairness Act—is up for a vote on Tuesday. (via barackobama) |
REPORT: In Florida, nearly 70 percent of people who invoked "Stand Your Ground" got away scot free »
According to a Tampa Bay Times study of 200 cases:
- In nearly one-third, the defendant had initiated the fight, shot an unarmed individual or first pursued the victim, and were never even charged with crimes.
- 73 percent of those who killed a black person walked away without penalty, while 59 percent of those who killed a white person went free.
- One man killed two unarmed people and walked out of jail. Another shot a man as he lay on the ground. Others went free after shooting their victims in the back.
“Stand your ground” laws are far too often a license to kill
Obama has exceeded Bush in creating private sector jobs AND decreasing the size of the government through reducing public sector jobs.
Bush and Republicans grow the size of the government and the spending of the government, then run on a “small government” platform their electorate blindly accept as reality.
Obama has exceeded Bush in creating private sector jobs AND decreasing the size of the government through reducing public sector jobs.
Bush and Republicans grow the size of the government and the spending of the government, then run on a “small government” platform their electorate blindly accept as reality.
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Mitt Romney - Another Republican Chicken Hawk.
I Sent You a Jobs Bill Last Fall That Would Have Put Americans Back to Work
While the economy is getting better, it’s not getting better fast enough. President Obama used his weekly address to point out that while there are things we can’t control, some things we can control.
Like that jobs bill full of bipartisan ideas he sent congress last fall…
The one they didn’t pass.
OK, a crude calculation:
1. From IRS data, we find that Florida’s tax payments to Washington fell approximately $25 billion between 2007 and 2010, the bottom of the slump.
2. From Labor Department data, we find that in 2010 special unemployment insurance programs — extended benefits paid for from DC — were about $3 billion in 2010.
3. From SNAP (food stamp) data, we see that food benefits to Florida rose about $3 billion over the same period.
So as I read it, between falling tax payments without any corresponding fall in federal benefits, plus safety-net aid — not counting Medicaid, which would make the number even bigger — Florida received what amounted to an annual transfer from Washington of $31 billion plus, or more than 4 percent of state GDP. That’s a transfer, not a loan. And it’s very big.
Oh, and we should also add both FDIC costs and Fannie/Freddie losses in Florida.
Aid on that scale is inconceivable in Europe as currently constituted. That’s a big problem.
