Standout congressman Alan Grayson has sponsored a bill called The War Is Making You Poor Act, co-sponsored now by Conyers. It lumps the Iraq and Afghanistan wars together and limits spending on them to the almost $600 Billion in the 2011 budget. The bill also eliminates income tax for the first $35,000 for individuals and $70,000 for couples.
Sounds great, right?!
The bill has been tabled, but you can help move it forward by signing the petition to get it there.
Isn't it brilliant, by the way, how Grayson included the tax break for normal people? Good way to get fiscal conservatives and the tea party behind progressive legislation! If Obama won't stop the wars, we'll follow leaders who will!
Showing posts with label progressive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressive. Show all posts
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
The meat of the argument for more regulation of industry
Industry does not care about you. Industry is not concerned about your well-being. Industry does not worry about your family's safety. Sounds kinda like the first verse of "Head Like a Hole" by NIN, doesn't it? Well, you could replace every "Got Money" with the word "Industry", because they're one and the same. All industry wants is to bilk you for every cent it can.
That is all. That is everything they want. They want everything. They don't care what they have to do to get it. They don't care who is affected.
We need MORE government regulation of industry. Not less. Regulation is there to protect YOU. To protect me. More importantly, to protect my family.
Case in point: For the past 8 years (read: most of the Bush Administration), much of the ground beef you've consumed has had ammonia in it. Only, the people selling you the crap you were eating didn't have to tell you what they were putting in it.
I urge you to read as much of this expose by the New York Times as your stomach can handle.
Of course, this bastion of progressive journalism isn't alone in exposing ways the Assholes of Industry hide thier poisoning of the world for profit. The Washington Post recently did a piece on how 20% of the 84,000 chemicals available for commerical use in America are kept secret in order to protect industry's "trade secrets". You don't get to know what they are because someone might lose a buck. Nevermind being able to track how they affect the population.
I have to go for now, but I will pick this blog up and finish soon. More to come later.
Don't even think about leaving a comment defending Industry or your beloved Free Market Principles unless you've read both pieces in their entirety.
That is all. That is everything they want. They want everything. They don't care what they have to do to get it. They don't care who is affected.
We need MORE government regulation of industry. Not less. Regulation is there to protect YOU. To protect me. More importantly, to protect my family.
Case in point: For the past 8 years (read: most of the Bush Administration), much of the ground beef you've consumed has had ammonia in it. Only, the people selling you the crap you were eating didn't have to tell you what they were putting in it.
I urge you to read as much of this expose by the New York Times as your stomach can handle.
Of course, this bastion of progressive journalism isn't alone in exposing ways the Assholes of Industry hide thier poisoning of the world for profit. The Washington Post recently did a piece on how 20% of the 84,000 chemicals available for commerical use in America are kept secret in order to protect industry's "trade secrets". You don't get to know what they are because someone might lose a buck. Nevermind being able to track how they affect the population.
I have to go for now, but I will pick this blog up and finish soon. More to come later.
Don't even think about leaving a comment defending Industry or your beloved Free Market Principles unless you've read both pieces in their entirety.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conservative Values
While I'm serious about spending more time focusing on positive messages (because I believe we give power to anything we focus on, including things we're against), I couldn't resist a quick blog on something about modern conservatism that seems fairly obvious to me but is seemingly becoming apparent to conservatives themselves.
Without further ado, I give you Ed Brayton's reaction to a post by the conservative National Review. Please take care to notice the implied conclusion about conservative principles at the end.
(Thanks to my friend Scott Bradley who brings so many cool tidbits to my attention.)
Star Trek is Liberal Propaganda!
Posted on: December 28, 2009 9:16 AM, by Ed Brayton
This could easily also be a dumbass quote of the day, but since I already have several of those saved up we'll give it its own title. From a post by Mike Potemra at National Review Online:
Coincidentally, I have over the past couple of months been watching DVDs of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show I missed completely in its run of 1987 to 1994; and I confess myself amazed that so many conservatives are fond of it. Its messages are unabashedly liberal ones of the early post-Cold War era - peace, tolerance, due process, progress (as opposed to skepticism about human perfectibility).
Wow, how....liberal those messages are. But if this conservative admits that peace, tolerance, due process and progress are "liberal messages" then doesn't that also mean that war, intolerance, arbitrary authoritarianism and regression are conservative messages? Nice to see that admitted to so openly.
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