Friday, November 22, 2013

Tea Party Roots in the Dallas of 1963



Tea Party Roots in the Dallas of 1963


If today’s extremist rhetoric sounds familiar, that’s because it is eerily, poignantly similar to the vitriol aimed squarely at John F. Kennedy during his presidency. And just like today, Texans were leading what some of them saw as a moral crusade. To find the very roots of the tea party of 2013, just go back to downtown Dallas in 1963, back to the months and weeks leading to the Kennedy assassination. - See more at: http://portside.org/2013-11-22/tea-party-roots-dallas-1963#sthash.fwItSYKb.dpuf


Wednesday, October 23, 2013

GOP Senate Candidate Addressed Conference Hosted by Neo-Confederate Group That Promotes Secessionism



GOP Senate Candidate Addressed Conference Hosted by Neo-Confederate Group That Promotes Secessionism | Mother Jones

Mississippi Republican Chris McDaniel, who is challenging Sen. Thad Cochran and backed by the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth, took the stage with a historian who says Lincoln was a Marxist.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On


Now that the government shutdown has been avoided, progressives and the democratic left must prepare for an even bigger battle: fighting more austerity budget cuts.  The Republican Party, and much of the Democratic Party establishment, including President Obama, have already signaled they will accept a budget deal, a "Grand Bargain"  that will drastically cut "entitlements" (i.e., Social Security and Medicare).  We must prepare to fight back!

Instead of cutting Social Security, we must expand it, to cover more people. Instead of raising the retirement age to get SS benefits, we should lower it.   There is no Social Security "crisis," the trust fund has nearly $3 Trillion, the problem is Congress has stolen part of the surplus to cover other spending.  What should be cut is military spending.

The long term national debt can be addressed by cutting military spending, corporate welfare programs, and by RAISING taxes on the corporate rich, like the "Robin Hood Tax" on Wall Street transactions, and returning to the pre-Reagan top tax rates.

Austerity  budget cuts have already cost millions of jobs.  The federal government must spend MORE to create jobs,  we need a national policy to guarantee Full Employment (John Conyers has re-introduced the Humphreys-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act  HR 870 to address the jobs crisis)

Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On

The Government is Open. Now Fight for Just Government Policies

The Coming Debt Ceiling Settlement

It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold an Economy-Killing Lie

Deal or No Deal on Shutdown and Debt Ceiling, Biggest Fiscal Policy Crisis Remains

Robin Hood Tax Petition

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed By Congress After Republicans Cave



The House passed the Senate "fiscal cliff" deal, not sure to cheer or not.  The tax cuts for incomes below $400,000, not $250,000 are all made permanent, which means less tax revenue.  The temporary payroll tax cut is gone, so all working class taxes go up some (some prog. opposed it to begin with because it came out of Social Security), on the other hand, unemployment benefits are extended and the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credits are extended, a victory for progressives.  And the GOP were not able to add any cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits, they are saving that fight for the Debt Ceiling cliff, so hand on for the next ride... it ain't gonna be pretty.  Now the Republican, and some corporate Democrats, will be pushing AUSTERITY (cuts to social programs)

Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed by Congress After Republicans Cave

Forget the "Fiscal Cliff"

Reich: Lousy Deal on the Edge of the Cliff

On the Left, Seeing Obama Giving Away Too Much, Again

Everything You Need to Know About the Emerging "Fiscal Cliff" Tax Compromise


Krugman:  Uninformed Politicians Pushing Us Toward Austerity


Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed By Congress After Republicans Cave