In These Times

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• • 26 Oct 06
  • 1:52 am

  Linked to evangelicals’ conservative worldview is a deep worry about “the coarsening of American life.” I, too, am weary of the coarsening of American life, which began in earnest, as I recall, when Reagan, elected after sending reps over to ask the Ayatollah to hold the hostages until after the election, set about emptying hospitals and halfway houses, slashing social programs, gutting fairness rules for broadcasters, cutting taxes for the rich, fattening up the miltary contractors with the idiotic, yet to work in an unrigged test, Star wars program, invading the tiny country of Grenada, trading arms to Iran for hostages …

  Posted to Face-to-Face With the Fundamentalist Base

• • 26 Oct 06
  • 1:57 am

  Did I forget to mention that Reagan was the first President to cut and run in the aftermath of a terror attack on US forces? And yet, as bad as he was, Nancy refused to let the Bush campaign use his image in their commercials. apparently, Nancy knew how truly evil Bush and his family were.

  Posted to Face-to-Face With the Fundamentalist Base

• • 30 Mar 06
  • 2:56 am

  A few points ; 1) Since people here illegally keep a low profile, what dependable data is there on their actual numbers? If none, then we really don't know the percentage of foereign born in this country..A century ago. We had no quotas and anyone who could get here could stay. We needed their labor. The situation today is almost the opposite. 2) The minimum wage remains low precisely because of the surplus of unskilled, undocumented workers. There is no need to raise the minimum wage when it's so easy to find cheap undocumented labor. 3) Senator Clinton's positioning aside, it …

  Posted to Theyve Come for Us All

• • 29 Nov 05
  • 10:52 pm

  No surprise that they (we) vote against our own interests. We are the least educated and least informed population in the free world. Our once independant media now keep us distracted with runaway wives, missing beauty queens, car chases and "reality" TV, our educational system is underfunded and under attack by fundamentalists who see education as a threat to religion. Even so, Bush lost the last two elections, first put into office by a supreme court decision that itself violated the law, after "winning" Florida through purging voter lists and intimidating vote counters with shipped in protesters, and four years later …

  Posted to The War on our Children

• • 09 Nov 05
  • 2:55 am

  And as obvious as this trend toward killing off what's left of the middle class in this country is, you would think alarm bells would be sounding in the halls of government. Instead they suggest ending the home mortgage deductions and counting employee health benefits as taxable income, cutting medicaid, food stamps, and other social programs, while giving the top 3% another 70 billion in tax cuts. And Bush has now borrowed from foreign banks, more money than ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED, funneling it to his cronys in the form of tax cuts and no bid contracts. This is a criminal …

  Posted to Symbol of the System