Faithfulness: You're replying to post made by: Hot_Single_Dude Tell us, O wise and great Dude....what does March 7 mean to you? Freddy "might" know what I meant Faith
Maybe so...but I am asking you Dude. I would like for you to answer the question.
You're replying to post made by: Hot_Single_Dude how did you feel when Republicans threatend to stop unemployment benefits of americans and what do you feel hearing them calling the unemployed lazy and not willing to work and beleive the best way of occupying folks will be to stop unemployment benefits here and now and cutting taxes instead?
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The White House Blog At Long Last, Help for Our Neighbors and a Boost for the Economy with Extended Unemployment Insurance Posted by Jesse Lee on July 22, 2010 at 05:17 PM EST Yesterday, at long last the Senate passed an extension of unemployment insurance, not only the decent thing to do but one of the most effective ways to boost our economy, as Lawrence Summers, Chair of the National Economic Council, explained. The President has pressured the partisan minority holding it up relentlessly on behalf of those who desperately needed the helping hand, and applauded Congress for overcoming that obstruction in the statement below and today sign he signed the legislation in the Oval Office. This was the President’s statement:
Today, I signed the unemployment insurance extension to restore desperately needed assistance to two and a half million Americans who lost their jobs in the recession. After a partisan minority used procedural tactics to block the authorization of this assistance three separate times over the past weeks, Americans who are fighting to find a good job and support their families will finally get the support they need to get back on their feet during these tough economic times. Now it’s time for Congress to act on more proposals that support our economic recovery, including passing critical aid to our states and support to small businesses. Small businesses are the engine of job growth, and measures to cut their taxes and make lending available should not be held hostage to partisan tactics like those that unconscionably held up unemployment insurance.
Not Really Freddy... do you know what March 7 means or is it forbidden knowing this do to the bibical toungue talking gun oil brain dammage based stupid beleives of your dang Repubheads on charge in Indiana?
Tell us, O wise and great Dude....what does March 7 mean to you?
Amendment #154, sponsored by Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) and passed 235 to 187, prohibits any of the Act's funds from carrying out provisions of the Education Jobs Fund, which mandates that only Texas must certify that stimulus funds will be used to supplement and not supplant state funding of education programs. How's that for telling one state how to spend its own money!
Amendment #196, sponsored by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) and passed 217 to 209, reduces the appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) by $20 million and transfers the money to the Spending Reduction Account. Too bad the House didn't totally defund the NEA since it has carried on years of offensive attacks on our culture.
Amendment #204, sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and passed 249 to 175, prohibits any of the Act's funds from being used for salaries and expenses for President Obama's "czars" who have not been confirmed by the Senate. It's probably a tossup whether this, or defunding the redecoration of UN buildings, gets the popularity prize with Americans.
Amendment #208, sponsored by Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) and passed 247 to 175, prohibits any of the Act's funds from being used for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund or the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account. U.S. taxpayers have been increasingly registering their disapproval of this expenditure on their annual income tax returns.
Amendment #267, sponsored by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and passed 241 to 187, prohibits the Act's funds from being used to implement ObamaCare this year, saving about $2.8 billion.
Amendment #404, sponsored by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) and passed 244 to 181, prohibits any of the Act's funds from being used by the Federal Communications Commission to implement so-called "network neutrality." Americans don't want the government taking over supervision of the internet.
i like to see Governor Walker give up his wages and health care
Meet Scott Walker
The son of a preacher, Scott Walker grew up in the small town of Delavan, Wisconsin and it's those small town values that make Scott the man he is today. Growing up, Scott's family didn't have a lot. Those lean times taught him to do more with less and he believes government should do the same.
According to Tonette, Scott's wife of 17 years, he is every bit as fiscally conservative when it comes to his personal finances. Scott drives a 1998 Saturn with 100,000 miles on it and packs the same brown bag lunch before heading to the office to save money: two ham and cheese sandwiches on wheat with mayo.
Scott's Brown Bag Guide to Government applies the same kind of small town values and common sense ideas he follows in his personal life:
1. Don't spend more than you have. 2. Smaller government is better government. 3. People create jobs, not government.
When it comes to serving the public, Scott Walker puts his money where his mouth is there too. From 2002 through 2010, Scott and Tonette Walker have given back over $370,000 of his salary to the county.
As Governor, Scott Walker will fight to get government out of the way and lower the tax burden so the people of Wisconsin can create 250,000 jobs in our state by 2015. His six point plan can be found at
Scott Walker's government reform campaign helped sweep him into the Milwaukee County executive's office in 2002, after serving nearly nine years in the Wisconsin State Legislature. At the time, Milwaukee County was on the precipice of an organizational and financial meltdown; rocked by greedy politicians who had voted to allow themselves and hundreds of career bureaucrats to retire as millionaires at the taxpayers' expense.
Scott has kept his promise to spend the taxpayers' money as if it were his own, introducing eight consecutive county budgets without increasing the property tax levy from the year before. And Scott Walker's record as County Executive has proven time and again, that greater innovation will allow us to maintain essential government services without sacrificing community assets that enhance our quality of life.
Here are just a few of Scott's accomplishments as County Executive:
Reduced the county workforce by more than 20% Lowered the county debt by 10% Introduced 8 consecutive budgets without an increase to the property tax levy from the previous year. Improved the county's bond rating Milwaukee County Parks won the prestigious 2009 National Gold Medal for Excellence in the Park and Recreation Management Program Eliminated the waiting list for long-term care for older adults through the Family Care program. Milwaukee County's Mitchell International Airport received the Transportation Safety Administration's Partnership Award. Invested over $199 million in renovations and improvements to General Mitchell International Airport without increasing the property tax levy Airport improvements helped attract nearly 1,000 jobs from Southwest, Air Tran and Republic airlines. Implemented a pension obligation plan to save Milwaukee County taxpayers $ 237 million
Ready to Lead
The state and national political environment today is very similar to Milwaukee County in 2002. Taxes are too high, government spending is out of control, and corruption and incompetence run rampant.
Scott Walker is uniquely qualified to lead Wisconsin's troubled state government back to fiscal sanity. As, a former state legislator and the Chief Executive of the state's largest county, Scott knows what must be done to put Wisconsin government back on the side of the people and he's willing to stand up against the entrenched special interests to do it.
Governor Walker, has no wish to sit for down for talks to compromise he wants to declare victory over the public employee unions, i like to see Governor Walker give up his wages and health care,
Governor Walker did give up his wages (a whole year of wages) before he was elected governor.
The biggest expenses in state government(s) include education, medicaid, prisons, transportation, unemployment compensation; not salaries/benefits. Sure, fat exists elsewhere but it's not with the majority of government employees, who are also tax payers. We bail out wall street and then target public employees for their efforts to provide police and fire services and teachers and prison guards etc.
I say let all the prisoners in America free, forget snow and ice removal, forget clean water and waste disposal and sewer maintenance. Our kids can get home schooling, forget the disabled and abandoned, let the environment go back to the dirty and unhealthy 60's style and fire all the traffic controllers again at the same time. We don't need any of them. Instead, all we need to do is pay for grander parties for the bankers! Down with the little guy!
REALLY? Are you serious???? The company I work for is a non-profirt agency. We do not have a union. I have insurance through my job. So, yes I pay for it. I have to pay $55 every two weeks (just for myself for coverage). All this to say this....The share my company pays to have health insurance for all of my coworkers and me is over $1 million a year. (And by the way, I work in the health care field.)
I get paid more at my present non union job than I did at the union job I used to have.
My opion is that you don't need unions or collective bargaining to have a good paying job with benefits.
By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press The Associated Press
Friday, February 25, 2011 5:38 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Friday detailed a proposal to slash $4 billion in federal spending as part of legislation to keep the government operating for two weeks past a March 4 deadline. They urged Senate Democrats to accept their approach and avoid a government shutdown.
Democrats said they were encouraged that the two sides appeared to be narrowing the gap on possible spending cuts, but warned against Republican efforts to force their position on Congress.
"A government shutdown is not an acceptable or responsible option for Republicans," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said in a conference call where he and other Republicans promoted their plan for avoiding the first government shutdown since 1996.
They said failure to work out a deal would put the responsibility for a disruption of government services on the Democrats.
The GOP plan, to be debated on the House floor next Tuesday, includes some $1.24 billion in savings, mainly from programs that President Barack Obama had proposed cutting in the fiscal 2012 budget, and the termination of some $2.7 billion in earmarks, or special projects, that are part of this year's budget.
With only a week left before federal spending authority runs out, both parties have sought to preemptively blame the other if a shutdown does occur. Democrats who control the Senate have rejected as draconian a bill passed by the House last week that would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 while carrying out $61 billion in spending cuts.
They have called for a short-term extension of federal spending so the parties can negotiate, but at current spending levels. Democrats are also discussing cuts that head in the same direction as the Republicans by focusing on earmarks and accelerating the elimination or trimming of programs recommended in Obama's 2012 budget. But the Democrats would apply the cuts to the remaining seven months of the fiscal year.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, repeated his position that approving a short-term funding bill without cuts "is unacceptable."
Wis. Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press The Associated Press
Friday, February 25, 2011 5:17 PM EST
Madison, Wis. (AP) — Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening.
The vote ended three straight days of punishing debate in the Assembly. But the political standoff over the bill — and the monumental protests at the state Capitol against it — appear far from over.
The Assembly's vote sent the bill on to the Senate, but minority Democrats in that house have fled to Illinois to prevent a vote and say they won't return unless Republican Gov. Scott Walker agrees to discuss a compromise. Republicans who control the Senate sent state troopers out looking for them at their homes on Thursday, but they turned up nothing.
"This kind of solidifies our resolve," Democratic Sen. Chris Larson said Friday after the Assembly vote. "If we come back, they're going to ram this through without us having a say."
The governor didn't sound conciliatory Friday, saying during an afternoon appearance in Green Bay that although "we got to find a way to make it comfortable for those 14 senators to come back home," Republicans had no intention of backing off the main tenets of the bill.
Walker's proposal contains a number of provisions he says are designed to fill the state's $137 million deficit and lay the groundwork for fixing a projected $3.6 billion shortfall in the upcoming 2011-13 budget.
The flashpoint is language that would require public workers to contribute more to their pensions and health insurance and strip them of their right to collectively bargain benefits and work conditions.
Democrats and unions see the measure as an attack on workers' rights and an attempt to cripple union support for Democrats. Union leaders say they would make pension and health care concessions if they can keep their bargaining rights, but Walker has refused to compromise.
Tens of thousands of people have jammed the Capitol since last week to protest, pounding on drums and chanting so loudly that police providing security have resorted to ear plugs. Hundreds have taken to sleeping in the building overnight, dragging in air mattresses and blankets.
Have you seen the television pictures of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees? If so, you've had an advance peek at the sort of demonstrations that will take place if state legislatures are foolish enough to pass resolutions asking Congress to call a national convention to consider amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Barack Obama's political arm, "Organizing for America," swelled the crowds by busing in protesters from Wisconsin and from other states, too. A national convention to amend the U.S. Constitution would become the media event of the century, with 24/7 TV coverage, giving us every reason to anticipate that "Organizing for America" would flood the process of electing delegates and then demonstrate to hurl demands on their deliberations.
All of a sudden, as though someone gave the signal, resolutions are pending in several state legislatures to use the never-before-used power set forth in Article V to petition Congress to "call a Convention for proposing Amendments." This campaign exploits the frustration of many Americans with Congress's out-of-control spending, increase in the national debt (with much of it borrowed from China), and passage of laws, such as ObamaCare, that severely limit our freedoms.
By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press The Associated Press
Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:37 AM EST
Madison, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to try to find at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats who have been on the run for eight days to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees.
Meanwhile, the state Assembly appeared close to voting on the union rights bill after two days of filibustering the measure with a blizzard of amendments. Democrats reached an early morning deal after 43 hours of debate to limit the number of remaining amendments and time spent on each.
Troopers went to multiple homes Thursday morning hoping to find at least one of the 14 Democrats, some of whom were rumored to have made short trips home to pick up clothes and other necessities before again fleeing the state. But they came up empty handed, Senate Sergeant at Arms Ted Blazel said.
"Every night we hear about some that are coming back home," said Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who hoped sending the move to send the troopers would pressure Democrats to return.
But Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach, who was in the Chicago area, said all 14 senators remained outside of Wisconsin and would not return until Walker was willing to compromise.
"It's not so much the Democrats holding things up, it's really a matter of Gov. Walker holding things up," Erpenbach said.
Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie issued a statement praising the Assembly for nearing a vote and renewing his call for Senate Democrats to come back.
Thousands of people have protested the bill for nine straight days, with hundreds spending the night on the Capitol's hard marble floor as the debate was broadcast on monitors in the rotunda. Many still were sleeping when the deal to only debate 38 more amendments, for no more than 10 minutes each, was announced shortly after 6 a.m. The timing of the agreement means the vote could come as soon as noon Thursday.
"We will strongly make our points, but understand you are limiting the voice of the public as you do this," said Democratic state Rep. Mark Pocan of Madison. "You can't dictate democracy. You are limiting the people's voice with this agreement this morning."
A similar debate in Ohio drew thousands of union protesters Tuesday, prompting officials there to lock the doors to the Statehouse.
In Wisconsin, if lawmakers take no action on the union bill by the end of the week, the state will not be able to refinance debt that Walker had counted on for $165 million worth of savings under the legislation. The governor warned that not doing that would force even deeper cuts and possibly lead to 1,500 layoffs by July.
Republican leaders in both the Senate and Assembly said they have the votes to pass the bill.
Fitzgerald said the bill was a key part of the Republican agenda to cut government spending that won the GOP majorities in the Legislature in November.
"When you talk about a compromise, no. We're going to make a reform," the Assembly speaker said.
Debate began in the Assembly with the Democrats introducing amendments that would do such things as restore public employees' right to strike and submit the bill to a referendum before it could take effect. Given the number of amendments Democrats were proposing, an actual vote on the measure may not happen until Wednesday or later.
"It's going to be a long day," Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca said at the start of debate. "Tempers are going to flare."
He was right. Two Democrats lashed out at Republican lawmakers and aides for laughing at them during the debate.
"This is not a game! We're dealing with people's lives! This isn't funny!" Rep. Andy Jorgensen shouted in the chamber, his face red. "I haven't laughed in a long time, especially not on a day like this!"
Rep. Cory Mason, a former organizer for the American Federation of Teachers, said Wisconsin has enjoyed more than 50 years of labor peace between state and local public employees and their bosses after passing collective bargaining rights in 1959.
"What the governor is proposing and what the majority is proposing today is to break that labor peace," he said.
The roar of protesters in the Capitol rotunda, many of whom were banging on drums and chanting through megaphones, could be heard while both the Senate and Assembly met.
The Wisconsin bill would force state and local public workers to contribute more toward their pensions and health care and would strip them of the right to negotiate benefits and working conditions. They would largely be limited to negotiating pay raises no greater than the inflation rate.
The proposal, designed to help Wisconsin plug a projected $3.6 billion hole in the budget, has led to eight straight days of monumental protests that grew as large as 68,000 people on Saturday.
The Senate was stymied for a second time in its attempts to take up the bill after none of the 14 Democrats who skipped town on Thursday showed up. Under Senate rules, 20 lawmakers must be present to take up a budget bill. There are only 19 Republicans.
Unable to act on Walker's proposal, the remaining Republicans instead took up some non-controversial measures, voting to extend tax breaks to dairy farmers and unanimously commending the Green Bay Packers on winning the Super Bowl.
Unlike last Thursday, when the Senate galleries were filled with protesters who disrupted action by shouting, only about a dozen people showed up under heavier security to watch the action on Tuesday.
Associated Press writer Ryan J. Foley contributed to this report.
Wisconsin lawmakers take up bill to cripple unions
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Scott Bauer, Associated Press – Tue Feb 22, 5:48 pm ET
MADISON, Wis. – With their Senate colleagues still in hiding, Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly began introducing a barrage of 100 amendments Tuesday to try to stymie the Republican governor's plan to strip unionized public employees of most of their bargaining rights.
Both houses of the GOP-controlled Legislature convened shortly before noon amid noisy protests outside the state Capitol that began more than a week ago in an epic showdown that is being watched nervously by organized labor across the country.
The Senate was unable to take up the union measure because its 14 Democrats skipped town last week, denying the chamber a quorum. But Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald pledged that his chamber would approve the bill this week, despite the blizzard of Democratic amendments.
Turning up the pressure on the Democrats, Gov. Scott Walker warned that state employees could start receiving layoff notices as early as next week if the bill isn't passed soon. The layoffs couldn't take effect immediately — existing union contracts could forestall them for weeks or months — and Walker wouldn't say which jobs he would go after first.
"Hopefully we don't get to that point," the governor said in a statement.
Borrowing the strategy pioneered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walker planned to take his case straight to the voters Tuesday evening with a fireside chat. In excerpts released in advance by Walker's office, the governor said his bill is about balancing the budget now and into the future and nothing else. He commended Wisconsin for "showing the rest of the country how to have a passionate yet civil debate about our finances."
Walker also praised public employees — thousands of whom have been calling for his resignation for more than a week — saying he has a "great respect for those who have chosen a career in government."
Associated Press writer Ryan J. Foley contributed to this report.
China's strategy for economic development specifically includes stealing foreign innovations in order to develop domestic technology and manufacturing. China's goal is to be the world's biggest exporter based on stealing U.S. know-how and subsidizing Chinese manufacturers.
That's only part of China's strategy to cheat Americans. When U.S. companies build plants in China, Beijing forces them to disclose their technology in order to gain contracts, and the result is that major U.S. corporations, including our biggest technology companies, have given away their most valuable industrial secrets.
It gets worse. China has adopted an official policy called "indigenous innovation."
That's China's label for anti-American trade rules that prohibit imports and U.S. manufacturing in China unless based on intellectual property developed and owned in China, with its trademarks registered in China. This new rule targets our most innovative manufacturing and service industries, including computers, software, and telecommunications.
The Chinese government's list of products subject to this obnoxious rule is constantly expanding. China's "indigenous innovation" policy forbids U.S. products from being sold in China unless the U.S. companies give China their current patents and technology plus information about their research and development of new products.
China has no plan to be a market for U.S. products. China's principal imports are and will continue to be U.S. jobs.
The right of inventors to own their own inventions is a precious American right written into our U.S. Constitution even before the famous rights of freedom of speech and religion. This inventors' right is uniquely American: it was an original creation by the Founding Fathers and it's still unique in the world.
That's why nearly all the world's great inventions are American. Our superiority in inventions and innovations is the principal reason for our world leadership and standard of living.
For years, foreign corporations have been trying to destroy our innovation superiority under the code word "harmonization," i.e., persuading us to harmonize our patent law with foreign laws, down to the levels of unfair European and Japanese systems.
Now Communist China has replaced the harmonization slogan with indigenous innovation, China's code word for theft. We are fools if we allow China to steal our innovations, which are the mainspring of our high standard of living.
Free Trade with Protectionist China Cheats America by Phyllis Schlafly
It looks like the Russians fooled us again in nuclear treaty negotiations. After President Obama bamboozled the Senate into a hurry-up ratification of his New START Treaty, Russia impudently rejected the McCain "understanding" that we don't have to abide by the Preamble's language limiting the U.S. from building anti-missile defenses.
Russia then ratified New START with its own understanding that the points about anti-missile defense are "indisputable" and must not be ignored. Shame on the Republican Senators who voted to ratify Obama's dangerous treaty.
We no longer worry about a nuclear attack from Russia, but we should start worrying about China, North Korea and Iran. It's time Americans wake up to the fact that China is not merely a friendly trading partner who manufactures cheap goods we can buy at WalMart.
China is spending the billions of dollars it gets from its tremendous sales to Americans to build the most formidable military force in the world. China is building strategic nuclear weapons with delivery capabilities, submarines and ships, fighter planes and bombers, and a new anti-ship ballistic missile to sink U.S. aircraft carriers.
Communist China recently conducted a space test involving two satellites that rendezvoused several hundred miles above Earth in a maneuver that boosts Beijing's anti-satellite weapons program. That's a key capability for space warfare, intelligence gathering, and destroying enemy satellites.
Some people foolishly call our relationship with China "free trade." But there is nothing free or fair about it; we are in a trade war between a militantly protectionist Communist government and a U.S. shackled by obsolete illusions about trade.
The whole notion of free trade with China is dishonest. China is pumping public funds into its government-run companies, such as the airlines and steel mills, and the proportion of industrial production controlled and subsidized by the government is increasing rapidly.
With the Communist Party in the driver's seat, China violates international law and trade agreements, slaps taxes and regulations on U.S. plants in China, and forces U.S. corporations to give away their trade secrets and manufacturing know-how to Chinese competitors. Chinese regulators have unlimited discretion to reward China's friends and punish enemies.
Communist China is the world's top producer of illegal copies of music, movies, software, designer apparel, medicines, and other U.S. products. Chinese agents stole or illegally bought high-tech, electronic, military, and communications systems.
You're replying to post made by: Hot_Single_Dude What kind sof jobs were lost Ray? Have asked this before I know but still the quaetion is very real... what kinds of jobs have been lost and why and when this begun and how could any new government shifting that horrible lost of jobs this early any way? Ability to GETTING IT is definately NOT the strongest side of Repubhead endorsers and ultra right winged militant anti ameircan buzos and their Talibani sisters in Pakistan and Saudi arabia and have never been
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You really need to get a grip on reality. You are right about Obama and change. Wake up and really take a look at the change Obama is bringing about....America has gone done hill since Obama came into office. This kind of change is not what Americans want or need. As a country we know it. Too bad as Obama's PR man you don't realize that yet.
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Tell us, O wise and great Dude....what does March 7 mean to you?
Freddy "might" know what I meant Faith
Maybe so...but I am asking you Dude. I would like for you to answer the question.