Monday, February 21, 2005
"What do you make of the tapes?"
Judy Woodruff asks two talking heads, one D, one R. I think - the guy did the Bushies a favor, putting them out just in time to dilute the coverage of this "Gannon/Gurket" guy who was serving up prearranged questions on behalf of the gopusa and other right wing internet sites. How in the world did he get these press credentials for WH with a phoney name??? What does this say about 'security?' But, no, let's talk about some tapes (by and large favorable to Bush - actually) instead of the real story - HOW IN THE HELL did this security breach happen? Who facilitated it and why? And even further - I would find it hard to believe whoever credentialed this guy had an inkling of his gay escort past, all over the web. So, again, Who and Why? And since this goes hand in glove with columnists being paid by usga for pushing the B agenda, the propaganda factor is off the charts. And stupid propagandists, at that!
Sunday, February 13, 2005
From Paul Krugman, N.Y. Times editorial
" It may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action. . .
First, the facts: the budget proposal really does take food from the mouths of babes. One of the proposed spending cuts would make it harder for working families with children to receive food stamps, terminating aid for about 300,000 people. Another would deny child care assistance to about 300,000 children, again in low-income working families.
. . . even as the administration demands spending cuts, it will proceed with the phaseout of two little-known tax provisions - originally put in place under the first President George Bush - that limit deductions and exemptions for high-income households.
More than half of the benefits from this backdoor tax cut would go to people with incomes of more than a million dollars; 97 percent would go to people with incomes exceeding $200,000.
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But it costs a lot more to give a millionaire a break than to put food on a low-income family's table: eliminating limits on deductions and exemptions would give taxpayers with incomes over $1 million an average tax cut of more than $19,000."
Gosh, a tax cut of $19,000. That's more than I *made* all year. Every time I do my taxes, I'm struck by the absurdity of me, a 60+ year old woman, living alone, earning barely $14,000 per year, paying any tax at all, let alone the $2K or so the Feds keep, before refunding me that little $300, when we all know there are multi-millionaires who pay not one thin dime in income tax. Who am I supposed to trickle down to? (to whom ...down.) Still waiting for that lotto win, I guess.
" It may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action. . .
First, the facts: the budget proposal really does take food from the mouths of babes. One of the proposed spending cuts would make it harder for working families with children to receive food stamps, terminating aid for about 300,000 people. Another would deny child care assistance to about 300,000 children, again in low-income working families.
. . . even as the administration demands spending cuts, it will proceed with the phaseout of two little-known tax provisions - originally put in place under the first President George Bush - that limit deductions and exemptions for high-income households.
More than half of the benefits from this backdoor tax cut would go to people with incomes of more than a million dollars; 97 percent would go to people with incomes exceeding $200,000.
...
But it costs a lot more to give a millionaire a break than to put food on a low-income family's table: eliminating limits on deductions and exemptions would give taxpayers with incomes over $1 million an average tax cut of more than $19,000."
Gosh, a tax cut of $19,000. That's more than I *made* all year. Every time I do my taxes, I'm struck by the absurdity of me, a 60+ year old woman, living alone, earning barely $14,000 per year, paying any tax at all, let alone the $2K or so the Feds keep, before refunding me that little $300, when we all know there are multi-millionaires who pay not one thin dime in income tax. Who am I supposed to trickle down to? (to whom ...down.) Still waiting for that lotto win, I guess.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
lies, and damned lies
when all else fails, the neocon media pundits JUST LIE. They tell their lies in words of one syllable; the carefully documented rebuttal to their lies is more complicated, and not gonna be read by very many people - especially those with borderline IQ's who seem to make up the majority of voters these days!
Makes you wanna hollar!
Makes you wanna hollar!
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