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Thom's blog
Republican Greed Now Dominates Americans' Lives
 It doesn't matter how many people die, struggle in poverty, or are poisoned, as long as the profits roll in and taxes are low. Republican greed is why Americans can't have nice things. Every developed country in the world has some variation on a free or low-cost national healthcare system, and free or even subsidized higher education. In most developed countries homelessness is not a crisis, nobody goes bankrupt because somebody in their family got sick, and jobs pay well enough and have union pensions so people can retire after 30 or 40 years in the workforce and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. But not in America. Republicans would never allow any of those things to happen. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Republican Greed Now Dominates Americans' Lives. It doesn't matter how many people die, struggle in poverty, or are poisoned, as long as the profits roll in and taxes are low.
Letter: " to Edgar Newton Eisenhower" by Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 8, 1954. " Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... Their number is negligible and they are stupid"
Book: " Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. " And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Bible: " Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." - Matthew 7:15.
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). " ...To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof..." Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 4 section 3. "New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state." Article: " 23rd Amendment" " The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment." |
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