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“I BELIEVE ANYONE CAN FIND A LIVEABLE JOB IF THEY LOOK AND WORK HARD ENOUGH.”

January 23rd, 2010
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“I BELIEVE ANYONE CAN FIND A LIVEABLE JOB IF THEY LOOK AND WORK HARD ENOUGH.”

(spoken by a anti goverment conservative person.) 

 

The God I love and adore and most my friends don’t believe that. 

  

Workers at H.H. Cutler—VF Corporation’s Gillenex factory in Port …

The limits of Washington’s cheap-labor assembly sweatshops as the engine of Haitian … Disney/Nike Contractor Leaves Haiti for China: Labor Alerts/Labor News, … Kmart, H.H. Cutler/VF—have no other choice but to flee Haiti and move to …
hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/index-dab.html 

Santa’s Little Sweatshop

With its high immigrant population, Garland offers cheap labor, … No TV coverage as Congress told that Eddie Bauer, J. Crew, and Kmart likewise sold … Disney and other corporations have depended upon sweatshops in Haiti to sew …
www.albionmonitor.com/sweatshop/ss-intro.html – Cached – Similar

Pummeled by Quake, Haiti Cries Out for a Movement (updated …

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… pauperization that created a vast pool of available cheap labor. … stitching up garments for sale in K Mart, Wall Mart, Disney Stores, … Haiti’s Labor Code is seldom adhered to and the Labor Court is ineffective. …
www.inthesetimes.com/…/pummeled_by_quake_haiti_waits_for_a_ movement/ – Cached

Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS

Jan 22, 2010 … PAT ROBERTSON: Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and … Every president from Ronald Reagan forward has embraced the corporate search for cheap labor. … while women sewing dresses for K-Mart earned eleven cents an hour. A report by the National Labor Committee found Haitian women who had …
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01222010/transcript3.html – 10 hours ago 

 

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OUR DEARLY BELOVED SENATOR GRAHAM (In SC we are so proud of him).

December 22nd, 2009
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Graham criticizes Obama for earmarks, but defends his own.

On Meet the Press this morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged President Obama to veto the $410 billion FY09 omnibus budget because it has too many earmarks. Host David Gregory quickly pointed out that Graham’s friend and colleague, John McCain,has been highlighting Graham’s own $950,000 earmark for a convention center in Myrtle Beach, SC. Graham then pivoted from attacking earmarks to defending them:

“I voted to take all earmarks out, but I will come back in the new process and put that back in,” Graham insisted, saying that the convention center is important to stimulate the local economy. “I think I should have the ability as a United States senator to direct money back to my state as long as it’s transparent and it makes sense.”

For more click on: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/08/graham-flip-earmarks/

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Senator Graham Republican Welfare Queen.

Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey. How long do you think you’ll be able to get away with this game, hon? It’s astounding to watch you defending your virtue with one hand – and grabbing as much pork as possible for your state with the other.

As Mark Karlin puts it, it’s like foreclosing on a bakery and demanding a free cake.

We need to stop this kind of hypocritical grandstanding. Here’s a good idea, via The Political Carnival:

In essence, Graham is saying he opposed the “Main Street Job Creation Act” even though it would be political suicide not to distribute the money to the voters of his state. He was joined in rabid obstruction of the bill by his fellow Republican, Senator Jim “Stonewall Jackson” DeMint.

As BuzzFlash Editor Mark Karlin proposed a couple of weeks back, the state of any senator who opposed the “Main Street Job Creation Act” should only receive half their allotted funds. If both senators opposed the bill, the state should receive no federal allotment from the legislation.

That way, hypocrites such as Lindsey Graham couldn’t grandstand their zealotry and then pass out the goodies that they fought against.

In fact, Graham represents one of the many GOP Neo-Confederate states that receives more money from the federal government than their citizens pay in taxes. That sort of makes South Carolina a welfare state as far as the Union is concerned.

As for Lindsey Graham, he’s become a talk show regular spouting GOP talking points – and then practicing the chronic hypocrisy of being a Republican welfare king for his constituents.

For more click on:

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sen-lindsey-graham-republican-welfare

Graham defends earmarks on ‘Meet the Press’

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham defended earmarks he inserted in the federal budget, including one U.S. Sen. John McCain, Graham’s close friend and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, listed as one of the “10 Porkiest” projects in the budget.

Graham has also urged President Obama to veto the budget Graham says has too much pork.

Earmarks are one-time spending items members of Congress insert in the budget that are typically sent to projects and programs in their own states.

Graham earmarked $950,000 for the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. He has by one count 37 earmarks in the federal budget.

“I voted to take all earmarks out, but I will come back in the new process and put that back in,” Graham said on the show. “Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, we’re trying to build an international airport, an international convention center and open up a new interstate highway to diversify Myrtle Beach’s economy.”

Here is the exchange from the “Meet the Press” transcript.

For more Click on:

http://thestatecom.typepad.com/ygatoday/2009/03/graham-defends-earmarks-on-meet-the-press.html


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POLL: PUBLIC SAYS CONGRESS NOT LISTENING

September 30th, 2009
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by JULIE ROVNER

Perhaps no other issue Congress deals with touches every American as intimately as health care. Yet a new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that, so far, the public feels profoundly shut out of the current health overhaul debate.

“Most people don’t feel that they personally have a voice in this debate,” said Mollyann Brodie, director of public opinion and survey research for the Kaiser Family Foundation. “In fact, 71 percent told us that Congress was paying too little attention to what people like them were saying.”

Nancy Turtenwald is one of those people. The tourist from Milwaukee was walking around the sparkling new visitor center at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday. She was quick to agree with poll findings that the lawmakers debating the massive health overhaul bill just a few blocks away weren’t much interested in problems like hers.

For much more click on:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113307616&ps=cprs

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THE PROS AND CONS OF THE PUBLIC OPTION…

August 12th, 2009
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In “The Perils of the Public Plan,” Paul Starr warns that a public-insurance option could turn into exactly the opposite of what progressives want. Here he discusses the problems with the Prospect’s two other co-founders, Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich. 

Paul Starr:
According to last week’s Washington Post, the public option is the “crux” of the health-reform debate and the “greatest challenge” for Senate negotiators to overcome. That’s an accurate description of the current political scene, but it’s true only because so many people, including members of Congress, are responding ideologically to the ideaof government involvement.

The public option is not the biggest question in reform. Under the proposals being considered, it would be offered only within insurance exchanges at the state and regional level. The far bigger question is how those exchanges work:

For the rest of the debate click on:

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=debating_the_public_option

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8 MYTHS ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM AND WHY WE CAN’T AFFORD TO BELIEVE THEM ANY MORE FROM AARP…

August 4th, 2009
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AARP HAS A BIG DOG IN THIS HUNT BECAUSE IF THE TELL US WRONG THEY LOSE THEIR REPUTATION WITH US MATURE CITIZENS AND ALL THE COMPANIES THEY SUPPORT.  WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE?-mackie

 

8 Myths About Health Care Reform

By Karen Cheney, July & August 2009

And why we can’t afford to believe them anymore

 Americans spend more on health care every year than we do educating our children, building roads, even feeding ourselves—an estimated $2.6 trillion in 2009, or around $8,300 per person. Forty-five million Americans have no health insurance whatsoever. These staggering figures are at the heart of the current debate over health care reform: the need to control costs while providing coverage for all. As John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Health Care Group for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says, “There is enough evidence that it is now time to do something and to do the right thing.” The key is to focus on the facts—and to dispel, once and for all, the myths that block our progress.

Myth 1: “Health reform won’t benefit people like me, who have insurance.”
Just because you have health insurance today doesn’t mean you’ll have it tomorrow. According to the National Coalition on Healthcare, nearly 266,000 companies dropped their employees’ health care coverage from 2000 to 2005. “People with insurance have a tremendous stake, because their insurance is at risk,” says Judy Feder, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. What’s more, in recent years the average employee health insurance premium rose nearly eight times faster than income. “Everyone is paying for health increases in some way, and it’s unsustainable for everyone,” says Stephanie Cathcart, spokesperson for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). “Reform will benefit everyone as long as it addresses costs.”

“There are many ways to tackle our health care problem, but we will come up with a uniquely American solution.”

Myth 2: “The boomers will bankrupt Medicare.”
If you’re looking to blame the rise in health care costs on an aging population, you’ll have to look elsewhere. The growing ranks of the elderly are projected to account for just 0.4 percent of the future growth in health care costs, says Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change. So why are health care costs skyrocketing? Ginsburg and others point to all those fancy medical technologies we now rely on (think MRIs and CT scans), as well as our fee-for-service payment system, in which doctors are paid by how many patients they see and how many treatments they prescribe, rather than by the quality of care they provide. Some experts say this fee-for-service payment system encourages overtreatment (see “Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?” from the July-August 2008 issue of AARP The Magazine).

Myth 3: “Reforming our health care system will cost us more.”
Think of health care reform as if it’s an Energy Star appliance. Yes, it costs more to replace your old energy-guzzling refrigerator with a new one, but over time the savings can be substantial. The Commonwealth Fund, a New York City-based foundation that supports research on health care practice and policy, estimates that health care reform will cost roughly $600 billion to implement but by 2020 could save us approximately $3 trillion.

 For the rest of the myths click on:

 http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/8_myths_about_health_care_reform.html

 

 

“Search to know the Truth
And the Truth will set You Free.”
(my aim is not to convince, but to share what I have found for your consideration. – mackie)
 

 

 

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