I Can’t Afford A Tax Hike
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 21st, 2011
Good morning!
John Fleming, GOP Congressman, Blasts Obama Over Buffett Rule: I Can’t Afford A Tax Hike
Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) appeared on MSNBC Monday morning to express opposition to President Barack Obama’s deficit reduction plan, which includes a proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy.
Fleming charged that the plan is a terrible idea which kills jobs provided by wealthy “job creators” who pay personal income taxes. When asked about his business ventures — including his role in a number of Subway restaurants and UPS stores — from which he earned $6.3 million last year, Fleming told MSNBC host Chris Jansing that his business expenses left him with little to tax “by the time I feed my family.”
Fleming told Jansing that the $6.3 million is “before you pay 500 employees, you pay rent, you pay equipment and food.”
“The actual net income of that was a mere fraction of that amount.”
“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,” Fleming said.
Jansing pointed out that to a person making $40,000or $50,000 per year, making $400,000 annually is “not exactly a sympathetic position,” but Fleming responded by calling his success a “virtue” and noting that “class warfare has never created a job.”
“This is all about creating jobs,” Fleming said. “This is not about attacking people who make certain incomes.”
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Helloooo…What about the people that are saying, “I can’t afford to pay rent”? Or “I can’t even afford to put food in my children’s mouths”? And that my friends, is why this country will go to shit in the proverbial handbasket, if Obama’s Jobs Bill doesn’t pass, and we end up with a republican president. Hint: We’re on our way there if we don’t do something. Thoughts? Blog me.
Juanita: I give you the same answer that I gave to Irene a few days ago. But perhaps this is even a better explanation. This comes from a reader, Anonz. And I think he said it best, so I will reprint his words:
I can now buy any candidate in either House. I can influence any law to my benefit. I can influence you and most americans to believe what I wish about any issue. Your crooked Supreme Court gave me the right to spend any amount of money to influence the passage or any issue.
Criticizing me may make you feel good, but it has no affect on anything I do. Voting to eliminate the people who keep the likes of me from being regulated would be effective in stopping me from profiting at your expense.
But I have no fear of that because you secretly envy the money and power I have. You dream of being one of us, so you allow us to have unfettered access to to the profit trough.
Sure I have more money that I will every be able to spend, but if you are too stupid to regulate me, and too stupid to make me pay my fair share of taxes, and if you continue to allow me to set up corporations with all the rights of a living person, I WILL CONTINUE TO GET RICHER AT YOUR EXPENSE.
And unfortunately, I will continue to brag, boast, be in your face about your STUPIDITY. Deciding whether to rant against me or to vote against me will determine whether you will wise up or remain a mat for me to wipe my feet on as I stroll to that feeding trough.
What more needs to be said? We can rant about the republicans, or we can wise up and vote them out of office. The choice is ours.
Caroline: A second term is what I’m working on. Like I said, Let’s break and make history. I HOPE things start getting better for you.
Brooke: When I think of how the state of our country would be without Obama as our president, it think that exact sentiment: ”Thank God for Obama.”
Reborn: Your feelings are thought by many women all over the world. You decided to not accept the emptiness and had the courage to leave. Congratulations. I HOPE the best for you.
Peace & Love…
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September 21st, 2011 at 9:08 am
What else is there to say Michelle. Either we make a stand against this colossal greed and pack of lies or we become the mats they tread upon on the way to their trough.
Loni
September 21st, 2011 at 10:12 am
Michelle,
It is wise to make note that Anonz stated “I can now buy any candidate in either House…” It is not only a Repugnicant issue, it is also a Democant one, as well. People must wise up and view all politicians and their voting histories and claims of their careers. The Bernie Sanders are rare…When cleaning both sides of the “House” it is not solely a Repugnicant cleansing…It is about bringing in politicians who will submit and sign a bill on Term limits. It is about bringing in politicians who will submit and sign a bill on the elimination of lobbyists. It is about bringing in politicians who will submit and sign a bill on campaign finance reform. It is about bringing in politicians who will challenge the Supreme Court and their decisions and exercise their right to eliminate the Clarence Thomas type of corrupt judicial positions…It is about bringing in politicians who will submit and sign a bill on the elimination of The FED and give the country its Constitutional right to print its own money back!! These are truly the most pressing issues to our society.
September 21st, 2011 at 10:19 am
…and that’s a very tall order, Main Dude, bc that requires thinking about what the people want and need and not who’s going to be bought and paid for (themselves). I am all for that though. Know any candidates of either party or just the dem party that would do that?
- ZL
September 21st, 2011 at 11:38 am
EAT PISTACHIOS AND GO NUTS!
Attention snackers! Are you longing for some good news? Happy to oblige. One of our favorite healthy snack foods — pistachios — has fewer calories than we thought.
Not by an enormous amount, mind you, but enough to afford us a moment or two of guiltless snacking — and, no, the difference doesn’t come from all those calories you use up opening the shell of a pistachio nut.
For 100 years or so, the calorie value of foods has been calculated using something called the Atwater general factor system.
You may not have heard of it by name, but you probably have heard its long-standing pronouncement that proteins and carbohydrates have four calories per gram and fat has nine calories per gram. Of course, many things aren’t as simple as they seem.
And it turns out that not all fat is equal when it comes to counting calories.
A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND STUDY
Recent clinical studies had indicated that the fat in pistachio nuts is not well-absorbed by the body, but there hadn’t been a human study to prove it… until now.
The US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service just released the results of a meticulous study tracing the fate of pistachios in the human body.
They found that about 6% of their fat calories pass right through us without being absorbed — meaning pistachios effectively have fewer calories than we’d thought.
In the study, 16 healthy, nonsmoking men and woman, ages 29 to 64, all without gastrointestinal disorders, ate a consistent balanced diet of typical American food for three weeks.
They ate all the food, and only the food, prepared for them by the research center. The participants were weighed each morning and their intake adjusted to keep their weight stable.
While all of this was going on, researchers gave each participant one of three different “doses” of pistachios to eat — 0 grams (the control), 42 grams (about one and one-half ounces) and 84 grams (about three ounces) per day — for part of their diet.
For the two pistachio diets, which resulted in increased daily intakes of fat and dietary fiber compared with the control, total carbohydrates were reduced — so that total calorie consumption remained at the level where subjects neither gained nor lost weight.
CALORIES IN — CALORIES OUT
I talked with David Baer, PhD, supervisory research physiologist with the Agricultural Research Service and the study’s lead author, who told me that the purpose of the study was to determine the legitimate calorie value of pistachios in an otherwise balanced diet. He gave me a very “inside” account of their research.
Everything the participants ate was carefully weighed and chemically analyzed before it went in… and everything was just as carefully analyzed when it came out so that researchers could track the absorption of fat and nutrients in the body.
Ingeniously, researchers gave participants a brilliant blue “marker capsule” by mouth to help them identify the beginning and end of the study.
Once the blue was out of the body, researchers could be sure there was no more food coming out that should be monitored.
Because the weight, amount of fat and energy (calories) increased in the “end product” when pistachios were added to the diet, researchers concluded that less fat had been digested by the body, which meant that fewer calories than expected had been provided by the pistachios.
In addition, because the researchers found that the amount of dietary fiber consumed increased with the addition of pistachios, the fiber calories of the pistachios were also subtracted from the carbohydrate calorie count, further contributing to a lower calorie count.
In the end, the study found the actual calorie measure of pistachios is about 160 for a typical 30-gram serving (approximately 50 nut meats), instead of the generally accepted 170 calories, making it a nut with one of the lowest calorie counts.
While the study isn’t suggesting that we start to think of pistachios as a diet food, every little bit counts when it comes to calorie counting.
Plus, although not planned as part of the study, blood samples analyzed after each protocol found that both amounts of pistachio nuts lowered LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) by 6%.
Next up on the Agricultural Research Service’s nut-calorie-authentication research plan are almonds. We may get more good news.
Source(s):
David J. Baer, PhD, supervisory research physiologist, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland.
September 21st, 2011 at 11:46 am
The clock is ticking for Congress to pass a measure that would continue government spending at the current rate in order to avoid a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
Although the so-called continuing resolution would only be in effect until Nov. 13 to give Congress more time to pass all of the spending bills necessary to fund the 2012 fiscal year, Senate Democrats are blocking Republican efforts by insisting that billions more be included.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. –Nev.) says $6.9 billion is needed for FEMA and other flooding and earthquake disaster spending, while Republicans are holding the line at $3.6 billion, which they would pay for by cutting government funding to new green automobiles.
The Democrats don’t want to pay for the additional $6.9 billion, which they say should be added to the deficit.
“We’re not going to cave on this,” Reid said.
So while House Republicans today plan on passing the continuing resolution and hoped to skip town Thursday then recess next week through Rosh Hashanah, they may get stuck here trying to keep the government operating if the Senate tries to add the additional spending.
— Audrey Hudson
September 21st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
After a day-long hearing Monday in Atlanta, the Georgia State Board of Pardons of Paroles yesterday denied clemency to Troy Anthony Davis, in the face of a million cries of #TooMuchDoubt. Troy is scheduled to be executed Wednesday September 21, at 7 p.m.
On the Friday before the hearing — the Global Day of Solidarity — more than 3,000 people marched in Atlanta calling for justice for Troy. Roughly 1 million people have contacted the parole board directly to urge clemency. We were all ignored.
During the hearing, I attended an all-day vigil outside the parole board with dozens of activists from around Georgia and the United States. At the top of every hour, the group stood together in a circle to pray.
Eleven times we prayed for Troy Davis, his family, the family of officer Mark MacPhail, and, most of all, the members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Clergy from a half-dozen different religious traditions and activists from all philosophical stripes came together with one simple message: executing Troy Davis is wrong.
September 21st, 2011 at 12:07 pm
They spoke about the ongoing corruption of the Chatham County District Attorney’s Office, which was responsible for many other suspect death sentences in which race and misconduct by law enforcement were the norm.
They spoke about the injustice of the death penalty and the misuse of the state’s power to take a life. But most of all they spoke about Troy’s commitment to the truth and their conviction that we cannot stand by while his execution takes place.
September 21st, 2011 at 12:10 pm
“This case represents all that’s wrong with the death penalty in Georgia,” she said. “There’s just so much doubt… It’s very hard for me to believe they wouldn’t grant clemency.”
September 21st, 2011 at 12:11 pm
“Well, it is a police killing, and there is a reluctance in the entire justice apparatus not to admit such a big mistake has been made. Also, the Board is made up of a former DOC commissioner, a former cop, a former DA, a former Department of Juvenile Justice director and a former Republican state legislator. It’s a tough crowd.”
September 21st, 2011 at 12:12 pm
This morning, Brian Kammer, one of Davis’ defense attorneys, filed an appeal in Superior Court in Butts County, Ga. The county is the home of the state’s death row.
The appeal filing provides a solid overview of the issues in the case from the “discredited” firearms examiner to the jailhouse snitch who would later recant his testimony.
Kammer wrote:
“One of the state’s key claims at trial was that the same gun used to shoot Officer MacPhail was also used in the first of two shootings earlier that evening in another neighborhood known as Cloverdale–and that this ‘fact’ implicates Mr. Davis — has now been called into serious doubt.
The state attempted to link the two crimes based on ‘expert’ findings. The state had a ballistics examiner, Roger Parian, testify that there was enough similarities between a bullet fired in Cloverdale and a bullet removed from the officer’s body that the bullets may have been fired from the same gun…
The state’s ‘same gun’ theory is no longer viable. A new report prepared by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation years later at the request of the Board of Pardons and Paroles showed that the markings on the two bullets are insufficient to determine that they were fired from the same gun. Former Georgia Bureau of Investigation firearms examiner Christopher Robinson confirms that the 2007 GBI reports show that the state’s ‘same gun’ testimony at trial was ‘inaccurate and misleading.’
and that the 2007 GBI report ‘indicates that it is impossible to tell whether the bullets were fired from the same firearm.”
In a subsequent section, Kammer also pointed out the lead detective admitted that a key witness never identified Davis as the shooter of Officer MacPhail.
September 21st, 2011 at 12:25 pm
White america figure they have the numbers so they can get away with anything. Their day will come.
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Davis has been on death row since 1991, convicted of the 1989 murder of a police officer. But pervasive questions about his innocence have plagued the case.
Davis was convicted almost solely on eyewitness evidence, and seven of the nine witnesses who testified against him have recanted their testimony.
There is no physical evidence tying Davis to the crime, and another man has even confessed to the killing.
Nevertheless, after years of appeals and several stays of execution, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles upheld Davis’ conviction, and he is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Wednesday night.
On Tuesday night, the New York Times’ editorial board condemned the decision, and detailed a long list of serious doubts that surround the guilty sentence.
The Times noted that supporters and opponents of the death penalty have both called for a stay of execution based on these doubts.
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Now you understand why white politicians push state’s rights so hard. On a federal level Troy’s constitutional rights would prevent this travesty.
Rodrigues
September 21st, 2011 at 1:20 pm
In North Carolina last week, he illustrated vividly the difference between Obama and Reagan and the difference between the Obama program and the Contract with America.
In a moment of excitement, President Obama slipped and revealed just how Obama-centric his plan is.
When a student from the crowd yelled “I love you,” the President apparently couldn’t help himself. He responded, “But if you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill!”
This is a very odd argument.
Speaker John Boehner and the House Republicans clearly don’t love President Obama. If support for the bill is supposed to be a display of affection for the president, the bill is clearly dead on arrival.
In any event, the fact that the president tied himself to the bill politically is not a reason for Americans to support it.
The purpose of a jobs bill should be to give that student a better chance to get a job. The student should support such a bill from enlightened self interest—because she believes it will actually help her and her classmates get jobs.
The aim of self-government is not to be a venue to express love for the president. The aim of self-government is to propose a program which can bring Americans together to get something good for the country.
President Obama’s personal lovability shouldn’t enter into this pricey equation. The central focus should be what’s right for America, not what’s good for Obama.
As President Clinton noted on Sunday talk shows this week, we were able to work together through divided government to balance the budget, reform welfare, cut taxes and bring unemployment down to 4.2 percent.
It took real maturity and discipline, and a focus on doing what was best for America, to get a Republican Congress and a Democratic President to do that much despite divided government.
In that very revealing slip, President Obama gave us a better understanding of why he has been so incompetent at getting things done in a new period of divided government.
“We” can get a lot done under our Constitution. “Me” can’t get anything done.
Your Friend,
Newt
P.S. Ellis and Sweet Land of Liberty arrive on Monday, September 26! Be sure to tune in to Callista on Hannity.
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This is typical republican tactics when the subject is unarguable. Their tactic is to attack the person rather than the idea he is proposing.
Here rather than debate the merits of the Job bill they debate the word love. As if the job bill is bout whether one loves Obama or not.
These tactics work because the rank and file is so used to being fed cute words and expressions they can march with that any ludicrous premise will do.
Of course the racists among them don’t care as long as it is anti Obama.
Robert
September 21st, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I agree with you Robert. My husband the pushy republican is so hopped up on screaming that Obama is trying to start a class warfare.
If I hear “class warfare” out of his mouth one more time, I will scream. He doesn’t know what the term really means. Together our take home may be $80,000 after taxes. We pay way more taxes than our bosses.
President Obama is only proposing a budget plan based around the simple idea that the super-rich shouldn’t pay a lower tax rate than the middle class.
We, are that middle class my stupid husband is fighting to keep paying more taxes than his boss. Michelle, white men with tiny dicks are so stupid. And that makes my husband a legal idiot.
Meloni
September 21st, 2011 at 8:22 pm
It’s a sad day for Justice. And to be OTW in Georgia.
I wonder if this State sanctioned murder will finally be the catalyst to much needed change?
They killed him.
RIP Troy Davis – may it not be in vain
/SB
September 21st, 2011 at 8:51 pm
I am a black person who lives in Tennessee. The new rules are you have to have your picture on your driver’s license to vote.
They claimed you wouldn’t have to pay for the picture but you do. Most of the whites in this country are only concerned about the privileges they get for being white.
They are not the friend of the OTW
Kelly
September 21st, 2011 at 8:55 pm
I just can’t believe ths! Devastating news that the US Supreme Court allowed the execution of #Troy Davis.
September 21st, 2011 at 8:59 pm
CALCIUM + VITAMIN D DECREASED MELANOMA RISK
If you’ve had a basal or squamous cell skin cancer removed, as so many people have, you know all about the anxiety that experience leaves you with.
Will it come back? Will you get more of them? Or, worst of all, does this mean you are likely to get the far more serious and worrisome melanoma?
HERE’S THE TRUTH
Sadly, yes, people who have had basal or squamous cell skin cancers are statistically more likely to later develop the deadly skin cancer melanoma than those who haven’t had any skin cancers.
In fact, a history of any kind of cancer ups your statistical risk for having another — but research suggests that this is especially so with skin cancer.
Now comes the good news. A group of researchers at Stanford University’s School of Medicine has found evidence that taking calcium and vitamin D supplements significantly cuts the risk of developing melanoma in a group of women who had previously had nonmelanoma skin cancers.
RESEARCH RESULTS
The researchers learned this by analyzing a large pool of data from the 15-year Women’s Health Initiative — 36,000 women, ages 50 to 79, were followed for an average of seven years.
While the study was initiated to investigate the effects of calcium and vitamin D on hip fractures and colorectal cancers, researchers also looked at whether these supplements affect risk for melanoma — and wow, were the researchers surprised by how helpful they are!
Half the women in the study took a daily supplement containing 1,000 mg of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D, while the other half took a placebo pill.
Findings: Those who took calcium and vitamin D were half as likely to develop melanoma subsequent to their other skin cancers.
Surprisingly, the researchers also learned that this protective effect helped only those who had had previous skin cancers. Calcium and vitamin D had no apparent effect on melanoma risk in those who had been skin-cancer free.
On the downside, there was a higher incidence of kidney stones among the calcium/vitamin D takers… and emerging research now suggests that very high levels of supplemental vitamin D may encourage certain skin cancers, so none of us should start gulping vitamin D without speaking to a doctor first.
The results were published online in the June 27, 2011 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology.
WHAT’S UP HERE?
As noted by lead researcher Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, lots of questions remain.
For one thing, men weren’t included in the Women’s Health Initiative, so it’s unclear whether they would derive the same benefit from taking the calcium and vitamin D combo.
It’s also not known whether natural sources of vitamin D (such as sunshine) and calcium (such as from leafy greens and dairy) would have the same effect as the supplements.
Dr. Tang’s advice: If you have had basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer… and spend your time indoors for the most part… and/or are a postmenopausal woman (since many are considering calcium supplementation anyway to protect against bone loss), you might discuss a low-dose calcium and vitamin D supplement with your health-care provider.
She mentioned also that her team continues to study this issue — focusing particularly on the potential relationship between vitamin D and cancer prevention — with a study that will compare blood levels of vitamin D with the incidence of melanomas.
She invited Daily Health News readers to participate by contacting her through http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jean_Tang.
Source(s):
Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, California.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Your point was well demonstrated today Robert. While the white man can spend his time in the rabbit hole, the OTW must spend his trying to escape legal murder by the State. Troy Davis didn’t make it. The State of Georgia murdered him.
Maybe some of the more less thick headed of your readers Michelle will understand Robert’s point. Who the fuck cares which white boy controls all the money? OTWs have all they can handle trying to keep the white boy from murdering him.
From the OTW’S point of view, his life is worth more that the white’s boy’s power, and money struggle.
Joyce
September 21st, 2011 at 9:57 pm
These are the countries that still have the death penalty.
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Countries that carried out executions in 2009: Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordon, Kuwait, Libya, North Korea, Malaysia, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vietnam and Yemen.
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All are muslim countries except the US. Do you hear the right complaining about that? No they are complaining that Obama is trying to make them act like muslim countries.
Lucy
September 21st, 2011 at 10:08 pm
The supreme court has refused to block the execution of Troy Davis :
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
September 21st, 2011 at 10:13 pm
This case is just another reason why the death penalty should not be allowed. Why would any state even consider executing someone where so much doubt about their guilt exists?
If the system is set up so that a convicted person must prove their innocence beyond doubt when the prosecution used coerced testimony to convict in the first place, then the system is wrong.
Why is there not an investigation and consequences for those who did the coercing? Regardless of how this case turns out, some folks ought to go to jail for what they did. My heart goes out to the families of MacPhail and Davis because none of them deserves what is happening.
September 21st, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Good post! I agree.
Who’s going to look at the police that intimidated those witnesses, and the line up guy that did what he did with the photos. Someone should be accountable for that.
September 22nd, 2011 at 7:08 am
Not to change the subject, but I will…this line ran across the newscreen today and yet no commentary: Tradition forces Indian girls into prostitution. And guess who’s OK with that tradition, yes, that’d be the Indian MEN. Seriously, all men should have to spend just one week as a girl/woman (and as an OTW) shit would change fast…
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21/tradition-forces-daughters-into-prostitution/
‘…Often, young girls are pushed into the sex business by their own fathers and brothers. The men see nothing wrong with it.’
- ZL
September 22nd, 2011 at 7:43 am
Hafa adai:
Someone on this blog once said What OTW in their right mind would vote for a republican? That brings me to all the shit for brains Guamanians on this island that supported the Republican candidate for President, John McCain.
When that lying sack of shit was running for President he was all for helping the military and Guam’s infrastructure to support their coming to the island.
But now that Obama is the President, he does everything he can to prevent Obama from accomplishing anything worthwhile for the country.
If that means sticking to the military personal, Guam’s citizens, and the American economy, that’s just fine with him and his party.
It’s like that “bought and paid for”(Yes, Robert I’m a fan) STARK, bunch on the Supreme Court who said they realize that taking away the right of citizens who have been scammed of $30 each by a corporation is bad, but they had to do it because it is worst to allow the victims to ban together in a class action to sue get it back.
So if the victims want their $30 back they have to hire an attorney individually and take the corporation to court. They even had the gall to admit that they were aware that no one will do that because it cost more than $30 to hire a lawyer.
So this bunch of crooks, rewrote a law from their judicial bench to enable another bunch of crooks to rob the American people. Now that is the republican way? Please somebody tell me why you would vote for this bunch of crooks?
Everyone of those STARKS were republican appointees. Once again I repeat what OTW in their right mind would vote for a republican? I can understand the racism factor that motivates white americans, but what the hell is happening to the OTW that makes him ever consider voting for those thieves, liars, and hypocrites?
Okay that was my rant. Here’s why.
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Guam – Guam military buildup committee chairwoman Senator Judi Guthertz says U.S. Senator John McCain’s remarks on the Guam military buildup are “irresponsible and suggest his memory is failing.”
Senator Guthertz says that Senator McCain’s remarks that ridicule elements of the buildup that would benefit Guam’s civilian community suggest that he has “forgotten many promises that were made to pave the way for the buildup.” She points out that his outrage over the cultural repository was part of DOD’s mitigation for destruction of cultural sites for a firing range complex at the ancient Pagat village.
“I believe that his staff is not giving him good information and i would like to invite Senator McCain to come to Guam and meet with the people of Guam and meet with the leadership of Guam to discuss any concerns that he has,” said Senator Guthertz.
Guthertz further stated that McCain’s remarks show that he is either unconcerned or has forgotten about the international agreements and defense needs that led to the Guam military buildup.
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First yes, McCain and the rest of that republican ilk are UNCONCERNED. They are only concerned about winning political seats in government so they can get rich taking bribes from the super rich.
Therefore they will gut any program that Obama proposes that they feel has a chance of helping the American people or the American economy recover.
I’m done here.
Peter
September 22nd, 2011 at 7:52 am
Thank You Zen Lill for bringing up this subject. Once again we see men using religion to enslave women.
“They say it is a tradition that has been passed down through generations. It began with the devdasi culture (devdasi means servant of God).
Under the devdasi system, girls were dedicated to a life of sex work in the name of religion.
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It says how low a man will stoop to satisfy his sexual urges. Men force THEIR younger daughters in to prostitution so they can have their way with other men’s young daughters.
Michelle, I say send Madaline to kill them all. I do mean the ALL!
Achala
September 22nd, 2011 at 8:20 am
Ruth,
A very sad lyric indeed, and Billie Holiday knows just how to bring those words to life…the words are as true today as they ever have been. It is a sad day for Amerika to watch how the Supreme Court can simply turn their back on justice so blatantly in front of all to see, and Troy Davis is murdered by the state. It is so easy to find the irony in the arrogance of this western society that feels that it is more civilized than others…