Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 24th, 2011
Good morning!
Just the fact alone that Elizabeth Warren is running against Scott Brown, and is in the lead for the Senate seat in Massachusetts, let me remind you, is reason enough to pin her with the badge of ”Wonderful Woman Of The World”.
Here’s another reason:
Elizabeth Warren Blasts GOP ‘Class Warfare’ Charge, Tax Cuts For The Rich (VIDEO)
Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts and former White House financial reform adviser, blasted Republicans at an appearance In Andover last month for accusing Democrats of engaging in “class warfare.”
“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,’” Warren said. “No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.”
Republican lawmakers have criticized President Barack Obama in recent weeks for engaging in “class warfare.” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) argued in an op-ed last month that the president was “anti-business, hyper-regulatory [and] pro-tax” and “fueled by efforts to incite class warfare.”
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a similarcriticism after Obama unveiled his new deficit reduction plan this month, which features a proposed tax on millionaires, saying “Class warfare isn’t leadership.”
In Andover, Warren went on to discuss the “social contract” and how it benefits everyone:
“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
Democrats have fought back against the “class warfare” charges by drawing attention to the dramatic cuts that Republicans have proposed to programs benefiting low- and middle-income Americans.
Obama disputed the claim during a speech on Monday, saying his newest plan “is not class warfare. It’s math.”
Warren — who formally entered the Senate race less than two weeks ago — currently has a slight edge over her competitor, Republican Scott Brown, according to a recent poll by the Democratic-affiliated firm Public Policy Polling.
Her comments were captured on video and posted to YouTube by an individual who claims not to be involved with Warren’s campaign, according to Talking Points Memo.
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September 24th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Love it/her and by the way, It’s Jim Hensen’s 75th b’day, type in google and click on each muppet left to right, it’s adorable : ) have a great weekend, I’m outta here…I got rabble to rouse ; ) Luv, Zen Lill
September 25th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Michelle,
I tried to get in to say that Class-war fare is a ruse for the republicans to get out of answering the question of why they support such high tax deductions for the rich.
September 25th, 2011 at 10:28 am
I make less that $100,000 a year. Why am I paying more taxes than someone making 10 times what I make. More importantly, I resent the republicans using the term class war fare in an attempt to silence my anger at that situation.
James
September 25th, 2011 at 10:31 am
I own several small business franchises in the Boston area. I pay my fair share of taxes. I take home about $800 thousand net. I can see the government asking me for more taxes, but only if the big corporations have to kick in a whole lot more.
Peter
September 25th, 2011 at 11:11 am
CAN YOU CHANGE YOUR DNA IN 42 MINUTES?
What if I told you that in less time than you think, you can do something incredibly simple that will extend your life?
We think our DNA is set for life, but it’s not. It shrinks over time and makes us age. Now researchers at the University of California at San Francisco believe that you actually can change and improve your DNA, which could, in turn, extend your life!
Though they don’t fully understand the mechanism, they know that tiny pieces of DNA called telomeres protect us by helping to keep chromosomes intact.
Stress causes those oh-so-important telomeres to shorten, and the shorter they become, the more quickly our cells age and the more susceptible we are to everything from cancer to heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis — and early mortality. How’s that for a list to avoid?
I got in touch with the lead author of the study, Eli Puterman, PhD, a health psychologist at the University of California at San Francisco, and he confirmed that yes, there is increasing evidence that stress is shrinking our DNA, which in turn shortens our lives.
In fact, his recent study looked at 63 postmenopausal women, some of whom were carrying significant psychological burdens as the result of having to care for parents or spouses with dementia.
But here’s the key: The women were divided into two groups — those who exercised daily and those who didn’t.
Even those in the study who exercised for as little as 42 minutes over three days were protected from the effects of stress on the length of telomeres in their cells.
“Those 42 minutes of vigorous exercise appear to be a critical amount for protection,” researchers reported.
The study was published in the May 26, 2010, issue of PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed publication of the Public Library of Science.
When I asked Dr. Puterman for his definition of vigorous exercise, he said, “It’s usually defined as activity that causes you to breathe hard and fast and sweat while your heart rate rises.
While you’re performing vigorous exercise, you won’t be able to speak more than a few words without pausing for breath.”
OUTSMARTING STRESS
Stress abounds these days. As the economy limps along, grown kids, unemployed or underemployed, have moved back in with parents… adults find themselves taking care of their children and their ailing parents at the same time… wars are multiplying.
Worry seems to be everywhere. But what Dr. Puterman is telling us is that by getting up on our feet for less than one hour and a half a week and getting our bodies moving at a fairly good pace, we’ll have gone a long way toward relieving the harm that all that worry does to our health.
Does vigorous exercise have the same effect on men and on younger people of either gender? It almost certainly does, Dr. Puterman told me, adding that this will be the subject of further studies.
For one thing, he said, researchers want to find out whether exercising helps young adults build up extra amounts of the enzyme telomerase that rebuilds and lengthens telomeres so that it could be stored by the body and used in the future.
My advice: While researchers continue their studies, lace up your sneakers, grab a windbreaker, get yourself moving — and protect that DNA!
Source(s):
Eli Puterman, PhD, health psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Health and Community of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.
September 25th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Michelle, I think we should ask every republican candidate why they think asking the wealthiest of us to pay their fair share is called class warfare rather that what’s fair for all the classes?
Laura