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Posted on Jul 24, 2011
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On this week’s “Left, Right & Center”: Getting too close to the debt deadline, Greek insolvency and what’s with these credit rating companies throwing their weight around?

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By Ralph Kramden, July 29, 2011 at 4:38 pm Link to this comment
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Isn’t it grand, entitlements are those programs that help the masses. Corporate entitlements are never mentioned. Welfare only refers to the poor never the corporations. Matt Miller is no centrist, he is to the left of Tony Blankley but that is not saying much. Recall that Blankley worked for that neo-fascist Gingrich and has repeatedly said he admires Gingrich (the Grinch that stole democracy?)Blankley says things that are really amazing. Example, he stated that Tea Partiers are not concerned with winning re-election. No, he said, they are concerned with principle. He fails to mention that the movement conservatives make sure their members, as long as they tow the party line, have a life-long very, very lucrative job. They don’t get re-elected,no problem, we will find them a job in a Koch, Coors, DeVos-financed think tank: Cato,Manhattan, Heritage and scores of others, or as a lobbysts. The well-financed movement conservatives will run another ruling-class apparatchick in their place. The only principle these leeches respect is their own pocket book. I suggest that these Republicans are anti-USA in that they represent the interests of the privilaged few against those of the 90% of our citizens, the ones who put their money in their pockets the hard way.The entitlements to the very rich and the corporations? When will they ever enter into the horizon of a Blankley or a Miller? Corporations actually get a tax break for shipping jobs overseas. Corporations are allowed to open offices in the Cayman islands and thus evade paying taxes, Fed X does it. The Pentagon? No mention of them. Dividends and capital gains are not taxed as income? Are you kidding me? Tax hedge funds the proper way. Tax on financial transactions. “There’s a class warfare, all right,” Warren Buffett told The New York Times two years before the 2008 crash, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” A quote from a man who requires a pledge of allegiance from his Republican stable, Grover Norquist:“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” Norquist again: bring back America ( I think he means the USA)” to the McKinley era, absent protectionism” to the way America was “up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over, the income tax, the death tax, regulation,all that.” What does it take for the masses to understand that this is another Mein Kampf? Not accussing them of being Nazis, just telling us what they intend to do. There was an addage in Europe :“The communists lied about communism but they told the truth about capitalism.”

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By Napolean DoneHisPart, July 26, 2011 at 12:32 pm Link to this comment

Who cares about created debt money?  It can all be written down and forgiven anyway, what a smoke screen.

Where is the Murdoch article and the findings on how that journalist was murdered, I mean, found dead with no evidence of foul play.

Scheer, stop being a shill and write about what is really important, like the transition of America to Amerika.

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