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Last week, there was a lot of discussion on the GOP budget, a budget that increases in military spending and cuts essential programs needed for low-income people, the elderly and children. However, with all the discussion about the budget, there was no discussion about what is in the budget, which the media failed at doing, stated by Senator Bernie Sanders […]
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In a summit speaking to a large conservative base, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stated, “if I can take on a labor unions, I can take on ISIS”. Well, it seems that Scott Walker cannot take on Wisconsin, his state is ranked 38th in jobs creation, according to JSonline, “Wisconsin continued to trail the national rate of job creation, since July […]
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In the past 5 years there have been 395 voting laws passed making it harder for people to register to vote or just to vote. In the 2012 elections, there were 19 voting laws passed restricting the right to vote and in 2013 the Supreme Court removed section 5 of the voting rights act, that can allow states to pass […]
Read moreGOP BUDGET: Cut programs for the poor-major cuts in Medicaid, food stamps, and Pell Grant for college students from poor families; Cuts federal aid to education, we are already have fragmented education system that is getting worse. Making Medicare into a voucher system. Attempting to repeals Obamacare for the 57th time, which providing health insurance to 16.4 million people who […]
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We hear the GOP argue how raising the minimum wage on the wealthy will become job killers, how “job creators” and will leave the state. Fortunately, the GOP and other right-wingers have been proven wrong; Mark Dayton, the Governor of Minnesota has increased the minimum wage to $9.50, brought unemployment down to 3.6%, the lowest in the nation and the […]
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Last week, news broke out that Wal-Mart will be raising their minimum wage to $10 an hour. This week TJX, the parent store to Marshalls and Home Goods will also raise their minimum wage to $10 an hour for their workers in June of this year. It has been 2 years since workers from fast food restaurants went on strike […]
Read moreUtterly Disbelief is not to call what the 47 traitors of America did; this letter to another country undermining the President puts the country in danger and makes the country look bad. Furthermore, based on the constitution it is the executive branch that has authority in FOREIGN POLICY matters not CONGRESS, therefore if I was Iran, I would reject this […]
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“WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE FOR NOT VOTING? HOW DO WE CASUALLY DISCARD THE RIGHT TO VOTE WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE FOUGHT FOR? These are quotes from President Obama speech in Selma on Saturday, marking the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday March in 1965. 50 years ago, people such as John Lewis, Andrew Young, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams and many […]
Read moreFirst, Netanyahu gives a speech on why the U.S. should consider a preemptive attack on Iran for nuclear weapons, today, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister mentions that there should be a U.S.led coalition against ISIS. It seems to me that Israel and Saudi Arabia wants the U.S. to go to war, for them, which raises the question, what is the real […]
Read moreWell, the GOP has failed to illustrate that they can lead and get anything done. Last week, the funding for DHS (Department of Homeland Security) was at risk because the legislation failed to pass with the revoking of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, which the GOP put into the legislation. Today, with Speaker Boehner has to pass a “clean […]
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