Emma Berry

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For eight long years Republicans and the Wall Street Corporate Centrist Democrats ran up the deficit.  The didn’t give a damn as they rubber stamped George Bush’s trillion dollar tax cuts for the upper 1% and the unfunded Military appropriations bill AND no one rubber stamped faster than the tres Amigos:  Sam Johnson, Pete Sessions and Joe Barton.  UNFUNDED MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS  and for what?  to reduce Iraq to rubble and to give their good ole boy Wall Street cronies like Halliburton fat no-bid contracts.

THE REPUBLICANS, ALWAYS A BUNCH TO TAKE HYPERBOLE TO A NEW LEVEL HAVE OUTDONE THEMSELVES.  SOME OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY CAMPAIGNING ON THE PROMISE THAT THEY WILL CUT EVEN MORE JOBS FOR AMERICANS!

LOL!  Do you believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   It’s true.

Dan Maes told the Denver Petroleum Club he would cut at least 2,000 workers “just like that” from the state budget, with projected savings of $200 million.

I’ll bet the good ole boys lapped that right up.

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Private employers added just 1,420 jobs per state in July — not nearly enough to make up for job losses in the government, 50,000 of which were local-government layoffs. Unemployment remains high, at 9.5 percent, and many economists expect it to track higher in the fall.

Jason Linkins in his article,  “First punish the unemployed, then declare war on the unemployed“  asked a very salient question:

Where are the people who would lose their jobs to go, exactly, other than off into the woods to die?

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EMMA’S COMMENT:

Sounds to me like the Republican solution for unemployment is similar to their solution for health care.  You may recall that, as Alan Grayson so eloquently pointed out for us:  The Republican health care solution is to not get sick and if you do, to die quickly.

If you work for a living, you better start paying attention to the class war.

If you work for a living and get a w-2 and vote for a Republican, a Tea Party nut or a corporate centrist Democrat when you have any other choice, you are voting against your own best interests.

When various posts are yammering on about special interests, they never mention Party as a special interest, but the fact is that BOTH the Democrat and the Republican parties represent the special interests of Wall Street.

This is not true of the progressive arm of the Democratic Party, however it is true of the current Clinton/Obama administration as well as all of the Republicans.  Most of these people are multimillionaires who vote to protect their own personal stock portfolios.

The Cinton/Obama Administration are corporate centrists and there is not enough daylight between them and a Republican to make any difference.  Only fools like Glenn Beck and those who believe his clap trap are dumb enough to not see this.

Even progressive Democrats who sign up under the party ticket are like those who sign up under the Republican ticket as well as those who are sponsored by right-wing multibillionaires who sponsor the Tea Party–all are signing up to represent rich special interests–not mainstream America.

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The Republicans and the Corporate Centrist Democrats BOTH stack the deck in favor of the rich.

IT’S OK WITH BOTH GROUPS IF THERE IS A TRANSFER OF WEALTH–AS LONG AS IT CONTINUES TO BE FROM THE POOR TO THE RICH.  BUT JUST LET ANYONE SUGGEST OTHERWISE AND LISTEN TO THESE GREEDY CREEPS SQUAWK.

Credit cards do more than drain money from your wallet — they may actually create an “implicit money transfer” from the poor to the rich, according to a new study from the Boston Federal Reserve.

The study, titled “Who Gains and Who Loses from Credit Card Payments? Theory and Calibrations”, suggests that, as card use becomes more frequent, merchants have raised their prices to compensate for card-processing charges. (Hat tip to the WSJ)

As a result, the study suggests, the poor — who usually lack access to reward-paying credit cards — end up paying more for everyday goods.

Then don’t vote for a Republican or a corporate Centrist Democrat if you can help it this fall.

VOTE FOR INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES AND WRITE INS.

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON IS TO STOP SENDING MORE OF THE SAME TO WASHINGTON.

YES THIS IS A CLASS WAR.  That is why 5% of the American population increased their wealth by 15% last year and many of the rest of us went bankrupt.

Against the backdrop of Republicans and Tea Party puppets screaming and yelling that they want Congress to retrieve even the crumbs, we have the arrogant corporate centrist Democrats telling us that we should be thankful that they sold out the American people.  I say that both groups can go to hell. – Emma

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Look at what is really behind the recent pro-Wall Street Health Care Bill [And while you remember this party, please remember that the Republicans are even worse than the corporate centrist Democrats.  The Republicans would have done nothing.  Still, I don't know about you, but I'm fed even with settling for crumbs from a cake that we paid for in the first place.]

• Incumbent Members of the U.S. House and Senate received an average of $103,250 and $508,852, respectively, in healthcare industry contributions in 2008.
• Congressional incumbents received 82 percent of the total $127 million in healthcare industry contributions in 2008, compared with 18 percent for challengers and open seat candidates combined.
• 39 out of the top 40 recipients of healthcare industry contributions in 2008 were incumbents.

David Dayen of Firedoglake points out how Blanche Lincoln is bragging in Arkansas about “her” derivatives bill without pointing out  its giant loophole that renders it worthless.  I wonder if Bill Clinton will have the nerve to stand up before the people of Arkansas and brag as if Blanche Lincoln has done anything more than try to appear as if she is for Wall Street reform.  Any Democrat, even Bill Clinton, better watch out if they want to side with the likes of Blanch Lincoln.

Blanche Lincoln has done what ALL corporate centrist Democrats do. This is their game: They pass legislation that makes it look like they are really creating reform–like Baucus, with his health care bill; Dodd with this Wall Street reform bill; Lincoln with her derivatives/reform bill–and all these bills contain at least one huge loophole to benefit the rich and Wall Street.  But in the meantime it looks as if they have passed some sweeping populist reform for the people.  These people are nothing but Wall Street shills and liars.

Corporate Centrist Democrats are no different from any Republican.  They both represent Wall Street to the exclusion of the majority of ordinary Americans. The only difference is that the corporate centrist Democrats pretend that they are doing real battle with Wall Street.  The Republicans don’t even bother to pretend.

Blanche Lincoln couldn’t even defend her derivatives bill to the Democratic caucus.  Maria Cantwell had to step in for her and bail her out.

The very night of the primary that Blanche Lincoln ran in he very night of the election, Chris Dodd filed an amendment to cancel out the strongest part of the title, Section 716, which would force the big banks which accept depositor insurance and cheap money from the Fed to spin off their lucrative swaps trading desks so that casino gambling activities aren’t subsidized by taxpayers. When it became clear that Lincoln would head to a runoff, Dodd withdrew his amendment.

These are the kinds of games that corporate centrist Democrats play on the American people.  They are no better than all the Wall Street Republicans.  They lie and leave false impressions.

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Congress and the Obama Administration are now blabbing that they will pass the derivatives bill before July 4.  Well, dur, anywhere near that date will be long after Blanche Lincoln’s June 8 primary runoff with Bill Halter.  One thing that you can bet you ass on–that bill with Sec 716 intact will NEVER be past and it certainly won’t be passed until after the June 8th runoff with Bill Halter.  Had Blanche Lincoln won the primary, Dodd would not have withdrawn his amendment to pull Sec. 716.  Now they will wait until after June 8 when the truth of Blanche Lincoln as a “Wall Street Reformer” is no longer relevant.

Everyone know that Sec 716 will get stripped out of the bill in conference.  Dodd knows what he is doing.

WATCH THE LATEST LYING POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PUT OUT BY BLANCHE LINCOLN (if you can stomach the lies). Then get mad as hell and send a few dollars to the Bill Halter campaign to defeat this Wall Street hypocrite.