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Thursday, September 17, 2015

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More Than Half Of Jeb Bush's Proposed Tax Cuts Would Benefit The Top 1 Percent: Report

More than half of the tax cuts proposed in former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's (R) tax plan would flow to America's wealthiest citizens, according to a report released by...

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Conservative Leader Stephen Harper Monday defended federal departments for holding on to billions of dollars last year. The unspent money was instead returned to the federal treasury, and played a ...

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Donald Trump is the mirror image of Bernie Sanders. While Bernie never speaks ill of his rivals, never finds scapegoats, remains utterly modest, and explains why his policies for changing America are important, Trump does the opposite: He condemns his rivals, blames America’s problems on immigrants, revels in narcissism, and explains nothing.

Yesterday Trump brought his roadshow to Dallas, delivering his typical searing indictment of his opponents and of Washington. He assailed Jeb Bush, whose mention inspired raucous boos, and Hillary Clinton, who attracted an even louder chorus. “Well, Jeb’s more popular than one person,” Mr. Trump said.

Then came the scapegoating: “Many of these gang members are illegal immigrants. They’re rough dudes,” he said to swelling cheers, adding that they would not remain in the country long on his watch. Then the egomania: He appraised himself as an unrivaled builder, a self-funder unencumbered by political “blood money” and an all-around winner of the highest order. Then the promises without explanation:
He vowed to improve America’s standing in the world, citing his experience as a negotiator, and repeated a call to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, though the details of this endeavor remained murky.

Bernie appeals to the best in America; Trump, to the worst. Both are surging in the polls. Will the 2016 election pit our best against our worst?

Robert Reich

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Hypocrisy? Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has been a hawk on Iran – criticizing Obama for his willingness to relax economic sanctions, claiming the sanctions are “unraveling fast” which she terms a “dangerous development,” warning that Europe is rushing to open the Iranian economy, and accusing Iran of cheating on the sanctions.

Yet when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard (according to today's Bloomberg News), the company circumvented strict export sanctions onIran (imposed by Bill Clinton in 1995) by selling hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of products to Iran through a European subsidiary and a Middle Eastern distributor – allowing HP to obtain 41 percent of the Iranian market for printers by 2007. HP’s general manager for the Middle East was quoted as saying, "Iran is a big market for Hewlett-Packard printers.” Moreover, during her tenure at HP, the corporation’s in-house lobbyists pressed Congress to relax economic sanctions, presumably so HP could sell even more to Iran.

Running a business is different from running for president. But if you’re making your business experience the cornerstone of your argument for why you should be president, some consistency might be expected.

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His "business leaders" should compete for workers by raising pay and benefits. Surly these great "business leaders" of his can pay so much better then food stamps that people will flock to take the high paying jobs they create.

Oh, that's right. The "business leaders" at walfart and such want to pay us shit wages and then have us subsidized by food stamps so the "business leaders" make much higher profits.

Let's throw mitch in a ditch, add his "business leaders" and then pitch the Molotovs in after the fuckers!

Burn the mitch, BURN the mitch...