Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin was elected in 2010 as a stealth Tea Party loon running as a moderate. The people of Wisconsin soon learned as he and his compliant legislature handed out huge tax breaks to corporations while assaulting public unions as a guise to dealing with an essentially fake budget crisis.
A war of sorts broke out, with Walker claiming public school teachers (starting salary in Wisconsin $20,000 a year) were essentially greedy and lazy parasites. Walker won the initial battle but then had to deal with a recall effort against some of his state senators that ended one close victory from him losing power in the state senate.
Undeterred he's soldiered on, predicting success for his great job creating policies. He's now facing a potential recall election next year and it's going swimmingly, that is if you loathe Walker. Something like 600,000 signatures for recall are needed. The recall has aout 2 months to reach that number to trigger the election. They have about half the total in two weeks.
While touting his 'soon to be evident' economic miracle h's been hammering away at neighbor Illinois' policies which are basically doing the exact opposite of Walker.
Bad move. The numbers are just out for state-by-state job creation for October. Walker is going to learn a bitter lesson about what you say these days as a politician. Everything is recorded and he's used the Illinois comparison enough times to create a DVD feature's worth of highlights.
Oh, yes those pesky job creation numbers. Illinois created 30,000 private sector jobs leading the nation. Wisconsin...not so good. It leads the nation..in jobs lost, about 9,700 in October. The state lost jobs in September, August and July. In fact the state has been shedding jobs since Walker's 'reforms' kicked in.
Elections are funny and unpredictable things, but Scott Walker will be out of a job next year. He's even created the opposition ad campaign all by himself.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Nothing evokes the spirit of Christmas quite like...........
a machine gun wielding kid posing with Santa.
From the Scottsdale, Arizona Gun Club. "Santa's back with his bag of goodies". "Blam, Blam, Blam, have a Merry Christmas, motherfuckers". Granny better not give me another sweater with reindeers.
From the Scottsdale, Arizona Gun Club. "Santa's back with his bag of goodies". "Blam, Blam, Blam, have a Merry Christmas, motherfuckers". Granny better not give me another sweater with reindeers.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Rick Perry joins the voter suppression brigade....unintentionally
Republicans always want to stop likely Democrats from voting. They do this by passing voter ID laws making it much harder for some to vote chasing phantom voter fraud, often alleged but rarely proved. Close to the election they send out mailers to minority areas with confusing information. They do the same with phone calls. Democrats, on the othe hand try to register as many new voters as possible.
Rick Perry tried the 'confuse a voter' ruse, unfortunately he chose to try it on his own supporters.
Rick Perry tried the 'confuse a voter' ruse, unfortunately he chose to try it on his own supporters.
Banks likely foreclosed on 5,000 members of the military illegally
Nothing to see here. Just business as usual.
Why am I not surprised? Will they be punished? Probably not.
Why am I not surprised? Will they be punished? Probably not.
Maassive crimes that go unpunished
Rampant fraud among mortgage services continues unabated and unpunished. Why follow the law when not following the law increases profits with no consequence.
From Naked Capitalism, a blog worth reading if you're interested in the truth about the economy and the causes and results of the meltdown.
From Naked Capitalism, a blog worth reading if you're interested in the truth about the economy and the causes and results of the meltdown.
And what happens when this kind of fraud goes unprosecuted? It continues, even today. The same banks that ran the corrupt home mortgage securitization chain are now committing rampant fraud in the foreclosure crisis. Here’s New Orleans Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Magner discussing problems at Lender Processing Services, the company that handles 80 percent of foreclosures on behalf of large banks (emphasis added):Read the whole article. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
"In Jones v. Wells Fargo, this Court discovered that a highly automated software package owned by LPS and identified as MSP administered loans for servicers and note holders but was programed to apply payments contrary to the terms of the notes and mortgages."
Creating jobs
The cornerstone of the GOP economic plan is cutting taxes for the rich, already at their lowest level since WWII even lower . "Rich people are 'job creators'" is their standard mantra as to why capital gains taxes and estate taxes should be eliminated. Never mind that about half of all capital gains taxes are paid by the top 10% of the 1%. These people got extremely rich because they didn't use their money to create jobs. They used other people's money to do that.if they created jobs at all.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney's tax plan would add another $6.6 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years and although he has refused to release his own tax records he alone would stand to pocket a couple of million extra a year from his own tax cut.
To say this idea is horseshit would be an insult to horseshit which at least can be used as fertilizer. Good luck selling that idea to the nation in its current mood.
Reagan started this bullshit idea, which has since been repudiated by David Stockman, his budget director. It took the U.S. 204 years to rack up a trillion dollars in debt. Reagan more than doubled that in 8 years adding $1.8 trillion to the debt. Bush senior added another $1.4 trillion in only 4 years.
Then in 1993 President Clinton raised taxes and the Republicans, including Newt Gingrich leading the charge lined up to predict the collapse of the economy and America as we know it. They were correct in the latter. Under Clinton 23 million jobs were created and for the first time since the 1950's his he left office creating budget surpluses.
Then along came Bush Jnr. the master of disaster who cut taxes in 2001 and 2003. It was the first time in history that a President had cut taxes while paying for war(s). Bush managed to add almost $6.7 trillion to the Federal debt. In all these five Presidential terms created 87% of America's total debt since 1776.
His job creation - not so hot. He created virtually no new jobs in 8 years.
Enough said.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney's tax plan would add another $6.6 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years and although he has refused to release his own tax records he alone would stand to pocket a couple of million extra a year from his own tax cut.
To say this idea is horseshit would be an insult to horseshit which at least can be used as fertilizer. Good luck selling that idea to the nation in its current mood.
Reagan started this bullshit idea, which has since been repudiated by David Stockman, his budget director. It took the U.S. 204 years to rack up a trillion dollars in debt. Reagan more than doubled that in 8 years adding $1.8 trillion to the debt. Bush senior added another $1.4 trillion in only 4 years.
Then in 1993 President Clinton raised taxes and the Republicans, including Newt Gingrich leading the charge lined up to predict the collapse of the economy and America as we know it. They were correct in the latter. Under Clinton 23 million jobs were created and for the first time since the 1950's his he left office creating budget surpluses.
Then along came Bush Jnr. the master of disaster who cut taxes in 2001 and 2003. It was the first time in history that a President had cut taxes while paying for war(s). Bush managed to add almost $6.7 trillion to the Federal debt. In all these five Presidential terms created 87% of America's total debt since 1776.
His job creation - not so hot. He created virtually no new jobs in 8 years.
Enough said.
How our tax dollars are spent
Here is a breakdown of how the discretionary spending in the Federal budget are spent.
Defense spending has risen from $295 billion annually to almost double in just over a decade. Part of that is the boondoggle spending on Homeland Security of almost $100 billion a year. America spends more than the rest of the world combined on defense and the Republicans want to spend even more yet they believe they can balance the budget with massive tax cuts for the rich and increased spending on the military.
Quote of the day
From retiring Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democratic Congressman on the GOP led House.
"It consists half of people who think like Michele Bachmann and half of people who are afraid of losing a primary to people who think like Michele Bachmann and that leaves very little room to work things out."
"It consists half of people who think like Michele Bachmann and half of people who are afraid of losing a primary to people who think like Michele Bachmann and that leaves very little room to work things out."
Monday, November 28, 2011
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