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Is it me or is Fox playing games to get their stories (propaganda) to the top of the Google news page?

I was looking at Google news a few minutes age and a Fox story about how "the Bush Doctrine" was working in Iran was at the top of the Iran coverage. 

Call me crazy but with all the Iran news out there I just don't understand how such a story could make it to the top of the top stories on Google without some type of shenanigans.

 

 

 

 

 

Republicans don't trust us Americans to make the right decision if we are given the option to choose to spend our money on a public health insurance option Vs private insurance.  They claim that if given the choice the American people will choose the public option and this will lead to all sorts of evil such as rationing of health care and bureaucrats making life and death decisions. 

 

This from the party who in regards to corporate & financial regulation and taxes on the rich and powerful, has said, "We trust the American people" to make the best decisions of what to do with their money.  I suppose, in reality, the Republicans only trust the corporations, rich and powerful to make good decisions (such as tanking our economy).  But when it comes to individual choice the Republicans just don't trust us Americans.

 

To all the Republicans out there I ask that you trust American individuals to make the right decision if given the public insurance option.  What's the worst that could happen?  We choose public insurance and it doesn't work out, then we have to change our minds and buy back into private insurance.  What's the best that could happen?  We each save thousands a year on our health insurance.    

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IN GOOD TIMES

Democrat:  Increase the minimum wage, increase wages for increases in productivity, reduce taxes on the poor and middle class, increase long term investments in education, renewable energy and infrastructure and cut down on the national debt.  Reggulate the markets to ensure stability.  Share the wealth.

Republican:  Concentrate the wealth at the top, keep the minimum wage fixed, keep all profits from increases in productivity in the hands of CEOs and shareholders, reduce taxes on the wealthy, cut back or block long term investments in education, renewable energy and infrastructure and increase the national debt.  Deregulate the markets.  The rich get richer and the poor and middle class gets whatever trickles down.

IN BAD TIMES

Democrats:  Stabilize the economy with bailouts where needed to prevent economic breakdown.  Help those most in need of assistance, prioritize federal expenditures to areas that aid the lower and middle classes, invest inareas that will help create jobs and benifit in the long run such as education, renewable energy and infrastructure.  Examine the causes of the of the market failures to identify where oversight and regulation was insufficient to prevent the problems and create changes to prevent recurrence.  Ask those fortunate enough to be able to afford it to pay more.

Republican:  Stabilize the economy with bailouts where needed to help the rich and to prevent economic breakdown to get democrat support.  Help those who stand to loose millions with additional tax cuts while telling those at the bottom they should have been more responsible.  Cut back or block long term investments in education, renewable energy and infrastructure.  Share the pain.

PUT IN ANOTHER WAY

In good times democratcs are for well regulated capitalism seeking fairness in the distribution of the wealth created while useing taxpayer for long term investments that benifit all.  Republicans are strict free market capitalists wherein the wealthy get wealthier and the use of taxes for the greater good is socialist, evil.

In bad times republicans suddenly turn into socialists and demand that the government use taxpayer funds for bailouts in the name of the greater good.

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Why does McSame want a commision to study the financial crises?  To delay the investigation untill after the election and hide the fact that McSame, Bush, Phill Gramm and the the republicans are directly responsible for it.

These people wiped out the depression era regulations that would have prevented this mess, they caused the crises.  So the last thing they want is a quick investigation.

Here's the proof http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html and here http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/16/EDKB12VBBP.DTL and here http://www.metrowestfyi.com/story_display.php?sid=10550 and here http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/09/ED7R12R6CA.DTL and here http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/15/mccain-econ-team/ and, well you can google news search the issue as well as I can.

Point is McSame, the Republicans and their policies caused this mess and are now trying to dodge responsibility.

McCain is out there with a new lie claiming that the "1930's" era regulations allowed or led to the current financial crises. 

The truth: McCain's and republican's deregulation policies wiped out the 1930's regulations that would have prevented the crises.  Not only did the deregulation stop the feds from preventing this mess it also prohibited the states from their prior role in regulating the same.  Fact is if we want to fix the system so it can't happen again all that has to be done is to undo the McSame-Republican changes and return to the "1930's" regulations.

Wait, it gets better.  Turns out that the deregulation legislation was product of the banks and their lobbyists and snuck into an 11'th hour omnibus spending bill by Phill Gramm who later went to work for the very same lobbyists. 

Listen to the full facts about how Phill Gramm, McCain's economic brain and archetect of his economic policy, snuck the deregulation into an omnibus spending bill @ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89338743 it's well worth the time if you need to understand how we got into this mess.  And you need to.

According to Bloomberg news http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYdZoyTvFrTc&refer=home Sarah Palin raised taxes on all of America and uses the $Billions to provide tax rebates for Alaskans. 

Each Alaskan now gets a $2,100 check from the taxes Palin raiesd on the rest of us.  This gives her the popularity  that only money can buy. 

Palin did this by using what is essentially a national tax on Alaskan oil, with all revenue going to Alasks no strings attached.  When national taxes are directed to a state isn't that an earmark?  If it is and it never even made it's way through the normal earmark process isn't it a stolen earmark?