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Another Reason Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Won't Work: Congress Would Say 'Nein, Nein, Nein' to Letting Go of Pork Barrel Tax Politics
Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:43 AM EDT (Forbes)
Congress would never agree to Republican presidential front runner Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan. Cain’s bold tax plan would put Congress out of its tax-wheeling-and-dealing business, as pork-barrel-tax politics are their stock-in-trade.
Senate Democrats Propose 5% Surtax on Millionaires
Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 3:26 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
The proposal would replace the range of tax deductions for wealthy people, oil companies and other businesses that the president had proposed to end to offset the cost of the job-creation initiatives in his plan. Democratic leaders said they hoped to bring the revised plan to …
Durbin Slams Bailed-Out Bank Of America Over New Debit Card Fee
Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:07 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)
"It seems that old habits die hard for Bank of America.
Defeatism : Austerian Policies Bring US to the Brink
Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:58 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Throughout modern economic history, whether in Western Europe in the 1920s, in the US and elsewhere in the 1930s, or in Japan in the 1990s, every major financial crisis-driven downturn has been followed by premature abandonment—if not reversal—of the macroeconomic s …
The 4 GOP Heresies of Chris Christie -- Sounds Like Logic to the Rest of US
Seeded on Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:52 PM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
1. Compromise is core to politics... 2. American exceptionalism isn't a natural state of being or an inheritance -- it is something to which we aspire, and we're presently falling short. 3. Americans should care what foreigners think of us. 4.
Iran To Send MIlitary Ships Near U.S. Waters
Seeded on Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:38 AM EDT (CNN)
Iran plans to send ships near the Atlantic coast of the United States, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday, quoting a commander. "The Navy of the Iranian Army will have a powerful presence near the United States borders,"
Food for Thought: Huntsman Warns GOP Contenders & Voters that Public Is NOT On Thier Side
Seeded on Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:26 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)
Trying to rally conservatives behind his trailing presidential bid, Huntsman said "this is our election to lose." "We have the economics on our side. We have the solutions on our side. We have the vision on our side," he said.
Embryonic Stem Cells: European Human Trial for Child Blindness Greenlighted
Seeded on Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:17 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London will inject cells into the eyes of 12 patients with an incurable eye disease called Stargardt's macular dystrophy, one of the main causes of blindness in young people. More Seeds :: JCAtom
Obama's Global Arc Of Instability
Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:59 AM EDT (NPR)
Last year, the Washington Post reported that the United States had deployed special operations forces in seventy-five countries, from South America to Central Asia.
House GOP Defeats Spending Bill | Shutdown Looms
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:20 PM EDT (Reuters)
The U.S. House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill that would fund the federal government past September 30 on Wednesday as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to push for deeper spending cuts. More Seeds :: JCAtom
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