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• in Politics
  Hey Mitt, I’ll see Your China Debt and Raise you an F35 Program
  The path to paying back China runs through a five sided building.
  by jimmyzuma / on Oct 4, 2012
• in Politics
  What Democrats Must Say to Win the 2012 Election
  The next election will turn on what voters believe about five issues. With a clear message, Democrats can win.
  by jimmyzuma / on Apr 21, 2011
• in Politics
  Corporations Have an Increased Presence in Politics
  Communication expenses in 2010 have already risen to over 40% more than the 2008 cycle.
  by landrnews / on Sep 6, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “corporate welfare”

 

• This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef

  
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  Michael Hiltzig took aim at the pigs who would slash food stamp funding but add to the pockets of agricorps in his latest column . As a member of Congress, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) is proud to stand up for the principles of limited government and individual responsibility. The first-term congressman ...
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• Why is socialized risk and corporate welfare so acceptable?

  
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  Despite decades of statistics demonstrating that as corporate tax rates go down unemployment and poverty rates go up and the income inequality gap widens, the myth that tax breaks are somehow good for the working class persists. The local paper demonstrates this dogmatic, ideological, dare I say faith-based belief ...
  3 days ago

• Bedside Manners for the Long Slow Death of San Onofre, a Radioactive Neighbor.

  
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   Powered by Max Banner Ads . By a Mel and Galal Kernahan of Laguna Woods;  found yesterday morning on the tables at Los Amigos;  pending permission to reprint but it LOOKED...
  5 days ago

• Conventional Fears

  
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  Let’s be honest. We all like new stuff. So I can understand why Jefferson City officials are planning a fancy new conference center . But as we have said in the past , the government is not the best suited to plan development. There are two proposals for the project; both companies have told Jeff City ...
  6 days ago

• Lee’s Summit And The Road Not Taken

  
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  The Lee’s Summit City Council voted overwhelmingly to end its consideration of Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZs). This is a good thing, and it is a credit to the members of the City Council who were intellectually supple enough to reconsider something that as recently as two months ago seemed a fait accompli . It ...
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• All your government surveillance is privatized

  
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  As I said in the previous post, were having the wrong arguments about domestic surveillance. All the chatter is about Snowden and Obama and Bush. Whats being lost in the noise is talking about the policy. The bigger scandal than the surveillance is that the surveillance is being contracted out to private corporations ...
  1 week ago

• Mike Lee, Justin Amash Introduce Legislation to Repeal Export-Import Bank

  
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  There are countless examples of cronyist policies passed by Congress. Some would point to bailouts for Wall Street and automakers, while others would remind us of the loans and subsidies for green energy companies. While these are all good examples of cronyism and corporate welfare that are frequently mentioned by ...
  1 week ago

• Still At It

  
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  (Editorial cartoon by Joel Pett / Lexington Herald-Leader (June 3, 2013) and featured at McClatchy DC .  Click on image to enlarge and then please come back.) Well, the House is up to its usual tricks, this time with a bill guaranteed to make its bankster and 1%  friends happy.  It may have cost our owners a ...
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• The REAL Reason Housing Prices Have Skyrocketed

  
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  by  WashingtonsBlog The Real Reasons for the Bubble Preface: In  Part 1 , we showed that mortgage applications are down, and it is really institutional investors driving the housing boom. Part 2 explains  why . Housing prices have boomed because: (1) Lenders are artificially keeping vacant houses off of the ...
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• Hating the Impoverished

  
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  As Christians, we are told that what we do to the least among us, we do for Christ.  The problem with this, today, is that the far, Christian right doesn’t seem to remember much about Christ.  They’re big into the whole thou shalt not thing, and damning those who really don’t need to be damned. They like the ...
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• The Establishment Strikes Back

  
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  The publisher of the Lee’s Summit Journal is not at all impressed with his neighbors’ method for objecting to government policy. In a piece titled  Attack of the EEZ , he writes of a recent public meeting about Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZs): Rules like repeating past discussion points, being respectful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Corporate welfare is not social welfare

  
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  It seems some diligent (and one assumes large) shareholder of the cigarette megacorporation Reynolds American, forced them to disclose their contributions to various 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofits . They threw slush money into Grovers Americans for Tax Reform, the Koch boys Americans for Prosperity and a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Must-read: Sen. John McCain op-ed proves U.S. taxpayers are being ripped off

  
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  From Economic Policy Journal: … In an op-ed Senator John McCain bemoans the fact that American cable and satellite subscribers are being ripped off, because they do not have the ability to cancel channels they do not watch…and for which they have to pay now. The senator then cites how iTunes and Netflix are ...
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• Rand Paul: I hate bank bailouts and corporate welfare

  
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  Would this qualify as “hate speech” ? “I got into politics at the beginning of this Tea Party movement because I abhorred a government that took from a middle class to bail out the big, rich banks…” Reagan Library, May 31. Or as he put it earlier this month with KET: Republicans shouldn’t just blame ...
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• Planned Parenthood should not get corporate welfare

  
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  Two years ago, the Indiana state legislature barred state tax dollars from going to abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. The abortionists immediately sued, backed up by the Obama administration. Now, two years later, it appears Indiana has lost and will be forced to continue to subsidize the abortion ...
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• Democracy Alive And Well In Lee’s Summit

  
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  On May 23, the Lee’s Summit Enhanced Enterprise Zone (EEZ) Advisory Committee held a public meeting to collect feedback on a proposed EEZ. On April 11, the Show-Me Institute had submitted testimony about the failure of EEZs to generate any results, and on May 15, the Lee’s Summit Journal published our ...
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• Theories of Anaheim, Part 1: Theories of Cause

  
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   Powered by Max Banner Ads . 1. The Wonderful World of Disney Let’s start with Disneyland.  In discussing Anaheim, we barely have a choice. Disney, whatever else it also may be,...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy Memorial Day

  
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  (Editorial cartoon by Kevin Siers / The Charlotte Observer (May 22, 2013) and featured at McClatchy DC . Click on image to enlarge and then kindly return.) Its Memorial Day, a day in which we remember and honor those men and women who died in the military service of this country.  Its a day I mourn my brother who ...
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• CONFUSING STOCKS WITH FLOWS.

  
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  The heirs to Leon Trotsky comment on the failure of the Skagit River bridge.Interstate 5 runs from Canada, through or near most major west coast US cities, and south into Mexico. It serves as a major thoroughfare for travelers and trucking. As Skagit River Bridge acts as a major link between Canada and the US, and as ...
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• Kicking Rich Freeloaders Off Agricultural Welfare

  
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  Stephen Lee Fincher (R-TN), one of the most dishonest crooks in Congress Thursday, Dick Durbins amendment to the Farm Bill passed, rather miraculously, 59-33 . The amendment is meant "to limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal ...
  3 weeks ago

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