Well, that and, of course, the goals of a good government are entirely different than those of good business.

Why anyone has ever made political points about making government run like business is a great mystery.

Fascist governments like ours, Germany's and Italy's are all "For the Rich".

If you wanted something better, you would have voted for Ron Paul.

The nations OLD PEOPLE voted as they did because they value their benefit checks more than their children's future.

ron dont give a damn for anyone but his crazy mind

Flat tax is a gift to the rich and how many poor people do you know--I know I lot of people working 2 shifts and still driving cars so old that back in the 60s you never saw cars that old on the road. But there are also plenty of Bentleys, maybe you're one of those owners

The Tea Party is the only hope this nation has at avoiding bankruptcy and third world despair. The Tea Party is the only force left trying to prevent the government from spending the nation to death.

jem have you look at the stock market lately...funny look how much they are just sitting on right now...the Bologna has to stop with y'all

Inflation manifests itself in strange ways sometimes.

like them sitting on trillions your right

so im right huh

I remain thankful for the Koch brothers and their willingness to fund the battle against the evil of liberalism!

No You're Left.....Dumb left.

oh my bad your right Bk..but your a secret homo

Hope you're in the same economic class as the Koch brothers because that is the only people they care about

Yeah MG from Illinois.....As if ANYONE from Illinois can lecture INTELLIGENT peoplel on ANYTHING even similar to GOOD GOVERNANCE. You idiots keep our Federal Prisons filled with Corrupt politicians... And Obama is ONE OF THEM. So shut the hell up about what is required of a competent politician.

Dee,

Do some research before you post. Look at Republicans deficits in history.

P.S. don't go to FOX to do your research!!!

but who can they trust chad for wrong news

yea we can call him El dummy huh

Ron Paul was the last hope this nation had for saving itself from financial disaster. Unfortunately, our nations elderly found a candidate who would actually cut government spending and end our failed militarists foreign policy and failed War-on-Drugs to be too scary so now we are doomed to a second great depression.

It is sad and tragic what our nations OLD PEOPLE have done to us.

I'm sure when you are with sheep...there is very little talking on your part!

yea but aren't we better then a deer looking at headlights at night when we talk to y'all..thats yalls look

OK b dune, I will speak in a language you understand.....Baa BBBBBBBaaa baa Baaaaa Baaa. That's sheep talk for baa baaaaa bbaaaa.

Liberals and Conservatives are both bad in that they both support limitless government expansion so long as they feel the government is acting in behalf of their interests and beliefs.

Liberalism and Conservatism are both anti-Libery, anti-freedom, anti-prosperity.

bk is a secret homo republican

And elvis is the queen of queens....bet he even visited Slick Willie in the Oval Office to relax Willie with a hummer.

BK

You should have stopped when you were behind....now you are just embarrassing yourself!

I told yall..he has weenie on his mind

b dune ..the only thing I am behind is yo mama

Talking to a Republican is kind of like talking to Romney; selfish,out of touch with everyone not making millions per year, driving expensive cars,building car elevators in their houses, and getting all their knowledge from FOX news instead of books and experts since experts are all subversives

BK

My mamma is dead - has been for about five years!

Continue to embarrass yourself!

Yeah...we also coined the phrase " Slick Willie LOVES Oval Office Head"... Better??? And Obummer, Obozo, Osheetforbrains, Odumbo, Joe Birdbrain, Josheph Burden...Like those better??

see I told yal what Bk has on his mind

Yeh..you giving me a hummer, while I bang your wife and sister. I would have included your Auntie, but she looks TOO much like a sheep.

Bk the weenie man on his mind

BK

The GOP home office called in and said you aren't helping them any...

But for me - I say keep on keeping on - you are exactly the voice of the teapublicans that independents need to hear!

Trust me...I am an Independent. An Independent who is no longer buying the line of Socialist BullSheet from this idiot in the WH......Lying dog. And I know the Republican Party did not call in to anywhere on my behalf. They are almost as despicable as the ignorant a**ed Dimocraps in DC.

Interesting how those who proclaim they are "Indpendents" the loudest do all they can through words and actions to disprove it!

O.I.L

I'll assume you are a teapublican because you have included no data to back up your claim "chopped meat" doubled under Obama..."steak out for most people...

1. we dems had to give up eating "steak" during the last administration

2. per Bureau of Labor statistics from Jan 2009 through Dec 2011 ..

100% ground beef increased 24% Bacon 22%

Nice attempt on your part though!

Who's eating steak? Since the bankers took 13 trillion out of the world economy for themselves I'm living on cereal for breakfast and a sandwich for dinner----NO MORE GREEDY REPUBLICANS THAT WANT TO TURN THE REST OF US INTO SLAVES, I'M OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW THINGS CAN BE BETTER

Wow,,,,,Memory loss is one of the first signs

Just 4 years ago under Bush gas prices were higher than they are right now,,,,,,And they are going down quickly since Obama initiated a price
gouging commitee to look into it.

raider rider

"gas up 200%"

get together with Red Baron and see if one of you will actually lists something that supports your claims...see #68.2

or just admit the two of you "blatantly lie" to make your post sound better!

gas is not up 200% and you know it!

you aren't at a tea party rally where everyone just takes what you say as gospel!

you two embarrass each other!

In June of 2008, average gas price was $4.10/gallon. Saying it has gone up 200% is a total lie.

http: //news.consumerreports.org/cars/2008/06/gas-prices-4.html

Since we've seen a speculative spike in gas prices will Republicans FINALLY stop blocking reasonable regulation of speculation in the commodities market?

Hey Bo...What frigging planet do you live on?? Oh, I know ...either the planet of SEIU, UAW or ACORN.

Hey Bo, Was this the Change You Hoped For?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Home prices dropped in February in most major U.S. cities for a sixth straight month, a sign that modest sales gains haven't been enough to boost prices.

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index shows that prices dropped in February from January in 16 of the 20 cities it tracks.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-home-prices-drop-6th-130235133.html

Retirement may be mission impossible for Gen X

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47063393/ns/today-money/#.T5hZhtUf8ow

New orders for manufactured goods took the largest drop in three years last month, in a worrisome sign for manufacturing, which has been one of the economy's bright spots.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that durable goods orders tumbled 4.2 percent in March to $202.6 billion. It was the second decrease in the past three months. Orders rose by 1.9 percent in February.

http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/25/11388509-orders-for-long-lasting-goods-tumbled-in-march?chromedomain=testblog

NABE’s latest forecast of 45 leading business economists calls for the jobless rate this year to average 8.3 percent, its current level, and drop only slightly to 7.8 percent next year, based on expected slow economic growth.

http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/05/11006026-sharp-drop-in-jobless-rate-raises-questions-for-economists?lite

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How Did a Russian Oligarch End Up With Cutting Edge U.S. Battery Technology? (HEV)

From the Chicago Tribune:
U.S.-backed battery company's sale to Russian tycoon sparks anxiety

Batteries made in America for America and backed by America. That's how politicians hailed Ener1.

The company tapped the country's top scientists at Argonne National Lab in Illinois, and U.S. taxpayers pledged up to $118 million in federal stimulus funds and $80 million in state and local incentives to help Ener1 produce cutting-edge battery technology for electric cars and the U.S. military.

"This is about the future. And the question is which nation is going to seize the future. Some nation is going to grab it by the throat. One of the nations of the world is going to lead the world in green energy and technology," Vice President Joe Biden said in January 2011 in a speech praising federal support for Ener1 at its facility in Indiana.

That nation, it turns out, is Russia.

A little more than a year after Biden's visit to Ener1's Indiana manufacturing plant, the company's technology is owned outright by Boris Zingarevich, a Russian businessman with ties to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a fact that concerns some technology experts in the U.S.

Zingarevich acquired Ener1 out of bankruptcy March 30 with an agreement to infuse $81 million in financing, giving him a sophisticated line of batteries that can power electric cars, store electricity for power grids and supply portable power for soldiers. His plans for Ener1 aren't known. A company spokesman declined to comment, saying Ener1 is privately held. Zingarevich couldn't be reached for comment....MORE

http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-did-russian-oligarch-eund-up-with.html

The planet of reality and facts BK,,,,,,,,Possibly something you know NOTHING about?

Bk lives in the town of homo republican vill with lots of restrooms to choose from

yeh elvis...saw you in a public restroom the other day next to Larry....Wow, both of you have very wide "stances"...Why were your pants knees so wet???

Zingarevich acquired Ener1 out of bankruptcy March 30 with an agreement to infuse $81 million in financing

Damn Capitalist Russian Republicans (Soviet REPUBLIC!!)

Bo..you are a liberal ...liberals know nothing about reality OR facts....Liberals take their direction from the Dimocraps, Unions, Community Organizers...very little thinking with any liberal, much less free thought.

bk has brain farts all the time when he talks to people

Nice rant BK, Now find some facts to back it up

Liberal,,, Hardly
Democrat? Wrong again

Put down the bong Bo you don't know diddly.

Replacing Obama with Romney will do no good. Both candidates are identical where it counts.

If you want to do some good; vote LIBERTARIAN.

Otherwise, you are voting for upcoming tragedy

Marxist??? Marx was a Republican leader from the Wiemar Republic

Almost as silly as calling Obama a Communist when ALL Communist
are Republicans and all Communist nations ARE Republics.

Call him a Socialist, It makes more sense in that he is Socially Responsible

Bo, obviously you never studied Marx. Marx said that socialism was the means of transitioning from capitalism to communism.

Marxist and communist when used by the republicans have nothing to do with political philosophy. They are code words for the one they would love to use but can’t anymore. There are about a hundred of them at last count. Michelle Bachmann added a new on recently – tar baby. Cute huh!! Do you really think that any republicans have a clue what a marxist or communist really is or what the words mean?

Larry obviously you never studied period

Marx created Communism as we know it with a clear cut blueprint

No financial regulation or protections
No FDA
No EPA
No OSHA
No minimum wage
No retirement benefits
No healthcare benefits

You know, All those things Communist Republics do not have and Republicans in the USA are trying to get rid of

Jim, I thought Santorum's "Blaa" people was kind of,,,,,,,,Inventive??

You can keep denying it all you want but the facts are the facts and you certainly are not unique in denying the connection to marxist socialism that is the core of Democratic liberal belief.

1. the Democratic party platform has mirrored the Communist Manifesto for nearly 100 years

2. Liberals enthusiastically support that platform

3. The members of the Progressive Caucus are also members of the Democratic Socialists USA party

4. Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate as a candidate of the Socialist New Party created by the Democratic Socialists USA party

5. Barack Obama has been endorsed by the Communist Party USA in both 2008 and again for the 2012 election. Why do you think they would do that?

I've read and re-read the Manifesto, Critique of the Gotha Programme, his 1844 “Critical Notes on the Article ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform,’” his 1874 “Notes on Bakunin’s Book Statehood and Anarchy,” in “The Second Draft, Writings on the Paris Commune”, I've bought my copy of Mao's "Little Red Book" in 1966. I've been to both Cuba and China

In Critique of the Gotha Programme Marx stated what has become the political strategy of today's left:

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)

the following summary of modern socialist thought also mirrors current Democratic liberal ideology

“Socialism is not statism, or the collective ownership of the means of production. It is a judgment on the priorities of economic policy. It is for that reason that I believe that... the community takes precedence over the individual in the values that legitimate economic policy. The first lien on the resources of a society therefore should be to establish that 'social minimum' which would allow individuals to lead a life of self-respect, to be members of the community.

Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. xii

Bell captures what the Socialist International itself says is the evolution of socialism

59. Democratic socialism today is based on the same values on which it was founded. But they must be formulated critically, both assimilating past experience and looking ahead to the future. For instance, experience has shown that while nationalisation in some circumstances may be necessary, it is not by itself a sovereign remedy for social ills. Likewise, economic growth can often be destructive and divisive, especially where private interests evade their social and ecological responsibility. Neither private nor State ownership by themselves guarantee either economic efficiency or social justice.

60. The democratic socialist movement continues to advocate both socialisation and public property within the framework of a mixed economy. It is clear that the internationalisation of the economy and the global technological revolution make democratic control more important than ever. But social control of the economy is a goal that can be achieved through a wide range of economic means according to time and place, including:

- democratic, participative and decentralised production policies; public supervision of investment; protection of the public and social interest; and socialisation of the costs and benefits of economic change;

- worker participation and joint decision-making at company and workplace level as well as union involvement in the determination of national economic policy;

- self-managed cooperatives of workers and farmers;

- public enterprises, with democratic forms of control and decision-making where this is necessary to enable governments to realise social and economic priorities;

- democratisation of the institutions of the world financial and economic system to allow full participation by all countries;

- international control and monitoring of the activities of transnational corporations, including cross-frontier trade union rights within such corporations.

61. There is no single or fixed model for economic democracy and there is room for bold experimentation in different countries. But the underlying principle is clear - not simply formal, legal control by the State, but substantial involvement by workers themselves and by their communities in economic decision-making. This principle must apply both nationally and internationally.

62. In societies structured in this fashion, and committed to genuine economic and social equality, markets can and must function as a dynamic way of promoting innovation and signalling the desires of consumers through the economy as a whole. Markets should not be dominated by big business power, and manipulated by misinformation.

63. The concentration of economic power in few private hands must be replaced by a different order in which each person is entitled - as citizen, consumer or wage-earner - to influence the direction and distribution of production, the shaping of the means of production, and the conditions of working life. This will come about by involvement of the citizen in economic policies, by guaranteeing wage earners an influence in their workplace, by fostering open and accountable competition both domestically and internationally and by strengthening the position of consumers relative to producers.

64. A democratic society must compensate for the defects of even the most responsible market systems. Government must not function simply as the repair shop for the damage brought about by market inadequacies or the uncontrolled application of new technologies. Rather the State must regulate the market in the interests of the people and obtain for all workers the benefits of technology, both in work experience and through the growth of leisure time and meaningful possibilities for individual development.

http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=31

the Democrats began reflecting the view of marxists in the late 1800s. With the election of Wilson, they began implementing marxist ideology. Although Wilson was a devout Christian, he embraced the notion of collectivism over the individual liberty principles of our Constitutional Republic.

In the late 19th century, the Populist Party arose out of agrarian economic and political protest, was short lived, and passed into history. Yet, in time, it achieved most of its platform. At the national level, the presidential administration of Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) and the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) enacted most of the Populist demands into law.

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/163/farmers-the-populist-party-and-mississippi-1870-1900

there are NO significant differences between the Democratic Party platform and the Communist Manifesto.

The Democratic Socialists of the USA boast of their allegiance to and the close relationship of the Democratic Party to them. Nearly all the members of the Progressive Caucus are also members of the DSUSA. This was noted on the Progressive Caucus website up until 2004 when they took it down as people like myself began posting it.

Here is the list from 2004

The Democratic Socialists of America, Progressive Caucus members lists the following elected Representatives in the US House of Representatives as members (as of 2004):

OFFICERS Dennis Kucinich (CO-CHAIR, OHIO-10) Barbara Lee (CO-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-09) Lynn Woolsey (VICE-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-06) Peter DeFazio (OFFICER, OREGON-04) Jesse Jackson, Jr (OFFICER, ILLINOIS-02) Major Owens (OFFICER, NEW YORK-11) Bernie Sanders (OFFICER, VERMONT) Hilda Solis (OFFICER, CALIFORNIA-31)

MEMBERS Neil Abercrombie (HI-01), Tammy Baldwin (WI-02), Xavier Becerra (CA-30), David Bonior (MI-10), Corrine Brown (FL-03), Sherrod Brown (OH-13), Michael Capuano (MA-08), Julia Carson (IN-10), William Clay (MO-01), John Conyers (MI-14), Danny Davis (IL-07), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Lane Evans (IL-17), Eni Faleomavaega (American Samoa), Sam Farr (CA-17), Chaka Fattah (PA-02), Bob Filner (CA-50), Barney Frank (MA-04), Luis Gutierrez (IL-04), Earl Hilliard (AL-07), Maurice Hinchey (NY-26), Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02), Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18), Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Tom Lantos (CA-12), John Lewis (GA-05), Jim McDermott (WA-07), James P. McGovern (MA-03), Carrie Meek (FL-17), George Miller (CA-07), Patsy Mink (HI-02), Jerry Nadler (NY-08), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), John Oliver (MA-01), Ed Pastor (AZ-02), Donald Payne (NJ-10)., Nancy Pelosi (CA-08), Jan Schakowski (IL-09), Jose Serrany (NY-16), Hilds Solis (CA-31), Pete Stark (CA-13), Bennie Thompson (MS-02), John Tierney (MA-06), Tom Udall (NM-03), Nydia Velazquez (NY-12), Maxine Waters (CA-35), Mel Watt (NC-12), Henry Waxman (CA-29), Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

The Communist Party in 2008 endorsed Obama

Obama was a member of the socialist New Party in Illinois. That is a published fact and beyond dispute. Here is the New Party link noting Obama as a New Party candidate for the Illinois State Senate seat that he won

http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html#anchor792932

the New Party was formed and backed financially by the Democratic Socialists thus making Obama also a member of the DSA

Here's what their founder Michael Harrington said

"Put it this way. Marx was a democrat with a small d. The Democratic Socialists envision a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning...and racial equality. I share an immediate program with liberals in this country because the best liberalism leads toward socialism.... I want to be on the left wing of the possible."

Obama just received a critical endorsement, The Communist Party USA. The Communist Party USA leader, Sam Webb, explains why he will continue to support Obama and Democrats in 2012. The Communist Party USA has consistently supported and infiltrated the Democratic Party.

Also note, Sam Webb, the leader of the party, called Obama a friend back in 2008.

Sam Webb Via People’s World:

http://politicons.net/congrats-communist-party-usa-endorses-barack-obama-and-democrats-for-2012-election/

http://peoplesworld.org/does-it-matter-which-party-wins/

Bo – you made Larry Robinson go absolutely nuts. Must have hit a nerve. Some people believe that democracy is the government doing everything possible to help the super rich at the expense of everyone else.

In 2010, in a report prepared for the Communist Party 29th National Convention

Currently, the conditions rarely if ever allow us to run open Communists for office. When members do run for office, it is within the auspices of the Democratic Party. Otherwise, we find ourselves supporting progressive (and in some instances not-so-progressive) Democratic candidates. Despite how much many of us would love to run comrades for office as Communists, we all agree that this is how we currently have to function in this political climate.

Marx continues:

"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and with it also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished, after labor has become not only a livelihood but life's prime want, after the productive forces have increased with the all-round development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly -- only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois law be left behind in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"

Only now can we fully appreciate the correctness of Engels' remarks mercilessly ridiculing the absurdity of combining the words "freedom" and "state". So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

The economic basis for the complete withering away of the state is such a high state of development of communism at which the antithesis between mental and physical labor disappears, at which there consequently disappears one of the principal sources of modern social inequality -- a source, moreover, which cannot on any account be removed immediately by the mere conversion of the means of production into public property, by the mere exploitation of the capitalists.

1. the Democratic party platform has mirrored the Communist Manifesto for nearly 100 years

2. Liberals enthusiastically support that platform

Hmmmm,,,,,,I thought ALL Communist nations were,,,,,,,REPUBLICS!!!!

Are you accusing Democrats of supporting Republicans??

All of these are from the Communist Manifesto and are core liberal Democrat policies and beliefs

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (eminent domain)

Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (estate tax)

Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Federal Reserve)

Centralization of the means of communication and transport in he hands of the state. (FCC & Dept Of Transportation)

Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (AIG, GM, Dept of Agriculture, OSHA, EPA)

Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (unionism)

Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. (urbanization)

Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc (John Dewey a communist and founder of American Public Schools -Dewey considered "the great task of the school" to be "to counteract and transform those domestic and neighborhood tendencies" which he specifically and accurately identified as "the influence of home and Church." In order for Dewey's "progressive" agenda to advance, the moral authority of "home and Church" would have to be undermined and replaced with the authority of the state.)

“The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. (homosexual marriage, feminism)

“seek to end all religious belief and practice (which is a common sentiment here by the socialists)

Larry,

Quit cutting and pasting from your radical web site. You are another mouth breather that doesn't have an original thought in that tiny little brain of yours.

Chad, I've accumulate this information over 50 plus years of study and political activism. You can't even imagine all the information I have. And I will never relent from exposing liberalism for what it is.

BTW, any time you want to compare personal achievement in career and education, I'm up for it.

This "Larry Robinson" knows too much about Communism and Socialism and is putting it out there for everyone to read. I think we need to look into this Comrade. What is his real name and what is his game? Pretendes to be right wing to get his poison out. We're unto you Comrade.