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“President Obama and Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, met on Sunday at the White House to discuss efforts to resolve the so-called ‘fiscal cliff,’ according to Boehner's spokesman,” National Journal writes.
USA Today: “President Obama and John Boehner met Sunday at the White House, and aides are saying little about it. That is probably good news for the fiscal cliff negotiations.”
NBC’s Carrie Dann: “While the public standoff continues between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, both sides are staking out their ground for a looming fight over entitlement reform even as some Republicans acknowledge that they may lose the short term debate over tax rates for the highest-income Americans.”
“President Obama’s inaugural committee has decided to accept unlimited corporate donations to help fund the event, reversing a decision from four years ago and drawing criticism for a president who has vowed to change the culture of Washington and limit the influence of outside money,” the Boston Globe writes.
Obama heads to Michigan to a Daimler plant… The Detroit Free Press: “Daimler, which owns Detroit Diesel Corp., will announce a new investment to expand U.S. production and jobs as President Barack Obama visits the company’s Redford facility today. The White House said the investment is expected to be $100 million or more and, with it, Daimler Trucks North America will become the first heavy-duty vehicle equipment manufacturer on the continent to build a fully integrated powertrain from on production facility.”
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is taking heat his support of right-to-work legislation. The Detroit Free Press editorial page: “For two years, we supported Snyder as he took painful steps to restore Michigan's fiscal stability and confront a crisis in which plunging tax revenues and mounting obligations to retired workers threatened to cripple the state's cities and school districts. … [W]e trusted Snyder's judgment. That trust has now been betrayed -- for us, and for the hundreds of thousand of independents who voted for Snyder with the conviction that they were electing someone more independent, and more visionary, than partisan apparatchiks like Wisconsin's Scott Walker or Florida's Rick Scott. … Michigan voters who provided Snyder's margin of victory in 2010 feel betrayed, and they have every justification. If he was ever serious about being the governor who brought Michiganders together, Snyder has just sent himself back to Square One.”
Why’s the SEIU going to Rahm Emanuel’s house with signs branding him a “job killer”? “Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended a new janitorial contract at O'Hare International Airport that union members have said will cost Chicagoans good-paying jobs,” the Chicago Tribune wrote. “About 100 people, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1 and clergy members, showed up at City Hall Tuesday afternoon to take part in a prayer vigil outside the mayor's fifth-floor office to protest the $99 million contract with United Maintenance Co. Inc., hours after Emanuel spoke in favor of the five-year pact.”
And now he’s being branded “Rahmfather” for this: “The mob-related questions keep coming in connection with the company awarded a $99 million custodial contract at O'Hare International Airport, and for the second day the mayor dodged potential Rahmfather implications,” NBC Chicago writes. “Reports surfaced Wednesday that Paul Fosco, a vice president of United Service Companies, served time in 1987 after he was charged in the same corruption case as late mobster Anthony “Big Tuna” Accardo, who was acquitted. A day earlier the Chicago Sun-Times reported the owner of United Service, Richard Simon, had partnered in the past with alleged mob figure William Daddano Jr.”
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I'm gonna be mad as hell if my taxes rise because the GOP's sucking up to people richer than me.
Your taxes will rise, but it won't be because of the GOP. Wait until you receive your Obamacare tax. Or your medical implant tax, or your going over the Obama cliff tax.
Keeping taxes lower for the middle class wasn't a Progressive deal last year, but is so important this year. Why?
It's time we all go over the cliff and raise money for Obama entitlements!
From the article "Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is taking heat his support of right-to-work legislation"
This is more proof that elections have consequences. This anti-labor governor has signed legislation raising taxes on seniors and the poor and has taken money out of our schools, then giving rich people another tax cut in Michigan. Which by the way is himself. Now he leading the charge to destroy unions. There is a huge protest that will being held today in Lansing, we are wearing red to commit to solidarity. This act among others will be remembered in 2014 by the working people of Michigan. Billionaire Dick Devos is rumored to be behind this legislation.
Unfortunately, the press and the electorate are missing the real story (read threat to democracy) that is really at issue in states like Ohio, Wisc, Penn and Michigan. That is the purposeful and extreme gerrymandering of the state legislative districts that will make it nearly impossible for at least the next 10 years to reverse this GOP legislation even if these states elect Democratic governors in landslides. These states have created safe GOP districts and packed Dems into super concentrated districts. These states are now legislatively less representative than the old British Parliament that grandfathered in House of Common seats that no longer represented anyone, except the MP running for the seat.
and thats not all thats happening in michigan, women health issuses have been denide and pass and once again under the cloak of darkness women become second rate citizens. all women will have to carry an additional policy for medical abortion. remember many women who want to concieve have to have an abortion to protect the mothers life and what about contraceptives? very sad and time to recall all those nuts!
You have to understand the Chicago way!! Go head "BOSS" Emanuel!! I see a movie in your future!!! LOL
I spent quite a bit of my working life in 'right-to-work' states (South Dakota, Texas, and the ever-notorious Florida), and it is a fact that right-to-work laws depress wages for all workers, at all skill levels.
Not your problem, you say? You studied hard and got that degree, so your income isn't affected by that, right? Well, no, it's not right- but besides the numbers on your paycheck, consider the additional costs:
Those workers who are struggling by at minimum wage or just above it are far more likely to receive SNAP, or food stamps, as well as other kinds of aid. Slashed to the bone though it is, we're still paying for public assistance. There are literally millions of employed, hard-working, honest people in this country who must, every single week, go through the exercise of deciding what bill gets paid, which one gets delayed, and what their household has to simply do without. This is not an intellectual pastime; these are real Americans, with real children, experiencing real hunger and privation.
Those who are lucky enough to still own a home are much less likely to maintain it well; can't afford a painting contractor, too damn tired to do it themselves. Hell, for some of 'em it's as much as they can do to keep it picked up and mowed. What's that doing to the value of your home, three doors down?
People working seven days and four or five evenings a week don't have much time or energy to devote to raising their kids properly. Sure, they love their children- just like you do, and just like any peasant in the meanest slum in the world does- but when all of your time is spent just keeping a roof over their heads, it must neccesarily have a bad effect on those kids. Now, some of them turn out OK! Some of them end up graduating and going on to university. Some of them might even marry into your family one day.
Most of them won't. Most of them will be stuck in the self-perpetuating cycle of inadequate education, poverty, alcohol abuse, and crime. Some of those kids will die as a result of it; all of them will have their life expectancies drastically shortened.
Higher wages are better for society in every way. Even if you're a 1%er, making a fortune by selling unneeded rubbish, a more affluent society can afford more of your rubbish, thus making you richer still! I can't believe how many expensively- educated CEOs simply can't make themselves grasp this simple, bedrock principle- as poverty is a self- perpetuating cycle, so is prosperity self-reinforcing.
Fox Trotsky, well said. I believe you have made it simple enough that a Republican may even be able to understand the reality of America today. If we are not careful we'll be a 3rd world country with a very small class of very wealthy people and a gigantic class of very poor people and a miniscule class in the middle.