Advocating Progress: Obama Lowered the Deficit Faster Than Any President Since Clinton
Late Friday afternoon, the Treasury Department published the official report on the U.S. budget deficit for the most recent fiscal year: $1.089 trillion. While that’s obviously still a very large budget shortfall, the deficit is $200 billion smaller than it was last year,…
This is where you get tangled up and made to be a fool with your partisanship.
Democrats frequently cross the line when they are dared by right-wing demagogues in to debt scare tactics. It’s foolish because there is well regarded academic field which has studied what people do in markets and how governments should interact with them. Anyone whose taken Econ 1 and 2 knows that austerity brings economies to a halt. The Obama Administration is bragging about something that is damaging it’s constituencies. If you don’t believe me, read about what it’s doing to Mr. Cameron’s Great Britain.
She reminded Ian of His Mum
This week, after being mocked in the press with an attack piece by the Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn, schoolteacher Lucy Meadows committed suicide.
Lucy was raised male, but had recently undergone a transition to live as female — which for Littlejohn was reason enough to attack her in column. Leading with the mocking headline “He’s not only in the wrong body… he’s in the wrong job”, Littlejohn belittled and harassed Meadows, referring to her decision as her “personal problems” and playing on the outdated scare tactic that LGBT people are a threat to children.
Join me in signing a petition to the Daily Mail to fire Richard Littlejohn, issue an apology, and institute an editorial review to ensure that this never happens again.
Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), said Britain had been “mind-bogglingly stupid to raise the issue in the first place”, regardless of how it was worded.
“Anyone with Diplomacy 101, as the Americans call it, would know that it (the threat) would backfire,” he told AFP.
“If you asked a room of my first-year students about what Britain has done, I believe that even they would not have made such a fundamental error.”
Police are guarding the exits of the embassy in London’s exclusive Knightsbridge district, but have so far made no move to enter it.
Brown said there was “no chance” that Britain would apply the law and enter the embassy to extract Assange, who Sweden wants to question over accusations of rape and molestation.
“All it did is deflect away from the main point, which is that Assange is wanted for questioning on a criminal charge,” he said. “The British government has bumbled into a pointless argument.
who’s in control
So this was submitted…
The situation in the UK will only cause a deteriation (sic) with the Ecuadorian people; not globally.
Have you heard where the word F.U.C.K. originated?
The UK, It means Fornication under control of the King.
Funny, I never heard/read that definition of fuck before.
One of the U.K’s most despicable act upon it’s own in the 20th Century was the witch hunt conducted against homosexuals. Most noted among this abuse of human rights was the state’s systematic destruction of the man who led other members of Britain’s intelligence services to brake the encoded messages of The Third Reich.
Turing saved the nation, but the nation slowly tortured him to death by duress of process of law because he was a gay man working in Her Majesty’s Service.
Congratulations, Your Majesty.
We won’t be reforming this week. Maybe if the government stepped down. If this government stepped down, I’ll reform the band. How’s that? That’s a fair trade, isn’t it? I think the country would be better off, don’t you? I’ll do it if the coalition steps down.
Dr. Jacqueline Davis on the fight to save Britain’s NHS
A successful public service is an affront to the free marketeers. They simply won’t let the facts get in their way. Despite all evidence to the contrary they continue to insist anything the public sector can do the private sector can do better and more cheaply, and no evidence to the contrary will persuade them otherwise.
So the politicians for ideological reasons, and the private sector for financial reasons, have had the NHS – traditionally publicly funded, publicly delivered and publicly accountable – in their sights for some time. They have acted together, beneath the radar, to turn the NHS from a cost-effective integrated public service into a kite mark attached to a ragbag of competing private providers.
