This must only be the beginning. If the middle class is to be reborn in this country, the oligarchs and plutocrats must be placed on noticed that no longer will the real working class, the bastion of the strength of our country, will stay quite as they commoditize human being as no more than indentured […]
Archives for February 2011
Texas Republicans Must Stop Trampling Women’s Rights
This morning I received an email from a friend and Kingwood, TX resident. It is obvious the frustration she feels and the sense of utter helplessness that women, young and old are not more reactive to MEN and GOVERNMENT who are attempting to take full control of their bodies. How does this differ from the […]
Mrs. Bush, Abstinence and Texas – NYTimes.com #p2 #tcot #teaparty
Op-Ed Columnist Mrs. Bush, Abstinence and Texas By GAIL COLLINS Published: February 16, 2011 Op-Ed Columnist Today, let’s discuss choices, starting with Barbara Bush raising an alarm and Gov. Rick Perry’s personal experience with sexual abstinence. I did throw in the last one to keep you interested. Sue me. This month, The Houston Chronicle […]
Must Read: Texas Is On The Brink Of Failure #p2 #tcot #teaparty
Texas on the Brink How Texas Ranks Among the 50 States January 2011 ~ Fifth Edition Since 1836, Texas has stood as an icon of the American dream. Blessed with land, rivers, oil, and other abundant natural resources, early Texas welcomed everyone from cattle ranchers to braceros, from cotton farmers to Chinese railroad workers. These […]
History classes are faulted for ‘politicized distortion’ – Houston Chronicle #p2 #tcot #teaparty
State history standards get ‘D’ Conservative think tank says politics have distorted curriculum By GARY SCHARRER AUSTIN BUREAU AUSTIN — A conservative education think tank has severely criticized Texas‘ new social studies curriculum standards as a "politicized distortion of history … offering misrepresentations at every turn." A conservative Republican majority of the State Board […]
Rick Casey: E-mail warns regents against fraud or graft – Houston Chronicle #p2 #tcot #teaparty
By RICK CASEY Copyright 2011, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Feb. 15, 2011, 9:27PM In his State of the State speech last week, Rick Perry, aka Governor Sunshine, warned that the "mainstream media and big-government interest groups are doing their best to convince us that we’re facing a budget Armageddon." Two days later the state’s executive commissioner of […]
Katrina vanden Heuvel – Are conservatives endangering the high court? #p2 #tcot #teaparty
Are conservatives endangering the high court? By Katrina vanden Heuvel Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Less than a month after President Obama signed the health-care reform into law, Justice Stephen Breyer predicted that the legislation would one day make it to the high court. Now that four federal judges have ruled on the matter, it […]
America’s Extreme Inequality A Clear And Present Danger To Middle Class And Country #p2 #tcot #teaparty
Forget all that you hear on FoxNews or even the Mainstream Media (TV, Radio, etc.). Nobody is addressing the biggest cancer in our society and that is the extreme inequality that is continuously getting worst. It is not enough to work yourself out of the lower classes upward because the constant exponential growth that the […]
Speaker Boehner Does Not Care If Their Budget Cuts Cost Jobs (ANTI MIDDLE CLASS) #p2 #tcot #teaparty
One need not but listen to Speaker Boehner “So Be It” response when asked about job losses caused by their machete style slashing of the Federal Budget. It is evident that while their visceral support for policies, specifically tax cuts that apply mostly to the wealthy is something they would go to guillotine for, they […]
Republicans Really Do Not Care About The Plight Of Middle Class Americans #p2 #tcot #teaparty
We are in a systemic unemployment situation generally no fault of the average middle class American but on corporate and political policies. The least our political leaders should be doing in the short term is providing financial support through some sort of employment until the destruction they’ve imposed on America is mitigated. That Democrats are […]