May 23, 2013

Fraud On The Middle Class–The Real Story On Taxes

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While we continue to be distracted by manufactured scandals, Middle Class America, Working America, & Poor America continue to get their clocks cleaned. There is real news out there, good and bad. The deficit has fallen much faster than anticipated. Nobody is talking about this with the interest that it deserves. This decline means that sequester is unnecessary and in fact if some stimulus spending on infrastructure and on needed capital improvements were done now with cheap borrowing, the economic activity would further fill the government coffers with tax dollars. This is standard and verifiable economics. Europe continues in decline because of the austerity measures they have implemented partly based on a debunked fraudulent ideology by Right Wing economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Yet our GOP comrades continue to push this ideology as the medicine to heal what ails the American economy. They believe taxes are too high and America spends too much. Both statements are categorically false. … [Read more...]

Deborah Mowrey Kingwood Observer LTE ‘Failing Our Community. Failing Our Kids’ (2013-05-22)

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Kingwood Area Democrat Deborah Mowrey. Deborah Mowrey writes a must read letter to the editor about the funding of community colleges and voting. Folks, it is necessary that we engage in the voting process. We are getting our clocks cleaned by those who flourish in ignorance. LIKE My Facebook Page – Visit My Blog: EgbertoWillies.com Follow @EgbertoWillies … [Read more...]

Radio: Move to Amend Reports w/Laura Bonham & Egberto Willies – Thurs 7:00 PM

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Thursday 7:00 PM Central Call and listen at 646-652-2345 Listen Live & Podcast Here. Move to Amend Reports Hosted by National Leadership Team members Laura Bonham and Egberto Willies, will air every Thursday at 8:00 PM ET, 5:00 PM PT. The show will feature guests who specialize in movement building, amending the Constitution, grassroots organizing, and issues relating to corporate rule and participatory democracy. Each show provides opportunity for call-in questions and comments from the listening audience by dialing 646-652-2345 (long distance charges may apply). Today’s Show: ★May 23rd: Corinne Rosen has been organizing and managing campaigns for 9 years.   She is a New York statewide organizer with Food & Water Watch, a non-profit consumer watchdog organization that works to protect food and water and has been heavily involved in the fight to ban fracking in New York. LIKE My Facebook Page – Visit My Blog:EgbertoWillies.com Follow @EgbertoWillies … [Read more...]

New Sarah Palin Essay Going Rogue In The Wrong Direction On IRS ‘Scandal’

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We should have known it would not be long before Sarah Paling entered the fold. She is now fully engaged in the false narrative. She has just posted an essay on Facebook on the IRS ‘Scandal’. One might ask who cares what Sarah Paling thinks. I care and you all should care as well. You see, Sarah Palin still has a large base that follows her with a passion. Three point five million followers on Facebook is nothing to sneeze at. When I saw the message with the essay in my feed I initially dismissed it. I was writing a rather intense blog post for Addicting Info. As I wrote, it became evident that her posting needed a rebuttal and some context to refute her premise lest the metastasizing of her information like a cancer would grow unabated. Palin and her cohorts successfully damaged the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) by creating enough doubt with verifiable lies (government takeover of healthcare, death panels, grandma off the bus, etc.). It could have been so much better with a single payer system or at … [Read more...]

Did Tiger Woods Win Incite Racists Remark By This Pro Golfer? (VIDEO)

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It is known that Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia does not like Tiger Woods and it seems the feelings are mutual. Many blacks and other minorities are usually accused of playing the race card when they attribute certain occurrences on race. The problem is racism unarticulated is mostly invisible. But then, sometimes like a bottle of soda that has built up too much pressure one’s true nature emerges. Did Tiger Woods’ last win against Sergio along with his dislike for Tiger inadvertently put his guard down? Apparently Sergio Garcia decided to jump on a variation of pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller's infamous remark towards Woods in 1997 about fried chicken dinners (video of  Zoeller’s below). The Guardian reports as follows: Sergio García's ongoing spat with Tiger Woods took an unwelcome turn on Tuesday night, when the Spaniard made what could be interpreted as a racist remark about his opponent. The Spaniard was on stage at the European Tour's gala players' awards dinner, where he was questioned by the … [Read more...]

If Liberals Can’t (Wo) man-up On IRS ‘Scandal’ Middle Class Doomed

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America needs strong leaders. America needs leaders that are willing to stand up for an ideology that shamelessly looks out for the middle class and the poor. America needs strong leaders that do not allow the striving for true moral values to be framed as a weakness . America needs strong leaders that will not allow a hated government agency, the IRS, doing its job to be piled onto by all, Liberals & Conservatives, Democrats & Republicans, alike. It is easy and politically cowardly to criticize and demonize the IRS. After all, most hate paying taxes. The reality is this agency’s job is defined by the people American citizens elect. They wrote the laws that this agency must follow. Because of the laws these politicians have written, the marginal burden of federal income taxes falls on the middle class. To be clear, it is fact that the top 10% of Americans pay about 70% of federal income taxes. However, wealth and income is so skewed to the top that even with that, the marginal effect of taxes on … [Read more...]

Manufactured Scandals? Obama’s New Poll Indicate Americans Fooled Once Too Many?

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Sequester is decimating Indian land schools and Military base schools. We all know that military personnel are transient and as such there are special needs like counselors and programs to reintegrate children that move constantly. Impact Aid which Indian Reservation Schools, Military Schools, and low income area schools depend on are being cut. These cut materially affect middle class and poor human beings. These people need an advocate. While the sequester cuts to air travel was fixed rather rapidly, there seems to be no advocate for the poor and middle class being hurt financially and socially. Very few politicians from either party seem to be present in their defense. Yet the corporatist media continue to pump the airwaves with manufactured scandals and ignoring the masses they purportedly are there to serve. Is not the media’s job to ensure that our representative government represents us all and serve us all? Sadly it is no longer the case. Americans however seem to be growing up. The … [Read more...]

5 Reason Republicans Should Be Charged With Treason–Bill Maher Agrees (VIDEO)

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UPDATE: My post below created a stir on the Coffee Party main Facebook  page. Before I begin, I am one of many voices in Coffee Party. I have never attempted to hide that I am what most consider left in my ideology. I became part of the Coffee Party because I do not believe that ideological difference should stunt dialogue or the attempt to meet somewhere in the political space. I blog from my own blog as just one voice, my voice within Coffee Party and not as an attempt to be the voice of Coffee Party as I believe all  voices should be heard unfettered. Coffee Party must be inclusive without the attempt by ANY ONE to assume they hold the moral position on what is civil discourse. If the Coffee Party had one voice it would be nothing but a page expounding  one point of view. That in itself is uncivil. After complaints about this post the editorial board including me felt and accepted that I should have written this piece to encourage more dialogue on the subject. The graphic in retrospect I … [Read more...]

All Three GOP Manufactured Scandals Falling Apart

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I stated from the beginning that all of the current scandals (Benghazi, IRS, AP) afflicting the President at this time have been manufactured, manufactured through lies, deception, and misinformation by the GOP. Most importantly, the President and many Liberals have found it expedient to accept more responsibility that is not necessary in the attempt to “stop the bleeding”. This is no different than an innocent person pleading guilty in order to get a deterministic sentence instead of an unknown sentence that could be more or less than warranted. To be sure, there are problems with this administration in many areas. Sadly, those areas like “support” for the Keystone pipeline, support for some sort of austerity however minimal, and policies in general that are not progressive enough have not been the cause of GOP ire as those are the things they actually support. I have been waiting for a real assessment on the scandals most of last week. Lo and behold, Lawrence O’Donnell did it. The IRS … [Read more...]

What Scandal? Republicans Doctored Benghazi Emails

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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. The mainstream media should be tired of being shamed. Democrats should be tired of being shamed. But most of all, every American citizen should be tired of being shamed. Shortly after the Benghazi terrorist attack where Ambassador Christopher Stevens was murdered, Fox News and the Republican Party have been hyping and politicizing the event. Early on, author of “The Generals”, Thomas Rick said that much in a Fox News Interview where he called out the network. Fox News simply cut the interview short and continued with the uncorroborated hyping of the Benghazi massacre. Most networks put the Benghazi story in perspective for some time. Fox News’ persistence seemed to have paid off recently when ABC’s Jonathan Karl claimed to have an exclusive that made it seem the State Department was more instrumental than it was in altering the Benghazi talking points. The Whitehouse released 100 pages of Benghazi emails this week. CBS News reported on … [Read more...]