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Elizabeth Warren grills banker over harsh student loan policies

August 2, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Elizabeth Warren, Student Loan

Elizabeth Warren grill banker illustrating the immorality of student loan policies Senator Elizabeth Warren continued her fight for the middle class as she grilled Mr. Richard Hunt, President and CEO of Consumer Bankers Association about the immoral student loan practices by bankers.She started by expressing concern that most loans, whether they are credit card loans, […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Banks, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Hunt, student loan

President Obama: ‘In the immediate aftermath of 911 … we tortured some folks’

August 2, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Obama We tortured some folk

President Obama come’s clean on torture. America did it. President Obama in a very solemn tone said what everyone on the planet knows. America engaged in torture. President Obama was referring to the Senate Intelligence Committee report that is to be released soon while he was speaking. Following is what the President said. One wonders […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 9/11, Obama, Torture

President Obama brags about his economy: ‘What we did worked. The Economy is better’

August 2, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Obama economy

President Obama brags about the success of his efforts on the economy President Obama is finally confident in taking credit for a recovering economy. Yesterday he was almost in a quasi-bragging mood in his news conference where he dinged an intransigent Republican Congress. “I think it is useful for me to end by reminding folks […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: economy, president obama, press conference

Disregard GOP lies. Here’s proof the stimulus worked

August 2, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Stimulus Economists

It is conclusive. The discussion is over. Disregard the noise, misinformation, and lies from the Republicans. The stimulus worked. The Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago, no hotbed of liberalism surveyed leading economists of every stripe. All but one said the stimulus worked. Here are the questions and results. Tuesday, July 29, […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Economic Stimulus, economists, IGM Forum, Initiative on Global Markets, stimulus

President Obama Weekly Address: It’s Time for Congress to Help the Middle Class

August 2, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Obama Middle Class

Weekly Address: It’s Time for Congress to Help the Middle Class WASHINGTON, DC — In this week’s address, the President discussed the new monthly jobs report and the fact that our economy created over 200,000 new jobs in July for the sixth straight month – the longest streak since 1997. To ensure this momentum can […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: middle class, President Barack Obama, president obama, weekly address

Bill Maher on giving $3 Billion to Israel – We cannot afford this sh$t anymore

August 2, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Bill Maher,Israel, We cannot afford this shit

Bill Maher gets it mostly right but he is a bit behind on the news Earlier this week a staunch supporter of Israel, Joe Scarborough, called out Israel for its indiscriminate killing in Gaza. Bill Maher, another staunch supporter of Israel, is ready to let Israel take care of its own military endeavors. “Not only […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bill Maher, Gaza, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, NATO, Putin

$225 million for missiles to Israel, $0 for emergency long term unemployment insurance

August 1, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Israel Iron Dome Taxpayer dollars

Israel gets windfall as long the long term unemployed is ignored. Israel can bring Republicans and Democrats together in a manner the poor and disenfranchised Americans cannot. Israel, one of the most prosperous countries in the world will be getting 225 million American taxpayer dollars to restock its Iron Dome. The U.S. House of Representatives […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: bipartisan, Congress, emergence, Iron Dome, Israel, Unemployment Insurance

Jon Stewart slams Congress for suing the President ‘Congress is the Sharknado 2 of government’

August 1, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Jon Stewart Sharknado 2

But isn’t the media the Sharknado 2 of information? Sharknado 2? Many balk when satirists and comedians like Jon Stewart are held up as purveyors of real news or political analysis. With the state of a news media that is patently incompetent by choice or by corporate design, the likes of Jon Stewart and Stephen […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Jon Stewart

President Obama slams Republicans for lawsuit authorization

July 31, 2014 By Egberto Willies

President Obama

President Obama ridicules an immature, reckless, & intransigent House of Representative Today President Obama responded to the lawsuit authorization passed solely by GOP Representatives in the House yesterday. He seemed exacerbated as he described what the lawsuit was about. “House of Representatives, the Republicans, voted to sue me for taking the actions that we are […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, gop, House of Representative, lawsuit, president obama, Republicans.Obamacare

Joe Scarborough calls out Israel’s actions as ‘asinine’ in good piece of journalism on Morning Joe

July 31, 2014 By Egberto Willies

Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough gets the reporting and journalism right about Israeli acts on Morning Joe Reporting on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been horribly biased on all networks. Both ‘Liberal” and Conservative networks have displayed poor journalism and no context in their reporting. The asymmetric Palestinians to Israeli deaths seemed to be reported as justified. After all, […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Ayman Mohyeldin, conflict, Israeli-Palestinian, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe, Palestinian – Israeli, rula jebreal

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