The election is over and by a 3% margin Americans have decided to reelect President Obama. I will be the first to say that I believe President Obama governed like a centrist Republican in his first term. I think he did that to ensure a second term. After-all the President’s stimulus was heavy on […]
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The Republican budget is an immoral document–Rewards The Rich By Punishing The Poor
I will be accused of partisanship for this blog post title and this post in general. Unfortunately the statement is absolutely true. The two articles below give the statement context and proof. I am waiting for the day when we can have fact based discourse where we give Americans the true choices of ideologies and […]
An Author With The Courage – Middle Class, Poor Should Unite Against The Rich–It’s Been Class Warfare
I saw the article that follows below and it got me thinking. Folks, it is not about class envy. It is about the survival of the country. We have been programmed to believe that any commentary about the wealthy’s disproportionate share of our nation’s income, wealth, or political power is either class envy or class […]
Occupy Kingwood – Sustainable Occupy 22 Weeks Strong (2012-05-19)
Occupy Kingwood VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Our sustainable informational Occupy Kingwood completed its 22nd consecutive Occupy. We no longer do much planning. It has become an organic event. Everyone simply knows that every Saturday between 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM we meet at the corner of Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston Blvd with […]
Real "war on religion" one waged against the most vulnerable & people who serve them
While right-wing politicians and their media allies accuse the President of waging "war on religion," they’re directly undermining the values and priorities of religious groups by attacking the most vulnerable. Every day, religious groups like Catholic Charities, Habitat for Humanity, and the Salvation Army live out their faith by serving the most vulnerable families among […]
Billionaire Bill Gates Calls For Increasing Taxes On The Rich: ‘That’s Just Justice’ | ThinkProgress
Last night in his State of the Union address, President Obama once again urged Congress to pass the Buffett rule, noting that 25 percent of American millionaires pay less in taxes that millions of families in the middle-class. Republicans were quick to dismiss his request as “the politics of envy and division.” However, multi-billionaire […]
U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls To Lowest Level In Nearly Three Years–GOP Panics
Many wondered if the reason Republican politicians have been lock, stock, and barrel against any progressive policies that would actually help the economy and with that increase jobs and the financial well being of the middle class was because they could not allow a successful President Obama agenda for fear that the trickle down policies […]
Why Occupy Wall Street Must Go Political–Protect IP (HR 3261 & S 968) To Derail Internet
Before I go into my prose, please click here to sign the petition against the Protect IP bill and call your 2 senators against this bill now. Our free enterprise economy depends on it. If these bills pass, corporations will own the last bastion of information dispersal available to the middle class. Now my prose. […]
The People’s Budget–A Serious Fair Budget That Gets Little Coverage – Corporate Media Is A Danger to The Middle Class
It is sad that there is a budget that out there that is much better than the President’s budget and Republican Paul Ryan’s budget. The budget is humane and it does not use smoke and mirrors or ideology to pay balance the budget. The budget is not only a policy panacea but will change the […]
Podcast Of My Show Liberal Politics Done Right 2011-02-26
This is the podcast for my February 26th, 2011 show on The Force 925. Evan Carroll and I discussed our enlightening visit to the Kingwood Tea Party Monthly Meeting. Deborah Mowrey, a Kingwood political activist called in from her Planned Parenthood meeting in Houston. Clff Olney, a CNN iReporter called in to discuss the Koch […]