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April 14 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Week Dedicated To Weed - The 60s... We Decided We'd Rather Be Pot Smokers Than Beer Swillers
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 14 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Week Dedicated To 'Weed' - The 60s... We Decided We'd Rather Be Pot Smokers Than Beer Swillers[Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 14:51 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
In The News:
There has been a major earthquake on the Tibetan plateau in the county of Yushu, an area that knows no Rebar. It measured 6.9 according to the USGS, 7.1 according to China's network. There were multiple follow up 6+ quakes. There are currently 400 known dead.
Michelle Obama is in Mexico for a meeting with the country's first lady and she also stopped off on Haiti (remember Haiti?) on the way, for a meet with the Haitian first lady and toured the refugee camps
President Obama has called a bipartisan meeting in congress today over financial business reform and regulation. More.
Today is the last day to file your taxes before the deadline and the teabaggers, in turmoil over neocons attempt to hijack their movement, are planning protests across the nation with a nationwide planned gathering in Boston, scene of the original party in 1773. A US history refresher from www.eyewitnesstohistory.com and www.u-s-history.com.
Word to the current attendees, most of whom never have never committed an illegal act more serious than a traffic ticket in their lives:
Something else the 'teabaggers' might want to know, because they live in fear of the word, no less the potential for it's enactment in Amercan society (fat chance in the current mileau):
Nine Myths About Socialism in the US
Monday 12 April 2010
by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on the path toward socialism. Part of their claim is that the US is much more generous and supportive of our working and poor people than other countries. People may wish it was so, but it is not.
As Sen. Patrick Moynihan used to say "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But everyone is not entitled to their own facts."
The fact is that the US is not really all that generous to our working and poor people compared to other countries.
Consider the US in comparison to the rest of the 30 countries that join the US in making up the OECD - the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These 30 countries include Canada and most comparable European countries, but also include some struggling countries like Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Slovak Republic and Turkey.
When you look at how the US compares to these 30 countries, the hot air myths about the US government going all out toward socialism sort of disappear into thin air. Here are some examples of myths that do not hold up.
Myth No. 1: The US Government Is Involved in Class Warfare, Attacking the Rich to Lift Up the Poor.
There is a class war going on all right. But it is the rich against the rest of us and the rich are winning. The gap between the rich and everyone else is wider in the US than any of the 30 other countries surveyed. In fact, the top 10 percent in the US have a higher annual income than any other country. And the poorest 10 percent in the US are below the average of the other OECD countries. The rich in the US have been rapidly leaving the middle class and poor behind since the 1980s.
Myth No. 2: The US Already Has the Greatest Health Care System in the World.
Infant mortality in the US is fourth worst among OECD countries - better only than Mexico, Turkey and the Slovak Republic.
Myth No. 3: There Is Less Poverty in the US Than Anywhere.
Child poverty in the US, at over 20 percent or one out of every five kids, is double the average of the 30 OECD countries.
Myth No. 4: The US Is Generous in Its Treatment of Families With Children.
The US ranks in the bottom half of countries in terms of financial benefits for families with children. Over half of the 30 OECD countries pay families with children cash benefits regardless of the income of the family. Some among those countries (e.g. Austria, France and Germany) pay additional benefits if the family is low income or one of the parents is unemployed.
Myth No. 5: The US Is Very Supportive of Its Workers... Read On
One more thing for the mostly middle class Americans who make up the Tea Bag societal cohort to think about... Your days of mindless "Happy Motoring" are just about over:
In Other Words: Say goodbye to a culture based on 'plastic crap' folks. The last few drops of 'black blood' will be used to power the Pentagon's military machine defending us from a world of enemies we've created for ourselves, NOT to run your car on your last long drive down to the store for a sixxer and some cigs. Did you ever think otherwise?
Even the food we eat is grown in an artificial environment based on petroleum derived fertilizers, and the pills you take to stay calm... petroleum-based production facilities and ingredients... poised to be unavailable as American society collapses. In Full
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