Democrats seek to extend emergency jobless benefits
The Washington Post
By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Congressional Democrats are struggling to revive a plan to extend emergency unemployment benefits for millions of jobless workers. Although House leaders say they will pass the measure as soon as Wednesday, its fate in the Senate remains uncertain. …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062905388.html
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Goldman Sachs’s Blankfein Receives $9 Million Bonus for 2009
Bloomberg
Businessweek
By Christine Harper and Michael J. Moore
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gave Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein a $9 million all-stock bonus for 2009, about half the award granted by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to CEO Jamie Dimon, even as profit reached an all-time high and the shares doubled….
What “Great Recession”? Does a $9 million dollar bonus have a place in a Great Recession? Perhaps one can start to see why the Great Recession had trouble “registering” in America. A high level American political source never publically admitted to a “R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N”.
President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address admitted that the economy needed to add more jobs – not necessarily for everyone but for those WHO WANTED TO WORK. So to provide jobs for those who wanted to work the financial industry was de-regulated.
The de-regulated financial industry became its own WATCH-DOG. Step number 3(de-regulation) of Ronald Reagan’s VOODOO ECONOMICS went to work. And by December of 2007 America’s economy had crashed. America knew that something was “bad wrong” but the neocon leadership was quiet. And the neocon press did not ask the neocon leadership to SPEAK UP.
The neocon press became a significant asset to the right-wing politics of the neocons. Controlling the “current events” fed to a news market can have either a positive or a negative effect on the truth as that market sees it.
And being able to select which effect, based upon politics, has been of great use to the neocons. If the political performance of the neocons, by all civilized standards, is a train-wreck then the neocon press is likely to stay quiet about the quality of the political performance of the neocons.
When the neocons’ political opposition makes the neocon leadership performance look like a train-wreck the neocon press turns on its propaganda latch.
After twenty-some-odd years of massive political screw-ups America should be sick of the neocons. Even when the neocon press and certain elements of America’s press call them G.O.P. America’s “common-sense” latch should filter that out.
The neocons performance against labor and in favor of Big Business is obvious. The neocons would rather see a single man get a $9 million bonus than to see 9 million Americans get a $1 bonus. There are too many Americans. The condition of “too many Americans” remind neocons of socialism while fascism does not seem to bother them at all.
A fool and his country are soon parted.
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