Monthly political notes:
- In addition to DADT repeal and START treaty, Obama also passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
- Over 4,000 government agencies for intelligence, 1 million people work on intelligence
- Upper income people Americans are living longer than they used to, from 1972-2001 bottom 50% went up 2 years while upper 50% went up 7 years (life expectancy)
- US #1 in the world for gun ownership, 90 guns/100 residents
- Federal Assault Weapons Ban from September 1994 - September 2004, Bush and Republicans chose not to renew, would have stopped Laughter’s extended magazine
- When JFK got shot they used it to pass civil rights
- Majority of jobs created in the past year have been overseas, unemployment would be lower if jobs were created here
- No economist argue tax cuts for the rich are stimulating the economy
- Insurance mandate a Republican idea from the 1990’s
- US worst trade deficit in the world, China the best
- 34 people die a day from gun voilence
- Obama started to put the wars on the books, why Bachmann’s chart is so large during Obama (not to mention the fact that Bush passed the Fiscal Year 2009 budget)
A note about Republicans and how the Democrats DON’T take advantage:
- The party of oil didn’t get blamed for the oil spill
- The party of guns didn’t get blamed for the Arizona shootings
- The party of deregulation didn’t get blamed for the current recession
