Monthly Notes:
- Michigan is taxing pensions to pay for tax cuts for corporations, 86% of businesses won’t pay taxes there
- Average wage less than half of 1% of what a typical CEO makes
- CEOs paid better now than in 2007 when the economy was booming (stock up, unemployment half)
- Profit for companies in AP rose 41% from last year
- 39% of Republicans don’t think Obama deserves credit for bin Laden
- Bush Doctrine: if you’re harboring terrorists, you are a terrorist
- General Petraeus to lead CIA (news not reported)
- GOP budget will leave 44 million more uninsured due to cuts in Medicaid
- Exxon makes $83K a minute, the top 5 oil companies made $1.5T last year
- The average college student is $24K in debt after college
- Pakistan was given $20B from our government to fight terrorism since 9/11, they’ve been building nukes with it
- We move our stuff through Pakistan to get to our troops in Afghanistan
- Private sector gained 1.7M jobs, public lost 404K jobs
- Clinton and Obama appointed people who are capable to FEMA, Bush I & II didn’t
- US is 17th in developing green energy
- 10 banks hold 77% of US bank assets
- Paul Ryan’s plan predicts unemployment rate of 2.8% which is not possible
- Massachusetts ranked #2 in HC in the country
Monthly Questions:
- Why should we give subsidies to the most profitable industry the world has ever known?
- Why do we test things on animals if they’re not related to us evolutionarily?
- To people who are for drug testing for people on welfare: Where’s the money coming from to test these people? Aren’t you the same “fiscal conservatives”?
- Why do Republicans say government is so horrible then elect people who prove it?
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