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BlueGreenLady's JournalA democracy lost to corporate socialism The Hill
"Many of the retail stores you walk into, especially big box retailers and in some cases entire shopping centers, legally keep the sales taxes you pay at the cash register," he said. "That's because government bought the land, often after condemning it through eminent domain and had the buildings erected to the specifications of the company, but the land and building are actually owned by a government entity, and the cost of buying the land and putting up the building are paid for with your taxpayer dollars. That's not capitalism. That's not market economics. It's a system in which governments pick winners and create losers."
"Johnston cited several examples of corporate socialism. In Lockport, N.Y., Yahoo is receiving $2 million for every job it creates in the area, which pay on average $45,000 annually. Alcoa is currently receiving $5.6 billion in electricity discounts from New York state, which would be better spent decreasing utility rates for residents across the state. Boeing has received billions in subsidies to build a plant in South Carolina, while transparency remains elusive regarding the exact worth of the subsidies and incentives the company received. In his 2007 book "Free Lunch," Johnston discusses how a corporation like Cabela's received $32 million in government subsidies to build, at the time, the largest outdoor recreational gear store in the country in Hamburg, Pa., while a local competitor who sold the same products at lower prices went out of business because of the deal."
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/268947-a-democracy-lost-to-corporate-socialism
The Unusual Earth Orbit Circling Above Our Ancient Past Roger G. Gilbertson TEDxColoradoSprings
Wondering why all the polls were wrong about the Iowa Caucus winner.
Don't remember any poll showing Buttigieg winning. Monmouth was most accurate- they reported the Caucus was up for grabs 5 days before the Caucus.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/02/btrtn-iowa-caucuses-prediction-bernie.html
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287446363
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287455724
America's Great Divide: Robert Reich Interview FRONTLINE
Endorsement: Elizabeth Warren will push an unequal America in the right direction - DMRegister
Excerpts from the Register's Endorsement:
"The senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts is not the radical some perceive her to be. She was a registered Republican until 1996. She is a capitalist. I love what markets can do, she said. They are what make us rich, they are what create opportunity.
"A former Harvard professor and expert in bankruptcy law, she helped set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency was specifically designed to prevent a repeat of the banking crisis and look out for little guys swindled by lenders and credit card companies. "
"But at this moment, our country needs more. We need a president who can work the levers of government to translate ideas into signed laws and effective regulations. We need a president committed to bringing our troops home from open-ended foreign entanglements. We need a president who understands that the American dream itself is at risk: the ideal that someone who works hard and plays by the rules can get ahead, and that their children will do even better. With Warren, the Oval Office will be occupied by someone who has made rebuilding the middle class her lifes work."
"Warrens competence, respect for others and status as the nations first female president would be a fitting response to the ignorance, sexism and xenophobia of the Trump Oval Office."
I could not put it any better than the Register's editorial board did. Here's why I support Elizabeth Warren's in her bid for President. Here's the link for those of you who want to read the rest of the Des Moines Register's Endorsement of Elizabeth Warren. It includes some criticism of her as well:
"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/caucus/2020/01/26/elizabeth-warren-president-democrat-iowa-caucuses-des-moines-register-editorial-board-endorsement/4562157002/
It's the Trumpublican Corruption, pure and simple.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B7qjBq7nvqY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkLove E Warren's answer to Rachel's question about whether the blowback from Trump's impeachment trial was worth Democrat's efforts. IMO, yes, we had to Impeach Trump for abusing the power of his office. He did obstruct justice and used American taxpayer dollars to extort an allied country to get dirt on Joe Biden. We need to remove all the Trumpublicans in 2020 and 2024!
Why did CNN and Corporate Media hack down Howard Dean's campaign?
"Cash LeBrun:
NBC, CNN, and the rest of the main stream media didnt want Universal Healthcare, they tried to portray Howard Dean as crazy and John Kerry as electable. Every time they showed a clip of a candidate, it was of them talking about an issue with a sound bite, but every clip of Dean was him screaming. NBC, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media derailed Howard Deans campaign because of their bias against progressive issues like Universal Health (Care)"
Warren's New Electability Argument -Emma Green/The Atlantic
"Elizabeth Warren made the case during Tuesdays Democratic debate that gender is not a liability in 2020. Its a strength."
"To make her case, Warren pointed to hard evidence, invoking the records of her competitors in the Democratic primary race. Look at the men on this stage, Warren said. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that theyve been in are the women: Amy [Klobuchar] and me. And shes more than prepared to take on President Donald Trump as a woman, she added: The only person on this stage who has beaten an incumbent Republican anytime in the past 30 years is me.
"But Warren managed to move the conversation to a new levelpast any disagreement with Sanders, past a referendum on what happened to Clinton in 2016, past a debate over how sexist America really is. Women candidates and voters will once again be crucial players up and down ballots in 2020, Warren argued, and theyve proved that they can win against men and Republicans alike. And besides, she said, this is not the first time people have questioned whether a candidates identity will prevent them from electoral success. Back in the 1960s, people asked, Could a Catholic win? she said. Back in 2008, people asked if an African American could win. In both times, the Democratic Party stepped up and said yes, got behind their candidate, and we changed America. That is who we are."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/elizabeth-warren-woman-president/604942/
Sexism: Warren Tried Not to Talk About It /The Cut
"What has been exposed here are some of the complicated, painful, difficult dynamics that have kept women from the presidency for the countrys entire history. Among those dynamics is the chilling fact that talking in any kind of honest way about marginalization becomes a trap for the marginalized. To acknowledge the realities of running as a woman the double standards, the higher bars, the demands for likability and relatability in a nation that mostly only relates to and likes dudes; the need to be authoritative but not hectoring; to be smart but not a know-it-all; to be cool but not fake; to be warm but not a mommy; to be maternal but not too soft; to have the contours of your life, from your breasts to your skin-care routines to your maternity leaves, treated as foreign and weird and maybe counterfeit by a political media thats never had to take this stuff seriously before; to be honest but not actually tell the truth about any of this stuff because youll sound like a whiner is a trap. You will be understood as trying to leverage the bleak unfairness of it all to your benefit: as if you are the one to enter the arena with the advantage of getting to cry Sexism! and not with the multiple disadvantages of
sexism.
And so you cant really sit down and talk about it, certainly not in a media landscape that trades in sound bites and takes and lethal tweets; you cant actually meaningfully reveal the things that drive you nuts or that stop you short or shock you into stunned silence, because how can this still be so ridiculously dumb and obviously unjust? To live this, and to not be able to talk about it, and to be regularly warned about it by even well-meaning people who arent experiencing it themselves? It must be galling.
Especially galling for a human being like Elizabeth Warren, for whom forward motion is a constant, for whom predictions of doom, or even setback, are anathema. Back in 2018, when she recalled those friends who warned her that a woman couldnt win Massachusetts, she stared at me and said, At the end of the day, you just cant let that [stop you]. You couldve said to me, Youre going to get all your skin burnt off, and my answer would have been, Thats going to be part of the prize. Every person who said to me, Massachusetts wont elect a woman, or, worse, When you lose, it will set back the cause of women, made me lean harder into the decision to run."
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-sexism.html
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