Strega Ribiera

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September 17, 2012

The U.S. Economy: What Happens on November 7th, 2012?

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article showing in very clear detail illustrating that the GOP campaigns going back over a generation have not changed. Moreover, both Republicans and Democrats are simply mired in the past. With shockingly little honest debate taking place about economics in a recession that is barely crawling to recovery, politics has transformed the debate into some kind of bizarre time machine. And the right-wing ideologues for small government fail to recognize that we simply cannot make the math work by cutting spending without sending hundreds of thousands of people to their graves.

We can certainly find areas to cut government spending, but the only serious economic answer to our problems is that we need new revenue sources that are FREE FROM POLITICAL MANIPULATION FOR VOTES.

If nothing else came out of the two parties’ national conventions, this struck me as the current condition of our two-party political system: the race became clearer but the actual policies became muddier.

Read more here: http://hg.scimth.net/2012/09/17/the-economy-what-happens-on-november-7th-2012/

August 28, 2012

Tampa Is Ground Zero for the Real Class Warfare

Republicans gather this week in Tampa, to nominate Mitt Romney for president. This is GroundZero for the real class warfare being waged in America. No more “quiet rooms” where Romney says taxes should be discussed. They will ruminate endlessly over how to change the national mood toward the absolute necessity of limited government, individual liberties and free markets. And they will disparage ad nauseum the so-called “takers” in our society. The welfare moms. The lazy American. The women who want to murder zygotes because they’ve been everything from brutally raped to simply couldn’t keep their knees together holding an aspirin. This is the white, privileged, male, evangelical, tea party view of women and their rights. The “too good for honest work bums” that want to take their hard-inherited money away from them.

These are the “honorable ideologies” that have energized Republicans for a generation. It’s the Tea Party with the rough edges sanded down. Or is it?

http://hg.scimth.net/2012/08/27/tampa-is-ground-zero-for-the-real-class-warfare/

August 14, 2012

Catholic Publication Deems President Obama More Pro-Life Than Mitt Romney

"President Obama has taken a lot of heat and hatred from Catholic Bishops as of late for his decision to expand women’s access to contraception, a move that members of the Catholic Church and the Republican Party claim is pro-abortion. Indeed, the Catholic hierarchy and conservative politicians such as Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and others seek to ban contraception and abortion services entirely based upon their twisted interpretation of the Bible.

So that makes Romney more pro-life than President Obama, right? Not so fast."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/14/catholic-publication-deems-president-obama-more-pro-life-than-mitt-romney/

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