Daily Archives: July 26, 2012
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Jul 12
Romney an Embarassment Abroad
If you need further proof that this man should not be President then your not paying attention. Romney apparently has not concept of what is diplomacy:
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s high-profile overseas trip got off to a rocky start on Thursday when he was forced to clarify a comment seen as criticizing London’s handling of the Summer Olympics that he came to celebrate.
The Republican candidate ruffled British feathers ahead of his visit by appearing to suggest in a U.S. television interview that London was not ready for the games, whose opening ceremony in the British capital is held on Friday.
“It’s hard to know just how well it will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting,” Romney told NBC when asked to analyze London’s handling of the Olympics.
He cited what he said was the threat of a strike by immigration and customs officials. “That obviously is not something which is encouraging.”
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Jul 12
House honors victims of Colorado theater massacre
What a joke. No gun legislation. No financial aid. Just empty words. A totally pointless exercise. These people have no shame. Thats why Congressional support is worse than that for the Communist Party.
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Jul 12
14 Specific Allegations of NYPD Brutality During Occupy Wall Street
Source: The Atlantic:
An investigation undertaken by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard, and Stanford has concluded, after eight months of study, that the NYPD abused Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights on numerous occasions during the 2011 protests that radiated out from Zuccotti Park. Their report, Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street, was released today. It focuses on transgressions against international law.
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Jul 12
Obama Silent on Upcoming Increase in Payroll Tax
Source: Washington Post:
But, interestingly, when talking about taxes these days, the White House is relatively silent about coming increases in payroll taxes — both for the rich and poor. Let’s take a look.
[...]For obvious reasons, the Obama White House does not want to highlight the pending increases in payroll taxes. The health-care law is still not especially popular, even with Obama’s victory at the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, it is not good politics to note that the looming increase in the Social Security payroll tax will reduce the size of the middle-class tax cuts that the president is promoting on the campaign trail.
But for ordinary Americans, the net effect on the paycheck is ultimately what counts. If the White House is going to brag about payroll tax cuts in a report touting its tax-cut plan for the middle class, it should openly acknowledge that a good chunk of those promised tax cuts will disappear when the payroll tax cuts lapse.
Post gives White House 2 Pinnochios
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Jul 12
The Miami March for an Increase in the Minimum Wage
Are we seeing the rise of a grassroots movement for an increase in the minimum wage? Obviously we can’t depend on this President. He has remained completely 
silent despite his campaign promises. And the left has enabled his treachery. They are too busy trying to get Obama re-elected in the mistaken belief that he is better than Romney. He is just as much anti-labor as the GOP candidate.
We don’t need them. Let’s demand what is a right–a living wage:
Wielding signs under the blazing July sun, 200 people rallied at Bayfront Park Tuesday afternoon to encourage Congress to increase the federal minimum wage.
Members of local advocacy group 1Miami were joined by other supporters and minimum wage workers to argue against keeping wages low in a time when cost of living continues to increase. The minimum wage in Florida is $7.67 per hour, slightly higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, last adjusted in 2009.
If minimum wage kept up with inflation, according to 1Miami, workers would be earning $10.55 per hour.
“Their fight is our fight, their struggle is our struggle,” 1Miami director Eric Brakken told the crowd gathering around the Challenger Memorial.
