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Alberto, Alberto, Alberto. Please, just go away.
Alberto Gonzales, I mean – George W’s devious White House counsel and
attorney general. He sullied both offices by repeatedly and secretly
striving to shred our Constitution and defy the rule of law on
everything from torture to illegal wiretapping. Finally, having misled
Congress, he was forced to resign in 2007.
But he won’t go away! He’s recently been on a pity tour of media
outlets, trying vainly to portray himself as an abused public servant.
In one interview, Gonzales did show remorse – not for anything he did,
but for actions of subordinates. “I deeply regret some of the decisions
made by my staff,” he wormed.
He’s not alone in his public display of smug, self-serving,
delusionment. Bush himself asserts that he did no wrong in his
eight-year term: “When I … look in the mirror, I am not going to regret
what I see.” Dick Cheney, too, is full of conceit, saying he's writing a
book to show that everything he did – including okaying torture – was
beyond reproach.
What’s at play here is far more than the usual effort by politicos to
put a shine on their records. These are politicians who knowingly
violated our nation’s laws and who secretly asserted a politics of
executive supremacy that unilaterally overthrows the Constitutional
mandate for separation of powers. If there is no true accounting for
what they did, then their actions become a legal precedent, sanctioning
other White House inhabitants to do the same.
This is why America needs a fiercely-independent review commission to
reveal the details of their executive excess. The point is not to
prosecute someone, but to uncover the truth and make clear that America
will not sanction an autocratic power grab – even one disguised as a
“war on terror.”
“Alberto Gonzales, the Sequel,”
www.nytimes.com, January 27, 2009.
“Do what must be done,” Austin American Statesman, January 25, 2009.
Wal-Mart: Recession Profiteer
by
Tula Connell
Bank and
insurance CEOs aren’t the only ones getting rewarded for horrendous behavior
in this recession. There’s Wal-Mart, whom Newsweek now has anointed
as “Our
Corporate Savior.” (Hat tip to dakine01.)
“Wal-Mart
recently announced that its same store sales in January were up 2.1 percent,
which was more than forecast. With the company’s huge network of stores and
ability to strong-arm suppliers, Wal-Mart offers shoppers good merchandise
at prices which becomes more and more attractive as the downturn
continues.”
The brutal
truth is that
Wal-Mart
is profiting in the midst of misery because of policies that, like those of
the financial services industry, fueled the nation’s economic disaster.
While banks rolled up and peddled collateralized debt packages like cheap
tuna wraps, Wal-Mart’s assault on America’s economy came from another
angle–everyday low wages. By paying the vast majority of its workers little
more than the minimum wage and offering health care plans most can’t afford,
Wal-Mart shifted its corporate expenses to taxpayers.
So, two things
happened: Workers sunk into debt—mortgages, tuition loans, credit
cards—unable to support families on such low wages, and states were force to
channel precious resources to full-time workers whose employer should have
paid them enough to afford private health care. Now with
state budgets
collapsing, 1 million people are expected to lose
state-funded health care—many of them, undoubtedly, Wal-Mart workers.
An
AFL-CIO study
from a few years back found that in 19 of 23 states surveyed, Wal-Mart
topped the list of employers pushing workers into state-provided health care
programs. In Georgia in 2002, for instance, the Department of Community
Health found that 10,261 kids (6.2 percent of all Georgia
children who participated in PeachCare, the state’s health care program for
low-income children) had parents working for Wal-Mart. PeachCare coverage
for children of Wal-Mart employees costs state taxpayers an estimated $6.6
million per year.
But Wal-Mart
has had more than one way to soak up taxpayer money.
The study found
that Wal-Mart also wrung at least $1 billion in economic development
assistance from state and local governments over the past 20 years.
A list of wage
abuses (never mind gender discrimination, health and safety violations and
so on) filed against Wal-Mart is not possible to compile in one place. Here
are just a handful provided by
Wake Up Wal-Mart:
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In December 2005, a California court ordered Wal-Mart to pay $172
million in damages for failing to provide meal breaks to nearly
116,000 hourly workers ,as required under state law. Wal-Mart appealed
the case.
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Wal-Mart’s 2006 Annual Report showed that the company faced 57 wage
and hour lawsuits. Major lawsuits have either been won or are working
their way through the legal process in states such as California,
Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington.
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In March 2005, Wal-Mart agreed to pay $11 million to settle
allegations that it had failed to pay overtime to janitors, many of
whom worked seven nights a week.
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Meanwhile, now
former Wal-Mart CEO
Lee Scott
in 2008 made a cool $30 million in total compensation.
Wal-Mart in
recent months has bought its way to a better media image with high-profile
charitable donations and moves to “green up” its products. But we shouldn’t
let the smoke and mirrors fog our memory of how the corporation treats its
workers—and how their low wages affect us all.
After cleverly
getting taxpayers to fund its bottom line, and paying workers wages so low
many are mired in debt, Wal-Mart now is the only place where many of
America’s workers can afford to shop.
But apparently,
they can’t afford much. Wal-Mart
announced last week
it is joining the long list of corporations laying off workers.
Our Corporate Savior.
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DAILY GRILL
"Unfortunately, this bill stimulates the debt, it stimulates the growth
of government, but it doesn't stimulate jobs."
-- Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), 2/10/09,
on the recovery package
VERSUS
"This is the type of emergency stimulus spending we should be
supporting -- programs that will create jobs now and help families." --
Bond,
2/17/09
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"First, we have zero capital gains. We eliminate the capital gains tax.
... [I]t's a new, bold idea." -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 2/17/09
VERSUS
"Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested today that all capital gains and
estate taxes be eliminated." -- New York Times,
4/10/97
Quotes
of the Day
NONE THIS WEEK
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Recent Senate Votes
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Vote Agreed to
(60-38, 1 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to the conference report of this stimulus bill, sending it
to the President.
Sen. Mitch McConnell voted NO
Sen. Jim Bunning voted NO
Recent House Votes
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Vote Passed
(246-183, 1 Present, 3 Not Voting)
The House gave final approval to this stimulus bill.
Rep. Brett Guthrie voted NO
Rep. John Yarmuth
voted YES
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HUMOR
"Bristol
Palin, Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, in a recent interview said, "A
year ago, I never would have thought I would become a mom or that my mom was
going to be chosen to be a vice presidential candidate. Oddly enough, both
things happened because some guy failed to take the proper precautions."
--Jay Leno
"According to the Financial Times,
Barack Obama is moving towards Swedish models of banking. A president
moving towards Swedish models? That hasn't happened since the Clinton
Administration." --Craig Ferguson
"After withdrawing his name for commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg said he
hoped he was just embarrassing himself and not President Obama, to which
Joe Biden said, 'Don't worry about it. I do it all the time.'" --Jay
Leno
"A new poll of historians just came out. And the poll has named
former President
George W. Bush one of the ten worst presidents of all time. But on the
bright side, Bush was selected second best president named George Bush."
--Conan O'Brien
"Good news and bad news for
Sarah Palin. The bad news is that the IRS says she owes thousands of
dollars in back taxes. The good news is that she now qualifies to be in
Obama’s Cabinet." --Craig Ferguson
"A lot of individual states are having budget problems right now. California
in particular is a mess.
Governor Schwarzenegger can't get fellow Republicans to vote for his
compromise plan because it includes a big tax increase. And he's already
done everything he can possibly do to convince them. He told them he'll 'be
back,' he said, 'Hasta la vista, baby.' He even threatened to terminate
them, several times, to no avail." --Jimmy Kimmel
"As part of a plan to close his state's budget deficit, New York Governor
David Paterson is proposing a tax on Internet pornography. You see, this is
why we can't have blind governors. I mean, no offense, but of course he's
going to tax pornography. If he can't enjoy it, nobody can. What's next, a
tax on rainbows?" --Jimmy Kimmel
"And there are a lot of new taxes coming. California state legislators want
to solve our state's giant deficit by taxing marijuana. Meanwhile, Oregon
wants to increase a tax on beer, while New York wants to tax Internet porn.
You know what this means? By the end of spring break, this whole thing could
be paid for." --Jay Leno
"You remember
Hillary Clinton? She has been married to Bubba for quite a while. Well,
she is now the secretary of state, and she is on her first big round the
world tour. She is on her big Asian tour. She wants to normalize relations
with North Korea. No word yet about normalizing relations with Bill."
--David Letterman
"A new study says that the bad economy can lower testosterone levels in men.
Scientists say at this rate, by the end of the decade,
Ann Coulter could be a woman!" --Craig Ferguson
"I saw an article last week that said, 'Is Obama's Presidency already a
failure?' ... I think everybody should just calm down. Give Obama four
years. See what he can do. Then if he's a miserable failure, we'll do what
we did with George W. Bush and elect him to a
second term." --Craig Ferguson
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SCIENCE -- RESEARCHERS PREPARE FOR OBAMA TO
REVERSE FEDERAL BAN ON STEM CELLS: Officials at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) have started to draft new guidelines regarding
embryonic stem cells as they
anxiously wait for President Obama to reverse the Bush administration's
policy banning federal funding of the research. Obama, who pledged to end
the ban during his campaign,
recently told House Democrats, "I guarantee you that we will sign an
executive order" overturning the limits on stem cell research. "God gave us
[the] power to make smart decisions to cure diseases, to alleviate
suffering," he said. Asked on Fox News Sunday this past week about the
new administration's plans to overturn the Bush-era ban, senior Obama
adviser David Axelrod said, the "President is considering" lifting the ban
"right now" and action will be taken "soon." The
NIH believes that it "could approve the first supplemental grants to
current grantees to study new cell lines within four months and the first
new grants within six to nine months" of the ban's reversal. "We want to be
able to move as quickly as possible," said Story Landis, who is in charge of
the NIH's stem cell task force. "The science is waiting."
RADICAL RIGHT -- UTAH STATE SENATOR SAYS GAY
PEOPLE ARE 'THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA': In January, according to
a recent leak, state Sen. Chris Buttars (R) gave
an interview with a local ABC affiliate in which he
compared gays to alcoholics and Muslim terrorists, and warned that gay
people are "probably the greatest threat to America." "To me, homosexuality
will always be a sexual perversion," Buttars said, adding, "They say, I'm
born that way. There's some truth to that, in that some people are born with
an attraction to alcohol." Buttars later called gays "the meanest buggers I
ever seen." Gays are "probably
the greatest threat to America going down I know of," he said. Buttars
also praised former President Bush because he allegedly "saved" America "for
the foreseeable future" by appointing conservatives to the Supreme Court.
Yesterday a Utah state House committee
defeated a bill that would have granted same-sex couples rights of
inheritance and medical decision-making, following the
defeat of bills that would have allowed gay adoption and protected gays
from housing and employment discrimination
HEALTH CARE -- REPORT SAYS 14,000 AMERICANS
LOSE HEALTH INSURANCE EVERY DAY: The economic recovery package that
President Obama signed into law yesterday in Denver contains
many important health care provisions such as funding for Medicaid and
health IT as well as subsidies for the recently unemployed. However, the
bill does not represent a total victory for progressive health care
advocates, as lawmakers negotiating the bill
compromised on a number of key health care components. For example,
negotiators bowed to objections from conservatives and
stripped provisions that would have allowed workers "to stay on Cobra
until they qualified for Medicare" or enroll in Medicaid if they couldn't
afford COBRA premiums "even
with the new subsidies." At the same time, Americans in large numbers
are losing health care coverage. In fact, according to a new Center for
American Progress Action Fund report, the unemployment rate grew by 0.8
percentage points in December and January while 100,000 people a week, or
14,000 people a day lost their health coverage. The ranks of the
uninsured will continue to grow as the recession persists. As Berkeley
professor Jacob Hacker
pointed out, the stimulus "won't provide the cure" to the health care
crisis. "What we need is a new New Deal."
CONGRESS -- REP. CANTOR PREPARES TO OBSTRUCT
OBAMA'S HOUSING PLAN BEFORE
IT IS RELEASED: After signing the $787
billion economic recovery bill into law yesterday, President Obama will
announce a plan to address the nation's housing crisis today in Phoenix,
AZ. The
much needed plan will reportedly "use at least $50 billion in Wall
Street rescue money authorized last year to provide subsidies when banks
reduce interest rates for troubled homeowners to lower the monthly
payments many Americans are now struggling to pay." However, it appears that
conservatives in Congress are gearing up to obstruct the plan. In fact,
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) was already preparing to
stage a partisan fight against Obama's housing legislation before the
details were even released. "When you're looking at the policy here, you've
got to start with the fact that 93 percent of America's families are current
on their mortgages and, frankly, are out there wondering, you know, who is
going to pay for this continued succession of bailouts?" Cantor said in an
interview with CBS on Monday. "We just cannot continue to pay for the kind
of things that this administration thinks we can." Cantor's blind opposition
is ironic, considering that several conservatives in Congress --
including Cantor himself -- slammed the economic recovery package for
allegedly not addressing the housing crisis. Indeed, in an op-ed last month
titled "Fix the Stimulus," Cantor argued, "Also critical will be addressing
the housing crisis."
LEADER GINGRICH: The GOP has been
scrambling to pick up the pieces after two devastating elections, in which
they lost control of the House, Senate and the White House, and Gingrich is
seizing upon the leadership vacuum. Last September, Gingrich "was whipping
against" President Bush's TARP plan "up until the last minute" and was
reportedly in part responsible for the GOP
voting against it. As House Speaker from 1995 to 1999, Gingrich whipped
his colleagues into opposing most of President Clinton's policy agenda, most
famously health care reform. Now he is advising the GOP leadership to follow
the same path with Obama's agenda. The New York Times reported this weekend
that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) "had
studied Mr. Gingrich's years in power and had been in regular touch with
him as he sought to help his party find the right tone and message." "I talk
to Newt on a regular basis," Cantor said.
SMART STRATEGY?: Yesterday on MSNBC,
host Chris Matthews noted that "the Republicans plan to say, 'I told you,'"
if Obama's recovery plan fails. He asked, "So how smart is it for the Grand
Old Party to place all its chips on the grand defeat of the American
economy?" Also,
how smart is it to follow Gingrich's lead? Conventional wisdom suggests
Gingrich's obstruction tactics in the early 1990s were a success, but as
Center for American Progress Action Fund Fellow Matt Yglesias pointed out,
"those tactics included lockstep opposition to a Clinton economic program"
that "laid the groundwork for years of prosperity." Obstructing Clinton's
health care reform initiatives in the '90s have been costly.
Nearly 10 million more Americans have joined the rolls of
the uninsured and health care costs "surpassed
$2 trillion in 2006, almost three times the $714 billion spent in 1990."
Gingrich's credibility on major issues is also in question. In 1993, he
warned that Clinton's budget proposals "will
lead to a recession next year. This is the Democrat machine's recession,
and each one of them will be held personally accountable." Moreover, the
American public became disgruntled with Gingrich's political tactics,
especially during the budget standoff that led to the government shutdowns
of 1995-96. Newsday
reported on Nov. 11, 1995, that a "USA Today/CNN poll released yesterday
suggested Americans by wide margins have soured on the Republican agenda,
with 60 percent saying he [Clinton] should veto the budget bill and 33
percent saying he should sign it." And on the first day of the government
shutdown, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup
poll found that 36 percent favored the GOP position while 49 percent
favored the Democratic position.
ECONOMY -- BIG BUSINESS TAX GIVEAWAYS SNUCK
INTO ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE: As a result of a
last minute change to the stimulus bill yesterday, a $67.5 billion
pro-business tax break, known as net operating loss tax breaks, was added
back into the compromise recovery bill, in an apparent attempt to gain
Republican support. This change
expands the scope of tax cuts for business in the recovery package by
letting "companies of any size amend up to five years of tax returns to
deduct net operating losses." The tax cuts
were originally struck from the stimulus bill because they are
inherently non-stimulative. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office
determines that the tax breaks "do
not improve the provision's effectiveness as stimulus" and "do little to
make new domestic investment more attractive to firms." The tax breaks were
a top priority for the National Association of Manufacturers because they
allow companies to "convert losses into tax refunds" -- which translates
into rewarding businesses for failing. Michael Ettlinger of the Center for
American Progress called this provision "misguided" and a "classic
example of throwing money at a problem and hoping something good
happens."
Think Fast
Canadians are "abuzz" about President Obama's visit today,
his first foreign trip as president. According to the CBC, "People started
gathering in front of Parliament Hill
before sunrise" in anticipation of Obama's touchdown at 10:30 a.m. ET in
Ottawa.
Afghanistan and the
economy top the agenda for Obama’s meeting with Prime Minister Stephen
Harper
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush last year told
a Baghdad court yesterday that he was
coerced into making a false confession of making a terrorist training
film. "I said this before the guards of the prime minister after I
was beaten and after my body was devoured by electricity," Muntazer
al-Zaidi said. He said Bush's "icy smile" "enraged" him. "I felt that this
person is the killer of the people, the prime murderer," he said.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele says he is planning an "off the hook"
PR offensive to attract younger voters, especially minorities, by
applying conservative principles to "urban-suburban hip-hop settings." "[W]e
need to uptick our image with everyone, including
one-armed midgets," he explained.
"After years in which
military budgets have soared to record levels," the Pentagon is
preparing to have its funding scaled back in President Obama's upcoming
budget, set to be released next week. "One thing we have known for many
months is the spigot of defense funding opened by 9/11 is closing,"
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Congress recently. The Center for
American Progress's Lawrence Korb suggests ways to cut wasteful Pentagon
spending
here.
The SEC charged Texas businessman R. Allen Stanford yesterday
with carrying out a "massive,
ongoing fraud" involving the sale of $8 billion in certificates of
deposit. Stanford and his colleagues "lied to customers about how their
money was being invested" while promising "improbable, if not impossible"
returns. Over the last 10 years, Stanford spent
at least $5 million on lobbying and campaign contributions.
CQ writes that
House GOP leaders Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Mike Pence (R-IN) are "repackag[ing]
the right's thinking." But they're using familiar tactics. "The
pair is out to
align the business community's K Street allies and their party's
conservative wing in time for the 2010 midterm campaign."
Dick Cheney was "furious" up until the end at President
Bush's refusal to pardon Scooter Libby. "He went to the mat and came back
and back and back at Bush," a "Cheney defender" said. "He was still trying
the day before Obama was sworn in."
As the Postal Service is posting nearly $3 billion a year in losses,
Postmaster General John Potter received a $135,000 bonus last year
to supplement his $263,575 salary. Potter's total compensation and
retirement benefits added up to more than $800,000 in 2008 --
more than double the salary for President Obama
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INTERESTING
Palin owes
tax on per diem, state says
Governor received meal
money while living in Wasilla. By
LISA DEMER,
ldemer@adn.com
Gov. Sarah Palin must pay
income taxes on thousands of dollars in expense money she received while
living at her Wasilla home, under a new determination by state officials.
The
governor's office wouldn't say this week how much she owes in back taxes for
meal money, or whether she intends to continue to receive the per diem
allowance. As of December, she was still charging the state for meals and
incidentals.
"The
amount of taxes owed is a private matter," Sharon Leighow, Palin's
spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. "If the governor collects future per diem,
those documents would be a matter of public record."
The
revelation about Palin comes as U.S. senators, including Sen. Mark Begich,
D-Alaska, are under scrutiny over back taxes. A survey by the political
newspaper and Web site Politico
(www.politico.com)
found that Begich was one of seven senators who acknowledged having paid
back taxes.
Some other
state employees also owe back income taxes for travel payments and will be
getting revised tax forms, Annette Kreitzer, state administration
commissioner, said in an e-mail.
She wouldn't say which, or how many, employees will be
receiving the notifications.
The
payments became a touchy issue for Palin last fall when she was running for
vice president and campaigned as a budget watchdog.
The
Washington Post published a story in mid-September that said she had charged
the state almost $17,000 for meals and incidentals while staying in her own
home.
The state
considers Juneau, where she lives in the Governor's Mansion, to be Palin's
official duty station.
Palin
billed the state for 312 nights spent in her Wasilla home during her first
19 months in office, according to the Washington Post. She received $60 a
day tax free, money intended to cover meals and incidentals, while traveling
on state business, her travel forms show.
"Last fall
we raised questions about longstanding practices within the Department of
Administration regarding tax treatment of per diem payments," Kreitzer wrote
in an exchange of e-mails over the past few days with the Daily News.
"At the
Governor's request, we reviewed the situation to determine whether we were
in full compliance with the pertinent Internal Revenue Service regulations,"
Kreitzer wrote. "As a result of this review, we determined that per diem
needs to be treated as income, requiring a revision of W-2 forms for any
affected employees."
The new
determination by administration officials won't affect state lawmakers, said
Pam Varni, director of the Legislative Affairs agency.
Under IRS
guidelines, legislators receive tax-free payments to help with living
expenses while in Juneau for the legislative session -- if their home is at
least 50 miles away, Varni said.
The
current rate, set by the U.S. Department of Defense, is $189 a day. That
goes to everyone except the three Juneau-based legislators, who get smaller
payments that are taxed as compensation.
Legislators can also charge the state $150 a day for time spent on state
business when the Legislature is not in session, but those payments are
taxed as income, Varni said.
Begich's
situation came to light through a political survey released last week by
Politico about senators and their taxes.
Fifty-five
senators, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, didn't answer the
questions, and a few others owed money but didn't consider it "back taxes"
for one reason or another.
On his way
out of a meeting with veterans on Monday, Begich answered a few questions
about the back taxes he paid on a vehicle provided to him by the city when
he was mayor.
"I refused
the car the first 10 or 12 months," Begich said. "I didn't want the car.
"Then they
told me I had to have it because of liability and a need and security and
blah, blah, blah. So I ended up getting a used car. The first time a mayor
has gotten a used car." It was a former police SUV.
The tax
obligation came to his attention in late 2007, as he remembers it, after a
regular IRS audit of city issues. The city then sent him revised tax
statements.
"They gave
me a letter and said you got to pay taxes on it. So they revised my W-2s."
He wouldn't say how much he owed. "It's irrelevant," Begich said.
Generally,
people are supposed to pay income taxes on the value of an employer-provided
vehicle that is for personal use. Police vehicles are among the exceptions
-- officers can drive them home and not be taxed on the value of the
commute.
There's no
specific exception in the law for mayors or governors. Palin has had a state
Chevy Suburban.
Begich
said a mayor is always on the job. No other Anchorage mayor ever had to pay
income taxes on a city vehicle, he said.
"That's
the point. I'm always on call. Always. ... And I think that's what the
city's view was, for the city manager and me, was that we were always on
call," Begich said. "But the IRS viewed it differently."
"After
that issue came up, I got rid of the car," Begich said. He was in a downtown
parking lot getting into the Toyota Highlander hybrid he bought in late 2007
to replace the city rig.
The
Politico story about the survey said his situation echoed that of Tom
Daschle, who had to step down as President Barack Obama's pick for health
secretary after revelations about back taxes, including taxes owed for a
limo and driver.
"For
Politico to say it's the same as Daschle -- that's bunk," Begich said.
Buy American Mention of
the Week,
By Roger Simmermaker
NONE THIS WEEK
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Roger Simmermaker is the
author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism
and writes "Buy American Mention of the Week" articles for WorldNetDaily.com
and his website www.howtobuyamerican.com. Roger is a member of the
Machinists Union and National Writers Union, has been a frequent guest on
Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, and has been quoted in the USA Today, Wall Street
Journal and Business Week among many other publications.
GOOD
NEWS
"The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first
time to
regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame
for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration
officials."
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For
the bankers? No, for the little people, says Giuliani. He almost teared
up as he explained that the multi-million dollar payouts to high-flying
Wall Streeters trickle down to waiters in swank New York restaurants, to
clerks at Tiffanys and Gucci, to sales staff at Lamborghini dealers, and
to real estate agents selling mansions in the Hamptons. Even gardeners
and garbage collectors get their cut, Hizzoner claimed.
