Perhaps you’ve already heard about the growing movement known as Occupy Wall Street. This broad social movement has protested against a variety of social problems in the heart of New York City’s Financial District since mid-September, and it has since spread to a variety of other cities in the US and around the world. I’m…
So, apparently there was a hurricane last week that hit just about the entire east coast. Hopefully it didn’t affect any of you all that much, but if it did or if you know someone who was affected, I hope everything’s alright and that you’ve recovered from Irene’s effects with few problems. Because if Virginia…
Well, it appears that the government shutdown has been averted, at least for the moment. That’s hardly cause for celebration, though, as not only is the final deal still being written up and passed, but we’re also never truly out of the water on funding the government these days either. Put aside deficits, debts, and…
…but I’ll be damned if they didn’t cause it to boil over. I’m talking, of course, of the mass demonstrations against the budget bill that Governor Scott Walker (a Republican), and the majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature (both also Republican) have been trying to ram through for the past month. You know, the one…
Last Friday, something remarkable happened on the floor of the United States Senate; we came as close as we’ve come in years to having a real, stand-up-and-talk-incessantly filibuster. It was done by the guy above, Senator Bernie Sanders (I- Vermont), in response to the rotten deal the middle class seems to be getting with President…
For those of you who are keeping track, Congress is now 0 for 2 on helping the people who really need it this week, mostly thanks to the Republicans. Of course, this statistic changes over the course of this past year, but then again, I didn’t have much hope for this lame duck session of…
For what it’s worth, the Republicans don’t seem to be in favor of much of anything these days that actually makes sense. On the one hand, I can understand their fixation on reducing the deficit; that is something this country needs to tackle before it gets much worse. Then they say they are in favor…
[picapp align="none" wrap="false" link="term=unemployment+benefits&iid=9380600" src="http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9380600/president-obama-speaks/president-obama-speaks.jpg?size=500&imageId=9380600" width="380" height="273" /] Update is below Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over. Today, unemployment benefits are on the verge of finally being reauthorized after nearly two months of the nation’s unemployed having nothing to rely on other than whatever savings they might have had left. Technically, the benefits…
Ah, the deficit. No single issue has caused as much consternation in Congress and around the country as the deficit has in recent weeks. Sure, health care reform tied up Congress for just about a full year, but now everything is getting held up because of the blasted deficit. Unemployment benefits, the coming energy bill,…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=7997266" src="1/4/a/7/US_President_Obama_6e24.JPG?adImageId=10462564&imageId=7997266" width="380" height="268" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Sometimes, things just have to get done in Washington, regardless of political gridlock. This is exactly why the President has the power of issuing executive orders; he can enact certain things that Congress cannot seem to agree on, which will prove to be very…
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