Santorum ‘does not care’ about the unemployment rate

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said in Illinois on Monday that he was not concerned about the unemployment rate because it wasn’t the government’s duty to create jobs.

“I don’t know. We conservatives generally think that government doesn’t create jobs. That what government does is create an atmosphere for jobs to be created in the private sector.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/19/santorum-does-not-care-about-the-unemployment-rate/

This is a must see:

Rick Santorum under fire over ranting rightwing pastor

“Listen to me. If you don’t love America, and you don’t like the way we do things, I’ve got one thing to say, get out!,” he said. “We don’t worship Buddha, we don’t worship Mohammed, we don’t worship Allah. We worship God. We worship God’s son Jesus Christ.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ing-pastor.html

Republican primary voting ‘an absolute mess’

According to Rachel Maddow, a little known fact about the 2012 Republican primary race thus far is that a great deal of the actual voting has been been done in absolute chaos.

First in this segment from Tuesday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow looked at a few of the different Illinois primary ballots. Each ballot had a unique format and in some counties, rather than voting for the presidential nominee candidate directly, voters had to choose individual delegates who would vote for that candidate at the convention. Maddow also reported that 25 of the 110 counties voting in Illinois made ballots that were too wide to fit into voting machines.

Missouri was particularly messy as well. Republicans scheduled their primary for February 7, but were informed by national Republican Party officials that a primary that early in the year would cost the state delegates at the national convention. So Missouri Republicans held a non-binding, meaningless primary, with real delegate selection taking place this last weekend, a process which devolved into ugly shouting matches in Clay County and St. Charles County, Missouri.

Maddow said that the kind of ongoing chaos we’re seeing is a first in the U.S., that multiple errors on this level are unprecedented in American history. “This,” she said, “has been an absolute mess.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/maddow-republican-primary-voting-an-absolute-mess/

The lies of ‘sketchy’ Mitt Romney

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night blasted former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accusing the Republican presidential candidate of being a serial liar.

“This is hard to talk about in the day to day news context, because there are such low expectations for politicians being truthful and because the word ‘lie’ is both under-used and over-used to the point where everybody is a little touchy about it,” she said.

“But the degree to which Mr. Romney lies, all the time, about all sorts of stuff, and doesn’t seem to care when he gets caught is maybe the single most notable thing about his campaign.”

Maddow said the Romney lied about Obama making the economy worse and then lied about saying Obama made it worse, lied about his professional background, lied about his health care policy in Massachusetts, lied about the cost of Obama’s health care reform, lied about the federal deficit, lied about Obama cutting Medicare benefits, lied about Obama raising corporate tax rates, lied about Obama’s trade deals, and even lied about the national anthem.

“He lies all the time, really easily,” she continued. “He says things that are not true with unnerving frequency.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/maddow-chronicles-the-lies-of-sketchy-mitt-romney/

Now when a Repuke says that taxes and regulation along with Obama care is killing America..
He or she is lying their Ass off..
Reality is Both Parties are in up to their Eye Balls on this entire scam on the American People..
Here is a Smoking Gun for you..

The ‘Dirty 30’ Are the Top U.S. Companies That Managed to Pay No Taxes

“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mitt Romney famously said last summer while speaking at the Iowa State Fair.

If only corporations paid taxes on their profits, as people must.

Even Romney, with his offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands, paid nearly $3 million in taxes on the $21.7 million he made in 2010.

In contrast, there are those U.S.-based multinationals that Citizens for Tax Justice dubbed the “Dirty 30”: behemoths that collectively earned tens of billions in profits between 2008 and 2010 but paid no taxes during that three-year period. These companies “so deftly exploited carve outs and loopholes in the tax code that all but one of them enjoyed a negative tax rate”—that is, they received money back from the U.S. Treasury.

Expect to hear plenty more about the messy corporate tax code over the coming months. President Obama declared it "outdated, unfair, and inefficient,” and proposed reducing it to 28 percent while cleaning out—or making permanent—some of the loopholes and exceptions it’s accumulated over the years. GOP presidential hopefuls want the rate lowered further and more of the exemptions made permanent.

The Dirty 30 have spent millions to get the tax code the way it is, and will likely spend millions more to keep it that way. In the three years studied by Citizens for Tax Justice, the 30 spent nearly half a billion dollars on lobbying Congress.

They’ve certainly profited from the friendly tax code. Together the 30, which include Wells Fargo, Mattel, Verizon, GE, and other well-known corporate brands, collected $10.6 billion in tax rebates during the three years Citizens for Tax Justice studied. Many of the companies on the list claim tax rebates while avoiding taxes altogether by parking profits in overseas shelters.

In total, the top 30 companies dodged $67.9 billion in taxes over three years, costs that are passed on to American taxpayers and small businesses that lack the teams of tax analysts necessary to exploit loopholes in the code. “Spread out over every individual tax filer in America, the taxes avoided by the Dirty Thirty break down to an average of $481 per taxpayer over the three years,” according to Citizens for Tax Justice.

Remember these facts when Any Politician says that Corporate is failing because of higher taxes..
This is a blatant Lie..

Newt Gingrich response to this was that Corporation should not pay higher taxes.... He added nothing more to the Question..

The Study that reviled this found that Both Parties are equal in hiding this....

So paying off our Congress was a great investment of Campaign Dollars for these Companies..
A better return $$$$$ than any other Legit Business investment out there period...

So anytime you hear a Repuke talk about the Tax breaks to help Job creators or taxes are to high for Small Businesses..
They are Lying..
They created this Monster of Corporate Controlled American Politics....
Then Putting the Financial Burden on All working class and Small Businesses all along..

Dallas Fed: Top five U.S. banks hold over half of industry’s assets

In its annual report for 2011, issued on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released a startling report revealing that 52 percent of all the assets held by the entire banking industry have now become aggregated into the hands of just five companies, and the top 10 institutions have swollen so large that they possess wealth that equates to roughly half of America’s annual gross domestic product (GDP).

It is for those reasons that Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher, who’s otherwise known as a conservative budget hawk, has embraced the radical cause of breaking up the nation’s largest banks and forever ending “too big to fail.” In a letter introducing the 2011 report, he cautions that Congress may not have gone far enough with prior attempts at financial reforms, and that those bills may even be working against the struggling economic recovery underway.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/da...dustrys-assets/

Romney the Flip Flopper or plain Misleadership????

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46829675

Jane Fonda to Play Nancy Reagan in Republican Nightmare

The right wing is going to love this.

Jane Fonda, whose outspoke opposition to the Vietnam War enraged conservatives, will play former first lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' "The Butler."

"The Butler" is a sprawling historical drama that centers on Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House under eight presidents.

Fonda's performance would be a supporting one, because the film spans decades, chronicling Allen's years in the White House from 1952 all the way up to 1986, when the Reagans inhabited the White House.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/jane-fonda-play-nancy-reagan-republican-nightmare-150106126.html

Romney: Uninsured with preexisting conditions should be denied coverage

“People with preexisting conditions — as long as they’ve been insured before, they’re going to continue to have insurance,” Romney explained.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/28/ro...enied-coverage/

U.S. acted to conceal evidence of intelligence failure before 9/11

Operation Foxden, delayed by turf war between the FBI and the CIA, given green light three days before the al-Qaida attacks.

The US government shut down a series of court cases arising from a multimillion pound business dispute in order to conceal evidence of a damning intelligence failure shortly before the 9/11 attacks, MPs were told.

Moreover, the UK government is now seeking similar powers that could be used to prevent evidence of illegal acts and embarrassing failures from emerging in court, David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, told the Commons.

The Justice and Security green paper being put forward by Ken Clarke’s justice ministry has already faced widespread criticism from civil rights groups, media representatives and lawyers working within the secret tribunal system that hears terrorism-related immigration cases.

Davis demanded to know how its proposals could be prevented from being used to cover up crimes and errors. “In light of previous revelations about the UK government’s complicity in torture and rendition of detainees to locations like of Libya, Afghanistan, or illegally into American hands … how will the Government prevent the Justice and Security green paper proposals being misused in a similar way to cover up illegal acts and embarrassments rather than protect national security?”

Davis said that in 1998 the FBI seized upon an opportunity to eavesdrop on every landline and telephone call into and out of Afghanistan in a bid to build intelligence on the Taliban. The Bureau discovered that the Taliban regime had awarded a major telephone network contract to a joint US-UK venture, run by an American entrepreneur, Ehsanollah Bayat and two British businessmen, Stuart Bentham and Lord Michael Cecil.

“The plan was simple” Davis said. “Because the Taliban wanted American equipment for their new phone network, this would allow the FBI and NSA, the National Security Agency, to build extra circuits into all the equipment before it was flown out to Afghanistan for use. Once installed, these extra circuits would allow the FBI and NSA to record or listen live to every single landline and mobile phone call in Afghanistan. The FBI would know the time the call was made and its duration. They would know the caller’s name, the number dialled, and even the caller’s PIN.”

But the plan, Operation Foxden, was delayed by a turf war, during which “the FBI and the CIA spent more than a year fighting over who should be in charge”, he said.

The operation was eventually given the green light on 8 September 2001 – three days before the al-Qaida attacks. “A huge opportunity was missed,” Davis said.

He added that when Bentham and Cecil sued Bayat in the New York courts, and Bayat lodged a legal claim against the two Britons, the case was struck out and all records removed from the courts public database on the grounds of State Secrets Privilege, a legal doctrine that permits the US government to shut down litigation on the grounds of national security. The Britons attempted to sue in London, Davis said, but the case failed because “so long is the reach of the American State Secrets Privilege” that they were prevented from discussing key details of the US case.

“Through heavy-handed use of State Secrets Privilege, US agencies can dictate what British judges in British courts are entitled to know, and how much British citizens in British courts are entitled to say,” Davis told MPs. “What chance did Bentham and Cecil, or anyone else in a similar position, have of getting a fair hearing when American intelligence agencies can shut down cases without explanation in the US, and use State Secrets Privilege to control what evidence courts can see in the UK?”

Davis said that when he talked about this episode with “someone in the know in one of the agencies involved” he was told: “Ten years have passed, and the culpable people have retired or moved on, so it’s no longer embarrassing.”

Davis said the British green paper proposals are “more Draconian than State Secrets Privilege”, and added: “Giving a government agency an absolute right to secrecy encourages bad behaviour.

“This is the same State Secrets Privilege, and same American government, that the British green paper on Justice and Security is designed to protect,” Davis said, adding that the case demonstrates “how intelligence agencies misuse these laws, not to protect our security, but to avoid their own embarrassment and cover up criminal activity.”

Bayat has previously denied that he or any of his companies acted unlawfully and said that they have never acted as “an agent, informant or spy”. He could not immediately be contacted to comment on Davis’ speech.

The foreign officer minister Jeremy Browne told MPs: “The green paper proposals will enable better scrutiny [of government], which is a vital element in a healthy democracy.” He added that proposals are “not about covering up embarrassment, it is about enabling the work of the courts”.

Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar, director of the legal charity Reprieve, said: “This demonstrates just how ready the intelligence services are to cry national security in order to cover up their own embarrassment. It is yet another compelling example – if one were needed – of why we cannot let the UK Government’s plans for secret justice go ahead.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/28/bush-concealed-evidence-of-intelligence-failure-before-911/