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greengiant commented on the diary post Social Security Isn’t a Pension Plan But by masaccio.
Who is paying your check? The Koch brothers or Peterson? You left out the part that they threw everyone but the top 0.1 percent under the bus the last 30 years and then ran them over again with the Bush tax cuts. You can whine about how much harder every one worked the last 10 [...]
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greengiant commented on the diary post Medicine in a Rural Farming Community in 1920s Missouri by Crane-Station.
My grandmother, who was about 35 years older than Letty, always felt that only people who were going to die went to the hospital. It was interesting to me to find many rural homes with the only running water going to the kitchen sink. Several times I noticed the prize mantel piece was the WWII [...]
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greengiant commented on the diary post Medicine in a Rural Farming Community in 1920s Missouri by Crane-Station.
Life expectancy at birth as a statistic is problematic. Often used to distort social security expectations from the 30′s to now. For social security the most important number is life expectancy at full retirement, age 65 or 67. Not as much improvement as the “entitlement” deniers would have the naive believe. A low number may [...]
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greengiant commented on the diary post Zimmerman: The Defense Subpoenas for School Records and Social Media Accounts Were Proper by Masoninblue.
Any thought on why Zimmerman is not being prosecuted for crimes against W9? I don’t know if any of you all care, but once there is a reasonable possibility that TM initiated the physical interaction and was on top of Z, then Z will be found innocent? It has no bearing on this incident, it [...]
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greengiant commented on the blog post Schumer’s Gambit: Ending the Tax Reform Con, Ending the Grand Bargain?
Lame duck congressional session, Peterson and the Koch brothers been paying for it for months…
Well if the deficit hawks and cat food commission and 0.1 percenters are all on board about how SS is an entitlement and not “insurance” then why is it that the SS is only a tax on wages, and so nicely regressive starting at dime 1 of labor income?
If you say corporations are people, then I say tax them as people and we will have a new 15.2 percent tax on all personal and corporate non wage income. -
greengiant commented on the diary post The Cost of Erasing Dissent (#Chalkupy Austin) by hprocknow.
That is precisely the point, the sidewalk chalk exercise is no different than any other event one might take children to for example a charity walk a thon. Except for the illegal jack booted actions of the Austin government. Some comments posted here bring to mind the Federal and private contract efforts to disrupt opposition [...]
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greengiant commented on the blog post Rhode Island Blows Save, Schilling Takes Loss
Hey in Oregon the taxpayers pay to put up wind farms and solar energy collectors, At least the holes in the ground Shilling put his bucks in aren’t killing any angry birds or making super fund sites.
The economic arithmetic of putting the gun to your head and pulling the trigger is real easy to figure. If there was no subsidy would they do it?
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greengiant commented on the diary post How Big Banks Run the World – at Your Expense by Gar Alperovitz.
Here is a geeky tip, the required reserves are about 1 percent of bank deposits, just take the Federal Reserve Board reports of total bank deposits and compare to the 90 Billion or so of required reserves in the weekly H-1 report. It did not use to be that way. When I was taught economics [...]
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greengiant commented on the blog post Romney’s Health Care Plan Would Allow Pre-Existing Condition Discrimination
“putting more low-income individuals either without health insurance or into the individual market.”
The individual market for health insurance is running 200 to 600 a month per person with no drug coverage, 20 percent copay and a healthy deductible in the Oregon Medical Insurance Pool.
Jack that 500 percent for California “high risk”, read any pre existing condition.
I suspect most low income people without state aid do not buy individual insurance so being “dumped” into the individual market, means going without health insurance.
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greengiant commented on the diary post Shellie Zimmerman Arrested and Jailed for Perjury by Masoninblue.
At a time when we are having murder by police on an all too regular basis not to mention the severe injuries suffered by veterans at occupy Oakland and elsewhere I would like to say the team Trayvon people here are IMO are spending too much energy bashing Zimmerman. I have been there, and I [...]
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greengiant commented on the diary post David Brooks Calls for Dissolving the People by Dean Baker.
Why bother talking about Brooks, he is a paid shill of the 0.1 percent. Anyone supporting 13 percent tax rate Mitt while they have or are paying a higher rate in taxes is incapable of determining their own self interest much less anyone elses. I’m more than tired of caring Brooks and Romney and their [...]
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greengiant commented on the diary post Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP’s Rise to Power – Book Salon Preview by Elliott.
Missed this chat, and haven’t read the book. BP does not love you.
BP has gone out of its way to lie to their employees, vendors and public resulting in deaths and injuries.
The use of Corexit in the Gulf resulted in faster absorption of oil in humans and the human food chain.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/microbes-arent-eating-oil-gulf-beaches-thanks-corexit-dispersant
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/344-208/11417-horrific-injuries-linked-to-bp-dispersant-corexit -
greengiant commented on the diary post The White House may be in for a surprise regarding the Special Counsel’s independence by MSPB Watch.
For all the Kabuki we all need a program. This seems to be in response to Republican charges of Obamamites leaking stuff with spin of favorable manliness. The Republicans were responding to more news on the Stuxnet, and Flame, computer attack on Iran. ( While someone just may have virused US drone pilot stations causing [...]
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greengiant commented on the diary post Just Released! Lord of the Shears by marymccurnin.
Mitt was off the isle of human dignity at the 13 percent tax bill. Now the satisfaction comes from knowing all his supporters will be choking on their own hate filled bile every time they vote or talk him up.
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greengiant commented on the blog post Brazil Passes the UK As Sixth Largest Economy
Indeed, one wonders when the globalization of finance workers will leave us all entertained by off shored debt collectors.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/january-2010/index.html
The UK reports over 6 million of 26 million private sector workers are in the financial and business services sector. But this is a natural process when continual advances in technology and productivity mean fewer and fewer workers are needed in resource extraction, manufacturing or even service industry.
The big job losses in the Northwest US forest industry did not occur when they ran out of trees to cut. They occurred when they modernized the mills.
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greengiant commented on the blog post Media Catches Glimpse of Undeclared Covert War With Iran
Well if the conficker virus was made by the US and infects millions of computers in the US, one would suspect that the US government has “broken and entered” millions of American homes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/02/us-cybersecurity-iran-idUSTRE7B10AP20111202
Which makes one wonder how the right wingnuts offering to sabotage, cell phone hack, and computer sabotage get their methods of operation. Are they running the scams in the US through an off shore center aka a non US entity?
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greengiant commented on the blog post Do-Nothing Option on Deficits Finally Gets Noticed
The end of the Bush tax cuts maybe a 1% win win, a massive increase in taxes paid by low income folk, reductions in earned income tax credit, etc etc, . The 1% already threw the 2nd through 5th% under the bus with the alternative minimum tax.
The 1% dont pay taxes, they avoid them. By selling their stock and real estate, but in tax adviced way such that it is not income.
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greengiant commented on the blog post Pike’s Pique
When will the consent of the governed be withdrawn?
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greengiant commented on the blog post Spin This
The DHS and FBI phone conferences with the mayors should be a psychological study in some cognitive bender similar to the students “electrocuting” their victims.
Go figure, the Obama Executive has been playing the same tune, the Washington DC police take the clothes off the pipeline protesters and put them in unheated jail cells. Makes you wonder what the information and policy flow is from the Obama Executive down to the locals.
And the campus cop must have been envious he didnt have a rocket propelled tear gas grenade to shoot horizontally to fracture an innocent veteran.s skull.
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greengiant commented on the diary post Occupy: Is this a wise use of resources? by dakine01.
The Occupy movements are making it quite obvious who is bought and paid for by Wall Street. The Portland Oregon police chief just spent over 600 officers making all of about 48 arrests while delaying 3 hours to send an officer to a rape victim. And the chief has been talking about running for mayor. [...]
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