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When FDR was president, he signed Social Security (SSI) into law and the supreme court upheld it. FDR had first sent his labor secretary, Francis Perkins, to ask a supreme court justice how to make SSI able to withstand a court challenge. The justice told Perkins the federal government had the power to tax, and [...]

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President Obama today proposed reducing the corporate tax rate and putting “an end to dozens of loopholes he said helps US companies move jobs and profits overseas.” “It’s not right and it needs to change,” the president said. I don’t disagree with what the president said. However, while closing incentives to ship and create jobs [...]

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what Obama should do that FDR did

The nation is experiencing the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. Princeton economist and former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Blinder, calls the current crisis a “national jobs emergency.” Click on the link below for the rest of the story. click here to see what Obama should do that FDR did [...]

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The super-committee has failed, which is good. The failure of the committee is a symptom of the corruption of our government at all levels, from congress to the president to the Koch Brothers/Corporate/Wall Street/Big Oil wing of the Supreme Court, which might be the most corrupted in the history of the United States. Any way, [...]

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There are two links below. There is a black bar from Jon Stewart. Click on it and you can see the leadership skills of Obama, who has collected more money from Wall Street this election cycle than all the Republicon Party candidates combined. He is a Wall Street Presidential Whore. The rich aristocracy of Wall [...]

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There are below two videos. One of them is of Obama via Jon Stewart. The other video is about a leader named Franklin Roosevelt. I will begin an on-going series of the differences between Obama and FDR. Those differences are gigantic, and all of them are in favor of FDR. Let’s begin with something we [...]

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Impeach Obama

The economy appears to be tanking again. The reason is simple. Rich people (the top 1 percent) receive nearly 24 percent of the total national income, up from less than 9 percent in 1979. And they’re getting more and more. Rich people don’t purchase the things that keep the economy moving. The bottom 99 percent [...]

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Every economic downturn has its brief moments of glory; those times on the downsize when new government economic data is released that shows something positive. And each kernal of good news in the midst of unmitigated disaster is treated by the government and the news media as a golden nugget of opportunity to support the [...]

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During the last few months the Federal Reserve has lowered home mortgage interest rates to under 5 percent. The Tresury Department has purchased tens of millions of dollars of long-term T-bills, and put downward pressure on long term interest rates in doing so. And Congress has passed and the president signed another bailout package to [...]

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