“I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney said. “Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later. But I’m [...]
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Unemployment, Foreclosures, Poverty and other Things We’re Not Suppose to Talk About
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. My headline is actually a bit off. It’s probably more accurate to say something like: “Unemployment, foreclosures, poverty and other things we’re suppose to talk about only within approved guidelines.” It’s still “the economy, stupid.” There’s just only one, two corporate party way we’re suppose [...]
Sissy Farenthold Speaks Truth to Power on What We Must Do to Save America
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. “I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.” – Sissy Farenthold This week, as President of Meyerland Area Democrats, I was able to get a progressive legend to come and speak. Her name is [...]
FT: Obama’s Planned Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security **UPDATED**
The Financial Times lays out what has been talked about for months and months, with Pres. Obama set to deliver a speech on deficit reduction on Monday. It begins with the way the U.S. government measures inflation, which would deliver “a less generous chained-consumer price index,” to quote FT. This decision alone would devastate elderly [...]
Progressive Notes: Israeli Middle Class Takes to the Streets for Social Justice
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. An anthem of the protestors has been “If I were a rich man” from Fiddler on the Roof: The social justice protest movement in Israel, one which is growing by the day, is finally getting some American media attention. Some. It is a huge story around [...]
Progressive Notes: Gangsters of Six Want to Hike Taxes on Working Class while Cutting SS, Veterans’ Beneftis..
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. As Washington delves further into detached madness we learn of new facts about the Gang of Six plan. They aim to alter Social Security by abolishing COLA and thus reduce benefits folks get incrementally as people get older. Congressman DeFazio went to the House floor to [...]
Progressive Notes: Quit Playing with My Life.
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The reason I have been a Democrat is because Dems are supposed to protect Social Security and the welfare state. Dems, the real ones, back progressive taxation. I found out about the hard way the wonders that leaders like FDR and LBJ achieved for our nation. [...]
Study Shocker: 25% American Women’s Life Expectancy Plummets
This study out is beyond appalling. Our nation is better than this. The richest nation on earth has life expectancy for women and blacks plummeting by over 25pct. We have the best healthcare in the world right? Wrong. Too many have no access to it and the government is too keen to cut the safety [...]
Queer Talk: Queer (In)Justice
Let’s begin with a current incident, via Darren Hutchinson’s Dissenting Justice, and under the headline, “Beyond Bullying: Race, Poverty and LGBT Rights”: “One of the most pernicious but least discussed stereotypes of LGBT persons portrays them as a highly privileged population. According to the legend, the average LGBT person is white, wealthy and highly educated.” [...]
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