Paul Ryan Rallies Conservatives To Continue Shutdown, Block Debt Ceiling Deal[...]
Posts Tagged ‘budget’
October 13th, 2013 - 12:11 pm § in America
BREAKING NEWS: Tea Party Forces Continue Siege on Government
President Romney Puting Work First
President Romney “We Were Too Nice to the Hungry, I applaud the Congress for insisting that the poor, even the working poor, be given the incentive of hunger to motivate them to find work.” Text of signing speech for the 2103 Farm Bill, section on reform of food stamp program. “I[...]
Tea Party Takes on The Debt LImit
HO– USE PLAN TOO CRAZY FOR SENATE REPUBLICANS[...]
September 10th, 2013 - 4:13 am § in The Ave Scene
As UW Funding Dwindles Boeing Moves Engineering Out of State
According to the Seattle Times, Boeing is committed to moving its crown jewels , high tech engineering jobs from Washington state The UW keeps trying to explain to Olympia that huge tech jobs will not stay here if we do not invest in higher ed. Booing sees the light …. Mike Delaney, head of [...]
Hypocrisy
Coburn OK’s OPM Director After Staffers Get Obamacare Waiver On Wednesday, immediately after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed ruling that allowed the federal government to subsidize the health insurance premiums of Congressional staffers–even though that may not[...]
Commentary by Anthony: The Term “Student-Athlete” Is A Joke.
As a former “Student-Athlete” at the University of Washington I always thought this term was a joke. Coming into the University of Washington from Garfield High School, my GPA was unacceptable by Udubs academic standards. I had a 2.3 and my SAT score was an 890. Frankly, this was wa[...]
March 18th, 2013 - 12:27 pm § in America
Send Everyone to College!
I just received this from the Daily Kos and think it may interest those on this list. Apparently Democratic candidate for Governor of Arkansas, Bill Haller wants to give every high school graduate the equivalent of an athletic scholarship. To me, Bill Halter’s proposal has good news and ba[...]
March 4th, 2013 - 11:01 am § in Misc.
Help for the Repricans: How to raise some money without raising taxes
A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny Tax-exempt bonds, targeted for elimination in the 1980s, have not only endured, but grown, in what amounts to a large corporate giveaway costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.[...]
Is the US Now Too Poor for War?
The wars fought in the the twentieth century showed the limits of national budgets in supporting conventional warfare. Britain, even without WWII, was bankrupted by vain efforts to keep mits colonial empire together, The same happened to the USSR. Now the US is saying this as well. Playi[...]