TRANSCRIPT: Good evening. Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement, left us with this wisdom: Give people light and they will find a way. Give people light. Those are words for our time. The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much […]
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Saying, “We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege,” Joe Biden accepts the nomination for President of the United States
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Affordable Care Act, anti-science, bipartisanship, corruption, COVID-19, darkness, decency, DNC, Donald Trump, Ella Baker, fairness, FDR, George Floyd, Gianna Floyd, Great Depression, health insurance, infrastructure, jobs, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, light, Medicaid, New Deal, pandemic, race, racism, recession, Republican lies, Russia, social security, tax cuts 103 Comments
After a week of vowing to “always protect” Social Security and Medicare, Trump submits a budget proposing $800 billion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
I had so much fun writing about Trump’s lies yesterday, that I thought that I’d spend a little more time on it today… Following, for your consideration, are three news items from over the past six days. Tuesday, February 4: Donald Trump vows to “always protect” the Medicare and Social Security of Americans during his […]
Deficits v. Dolomite
My plan tonight was to write an awesome post about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut of 2017, and how, contrary to what we were promised at the time, they didn’t “pay for themselves” by driving increased corporate investment, but instead pushed the federal deficit to a record-breaking $747.1 billion. None of this, of course, is […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Economics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1975, bonuses, budget deficit, canes, Congressional Budget Office, corporate welfare, Dolemite Is My Name, Dolomite, Eat Out More Often, Eddie Murphy, entitlements, film ideas, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, karate, kung fu, Los Angeles, Mark's, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, Netflix, pimps, Rudy Ray Moore, Russ Forster, social security, Steven Mnuchin, tax cuts, theology of tax cuts, Tony Clifton, Treasury Secretary, welfare, welfare reform, XXX 35 Comments