jEFFSTANA on July 31st, 2007

Some think there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two dominant political parties in the US. The sentiment is heard all the time, whether the talk is of civil defense, military spending, education, equal rights or big business — and let’s not even begin with negative connotations (they’re all doing it). Right. […]

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jEFFSTANA on July 31st, 2007

Analysis by Barbara Ehrenreich of W’s speech in Cleveland on 10 July 2007, where among other things, George spoke up vs. socialized medicine — or in Bush-babel, “Federalized medicine”. GWB: “I strongly object to the government providing incentives for people to leave private medicine, private health care to the public sector. And I think it’s […]

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jEFFSTANA on June 6th, 2007

In the USofA, barriers against employing highly-skilled foreign professional workers in roles as doctors and lawyers are many. While simultaneously, semi-skilled less-educated US employees are purposely targeted for wage concessions and/or job eliminations — either by the re-location of US manufacturing facilities overseas, exploiting cheap foreign labor; or alternatively by the lax enforcement of existing […]

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jEFFSTANA on May 25th, 2007

Greg Palast makes some remarkable claims, corroborated by Monica Goodlings recent testimony before the House Judicial Committee about the Federal Attorney firings. He backs up these assertions by producing emails (some of the missing Carl Rove emails), obtained from emails missent by Tim Griffin while Griffin worked for the re-election of George W. Bush in […]

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jEFFSTANA on April 21st, 2007

— Updated below — While 90% of Americans wish the Federal Government to negotiate group discount rates for prescription medication, a minority of Senators blocked this legislation (S. 3, The Medicare Fair Prescription Drug Price Act of 2007) from coming to a vote on the Senate floor. Here in Arizona, our senior Senator, John McCain […]

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