WALL STREET REFORM HAS PASSED!

Wallstreet reform has passed!
It is the most sweeping overhaul of the financial system since the New Deal! The law immediately gives regulators stronger powers to break up financial companies that have grown too big.

One of the reason we got into this financial mess to begin with was because the Glass-Steagall act of 1933, that prevented some of the derivative speculation wagering that was going on, was repealed by Republicans in 1999! Until Glass-Steagall is fully reinstated there still could continue to be problems. (The next time you hear a RepubliCon blaming the current economic meltdown on liberal mortgage hand-out programs be sure to remind them of deregulation.)

The RepubliCons are already threatening to repeal it if they get more of them elected in November. Unwilling to learn from the mistakes of history, they apparently want to condemn America to another recession just so that their campaign contribution buddies can make more money off of what they believe to be is the American Dream.

Here is what the edited classroom textbooks will not tell you:

It was RepubliCon inspired gluttony and "laissez-faire" deregulation (of the Harding, Coolidge, Hoover administrations) that led to the Great Depression

If it was not for Obama's bailout spending that supported the pillars of the economy, we would have suffered another Depression. Of course the RepubliCons were against the bailout (even though Bush started the bailout payments). That is because -in the words of Rush Limbaugh: they "want him to fail."

At least now it will be a little harder for the corporations to do things like make a buck at the expense of peoples financial lives and the economy.

THE EVIL DEATH TAX!!!

The RepubliCons were successfully able to repeal a tax on money on un-earned income called the "estate tax". That is money that is received in an inheritance. Money that could be used to do things like help fund schools, repair infrastructure, and pay down the national debt, etc. etc.

RepubliCons say that they are against high taxes because they are being used to give "entitlement" handouts to those who do not deserve it. And yet...they are perfectly fine with people receiving money when they inherit it, even though they have done nothing to earn it! So in other words: Only their wealthy benefactors are allowed to receive money that they do not earn.

How were they so successful in repealing the estate tax?...By "reframing" the debate. Their billion dollar corporate-funded think-tanks came up with the term "death tax." To the laymen, this meant that the big bad government was going to tax you for dying. The Ignorants were outraged, and it was repealed.

Our elected representives must be pressurred to bring this source of revenue back so that we can fund our economic comeback and pay down the debt that we have incured from Bush's war and RepubliCon deregulation. We must take a page from the RepubliCon machine and reframe the term to something more along the lines of the "un-earned inheritance income tax."

TEXAS CONSERVATIVES ALTER HISTORY

The Texas School Board of Education, an organization that creates the content of textbooks used in our public schools, have successfully altered history by making changes to the curriculum without consulting historians or scholarly experts.

These new changes include (among many other things):
The reduction of the importance of the American civil rights movement.
The reduction of the role of Thomas Jefferson -since he is the one who coined the term "seperation of church and state." (which is a confirmation of the meaning of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.)
They instead emphasized the role of the European Judeo-Christian John Calvin, a 16th century relic of the Dark Ages who had never even been to America.

They of course also down-played the influence of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason on our Founding Fathers.

So my question is this: if you are against enlightenment, reason, science, scholarly experts, truth, wouldn't that mean that you are pro ignorance?
Or is it just pro stupid?



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