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Our Taxes are Off to War - 2009 Edition
Income tax returns are due next Wednesday, April 15. Where do our tax dollars go?The charts below (click for full page versions) show estimates of how our income tax dollars were spent in FY2008, which...
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Obama's Proposed Budget in an Easy-to-Read Chart
The Obama administration has now released detailed numbers for its proposed Fiscal Year 2010 budget, which totals $3.6 trillion. The poor economy, our relatively low tax rates (especially on the...
View ArticleForget negotiating - bypass insurance companies and implement a single-payer...
President Obama proposed a fairly modest healthcare reform. Now powerful lobbyists are swarming Washington urging lawmakers to gut his proposed healthcare plan. Without a public option, Obama's plan...
View ArticleCongress: Fight for real healthcare reform
My Congresswoman, Marcia Fudge, representative for the eastern part of Cleveland, is relatively progressive. But, like all Congressmembers, she needs encouragement to do the right thing. Here is an...
View ArticleCall their bluff with the Tight Regulation Option
President Obama asks why progressives are wedded to the Public Option since it is just a means to an end. This is probably just disingenuous posturing, best ignored, but we can also address it straight...
View ArticleThe Jublilee Gift — A Fantasy Story
Something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day.Joni Mitchell’s lyrics tumbled through Jillian’s mind as she sobbed with both deep grief and dizzy excitement. It was hard for her to accept...
View ArticleThe ill-wisdom and sadness of Obama's proposals for nuclear power
Joe Miller sent a note to the Peace and Justice Studies Association listserve that summarizes many of the arguments against nuclear power and provides links to many good articles. Joe agreed to let me...
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Our Taxes are Off to War — 2010 Edition
More than half of our income taxes this year will go to the military.The charts below (click for larger versions) show how our income tax dollars were spent in the year just completed — FY2009 — which...
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FY2011 Budget in an Easy-to-Read Chart
This stacked bar chart shows the expected income and proposed spending in President Obama's unified federal budget for FY2011 (which starts next October 1). Click on the chart to see a larger version...
View ArticleLook: An Elephant in the Room! — 10 Rules of Corporate Media
SusanG's diary about worthless he-said/she-said articles such as this one from AP spurred me to put together these 10 rules that appear to govern what passes for fair and balanced “journalism” today:
View ArticleNBC On-line poll
on healthcare and it is currently reflecting the teabagger position 60%. Head on over and vote. We need to be clear that even though this bill looks a lot like it was written by lobbyists and...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Support the Jennifer Brunner money shower today
I've just started volunteering for the campaign of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner who is running to replace retiring Republican Senator George Voinovich. She is a true fighting progressive...
View Article“If you work for peace, stop paying for war”
The desire not to be forced to support war is what leads some conscientious people to resist paying their income taxes. Last year, 53% of our income taxes went to war.Today is Tax Day, and thousands of...
View ArticleIt’s only a bad year if we all let it be - Make calls for Brunner OH-Sen
In 2006 and 2008, the early polls said that progressive Democrats would not do well. As the 2006 election season began, everyone also lamented that young people, non-whites, and progressives would not...
View ArticleLetEd: Attack Ads Funded by Foreign Corporations and Oil Billionaires
Here is a letter-to-the-editor I just submitted to the Cleveland Plain Dealer that meets their 200-word limit:Money from anonymous corporations and billionaires is providing a flood of attacks ads,...
View ArticleEven if you play by the rules, corporate pirates will steal your house
Two excellent articles from the Cleveland Plain Dealer's consumer reporter, Teresa Dixon Murray, and Michelle Jarboe reveal that even if you are white and middle-class and live in a big house in the...
View ArticleWe arm our crazy people better
Eight years ago, a crazy gunman killed a student at Case Western Reserve University and then shot two other people, including my wife, in a seven hour rampage until he was captured by the SWAT team....
View ArticleHow and Why the Egyptian People-Power Revolution Succeeded
Today brought two must-read articles showing why the people-power struggle succeeded in Egypt:A Tunisian-Egyptian Link That Shook Arab History from the New York Times provides very interesting...
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Our Taxes are Off to War — 2011 Edition
In the current year (FY2011), the government estimates that $761 billion will be spent on the military. This is more than two and a half times as much as the $295 billion spent in FY2000 (85% more when...
View Article8,500 at Ohio Demonstration - Live Now
Columbus, OH demonstration against Senate Bill 5 (which would destroy public labor unions) from 10:30 until 6:00 today. So far there are 8,500 people there— the "largest crowd of its kind in at least...
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