$4.00 gas, record oil profits, CEOs pay enormous

Profits for five largest health insurers were up 56% in 2009. Let's hear a big round of applause for status quo. Just say no to health care reform and claim a sweeping partisan victory. What I want to know is how the obstructionists and their supporters sleep at night. http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2010/02/11/insurers-enjoy-record-breaking-profits-as-they-cut-27-million-people-from-their-rolls/ ...

What is wrong with this picture? Class warfare? Just plain old greed. Sotheby's is in a labor dispute with the unionn that represents the art handlers working at the New York City auction house. The contract between the two parties expired on July 1st, 2011, and despite ongoing negotiations, there has been no agreement on a new contract. Local 814's stance is that because of Sotheby's record profits for 2010 (over $680 million), Local 814 should not be giving in to any of S ...

Barney Frank on Meet the Press regarding Wall Street and the economy. I do want to add one thing though to your question about those poor beleaguered bankers who have been forced to do so much to keep from not being able to pay their debts, that they can’t lend money. If they really are running businesses that are so stressed that they can’t do their basic work, why are they paying themselves so much money? ...

They take all the profits, cut employee benefits, want more work for less pay, and then send their money to Swiss bank accounts so they don't have to pay their fair share of taxes. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_bi_ge/us_fact_check_health_insurance _"I'm very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who also welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers' "obscene profits." But were the Bush years golden ones for health insurers? Not judging by profit margins, prof ...

As you know, there has been a "move your money" movement and the OWS occupation of Wall Street. Big banks, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have recently reported a big drop in profits. The smaller regional banks are doing okay. (Yes, there are some like Citibank where things are getting better, but they really had no other direction to go as they had already bottomed out). I just want to congratulate the 99% for making a difference on Wall Street and in Wisconsin.& ...

Perhaps if we give them more tax breaks they can afford to hire some U.S. citizens. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/07/companies-profit_n_805696.html Big Companies Set For Best Fourth Quarter Profit Ever The Huffington Post | William Alden First Posted: 01- 7-11 09:22 AM | Updated: 01- 7-11 09:26 AM Even as unemployment remains high and Americans' finances slowly mend, big companies may be set for their most profitable ...

An interesting article. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091025/D9BI4D6O1.html ...

Good ol' United Corporations of America!! ...

Hi I am thinking about becoming a MT but unfortunatly I do have a criminal record. I had gotten into some trouble back in 2008 so now I have a misdemenor assault. It has been hard finding a job, mostly working directly with people but if I do become a MT I would want to work from home to be with my son. Also I was thinking of going though Penn Foster. Will I be able to find a job with the assault? What do you think about Penn Foster?? Thanks! ...

over 92 million Americans remain without unemployed. This hope and change thing isn't working out too well. See CBS-DC ...

Nope, that's racism During his explanation, Alday said he comes "from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks.' They don't work." Alday also told the newspaper about a time he visited an emergency room. “I liked to died. I laid in there for hours because they (black people) were in there being treated for gunshots," Alday was quoted as saying. "I am definitely not a racist, at all," Alday told Mississippi New ...

Okay, here is my problem. I have been trying to find a copy of a death record/death certificate/obituary online. We have a friend that we have known for over 20 years who we lost contact with about 8 years ago or so. He actually lived with us for over 6 months at one point. He eventually moved back to the area where his family is from and we lost touch. He was one of those friends that you can not see for a long time and then when you do see them again, you pick up ...

On CNN: A visibly annoyed Stephanie Cutter took issue when a CNN anchor described her job as "spin". Cutter responded, "My job may be to 'spin'... but it's also to put the facts out there." ...

Published on Oct 20, 2012 by BlackAndRight Despite the fact the Department of Health and Human Services says there are NO Planned Parenthood clinics in the United States licensed to offer mammograms, President Obama and his surrogates continue to claim a defunding of Planned Parenthood will deny women of services they don't offer. ...

I might be the only one, but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The amount of money spent campaigning in this country is ridiculous. And for what? Do those ads even do anything? Do they change peoples' minds? I don't think they do. All they ever seem to me is a childish tit-for-tat that makes us all look stupid. It just feels like both sides are trying to create the ultimate Hollywood film, and whoever's movie is better wins the prize. I'm aw ...

• 31 straight months of private sector job growth • Largest one-year drop in unemployment rate since February 1995 • Highest private sector employment since 2008 • Best manufacturing job gains since the mid-1990s • Highest manufacturing output in four years • Consumer confidence at highest level in five years • Lowest foreclosure rate in five years • Home prices seeing strongest growth since late 2006 • Household net worth at highest since 2008 ...

Also, did you guys see the pictures of Beijing? Whether or not you believe global warming is man-made, this cannot go on. "Researchers from Nasa said it was the ninth warmest year while experts from another American agency said it was the tenth. Both teams said that temperatures would have been higher if it hadn't been for the the La Nina weather pattern that brought cooling to some regions. The scientists were equally certain that carbon dioxide was the principal drive ...

Greta hits it spot on! ...

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure si ...

Of all of the various government healthcare schemes that are or have been in existence, there is only one that has not blown through its estimated costs by at least a factor of 10. The Medicare prescription drug program is the only scheme that has come in at or below estimated costs. It is also the only scheme that is based on private competitive market forces. Capiche? ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/food-stamps-making-food-companies-fat/story?id=17166643 ...

Now if only I had some stocks to sell! I guess now is not the time to "stock up," is it?! ...

My answers were buried so I'll direct you to those posts instead of rewriting everything in them. They would be too long otherwise. One is on the Constitution and one is on Jonathan Turley. http://general.mtstars.com/386135.html http://general.mtstars.com/386115.html ...

By 2 hundredths of 1 degree centigrade. And NASA scientists are only 38% sure of this. The sky is falling! The sky is falling!! LOL ...

i.e. not politicized back-pedaling. In 2003, Sanders was among 32 co-sponsors of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a measure to “establish a zero-tolerance standard” for sexual violence in prison. (The measure passed unanimously, but enforcement has been weak in the last decade.) In 2011, Sanders co-sponsored a measure to address the rape kit backlog. Here’s how Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another of the bill’s co-sponsors, explained the measure: ”Thousands of rape kits sit untested in ...

Unknown if his supporters are of the paid variety this time. ...

There's a lot more to this Record. You'll have to follow the link to see how many confirmed and nonconfirmed nominations for government positions. It might open some eyes. There is plenty more in both bills/laws/resolutions and the nominations/confirmations. I just did a summary to give an idea. See link for full details but it breaks down each arm of the service, too. Resume of Congressional Activity FIRST SESSION OF THE ONE ...

By John Solomon and Carrie Johnson Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, January 19, 2010 The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions. E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism of ...

$4.00 gas, record oil profits, CEOs pay enormous

Ask your President. - nm

Ask Boehner. - nm

Ask the man with the power. Obama. - nm

Ask Jimmy Hoffa - nm

I would, but nobody can seem to find him. - He was prez of a union...

Remember when the union? - sm

Right. It was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd - who crashed the stock

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