Point/CounterPoint

What a Fair Shot at Success Means …for ALL Americans

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:07:48 +0000

What a Fair Shot at Success Means

Posted by Matt Compton on December 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM EST

In the state where his mother was born, President Obama made an argument about laying a new foundation for broad-based prosperity in America.

“It starts,” he said, “with making sure that everyone has a fair shot at success.”

That means giving Americans the education, infrastructure, and resources necessary to out-innovate our global competitors, structuring our tax system fairly to pay for those investments, and it means creating an environment where everyone — from Main Street to Wall Street — plays by the same set of rules. The President said:

As infuriating as it was for all of us, we rescued our major banks from collapse, not only because a full blown financial meltdown would have sent us into a second Depression, but because we need a strong, healthy financial sector in this country.

But part of the deal was that we would not go back to business as usual. That’s why last year we put in place new rules of the road that refocus the financial sector on this core purpose: getting capital to the entrepreneurs with the best ideas, and financing to millions of families who want to buy a home or send their kids to college. We’re not all the way there yet, and the banks are fighting us every inch of the way.

And Republicans are standing with Wall Street to block broader reform by refusing to confirm a head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – the watchdog group is charged with protecting everyday Americans from lenders who are out to take advantage of them. Here’s what President Obama had to say:

The man we nominated for the post, Richard Cordray, is a former Attorney General of Ohio who has the support of most Republican and Democratic Attorneys General throughout the country.

But the Republicans in the Senate refuse to let him do his job. Why? Does anyone think the problem before that led to this crisis was too much oversight of mortgage lenders or debt collectors? Every day we go without a consumer watchdog in place is another day when a student, or a service member, or a senior citizen could be tricked into a loan they can’t afford – something that happens all the time. Financial institutions have plenty of lobbyists looking out for their interests. Consumers deserve to have someone whose job it is to look out for theirs. And I intend to make sure they do.

The Senate is slated to vote on Richard Cordray’s confirmation later this week. Check back at WhiteHouse.gov for more information.

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President Obama: “In America, We Are Greater Together”

Posted by Matt Compton on December 6, 2011 at 5:43 PM EST

Members of the audience listen as President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, Dec. 6, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

More than a century after Teddy Roosevelt outlined a vision for a “New Nationalism” in a Kansas town called Osawatomie, President Obama visited the same community to talk about what he called a make-or-break moment of the middle class.

He described how the world has undergone an economic transformation unlike any other in our collective history — and how that change has upended our expectations of social mobility in this country. Where professionals ranging from factory workers to travel agents to accountants once enjoyed the promise of a good job and steady income in exchange for their hard work, today they and a range of people like them must compete with new technology and individuals from around the world.

The President told the 1,200 people gathered in Osawatomie that there are two ways to respond to these challenges.

Some in Washington, he said, argue that we should let the markets take care of everything — rolling back regulation and slashing taxes:

Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ‘50s and ‘60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade.

Thankfully, President Obama said, we can choose a different path:

[T]here’s another view about how we build a strong middle class in this country — a view that’s truer to our history, a vision that’s been embraced in the past by people of both parties for more than 200 years.

It’s not a view that we should somehow turn back technology or put up walls around America. It’s not a view that says we should punish profit or success or pretend that government knows how to fix all of society’s problems. It is a view that says in America we are greater together — when everyone engages in fair play and everybody gets a fair shot and everybody does their fair share.

Read the entire speech here.

a message from Al Gore … The Climate Reality Progject

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:52 +0000

Last September, millions of you joined us for 24 Hours of Reality, when we connected the dots between the reality of the climate crisis and the extreme weather events happening with greater frequency all over the world. Together, we saw that most of us don’t need to travel far to see the impacts of climate change. We are already feeling those impacts close to home — with bigger downpours of rain (and snow), bigger floods, and simultaneously longer and deeper droughts. Stronger wind storms have also taken a toll.

Yet the climate crisis is also causing momentous changes in remote regions far from major population centers, in places like Antarctica, Greenland, and the North Polar Ice Cap. Consider that Antarctica, the massive continent at the southern tip of our planet that is about the size of the United States and Mexico combined, holds 90% of all the ice in the world. In fact, it is covered in ice that, at some points, is two miles thick. As global warming increases the melting of that ice — and the movement of vast ice sheets from the continent into the ocean — what happens to the rest of the world?

To better understand the changes taking place near the South Pole and the impacts those changes will have around the world, I will be returning to Antarctica this month with The Climate Reality Project. A large number of civic and business leaders, activists and concerned citizens from many countries will join me during this voyage with many of the world’s leading climate scientists and Antarctica experts to see firsthand and in real time how the climate crisis is unfolding in Antarctica.

Learn more about Antarctica and our other expeditions to discover the reality of the climate crisis. Take a look at our Expedition Headquarters now.

I first traveled to Antarctica in 1988. At the time, it was already clear that our southernmost continent stood at the frontier of the global climate crisis. Scientists expected that as climate change accelerated, Antarctica would be one of the fastest warming areas of the planet. This prediction has proven true: Today, the West Antarctic Peninsula is warming about four times faster than the global average. In many ways, it is the biggest “canary in the coal mine,” signaling one of the largest impacts of climate change for the entire world.

Even though Antarctica is thousands of miles distant from the rest of the world, the melting ice on this continent should be of paramount concern to all of us. As our planet’s ice melts, sea levels are rising steadily. This increases the risk of storm surges, coastal floods, diminished supplies of drinking water for billions of people, salination of agricultural land near low-lying coastal areas, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees — many of whom will cross borders and may carry with them an increased risk of political instability in the nations to which they move.

To better understand these impacts, we are encouraging our partners and supporters to organize their own “expeditions” close to home. Over the next few weeks, members of The Climate Reality Project will document how the melting of the world’s ice is having an impact on people from Brooklyn to Bangladesh and from the Arctic to Ecuador.

I hope you will join me and The Climate Reality Project as we explore how changes on the most remote continent of the world have become a part of our shared climate reality. And I hope you’ll take the time to explore the impacts climate change is having on your own community.

Learn more about how we are all “living on thin ice.” Take a look at our Expedition Headquarters, and check back again in a few days as we begin to report back about what are learning.

http://climaterealityproject.org/thin-ice

Thanks for all you do,

Al Gore
Founder and Chairman
The Climate Reality Project

Tell Tennessee: You Can’t Erase Slavery From The History Books!

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:23 +0000

Slavery in Americais a horrifying part of our nation’s history–there’s no arguing with that. Even the painful parts of our history are important, though, because we can learn how to prevent the same mistakes.But now the Tennessee Tea Party is trying to erase all mentions of slavery from the state’s history books. »According to the Tennessee Tea Party, the image of our founding fathers must not become tarnished. But pretending that the years of slavery and genocide in our nation’s history never happened isn’t protecting anyone. As far as I’m concerned, it’s basically racism.@Care2

Omitting slavery from history is equivalent to erasing segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the entire Civil War! Slavery is a huge part of American history whether the Tennessee Tea Party wants to admit it or not.

Thanks for taking action!Kathleen
ThePetitionSite

@Care2

Click to Tell Tennessee:
You Can’t Erase Slavery from the History Books!@Care2

Nielsen Wire: Food Labeling Confusion, Year in Sports Advertising, Smartphone Growth

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:16 +0000

Media Matters for America –

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:13 +0000

Here are today’s news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or ‘read more’ to read the entirety of each story.

STUDY: The Press And The Pipeline
A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents. Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue. Pro-pipeline voices were quoted more frequently than those opposed, and dubious industry estimates of job creation were uncritically repeated 5 times more often than they were questioned. Meanwhile, concerns about the State Department’s review process and potential environmental consequences were often overlooked, particularly by television outlets. Read More

Daily Caller Now Publishing Anti-Islam Writer Who Pushed Obama-Is-Muslim Conspiracy
The Daily Caller‘s Guns and Gear section recently featured two op-eds authored by retired Major General Jerry Curry. In previous statements Curry has raised questions about President Obama secretly being a Muslim, demanded that Obama release his long-form birth certificate or resign, and derided Muslims as inherently violent. Read More

Media Myth That Cutting Taxes Boosts Revenue Revived For 2012
CBS treated claims from Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney that the tax cuts they have proposed would increase federal tax revenue as an open question. In fact, the myth that tax cuts increase revenues has been flatly rejected by economists across the ideological spectrum, including Romney adviser and former George W. Bush chief economist Gregory Mankiw and several others who served in the Bush administration. Read More

Fox’s Hayes Contradicts Reality To Claim Severity Of Recession Was Fully Understood In ’09
Fox News contributor Stephen Hayes claimed that it’s “nonsense” for the Obama administration to argue that it “didn’t really appreciate the depths of the problems the country faced when we came into office.” In fact, measures of the recession in 2009 understated its depth, and subsequent revisions of economic data have shown that the downturn was indeed worse than it appeared at the time. Read More

MoveOn.Org … A Great How-To, An Easy Fix, And Elizabeth Warren’s Sincere Message

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:05 +0000

How To Explain Taxes And The Budget To Non-Economists

The Easiest Way To Reduce The Deficit By $7 Trillion In 10 Years

Elizabeth Warren: ‘It Gets Better’

Spread the Word about Tax Credits in Your Community … NWLC

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:27 +0000


	Get the word out about tax credits for families!



	Spread the word about tax credits by downloading free materials.

In a time of instability and incredible economic pressures, tax credits can help eligible families make ends meet.

Today, on Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day, we want to ensure that workers are aware of important federal and state tax credits, worth up to thousands of dollars, for which they could be eligible.

For 2011, families may be eligible for a number of federal tax credits, including:

Earned Income Tax Credit, which helps provide a wage supplement for low and moderate-income families (those earning less than $49,078 annually). This credit is worth up to $5,751, and is refundable.
Child Tax Credit, designed to help families offset some of the costs of raising children. This credit is worth up to $1,000 per child. Families who owe little or no income tax can receive some or all of this credit as a refund if they earned at least $3,000 in 2011.
Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, designed to offset some of the child or dependent care costs that families incur in order to work. This credit is worth up to $2,100, though the amount that can be claimed is limited by a family’s federal income tax liability.

Some states offer their own credits as well: Twenty-eight states, including the District of Columbia, offer child and dependent care tax provisions, 24 states offer earned income tax credits and three states offer child tax credits.

Families need to claim these tax credits when they file their 2011 tax returns. Most families will be receiving the tax documents they need to file their taxesin the next few weeks, making this an especially critical time for tax credits outreach. Here are some ways you can get the word out to families about tax credits:

Link to NWLC’s materials from your organization’s website.
Start making fliers available to families in your offices and through your partners. Remember that we have fliers on the federal and state tax credits in English, Spanish, and other languages.
Put an article about tax credits in your next newsletter. You can also issue a press release or do some media outreach this week. You can find a sample article or sample press release on our website, or contact us at info@nwlc.org if you need state-specific materials.
Partner with other organizations in your area on activities. If you would like to contact other groups in your area, check out the following database of EITC coalitions from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ website.

We also would like to invite you to join our outreach campaign as an NWLC Community Partner.As a community partner, you will receive:

Customized resources that make it easy to spread the word about tax credits to families in your community.
Technical assistance on issues relating to tax credits and outreach activities.
Acknowledgement of your partnership on our website.

Thanks for helping to spread the word about tax credits to the families in your community.

Best,

Joan Entmacher
Vice President, Family Economic Security
National Women’s Law Center

the Progress Report

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:12 +0000

Newt Gingrich is Telling the Truth

By ThinkProgress War Room on Jan 26, 2012 at 4:59 pm

Newt Attacks Romney for Profiting Off Florida Foreclosures

This morning, Newt launched a new broadside against Mitt Romney, attacking him for personally profiting, via a Goldman Sachs investment, off mortgage lenders responsible for thousands of foreclosures in Florida.

Watch it:

The charges Newt is leveling against Romney stem from an exclusive item ThinkProgress broke yesterday. ThinkProgress’ Josh Israel explains:

A ThinkProgress examination of Mitt Romney’s presidential personal financial disclosures from May 2011 reveal that the former Massachusetts governor and his wife own or owned millions of dollars worth of a Goldman Sachs investment fund invested heavily in mortgage-backed obligations. And the current owners of those mortgage debts began foreclosure proceedings against thousands of Floridians.

Along with his investments in Bain Capital funds linked to offshore tax havens, the Romneys have large investments in the Goldman Sachs Strategic Income Fund (institutional class). The firm’s March 2011 annual report for the fund notes that about 8 percent of the fund is invested in banks and 24.5 percent is invested in mortgage-backed obligations. Romney’s form says he has invested between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in the fund and his wife Ann has invested an additional $1 million-plus. Since the 2008 economic meltdown and the enactment of the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, this fund has done quite well, growing 7.88 percent between April 2010 and March 2011.

The mortgage-backed securities in the fund include adjustable rate mortgages from Bear Stearns, Countrywide, IndyMac, and Washington Mutual. A 2009 Center for Public Integrity report identified all four of those companies as among the top-25 subprime lenders in the lead-up to the market’s collapse. Countrywide ranked first in that report and Washington Mutual ranked second. While the remnants of those companies have been purchased by major financial institutions, an array of mortgage loan service companies bought up the individual mortgages.

An examination of civil cases filed in Miami-Dade county alone, by just the current owners of the mortgage obligations for now-defunct Washington Mutual and Countrywide, suggests more than 5,000 foreclosure cases were filed in 2010.

And Miami-Dade makes up only about 13 percent of the Florida population, suggesting that these and the other owners mortgage-backed securities included in this fund likely have attempted to foreclose on tens of thousands of Floridians.

A review of Romney’s August 2007 financial disclosure for his 2008 campaign reveals no mention of the Goldman Sachs Strategic Income Fund, suggesting the investment was made at some point between the two campaigns.

The funds are identified on the disclosure form as technically being in a “blind trust,” but now that he has publicly disclosed these assets, the trust is no longer functionally “blind.” The trustee for the trust, R. Bradlford Malt, said this week that he dropped some other Romney investments that conflicted with the Republican Party’s values.

In October, Romney suggested that the solution to the foreclosure crisis was “don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.” While that process is bad for Florida homeowners, these investments show it may have been good for the Romneys.

The Romney campaign responded with a single word: “Wow,” and then leveled their now familiar (and tired) charge that this is an attack on the “free enterprise system.” Tellingly, the Romney campaign did not deny the substance of the allegations — that Romney personally profited, via a Goldman Sachs investment, in mortgage lenders responsible for thousands of foreclosures in Florida.

As we’ve said before: we’re not attacking the free enterprise system. We’re not attacking capitalism. We are attacking a broken economy where the game is rigged in favor of a privileged few at the expense of everyone else.

Instead of an economy where someone can amass a quarter-billion dollar fortune — on which they pay a lower tax rate than middle class workers — by laying off workers, bankrupting companies, and foreclosing on homes, we need an economy that works for everyone.

Evening Brief: Important Stories That You May Have Missed

Bill Gates isn’t afraid to try new things in his education philanthropy.

Undocumented students protest a Mitt Romney event over his pledge to veto the DREAM Act.

And Mitt Romney is burnishing his culture warrior credentials, accusing Obama of “an assault on religion.”

Two-thirds of American investors support closing one of Mitt Romney’s most egregious tax loopholes. In other Romney tax news, his campaign dismissed as “trivial” his failure to disclose his Swiss bank account and other investments on his legally-required Personal Financial Disclosure form.

Bank of America’s offer to homeowners: We’ll modify loans if you’ll erase all the mean things said about us on Twitter.

Will electronic voting make the Oscars relevant?

President Obama heaps mockery on Romney’s “envy” charge: “I promise you. Bill gates does not envy the rich.”

Despite campaigning for Latino votes in Florida, most GOP candidates want English to be the official language.

An Islamophobic officer plans to speak at West Point, but some veterans want him out. West Point is defending the invitation, saying cadets deserve to hear a “wide range of views.”

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TGIF &some News

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:03 +0000

Just another rant …

Ten months into President Obama taking office I watched heard and read several comments about President Obama. Reports of folks feeling the President, having taken a great first step toward change just had not gone far enough to sedate or fulfill the promises he made to special interest groups during his campaign. I was very surprised at the astounding lack of patience, suddenly realized President Obama would be held at a different standard and that the odd negative comments which were becoming bold, louder and more frequent …were actually coming from people left of center.

Change takes time

Now, I can’t speak for anyone else but history tells us that Africans and their descendants, which covers so many countries because we all know most were rounded up and shipped out for labour know struggle like nobody’s business. Yes, others have suffered in the timeline of slave life but how many can offer up a story of Black slaves laying the foundation or buildings free for more years than anyone wants to admit to and some in the southern states are trying to eliminate from history books. Yes, there have been some improvements made but Black People still suffer from higher rates of arrest, incarceration, pregnancy unemployment and still fighting for 21^st Century civil rights. Yet, even with all the hurdles blocking some aspects of progress for African Americans and decades of Caucasian Presidents. A man with a funny name and big ears who also happens to be bi-racial gains steam in Illinois, gets spotted for potential, becomes a US Senator and while in the Senate works for the people then is tapped to be a part of the Convention blowing everyone away with an awesome speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Yes, a lot happened before 53% of Americans voted for a Black Man for the first time but shocking (sarcasm), we also found after governing for a little over ten months that discrimination is alive and well. It was odd to see some our own run hold grudges and ignore what voters needed them to do … govern let alone support the first black President. It became clear that more Blacks definitely had the President’s back, 53% had patience but was growing thin listening to folks in the media giving viewers subliminal messages that we should expect President Obama to govern with a hammer, use his power and get their issues passed quickly. I have said it before … here is when schoolhouse rock comes to mind … and I sing it every time I hear those who think they voted for a King or Dictator. I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to hear people who seem smart, use great verbiage, can recite a law or two not to mention wonderful knowledge congressional protocol and dangle their degrees when necessary yet, they forget that Congress creates debates and votes yea or nay to ALL Federal laws of the land. Ok, a chill of states’ rights came over me

Change takes time …

especially when the gauntlet of obstruction was laid down … say day 1 after taking office and three years later Teapublicans are still stating that their main job is to make sure the President Obama is a one term President, not to get Americans back to work, not to pass bills that will move us forward.

Change takes a Congress that will compromise and cooperate with President Obama unlike the first 2yrs when members of Congress seemingly left our President to save their congressional seats … I get that but they also stopped working for We the People and allowed the Teapublicans into Congress

Change takes time … but

The Democratic Party had problems to overcome and clearly, the 2010 exposed those cracks

I have to say seeing members of Congress and the professional left seemingly lose common sense and some seemed to have lost their minds was very disturbing then now it just irritates me that they feel perfectly ok with blaming President Obama for what should get done in Congress. It took decades of bad behavior that set up the possibility for a big recession. The notion that our economic collapse could be rectified in 1-2 years still boggles my mind yet the professional left pushed, complained and whined for that list of demands or mandates that have never been President and should watch that schoolhouse rock video more than once or take a civics class. What they should be doing is pressing their representatives in Congress to do their jobs , uh create a law for the good of all Americans not just a select few instead of whining and sitting on the side lines after giving money. I say be proactive not reactive. Yes, giving money is definitely necessary but giving money is not the end of any political campaign or a move toward change we can ALL believe in. It is only a start. It is obvious that money and 53% voted, helped get Barack Obama into office, but the work of Governing is troublesome. When we have people like Mitch McConnell telling Americans he has one job and it is to make President Obama a one term President instead of doing the Peoples Business we all have wonder how much progress can even be imagined let alone be accomplished at all. The party of NO has filibustered progress in both Chambers of Congress more than any other, refuses to think about their fellow Americans with 15miilion people still unemployed yet, Indies and some special interest groups like the list below still have issues with the President Obama.

Yes, hold the President accountable but do not sit on the sidelines and demand change if you are not helping the President achieve a win for all Americans.

In 2009, we heard …

**Environmentalist… like Phil Radford, exec director/Greenpeace USA stated among other things,” Obama is missing in action” as it relates to global warming …in an article written by Bryan Walsh from Time Magazine…

**Gay/Lesbian leaders… are starting to make comments about Obama not going far enough on don’t ask/don’t tell but today he announced he will enact federal benefits for same sex couples …moving too slow? Too little too late? come on… People of colour know what being impatient means …

**Health-care liberals… are impatient and talking about how they put Obama in office and threatening a change in 2012 …

**Wall Street … flexed their muscles to show Obama who really is in charge of the market … but bad behavior needs to be regulated

**Hispanics … are upset

It is time for them to help President Obama

Yes, change will happen and contrary to how folks feel we are going in the right direction but President cannot do it all, we need to call, write and march to let Congress know what We the People voted for …

A change we can believe in

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Congressional Budget Office

Nativegrl77 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:00:24 +0000

Cost Estimate for H.R. 3289, Platts-Van Hollen Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on November 3, 2011
Cost Estimate for H.R. 1864, Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2011
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on November 17, 2011
Cost Estimate for S. 1149, Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2011
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Cost Estimate for S. 247, Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 10, 2011
Cost Estimate for S. 1855, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act Reauthorization of 2011
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on December 16, 2011
Cost Estimate for S. 1789, 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2011
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 9, 2011