Posted on March 20th, 2010 by iwaller
Democrats and community members from all across the great state of Texas held their Democratic County Conventions on March 20, 2010 as we gathered to talk politics, exchange ideas, prepare our respective resolutions and made plans in working together to take back Texas.
We gathered to affirm the greatness of our state, the pride in our cause and confirm our support for a talented group of people running for various honorable offices who will represent the best interest of hardworking, taxpaying Texas families.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” Read more…
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Posted on March 18th, 2010 by iwaller
College students across America have experience massive cost and tuition increases. In one state alone, Texas, the average cost of a college education has skyrocketed 136% from 2003 to 2008 under Gov. Rick Perry’s failed tuition deregulation scheme and it a story repeated all across this country. As students and many families cope with out-of-control costs, they also face huge student loan debt after graduation.
A major reason for the ever-growing debt load America’s students are taking on is the broken student lending system, a big part of which involves the government paying student loan companies to originate and service loans. The companies are the inefficient middle men that drive up costs for students without adding any value. According to a recent report from The Project on Student Debt, the average student in the class of 2008 graduated with $23,000 of debt, “ (some over $40,000) a figure 25 percent higher than what their older brothers and sisters owed when they graduated from college in 2004“. Read more…
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by iwaller
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command, the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she, with silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Activists, advocates for social justice, defenders of freedom, and people of the United States have witnessed a tremendous cultural divide based on ignorance, fear and riotous rhetoric which denigrates the great Lady Liberty and the founding fathers of this great nation. Read more…
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by iwaller
Every American actively or passively engaged in U.S. politics have witnessed that Republicans have been embarking on an aggressive obstructionist agenda, determined to block any progress the Democratic majority has tried to make on health care, jobs, or even approving presidential nominees essential to keep the government running, since Americans overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama as President.
Republicans form of leadership has been to use obstruction tactics in the Senate as the GOP has set a filibuster record of 152 times since Pres. Obama took office. Republican senators are on pace to more than triple the previous record for uses of a filibuster in a Congress. In 2009, there were a record 112 cloture votes (the number of cloture votes is how you measure the use of filibusters). So far in 2010, there have already been more than 40 cloture votes. It is easy for them to draw their huge salaries and not do any work or heavy lifting for Americans. What would happen if the average worker simply said no to the people paying their salary yet expect to receive a paycheck – they would be fired! Read more…
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Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by iwaller
The US continues to suffer from a savage recession as Republicans continue to turn their backs on American families which in simple terms means conservatives pose the biggest threat to America’s democracy as they continue their march to obliterate jobs, health care and fair wages.
Republicans have continued to wage a no-holds-barred class warfare which was fueled by their reckless lowering of taxes for U.S. Corporations and the wealthiest Americans that increased the gulf between the richest and poorest Americans; ripping apart the social and economic safety net of Americans in the Republican’s bid to destroy the working class. For 8 years Republicans pillaged from the taxpayers’ treasury with record setting liberal spending, increasing America’s deficit to the highest in U.S. history. Read more…
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Posted on March 1st, 2010 by iwaller
House Minority Leader John Boehner met with J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon in late January 2010 to tell him congressional Republicans are fighting President Obama’s efforts to curb pay and create new regulations. Boehner was seeking donations from Wall Street to “make the case that they are the banks” best hope of preventing regulation on the very institutions who robbed Americans’ tax payers with greed and reckless investing which drove America into the Great Recession.
This Republican action goes hand-in-hand historically with the GOP supporting irresponsible too-big-to-fail banks. Read more…
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Posted on February 16th, 2010 by iwaller
War – a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism; a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end.
It is more than evident; it is extremely obvious; Republicans have demonstrated what cowards they are in the midst of the greatest war since the 1930’s. While record high unemployment continues, Wall Street was collapsing; Americans dying from lack of excessively costly health insurance, Republicans stood and continue to stand against helping hardworking, taxpaying U.S. Citizens as they obstructed every single effort to assist the populous during this time of war.
The Republican Party created the crisis Americans face today during the past 9 years of greed and record setting spending with 2 military wars, prescription drug plans and never once opposing spending or establishing plans to pay for their irresponsible spending and which they deliberately chose to pass all costs and debt onto Americans for future generations. The sea of red ink flowing in Washington was years in the making. As President Bill Clinton was leaving office in January 2001, the Congressional Budget Office estimated then that the government would run an average annual surplus of more than $800 billion a year from 2009 to 2012. Today, the government is expected to run a $1.2 trillion annual deficit in those years. Read more…
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Posted on February 12th, 2010 by iwaller
Republicans are at it again, you know, their plan to eliminate Medicare and Social Security and then privatize these programs so the big insurance companies and Wall Street can make more money from America’s senior citizens.
Republican Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan wants to eliminate Medicare altogether and replace it with some vouchers seniors can use to buy health insurance with a new Republican sponsored plan (H.R. 4529) called a Roadmap for America’s Future.
Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and TPM all noted, the GOP’s Paul Ryan is making the privatization of Medicare the centerpiece of a new Republican deficit reduction gambit. Read more…
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by iwaller
Calling out Republican Hypocrisy! The American Recovery and Investment Act, passed by Congressional Democrats in the wake of the worst economic disaster since the 1930’s, was implemented to create new jobs, save existing jobs, spur economic development and invest in long-term growth. Additionally the stimulus offered financial aid directly to local school districts, expanded the Child Tax Credit and invested in a process to computerized health records to reduce medical errors and save on health care costs.
The $787 billion stimulus gave $288 billion in middle class and small business tax cuts, $275 billion for contracts, grants and loans to rebuild America’s infrastructure and $224 billion in Entitlements to fund police, teachers, firefighters and unemployment programs. (See Recovery.gov) Read more…
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by iwaller
Republicans took Control of Congress the last 2 years of the Clinton Administration and continued control of Congress and the White House for another 8 years. Their decade’s long agenda helped to place America on a downward spiral as Republicans spent America into deficit hell by turning a Democratic budget surplus into what the Wall Street Journal acknowledged was the biggest legacy of the Bush years, the huge deficit he placed on Americans for generations to come. These Republican policies were and are supported by ‘teabaggers’ and current Republican Congressional members today. Read more…
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by iwaller
Republicans would have Americans believe there is a socialistic war in American politics as if the social programs of public schools, police and fire departments, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and programs for the less fortunate are anti-American and anti-Christian. On the other hand Republicans and their fellow teabaggers lack the principles or any constructive ideas to move America forward. Their political arrogance of ‘NO’ is couched as “We’re doing this for you” and is the bastion of hypocrisy as the Republican Party was the genesis for the economic collapse in the U.S. Read more…
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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by iwaller
On January 21, 2010, the 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United (argued by George Bush’s former Solicitor General Ted Olson) v. the Federal Election Commission shredded the very fabric of America’s already weakened, Patriot Act enacted democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process. This decision overturned two prior Supreme Court cases and undid a century of First Amendment doctrine, declaring that corporations are just like people and have the same 1st Amendment rights as individuals! Decades of election reform have been undermined. Read more…
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