Responding to NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORTS commentators

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I mentioned David Kay Johnston's estimate that 1/3 Americans earn under $16,000/year because it would be good stimulus to give each of them $12,000/year either monthly or lump sum tax-free.  $1,200,000,000,000 ($1.2T) sounds like a lot, so let the Federal Reserve handle it since they have no problem loaning $9T without explanation.  Let the money come with some Personal Finance 101 information so most of it does not go to lotteries, casinos, or shop-at-home products.  At least the poor and working poor will not hoard it like banks in the 1920's or gamble it like in the 80's and the 2000's.  I will talk later about how the two Bushes' wars in Iraq bookend 9/11 in the worst way.  www.9-11commission.gov

Movies for Bachmann and Palin together later

The Tea Party's leading ladies should watch at least one of these movies together once a front-runner appears.

1. ALL ABOUT EVE
2. SINGLE WHITE FEMALE
3. BLACK SWAN
4. THE RED SHOES (not really, but good)
5. THELMA & LOUISE (How do you get to Mexico around Texas?)
6. MULAN
7. MULAN II

#OperationStolenEarth

Let's make August 3rd, President Obama's 50th birthday, the start of #OperationStolenEarth to undermine big corporations & other billionaires.  Since they rely on the sale of raw materials, let's invest in products that reduce the demand, like attic insulation and rechargeable.  Let the 22.7% (SGS) un- and under-employed grow victory gardens if they cannot afford organic food.

Obama Signs Bill To Extend Bush Tax Cuts = $858B tax bill cut for two years

President Obama is racing to stop the August 2nd debt ceiling countdown because he refused to take jobless benefits from two million Americans in 2010.  Unfortunately, that was a mistake, causing most of the country to suffer and disrupting the bond market.  The right move would have returned the top marginal income tax from 35% to 39% like under President Clinton, a move www.thomhartmann.com say would have erased the national debt in about ten years.  Hours ago, I adapted a countdown widget on this Web log (blog) to match that by http://abcnews.go.com/wn tracking the composite stupidity/nihilism of Representatives Eric Cantor & Paul Ryan.  Government IS like a corporation, a nonprofit corporation that needs to maximize income and to catalyze output while paying its employees and contractors.  Obama needs to bypass these Mammon-worshipers and talk with their corporate masters about what happens if America has even another mini-default like in 1979.  See the current unemployment numbers at www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm and the unofficial-yet-scary www.shadowstats.com; U-3 = 9.2%, U-3 = 16.2%, SGS = 22.7% with the later two up 0.4% thanks mostly to public job layoffs by Tea Party governors & the end of federal stimulus money.

Torchwood: Miracle Day Countdown Widget

Torchwood: Miracle Day Countdown Widget

What Obama Will Never Say

1. We will fight against corporate taxes; if corporations don't employ or serve us, we don't pay them!
2. Corporations are legally people; let them shut down for underpaid jury duty & pay 91% for earnings over $1B to help with our $14T debt and our $3T wars.
3. We support our troops; let's get them home by Christmas.
4. Let's start a counterinsurgency at home, overwhelming our real enemies with superior numbers not just the best technology we can import from China.  That means erasing ignorance with well-paid union teachers and assistants and librarians.  That includes healing the sick and infirm with doctors and nurses and chiropractors who concentrate on their art and not on their college loans.  This means training them in the U.S.A.; Uncle Sam can cover medical costs for 5% overhead instead of the private sector's 25%.
5. We can clear the streets of the homeless not with the same police actions that cities do before their Super Bowl games but by treating our most vulnerable military veterans for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury and other sufferings.  That lets us help the others with counseling and food stamps and subsidized housing; this small cost is nothing compared to the injustice of our neighbors being poor and helpless in the midst of the world's wealthiest nation.

Saving America in Ten Steps by 1/1/2017

1. End all subsidies of oil and coal, offering single-payer solar panels to homes for residents if not owners.
2. Raise the hourly minimum wage from $7.25 in 2011 to $10 by 2014 (1968 level) to $15 by 2017.
3. Outlaw private money to finance elections, giving $1/voter/election, whether primary or runoff or general.
4. Put cigarette-style warning labels on foods with high fructose syrup or aspartame, both known poisons.
5. Erase the $106.800 annual income cap taxable by Social Security, letting billionaires pay.
6. Every February, offer free monthly passes for mass transit; cost efficiency is addictive.
7. Raise the top marginal income tax rates (including capital gains):  35% = $¼M+, 39% = $½M+, 50% = $1M+, 74% = $20M+, 91% = $1B+.
8. Provide single-payer education and healthcare, in exchange for 2 years military or 3 years other service.
9. Erase NAFTA & GATT to allow Mexico and Haiti to grow their own food and jobs.
10. Give $250/week or $13,000/year tax-free to all who served in Iraq or Afghanistan (not O-5 and up.)