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For The Trees
Who is our economy FOR, anyway? About the Authors: Dave Johnson John Emerson Richard Reich Thomas Leavitt
Recent Posts: BEST OF STF: Dave's: Articles not at STF: The ATLA Speech on building a progressive infrastructure Lowering the Bar The Attack on Trial Lawyers and Tort Law Who's Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors On the Right and their communications infrastructure: Why Republicans Win Win or Lose The "Conventional Wisdom" Machine Some History of the Conservative Movement HOW TO FIGHT BACK An Amplifier Of Our Own Don't Blame the Democrats How They Do It 1 2 3 4 Getting Rolled Other: You're Gonna Get Drafted Scalia and Self-Government Who is Our Economy For? Voting Machine Story Link Collection What's Wrong with this Picture? (Voting Machines) Like Meat in the Supermarket Get Active Thin Line 1 2 3 Fixing Social Security Seeing the Forest I, II, III "Incredibly Positive News" The Breadth of It The Republican Crony Club Moon Bush Ralph Nader is a Scab John's Best Of: Kerry Smear Page Bandar Bush 9/11 Commission Report Damages Bush -- if you read it Florida Goon Squad Intimidated the Supreme Court The Use and Abuse of George Orwell Zizka's Archives (John's previous identity) Zizka Sampler News Sources: AlterNet BuzzFlash Common Dreams Cursor Drudge Retort Information Clearing House Smirking Chimp TruthOut What REALLY Happened Links to Other Weblogs: |
 12/28/2002 Trickle Down Richard Reeves had a good one yesterday, "What trickles down today: underpaid, no-benefits jobs". Here's a taste: "Investment now, at least in the reign of Bush, is about cutting taxes on the rich, who will, presumably, then hire us as wrappers, trainers, secretaries, drivers, nannies and dog-washers and -walkers. The money to pay us -- which we must spend immediately -- will come from eliminating or cutting the taxes on high incomes, investments, dividends, and the estates of what the president's father liked to call the ``investing classes.''Personal responsibility, meaning you're on your own after they've chewed you up and spat you out. A question to ponder - Who is our economy for? --- Posted at 12/28/2002 05:44:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post  
More Clipper Thomas Leavitt has posted a couple of responses on his weblog along with some e-mail discussion we've been having, to my Clipper Chip piece of the other day. (Here, as well as the entry following it.) I'll post my replies in his comments section. Go take a look and join the discussion. --- Posted at 12/28/2002 10:45:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
12/27/2002 SURE They'll Surrender II As I wrote the other day in my entry, SURE They'll Surrender, So the Iraqi soldiers have pretty good reasons to be afraid to surrender to Americans. Gosh, I KNEW there was a reason we shouldn't have denied all rights to Afghan prisoners.Now there are reports of mistreatment of prisoners. So the Iraqi soldiers have MORE pretty good reasons to be afraid to surrender to Americans. Gosh, I KNEW there was a reason we shouldn't torture prisoners or hand them over to those that do. (Also posted at Stand Down.) --- Posted at 12/27/2002 09:33:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
That Secret Poll If you've been reading a few weblogs today you might already know about the secret poll (Liberal Oasis) - also here (Thinking it Through). Skippy has a few things to say about it. I just don't understand this. I've never seen them miss announcing a poll before - polls aren't cheap and this is truly newsworthy. The spin on the wording - people think Bush's advisors, not Bush, are behind what credit they give him becomes "Bush advisers get favorable marks". Wow. Is it a cover-up? Is it a conspiracy? Is it the smoking gun demonstrating conclusively that the media is under control of the right? Leave a comment. Update - Atrios links to a page-scan of the poll. --- Posted at 12/27/2002 05:40:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
Getting Rolled I came across a piece that I wrote in September, called "Getting Rolled", and it's still relevant (maybe even more so), so I'm sort-of reposting and hoping you'll read it. Update - At the end of Getting Rolled I point to several articles. Now there is a collection of these articles, and more, available at the Commonweal Institute. --- Posted at 12/27/2002 04:43:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
How Far to the Right is Bush? PFAW - People For the American Way, has a report available, The Right-Wing Affiliations of Bush Administration Officials. Also, over at Cursor's Media Transparency there's a report titled, Conservative Movement Moves In. From the preface, "Since the selection of Republican George W. Bush as president by the US Supreme Court, the sponsored conservative movement, holed up in think tanks, universities, and sponsored media institutions across the country have appeared like Jackals at a fresh kill to pounce on our bloodied democracy and are now populating the new administration."When Cursor says "sponsored" they mean funded by the usual crowd. --- Posted at 12/27/2002 04:19:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
A Great One There's a new one up at Take Back The Media. --- Posted at 12/27/2002 03:55:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
Drudge is LYING The Drudge Report has this headline, "TAXING: $314.9 million Powerball win turns into $111 million lump sum payout for W. Virginia man..." This sure makes it seem like TAXES took away $214 million! But anyone who buys lottery tickets knows that you choose "payments," where the money is paid in full over a period of years, or "cash," where you get the present value of those payments which usually comes to a little more than half. The winner had chosen the cash option and received $170 million. This is how they stir up anti-government sentiments. Are Drudge's Republican readers stupid enough to be tricked by this? --- Posted at 12/27/2002 07:39:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
12/26/2002 MyDD MyDD joins the Essential Links. --- Posted at 12/26/2002 08:16:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
12/25/2002 Military Anyone reading from the military? Read this. (Thanks, Two Tears in a Bucket.) --- Posted at 12/25/2002 11:35:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
Korea Korea. Serious stuff. --- Posted at 12/25/2002 11:26:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
Wednesday Here is a Holiday card for you, made by my wife. And a day can't pass without a political message, so here's a good one about the imbalance of AM radio. --- Posted at 12/25/2002 10:08:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
12/24/2002 Corporation not a "Person" Here's an interesting article. Porter Township, Pennsylvania declared "Corporations shall not be considered to be 'persons' protected by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within the Second Class Township of Porter, Clarion County, Pennsylvania."The article gets into the implications of this. It is worth reading and it is certainly worth getting active locally to get similar legislation passed in your area! (Thanks, Michael!) --- Posted at 12/24/2002 02:50:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
An Important Weblog at an Important Time Webloggers - I've noticed that Stand Down: The Left-Right Blog Opposing and Invasion of Iraq has been a bit slow recently. (I'm at fault, too.) Yet this seems the very time to become more active. I recommend all readers take a look at this important weblog. I recommend all webloggers renew your efforts to contribute to this important weblog. Webloggers, reporters, editors, and columnists - I recommend recommending this important weblog to your readers. (It ain't me - blogspot is acting up again. I do not have any HTML for making characters bold anywhere in this message. Or maybe blogspot is emphasizing my recommending all webloggers renew your efforts... It's really strange how just this line is hilited by the bug at blogspot.) --- Posted at 12/24/2002 10:48:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
12/23/2002 SURE They'll Surrender! The Bush Administration is counting on Iraqi soldiers surrendering as soon as the war starts. But maybe not, if they've been told about this. "The documentary alleges that U.S. troops watched as opposition Northern Alliance troops killed between 1,500 and 3,000 Taliban prisoners in November last year - an allegation flatly rejected by the U.S. government."As well as the problem of the prisoners that will be held indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, while we claim they are not POWs. So the Iraqi soldiers have pretty good reasons to be afraid to surrender to Americans. Gosh, I KNEW there was a reason we shouldn't have denied all rights to Afghan prisoners. (Thanks to Take Back the Media for the link.) --- Posted at 12/23/2002 01:12:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
The New Bush America Read this if you want to know what to expect in your own future in the new Bush version of America. It's only going to get worse, and worse. (Thanks to Bartcop). --- Posted at 12/23/2002 11:01:00 AM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
12/22/2002 Unemployed Webloggers Yesterday, while I was out having a life, Slashdot had a discussion Are Blogging and Unemployment Related? I think yes. --- Posted at 12/22/2002 06:09:00 PM by Dave Johnson Link to this | | | | e-mail this post
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