Just the Sin City Saint THINKING OUT LOUD!
Republicans like to point to Keystone XL as one of their signature jobs bills “It’s a jobs bill! It’s a jobs bill!” But Tuesday afternoon Sen. Ed Markey’s amendment to prohibit oil shipped through the pipeline from being exported was killed by a 57 to 42 vote. Sen. Al Franken’s amendment that the pipeline be built with American steel was killed by a 53 to 46 vote.
Seriously.
“I think he probably would be booed out of the crowd,” Bruce Bartlett
Reagan adviser to GOP – ‘They are really rather stupid and not very well read’
Last week at CPAC potential Republican candidates were invoking President Ronald Reagan ad-nauseam….
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NOTE who said it!
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!'”—William F.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” John Steinbeck
“if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that wants the government to give them everything, so be it.” “the law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt.”
Don Yelton was a precinct chair in the Buncombe County, North Carolina
The NY Daily News is a reactionary paper, owned by a neo-conservative, which endorsed George W. Bush and Mitt Romney.
“… 47 Republican U.S. senators engaged in treachery by sending a letter to the mullahs aimed at cutting the legs out from under America’s commander-in-chief. … We strenuously condemn their betrayal of the U.S. constitutional system …
“Common core is not a federal law and, therefore, cannot be repealed by the federal government. “
Every Claim In This Ted Cruz Statement Is Completely False
It started with a tweet.
“It’s not a sincere attempt to give power to the states. It’s a smokescreen to find … way to protect tax breaks for the rich,” … the mechanism GOP lawmakers used to effect … cuts in early 2014 relied on taking program control away from state officials.
“They’re for more Washington control when it takes money away from poor people, and they’re for more state control when it takes money away from poor people. That’s the only …
On net, employers steal more from their workers each year than what actual robbers take from every heist and hold-up in the country combined.
Workers Say While They Were Serving The Rich Their Employer Was Robbing Them Blind
A company that makes high-end airline food is being accused of wage theft at Los Angeles International…
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Business is about making a profit. To be successful, i.e. to make a profit, a business must receive more for the product or service provided than it cost to produce it. That cost includes every expense that must be incurred to produce the product or service. If the price doesn’t cover the cost AND provide a sufficient excess, the business will die.