Saturday, September 30, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Trump- Republican Tax Cuts
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about the
Trump-Republican tax plan
Say no to trickle-down tax cuts,
and say no to mindless deficit reduction.
September 16, 2017
Have you noticed that there’s no
Trump tax plan and no Republican tax plan? All they’ve come up with so far is a
bunch of platitudes about how nice it would be to cut taxes, simplify the tax
code, and spur economic growth.
Who doesn’t support these nice
goals?
The reason there’s no tax plan is
congressional Republicans are hopelessly divided on it.
Right-wing Republicans (the
“Freedom Caucus” along with what’s left of the Tea Party) are most interested
in reducing the size of the government and shrinking the federal deficit and
debt.
Corporate and Wall Street
Republicans – along with Donald Trump – are most interested in cutting taxes on
corporations and the wealthy. They have the backing the GOP’s big business
donors who stand to make a bundle off tax cuts.
Here’s the problem. You can’t
have a giant tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, and at the same time
shrink the federal deficit and debt – unless you make gigantic cuts in
government spending on things the American public wants and needs.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Guide to Resistance
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/guidingtheresistance/pages/17/attachments/original/1504646456/ResistanceGuide_interactive.pdf--- Free
Trump data on Job Growth
ANOTHER TRUMP WHOPPER ON JOBS: "Companies are moving back, creating job growth, the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time," Trump said in his speech to the United Nations. Actually, job growth is following more or less the same pattern it did last year (when candidate Trump repeatedly complained that the economy was in lousy shape). Indeed, CNN Money's Patrick Gillespie reports, if you have the bad manners to compare job growth in 2017 to job growth in 2016 you'll find that 2016's was a little bit faster.
"The U.S. has added an average of 176,000 new jobs a month so far this year," writes Gillespie. "Last year the U.S. economy added an average of 194,000 jobs a month in the same period, between January and August. The full-year average for 2016 was also above 2017's pace at 187,000 jobs a month, according to Labor Department data." More here.
Monday, September 18, 2017
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Equifax Security
See this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/your-money/equifax-answers-data-breach.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/your-money/equifax-answers-data-breach.html?_r=0
Friday, September 15, 2017
Republican Budget Cuts
From the House bill.
Here’s what their budget would cut:
- Nearly $2 trillion from health care, mostly Medicaid, harming children, people with disabilities, older Americans, and working families
- $72 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for low-income seniors or people with disabilities
- $667 billion from food stamps, housing assistance, job training, and other critical services
- And more from education, medical research, environmental protections, and infrastructure
All this, just to give *$4.8 TRILLION* in tax cuts to corporations and the ultra-rich.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Robert Reich: Trump Has Only Inflamed 5 of America's Biggest Crises @alternet
Robert Reich: Trump Has Only Inflamed 5 of America's Biggest Crises @alternet: Trump is neglecting or worsening the five genuinely big problems facing America. It’s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency.This past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants – often called Dreamers – from deportation under what’s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
JUSTICE FOR DREAMERS - PUNISH THE AUTHORS OF FORCE...
The Reality Check: JUSTICE FOR DREAMERS - PUNISH THE AUTHORS OF FORCE...: JUSTICE FOR DREAMERS - PUNISH THE AUTHORS OF FORCED MIGRATION By David Bacon Working In These Times, 9/8/17 http://inthesetimes.com/working ...
Dreamers created by NAFTA
Dreamers created by NAFTA
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Saturday, September 9, 2017
David Bacon to Speak at Sac State Wed. Sept. 13
FILM IN HINDE, UNIVERSITY UNION 3 PM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT GUY WEST PLAZA David Bacon, Free. 5:30 PM
as a part of the Farm to Fork celebration. Sept 13.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. . . They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
-Donald Trump, June 16, 2015
In the Fields of the
North/ En Los Campos del Norte by David Bacon
Univerity
of California Press, 2017
Reviewed
by Duane Campbell
“We are not animals. We are human beings.”
In
an impressive and important new book, David
Bacon effectively counters the racism and xenophobia advanced by our current
president and promoted in right-wing media by providing hundreds of photos and
clear descriptions of the real life and work of the immigrants harvesting the
food we eat.
Bacon
does so by interviewing farmworkers and photographing farmworkers in their
“housing” and in their work. He reports and records the humanity of the
thousands of people who come north to harvest our crops and to feed their
families as best they can.
Photojournalist
David Bacon has a long history of documenting the lives of immigrant people,
including the important books:, Illegal People: How Globalization creates
migration and criminalizes immigrants. (2008) and The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
(Beacon Press, 2013), as well as a long list of journal
articles.
In
The Fields of the North, Bacon uses
his extensive and award-winning photography to tell more of the story. This is
not just a book with some photos, but
rather a series of extended photo essays (with over 300 photos) showing that images and words have a combined
power far beyond either words or images by themselves. Bacon tells the story of
cycles of exploitation and poverty suffered by tens of thousands moving from
season to season, working in the fields to harvest our food for subminimum
wages, and facing the racism and political power of growers and their labor
contractors.
The Equifax computer breach
The Equifax computer breach.
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19960:Equifax-Data-Breach-is-a-10-out-of-10-Scandal
Bill Black
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19960:Equifax-Data-Breach-is-a-10-out-of-10-Scandal
Bill Black
Friday, September 8, 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Friday, September 1, 2017
Sources: Economics for the 99 %
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Wiley and Sons
Alperovitz, Gar, What Then Must We Do ? Straight Talk About the Next
American Revolution. 2013.
Barofsky, Neil, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned
Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. ( 2012)
Baker, Dean. Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the
Bubble Economy, (2009)
Barlett, Donald L., and Steele, James B., The Betrayal of the American
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Black, William, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.
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