WELCOME TO OPINIONS BASED
ON FACTS (OBOF)
&
THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (TYMHM)
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OVERVIEW
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Dec. 28, 2010
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 1
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Dec. 30, 2010
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 2
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Jan. 10, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 3
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Jan. 17, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 4
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Jan. 24, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 5
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Jan. 31, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 6
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Feb. 07, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 7
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Feb. 14, 2011
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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Feb. 18, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 8
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Feb. 21, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 9
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Mar. 01, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 10
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Mar. 07, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 1
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Mar. 14, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 1A
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Mar. 21, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 2
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Mar. 25, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 3
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Mar. 29, 2011
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Apr. 04, 2011
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Apr. 11, 2011
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Apr. 18, 2011
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Apr. 25, 2011
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Apr. 29, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 8
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May 02, 2011
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May 09, 2011
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May 16, 2011
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May 24, 2011
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Jun. 06, 2011
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Jun. 20, 2011
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July 05, 2011
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July 18, 2011
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July 19, 2011
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Aug. 03, 2011
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Aug. 15, 2011
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Aug. 29, 2011
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Sept. 12, 2011
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Sept. 26, 2011
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Oct. 10, 2011
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Oct. 24, 2011
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Nov. 04, 2011
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Nov. 07, 2011
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Nov. 21, 2011
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Dec. 05, 2011
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Dec. 19, 2011
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JAN. 03, 2012
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JAN. 05, 2012
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JAN. 17, 2012
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JAN. 31, 2012
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Feb.
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Feb.
21, 2012
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Mar.
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May
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May
22, 2012
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May
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EXTRA II
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June 01, 2012
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June 05. 2012
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June 07, 2012
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June 19, 2012
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Aug. 28, 2012
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Sept. 11. 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 1
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Sept. 20, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 2
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Sept. 24,2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 3
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Oct. 02, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 4
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Oct. 04, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 5
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Oct. 09, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 6
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Oct. 18, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 7
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Oct. 24, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 8
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Oct. 31, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 8 EXTRA
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Nov. 04, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 9
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Nov. 13, 2012
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IN THIS
ISSUE
1.
Re-elected.
2.
What about the disappointment.
3.
Now the President needs more than ever.
4.
Young voters turn out.
5.
The next economy.
RE-ELECTED
WHO?
PRESIDENT
OBAMA,
OF COURSE
~~~
I'M HAPPY
I'M THRILLED
I'M EXCITED
I'M
DISAPPOINTED
THE FOURTH
WORD DOESN'T FIT WITH THE THOUGHT
OF THE OTHER
THREE.
DOES IT.
WELL, it's been a very
gratifying election. Many things to
really be happy, thrilled, and excited about. To me, one of the greatest developments, is
the fact, that all the big billionaires and millionaires, with all their
millions of dollars, were not able to overcome all of us grassroots people. We
got our President re-elected by a 303 to 206 electoral vote margin. That does not include Florida Florida
There were a number of
congressional races that were won despite tremendous amounts of money thrown in
the direction of the Republican candidate. For example, Tammy Baldwin (D) for Senate from
Wisconsin and Elizabeth Warren (D) for Senate
from Massachusetts
Two of the hottest
Senate races in the country were in Ohio and Vermont Ohio Vermont
Sherrod Brown entered
Federal service in the House of Representatives in 1993, where he served 7- two
year terms. He became a U.
S. U. S.
Bernie Sanders entered
Federal service in the House of Representatives in 1990, where he served 8-two
year terms. He became a U. S.
In my
opinion, both of these men are true progressive Senators and do fight hard for
the Middle class. I have watched them
both for the past three years and they both have their head on straight about
our country and our people, the 99%ers,
~~~
WHAT ABOUT
THE
DISAPPOINTMENT?
The disappointment is
probably evident to most of you. While
we did gain some seats in, both the House and the Senate, we didn't gain enough
to have a Democratic Congress. SO, the
President, is in the same situation as in his first term, or is he?
Not quite so fast,
while he doesn't have a full Democratic Congress behind him, he does have the
experience of the first two years of his first term. If you recall, he spent those two years trying
to compromise with a Congress whose agenda was to be sure he would not have a
second term.
The second half of his
first term, he began to see that the soft approach was not going to work, but
it was too late to get the important legislation enacted. The Republicans were dug in and were not going
to give him anything.
Despite this set of
circumstances, he was able to bring back 5.3 million new jobs in 33 months, get
Affordable Health Care Act passed, 18 tax reductions for small business, passed
"Don't Ask Don't Tell," and about 90 other Executive Order matters
into law, that Congress couldn't stop. So, what can we expect in his second term? For starters, he meets with Labor Leaders,
today Tuesday. On Wednesday the 14th, he
meets with the nation's Business Leaders and on Thursday the 15th, he meets
with the Congressional Leadership of both parties.
The main point,
however, is that I think he has no intention of starting off easy. I believe, he is going to be strong and, as
he has already said, with regard to meeting the deficit problems we face with
the upcoming fiscal cliff "I will not let the deficit be totally paid on
the backs of students, seniors and the middle class, while those making $250,000
a year or more, pay not a dime more in taxes.
I won't do that."
~~~
AND NOW, THE
PRESIDENT NEEDS US, AS MUCH AS DURING THE ELECTION CYCLE.
Considering what I
have said above, the President and the Democrats in the House and in the Senate
are going to need all our support, during the next four years, as much as
during the election cycle. We all need
to keep track of developments in Washington
This is as
important as getting them elected. Our
job is not over. While they may not need
as much money as during the election, although I know they are going to need
that too, they still need to hear from us so we can have an influence on what
happens in Washington
REMEMBER, IN
JUST ONE YEAR, OR ACTUALLY RIGHT NOW, THE NEXT ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE HOUSE WILL BE UNDERWAY. THIS WILL GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY
TO GET A DEMOCRAT CONGRESS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS OF THE PRESIDENT'S TERM. OUR REP's ARE GOING TO NEED MONEY FOR THAT,
SO START SAVING YOUR PENNIES AND LET THE GRASSROOTS CLASS DO IT AGAIN.
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YOUNG VOTERS
TURNED OUT FOR
OBAMA JUST
LIKE IN 2008.
ZO CARPENTER
The Nation / News Report
Published Thursday November 8, 2012
Add this to the list of bad bets the GOP placed this year:
that young Americans’ support for Barack Obama, and their interest in politics
in general, was tenuous enough to break—and that it could be broken through
discouragement and voter suppression, rather than by specific appeals to their
concerns.
Twenty-two to 23
million Americans under 30 voted yesterday, with a turnout rate of at least 49 percent among
eligible voters. That figure is comparable with the estimate at this time in
2008, which later rose to 52 percent as final results trickled in. Nearly a
fifth of all voters were under 30 (19 percent, up from 18 percent in 2008), and
they voted for Obama by a twenty-three-point m+argin, 60 to 37 percent.
The president could
not have won without them. An analysis from the Center for Information and
Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) suggests that eighty of
Obama’s electoral votes depended on the support of young voters. If
Romney had captured just half of the youth vote in Ohio ,
Virginia , Pennsylvania
and Florida
“I was pretty much prepared to sound some kind
of alarm,” CIRCLE’s Peter Levine said this morning, referring to projections
that youth participation would drop off precipitously in this election. While
2008 was designated as the ‘year of the youth vote,’ the showing from
millennials this year is even more striking given the hurdles young voters had
to overcome. Confusion spread by voter ID laws, hours-long waits at the polls,
a presidential fight waged in a fraction of the states and shadowed by dark money,
and the long slog of the economic recovery, all could have kept young voters
from the polls. “They had a choice,” said Rock the Vote’s president Heather
Smith, “to opt out because of frustration. But they understood that people
trump money.”
And millennials didn’t just show up to vote for the
president. In California Massachusetts Maryland , Maine and Washington
“This voting block can no longer be an afterthought to
any political party or campaign,” said Smith, calling strong youth participation
‘the new normal” in American politics. Since 2004, about half of all young
adults have voted in presidential elections, while through the 1990s turnout
hovered near 40 percent.
By 2020,
millennials will account for nearly 40 percent of the electorate. They are more
diverse than any previous generation, and the single moniker belies the span of
their political concerns. These voters are also coming of age in a time when
support for gay marriage is not radical but a matter of basic fairness; when a
black president is elected not once but twice; and when strong women win the
battles for seats in Congress. It wasn’t just that the president had a stronger
ground game, four years of pro-youth policy and an emotional foundation to run
on. It’s that Republicans across the board support policies that most young
Americans do not.
As I reported last month, the hand-wringing over
generational apathy was in part a misreading of criticism from young citizens
who will be pushing for a more progressive second term from Obama. Today, it’s
their votes that matter. But tomorrow, and for years to come, their criticism
may prove more valuable. These young voters are the “stubborn thing[s]” the
president invoked early this morning in his acceptance
speech, who insist “despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something
better awaits us.”
~~~
Next Economy: Why He Must Take This Opportunity to Reframe the Economic Debate
Robert Reich
NationofChange/
op - ed
Published Thursday November 8, 2012
When the applause among Democrats and recriminations
among Republicans begin to quiet down — probably within the next few days — the
President will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy.
His victory and the pending “fiscal cliff” give him an
opportunity to recast the economic debate. Our central challenge, he should
say, is not to reduce the budget deficit. It’s to create more good jobs, grow
the economy, and widen the circle of prosperity.
The deficit is a problem only in proportion to the
overall size of the economy. If the economy grows faster than its current 2
percent annualized rate, the deficit shrinks in proportion. Tax receipts grow,
and the deficit becomes more manageable.
But if economic growth slows – as it will, if taxes are
raised on the middle class and if government spending is reduced when
unemployment is still high – the deficit becomes larger in proportion. That’s
the austerity trap Europe finds itself in. We
don’t want to go there.
This is why January’s
so-called “fiscal cliff” — $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax
increases – is so dangerous. It’s too much deficit reduction, too soon. Tax
increases on the middle class would reduce their spending just when the economy
needs that spending in order to keep growing, and cuts in government’s own
spending would make the problem worse.
If we go over the fiscal
cliff, we’re in another recession. Don’t just take my word for it. That’s also
the view of the Congressional Budget Office and most private economic
forecasters.
The way to ensure continued growth is to continue the
President’s payroll tax cut and extend the Bush tax cuts for income under
$250,000, and continue government spending.
The way to increase growth is to permanently exempt the
first $20,000 of income from the payroll tax and make up for lost revenues by
raising the ceiling on income subject to it (that ceiling is now $110,100). And
increase government spending — especially on critical public investments like
education, job training, and infrastructure.
Any “grand bargain” on deficit reduction should contain a
starting trigger — and that trigger should be when the economy can safely be
assumed to be back on track. I’d make that trigger 6 percent unemployment and 3
percent economic growth for two consecutive quarters, and make sure that
trigger was in the legislation.
The President needs to make it clear to the public that
the only way we can achieve a better economy is through a larger and more
buoyant middle class. If we continue lurching toward widening inequality and
ever more concentrated income and wealth at the top, the vast middle class – as
well as all those who aspire to join it – won’t have the purchasing power to grow
the economy and create more jobs.
That’s why taxes must be increased on the wealthy, and
the proceeds used to reduce the deficit over the long term, extend and enlarge
the Earned Income Tax Credit (a wage subsidy for lower-income workers), and
invest in education.
The President’s victory doesn’t give him a clear mandate
to achieve any of this – the margin of victory was too small, and he didn’t
tell the American electorate explicitly that his priority would be creating
jobs and growing the middle class instead of reducing the deficit.
But his victory gives him the attention of the nation and
the authority that comes with having won reelection. It therefore gives him the
opportunity to recast the economic debate. The upcoming fiscal cliff makes it
particularly urgent he do so quickly.
~~~
If the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, I'll talk with you
again next Tuesday November 20, 2012.
God Bless You All
&
God Bless the United States of America
Floyd
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