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OVERVIEW
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 14
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Dec 18, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 15
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Jan. 02, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 16
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Jan. 08, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 16
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Jan. 11, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 17
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Jan. 15, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 18
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Jan. 22, 2013
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Jan. 29, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 20
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Feb. 05, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 21
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Feb. 14, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 22
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Feb. 20, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 23
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 23 SPECIAL
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Mar. 12, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 25-EXTRA
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Mar. 14, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 26
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Mar. 19, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 27
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Mar. 26, 2013
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Apr. 02, 2013
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Apr. 08, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 30
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Apr. 17, 2013
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Apr. 23, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 32
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Apr. 30, 2013
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May 07, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 34
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May 18, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 35
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May 21, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 36
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May 30, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 37
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June 05, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 38
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June 11, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 39
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June 18, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 40
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June 25, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 41
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July
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 43
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July
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 44
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July
23, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 45
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July
30, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 46
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Aug.
06, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 47
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Aug.
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 48
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Aug. 20, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 49
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Aug. 27, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 50
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Sept. 05, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 51
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Sept. 11, 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 52
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Sept. 18, 2013
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Sept. 26, 2013
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Oct. 02, 2013
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Oct. 09. 2013
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OBOF & TYMHM PART 56
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Oct. 16, 2013
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IN THIS ISSUE
1. Why so late.
2. About the shutdown.
3. GOP bloody nose not enough.
4. Obamacare bad for GOP health.
By Floyd Bowman, Publisher.
"Opinions Based on Facts."
October 16, 2013.
There are a couple of
reason for being so late this week, but only one is valid. I wanted to wait and see what was going to be
the outcome about the government shut down and where we will be going after
that. I'll briefly mention the other and
then briefly, my take, for whatever it is worth, about the shutdown.
As I have previously
mentioned, I have health problems once in a while. This time I fell last Monday, the 14th. Could be worse, but set me back a
little. Hope to get back on schedule
next week.
NOW, ABOUT
THE SHUTDOWN.
I guess many are happy
about the Government getting back to work.
Of course, there are reasons for that, but the way work resumed is
absolutely ridiculous. Let's look at
what has just happened.
We have just gone
through a characid, called governing, resulting in a shutdown costing the
Taxpayers $24 billions, which can't be recovered, and the loss of 900,000
jobs. This has been the most reckless
and outrageous government function I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. What's more, there was no need for it
what-so-ever. It was a manufactured
crisis by the Tea Party Republicans who got just what they wanted. They wanted to bring the Government to a halt.
The only thing good
about this is that, in the long run, they became a little weaker, thank
goodness. Now they are spouting words
like "impeachment and treason."
They never seem to learn. In the
first place, there is no grounds for impeachment and in the second place we
have much bigger fish to fry. Why waste
our time on such foolish thoughts at this time.
What is
worse? The conditions that brought our
government back to work are worse than what we started with. They funded our government until January 15,
2014 and raised the debt ceiling until February 7, 2014.
AND THEN WHAT?
YOU'VE GOT IT. THE SAME THING ALL
OVER AGAIN. MANAGEMENT BY CRISIS IS NO WAY
All government
functions have to be ready to shutdown at anytime. They can't plan ahead for more efficient
operation and staff are on needless and pins all the time. Not the best situation for a productive
government.
ALL OF THIS
DOES SET THE STAGE FOR A GOOD DEMOCRATIC 2014 ELECTION. HOWEVER, IT WILL BE A HARD FOUGHT ELECTION
AND WE MUST NOT GET COMPLACENT.
~~~
Why
Giving Republican Bullies
a
Blood Nose Isn’t Enough
Robert Reich
NationofChange
/ Op-Ed
Published: Tuesday 15 October 2013
Now is the time to lance the boil of Republican extremism
once and for all.
Since Barack Obama became president, the extremists who
have taken over the Republican Party have escalated their demands every time
he’s caved, using the entire government of the United States as their
bargaining chit.
In 2010 he agreed to extend all of the Bush tax cuts
through the end of 2012. Were they
satisfied? Of course not.
In the summer of 2011, goaded by an influx of Tea
Partiers, they demanded huge spending cuts in return for raising the debt
ceiling. In response, the President offered an overly-generous $4 trillion
“Grand Bargain,” including cuts in Social Security and Medicare and whopping
cuts in domestic spending (bringing it to its lowest level as a share of gross
domestic product in over half a century).
Were Republicans content? No. When
they demanded more, Obama agreed to a Super Committee to find bigger cuts, and
if the Super Committee failed, a “sequester” that would automatically and
indiscriminately slice everything in the federal budget except Social Security
and Medicare.
Not even Obama’s
re-election put a damper on their increasing demands. By the end of 2012, they insisted that the
Bush tax cuts be permanently extended or the nation would go over the “fiscal
cliff.” Once again, Obama caved, agreeing to permanently extend the Bush tax
cuts for incomes up to $400,000.
Early this year, after the sequester went into effect,
Republicans demanded even bigger spending cuts. Obama offered more cuts in Medicare and a
“chained CPI” to reduce Social Security payments, in exchange for Republican
concessions on taxes.
Refusing the offer, and
seemingly delirious with their power to hold the nation hostage, they demanded
that the Affordable Care Act be repealed as a condition for funding the
government and again raising the debt ceiling.
This time, though, Obama didn’t cave — at least, not
yet.
The government is shuttered and the nation is on the
verge of defaulting on its debts. But
public opinion has turned sharply against the Republican Party. And the GOP’s corporate and Wall Street
backers are threatening to de-fund it.
Suddenly the Republicans are acting like the school-yard
bully who terrorized the playground but finally got punched in the face. They’re in shock. They’re humiliated. They’re trying to come up
with ways of saving face.
With bloodied nose, House Republicans are running home.
They’ve abruptly turned negotiations over to their Senate colleagues.
And just as
suddenly, their demand to repeal or delay the Affordable Care Act has vanished.
(An email from the group Tea Party Express
says: “Are you like us wondering where the fight against Obamacare went?”) At
a lunch meeting in the Capitol, Senator John McCain asked a roomful of
Republican senators if they still believed it was possible to reverse parts of
the program. According to someone briefed on the meeting, no one
raised a hand — not even Ted Cruz.
It appears that negotiations over the federal budget
deficit are about to begin once again, and presumably Senate Republicans will
insist that Obama and the Democrats give way on taxes and spending in exchange
for reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling for at least another
year.
But keeping the government running and paying the
nation’s bills should never have been bargaining chits in the first place, and
the President and Democrats shouldn’t begin to negotiate over future budgets
until they’re taken off the table.
The question is how thoroughly President Obama has
learned that extortionist demands escalate if you give in to them.
~~~
The
Affordable Care Act: Bad for the
GOP’s
Political Health
Jim
Hightower
Other Words / Op-Ed
Published:
Saturday 19 October 2013
Whacking yourself on the head with a ball-peen hammer
would be stupid. Doing it again and
again? That’s insane.
Welcome to your House of Representatives, presently led
by a pack of tea-partying Republicans. They
loathe the Affordable Care Act so much that they repeatedly hammer themselves
over the head. They’ve voted 46 times (so far) to dismantle, defund, delay,
deny, and otherwise destroy this landmark health care bill — all to no avail. They would be hilarious, were they not so
pathetic.
The craziest part of their
stunt is the duplicitous claim that finally providing health care for millions
of uninsured Americans will have, as one leader of the mad-dog pack put it,
“horrific effects.” But now, their anti-government, anti-Obama obsession
has turned into insanity. Acting as
though the United States of
America
Yet, even as they publicly insist that they’re heroes for
trying to save the people from the horror of receiving fairly decent health
coverage, the GOP hierarchy is quietly warning its members that defeating
President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform now is essential to their
own political health.
Why?
Because they know the program
will work, providing better care and nearly universal coverage at a cheaper
price. It will become widely popular, and any politico who tries to kill it
later will become wildly unpopular.
Even the Senator from Oz, Ted Cruz, understood that the
program had to be aborted before it was born. It will be so loved, Cruz candidly conceded
(as he desperately tried to suffocate the law that brought it about with a
painfully long filibuster), that the public will be “hooked” for the long haul.
Yes, Sen. Cruz, the American people tend to support
policies that are beneficial to them. How crazy is that?
~~~
If the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, I'll talk with you
again next week. Hopefully, on Tuesday,
October 22, 2013. It could, of course,
be a little later in the week, but I'll try to make it on time. Thanks so much for your understanding and
loyalty.
God Bless You All
&
God Bless the United States of America
Floyd
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