Today the President spoke on the American Jobs Act and for how it will be financed. It will will be a balance of restructuring social programs, the tax code and rescinding temporary tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and wealthiest American companies because they don't need them anymore. The GOP is fussy about the tax breaks because they want the wealthiest to continue to get them. The President said it s time to live within our means without starving the poorest Americans in the process. Amplify’d from www.whitehouse.gov A week ago today, I sent Congress the American Jobs Act. It’s a plan that will lead to new jobs for teachers, for construction workers, for veterans, and for the unemployed. It will cut taxes for every small business owner and virtually every working man and woman in America. And the proposals in this jobs bill are the kinds that have been supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past. So there shouldn’t be any reason for Congress to drag its feet.
What do you think? Read Mitt Romney Basically Killed a Woman and comment. Thus far there are 92 comments on the article and a debate on Morning Joe and some of the other morning news shows. One commenter even mentions a "chain or causality." Watch the ad for yourself and decide. Personally, I know that lack of access to affordable health care will negatively impact whether or not a person lives and is cured of disease or dies from disease. People are supposed to get check ups and if your health care is from a job you no longer have and cannot or do not pay COBRA premiums, you can die from undetected disease. And, just because the woman had insurance does not mean she still got health care. What type of insurance did she have and did she know she still was insured? Did she die because her insurance stopped? One day everyone in this nation will make sure everyone has free, accessible health care like other civilized nations so that we may attend to other important i
Two French banks were downgraded Wednesday and two are on review. Questions about a Greek default soon to be answered. Amplify’d from www.reuters.com European finance ministers have been warned confidentially of the danger of a renewed credit crunch as a "systemic" crisis in euro zone sovereign debt spills over to banks, according to documents obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. In a report prepared for ministers meeting in Poland on Friday and Saturday, senior EU officials said the 17-nation currency area faces a "risk of a vicious circle between sovereign debt, bank funding and negative growth." "While tensions in sovereign debt markets have intensified and bank funding risks have increased over the summer, contagion has spread across markets and countries and the crisis has become systemic," the influential Economic and Financial Committee said. The report highlighted European policymakers' challenge to restore confidence as the leaders of Germany,
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