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- Caveat emptor: beware of contractors who do not honor their quotations
- The rascist joke emailed by U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, chief judge of the federal court in Montana
- The Faulty Arithmetic behind the Economic Plan of Mitt Romney
- The Good Old Family Doctor here in Berlin, Connecticut: Othman El-Alami, MD
- My email to Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut regarding PIPA and SOPA
- PEW Research Center study finds growing conflict between rich and poor in the United States
- Another Wall Street Appointee by President Barack Obama: Jacob Lew, the New Chief of Staff. Good Grief!
- The Accountability Plan of Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Democratic Primary Candidate for the US Senate
- President Obama alibiing the failure of his 2009 economic stimulus package
- Nostalgia for a Former America at New Life Computers, Berlin, Connecticut
- Is President Obama a born-again progressive?
- Interview of Susan Bysiewicz by the Barefoot Accountant: Inequity of Tax Laws in the United States
- Isn’t it time to penalize utility companies, like CL&P, for failing to restore power more quickly after storm outages?
- The Barefoot Accountant Interviews Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Democratic Candidate for United State Senate, Pt. 2: “We have the best tax code that money can buy”
- Warren Buffett says, “Stop Coddling the Super Rich!” It’s time to raise taxes, especially the capital gains taxes on all those millionaire and billionaire investors
- Democratic US Senatorial Candidate, Susan Bysiewicz, from Connecticut: Interview on August 5, 2011 by Barefoot Accountant. Part I: How can we create jobs in Connecticut and America?
- Please sign up to form the Middle Class Party in Connecticut: change politics in Connecticut and America
- Sign the petition for Mayor Adam Salina of Berlin, Connecticut to stop raising property taxes
- Debt ceiling raised: $2.1 trillion in cuts; no taxes. Three Connecticut Representatives support the middle class.
- Sign the petition to increase taxes on the wealthy. Petition Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy’s Senate Bill No. 1239 to raise the tax rate on the rich Connecticut residents.
- Understanding Debt Crisis by Brit Hume, June 27, 2011.
- You are a victim of the echo chamber: social insecurity today. Tomorrow?
- Weiner Trashed by Dems but GOP Rallied around Vitter: discussed on Cenk Uygur MSNBC TV Live June 16, 2011 Video Transcript
- American Jobs Matter Act reintroduced by Connecticut Congressman Chris Murphy fails by four votes. Republicans vote down another jobs bill.
- Rising GOP star corrupt? The Aggressive Progressive: Cenk Uygur MSNBC TV June 9, 2011 video and transcript
- Weiner remains adamant about not resigning. I’m trying to get back to work. Cenk Uygur MSNBC TV June 9, 2011 Video and Transcript.
- Much ado about Weiner’s weenie….A weenie roast?
- MSNBC TV Cenk Uygur’s Republican Con Job of June 1, 2011: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s Hypocritical Helicopter Use. Austerity for thee, helicopters for me. Video.
- Tim Stewart, Mayor of New Britain, is threatening to lay off municipal employees: is this too little, too late?
- Threats to Dems: fight or pay! AFL-CIO threatens to cut off Dems.
- Are Banksters today’s Untouchables?
- Best Buy proved to be the Worst Buy of my entire life
- The Middle Class Party Needs 25 Members to Register in Connecticut. Sign up now!
- Is Dannel Malloy positioning himself right of center because of future political aspirations? Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy’s income tax bill favors the rich. It places Connecticut’s deficit on the backs of the middle class.
- Thank you, John Kilian. “Old soldiers never die….”
- Isn’t it time we had a party for the American middle class?
- Your Berlin, Connecticut property tax bill is going up by 4%!
- Were you aware of the referendum vote on the Town of Berlin’s budget?
- It’s time for a Berlin Connecticut Property Owners Association (BCPOA)
- A Berlin, Connecticut homeowner’s strategy to control the Town of Berlin’s government and spending
- Berlin Connecticut Town Charter
- The assessments of homeowner properties in Berlin and New Britain, Connecticut: Is it a rigged game against the homeowners?
- How to fix our American economy and create jobs: a 17 point progressive program
- President Obama intends to lower corporate tax rates!!!
- GOP takes a gamble with birther theory. Is Donald Trump as much of a fake as his hair looks? Trumped as usual….
- MSNBC TV Live Stream: Watch Cenk Uygur, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, Dylan Ratigan, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow
- Town of Berlin Connecticut Not Excluding Nontaxable Income on W-2s Issued to Volunteer Firefighters and EMS Personnel?!?!
- Barefoot Accountant Assessing the Prognosis for American Unions
- How to Create Jobs and End Deficit Spending at the Same Time. Or Why Do We Send Morons to Congress and the White House?
- I am an advocate for the truth….
- Is Governor Scott Walker the Devil?
- Corporate wealth guides anti-union fight. No compromise. Wisconsin union-busting efforts spread to Ohio, Indiana
- We deserve what we get….
- Behind the curveball: did lies lead the U.S. to war with Iraq?
- Is Obama Amish? Obama Continues to Shun his Base by Proposing a 2011 Federal Budget Whose Center Moves to the Right
- Tea Party Votes Down Patriot Act
- War in Afghanistan: A Big Price to Pay
- Are Democrats soul searching? Where does the soul of the Democratic Party stand with the shutdown of the DLC, Democratic Leader Council
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: the greatest President ever, who in 1936 gave the greatest campaign speech ever.
- The Depression and Now: 80 Years Later
- Would Today’s GOP Right-Wing Republicans Vote for Ronald Reagan Today?
- “Up our game”? Up yours, President Obama! Why I am disgusted with President Obama and why we need a progressive to challenge him in 2012
- The Pentagon Fraud Papers: Contractors That Defrauded DOD Were Rewarded With $285 Billion in New Contracts
- Pentagon Fraud Exposed, Involving Billions of Your Tax Dollars
- Jeff Faux: Forget Obama, Attack the Corporate Money
- Trade policy and the American worker: why we have no jobs. Thank you, Bill Clinton, George Bush, GOP Republicans, and many Democrats!
- Companies who are exporting American jobs overseas
- Vox Clamantis: “the voice of one crying out”
- msnbc tv: Billionaire right-wingers hold closed-door conference
- “Liberal” is not a dirty word….
- CEO’s Make Billions While Taking Taxpayer Money
- GOP Doesn’t Lack Public Funding
- Bernie Sanders on President Obama’s State of the Union Address
- The President’s State of the Union, as always, is just a lot of talk
- Obama has become a centrist and corporatist, forsaking the economic plight of the average American.
- Is Obama now a Clinton centrist and corporatist, selling out the American worker?
- The Need for Separation of Business and State
- Joe Lieberman Will Not Run Again…Yippee!
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Is Governor Scott Walker the Devil?
Six years ago when I served on the Board of Finance and Taxation of the City of New Britain (population 70,000) in Connecticut, our municipal budget was $190 million. Of that total amount, as much as $130 million went to … Continue reading
We deserve what we get….
We are an uninformed citizenry, totally oblivious to the corporate takeover of our government, to America having been transformed into a plutocracy, a totalitarian corporate state. And because we are so ignorant, apathetic, and gullible, we deserve to be deprived … Continue reading
Is Obama Amish? Obama Continues to Shun his Base by Proposing a 2011 Federal Budget Whose Center Moves to the Right
President Obama presented his nearly $4 trillion budget, proposing to cut more than $1 trillion from Federal programs over the next ten years, with $200 billion in cuts to occur over the next two years. Although these cuts may appear, … Continue reading
Tea Party Votes Down Patriot Act
Republican leadership went to the White House trying to get the Republicans onboard with their agenda, but they can’t get their own members in their own party too listen to them. What should have been an easy vote to extend … Continue reading
War in Afghanistan: A Big Price to Pay
Larry Mendte, February 8, 2011 The debate in Congress starts again in earnest this week on how to cut the expected $1.5 trillion Federal deficit this year. And in all of the discussions about cutting social security, cutting medicare, cutting … Continue reading
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Are Democrats soul searching? Where does the soul of the Democratic Party stand with the shutdown of the DLC, Democratic Leader Council
msnbc tv: DLC: Loss or win?, posted with vodpod One of the Democratic party’s most powerful forces over the past 25 years is about to shut down their operations. The Democratic Leadership Council was formed in the wake of … Continue reading
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: the greatest President ever, who in 1936 gave the greatest campaign speech ever.
Below is the transcript of the campaign speech delivered by Franklin Roosevelt on October, 31, 1936 at Madison Square Garden. His words ring as loudly today as they did 75 years ago. We all know and love FDR; FDR was … Continue reading
