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Sun 10/16/11 03:26 PM
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perhaps stick to canadian politics?

there is no 'vote' for a 'communist party', no communist party candidates, no registration or place on our ballots for communist party either,,,

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what do eugenists have to do with the Communist Party of America?


I love the "stick to Canadian Politics" part... That would work IF your George Soros and the boost B0 crowd did not interfere in ours. But then again I would have every right to "interfere" since I moved here as a teenager from the US.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/09/01/15216861.html

You seem so good at copying and pasting that you should be able to track down your closest chapter of the CPUS from their website which I see you have visited or just perhaps contact one of your fellow travelers about their community organization.

Now on to the eugenics part...

A close and personal friend of mine who happened to be Al Gore's manager in San Francisco in 1992 relate this incident. Al Gore speaking a black gathering with the usual bombast explained to the black folk that Al Sr. championed civil right and lost his senate seat for voting for the CRA of 1964. All the black folk gave Hot Air Al a standing O for it. The reality is that Al was one of the senators who voted against the CRA 1964 and other major civil rights legislation. The audience was obviously made up of a bunch of imbeciles and morons.

Now to bring this together... You said
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Founded in 1919, the Communist Party of the United States of America has championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women’s equality, racial justice and peace for ninety years. The Communist Party has an unparalleled history in the progressive movement of the United States, from the struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the organizing of the industrial unions, from the canneries of California, to the sweatshops of New York City.
which was a copy and paste hack job from the Communist Party's website located at http://www.cpusa.org/communist-party-usa

to which I replied
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Oh I forgot the progressive movement... listing quotes from the progressive movement


Do you get it?


Frankly, I don't. This is getting totally incoherrent.

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Sun 10/16/11 03:25 PM
if I have to provide health insurance or pay fines for being unable


Isn't that why the law is only applied to companies with 50 or more employees? Any business that is this sizable is presumably assumed to have the where-with-all to offer health insurance. One would have to question the soundness of a business that size that cannot afford a $750 a year "fine" per employee. $62.50 per month. What kind of business has more than 50 employees and lacks the revenues for that?

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Sun 10/16/11 12:55 PM
Oh and the two of three factions of the Communist Party of the United States joined the Democratic party. Looks like the the Democrats threw out Pol Pot and recruited Hitler instead!!


Not a very good analogy, was it? comparing Jefferson Davis with Pol Pot and Hitler was somehow a Communist?

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Sun 10/16/11 12:44 PM
I came across this fascinating article. While Canada was hardly touched by the Republican Depression of 2007, there is apparently another shoe to drop, Canada's Conservative Government doesn't seem to have posted a very impressive performance in recent times. Canada's household savings rate is credited with having spared the country from the ravages of our 2007 Depression, but now, Canada's household savings rate has plummeted to the lowest rate since 1938. Doesn't auger well for the future.

Though our labour market did not lose jobs for 27 long months as in the U.S., he reminds us we have one of the worst debt to income ratios in the world.

In fact Canadians have the worst debt to income ratio of 20 OECD nations.

He went on to deliver this shocker: today Canada’s household savings rate ($2.80 on every $100 dollars of household income) is less than half that of the U.S. ($6.40 on every $100). He said that’s the first time this has occurred since the 1970s

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/canadian-households-among-highest-debt-income-ratios-world

Interest rates are at historic lows, lower than even when the Bank of Canada was first put into place, in 1934. That means it is easier than ever to borrow and less attractive to save. But that ignores a bigger truth: it’s getting harder to save, and not just for the poorest among us.

Unremitting increases in the costs of housing, education and transportation while incomes are stagnant (or worse) means it may take a long time for savings rates to climb.

Rising debt levels since the crisis began is one obvious indication of how hard this is going to be: In the fall of 2008, before the crisis hit, Canadians owed $1.40 owed on every dollar of disposable income. That broke all previous records. At last count (1st quarter of 2010), the average Canadian household owed $1.47 on every dollar they took in.

Krugman reminds us of what we all know: interest rates have nowhere to go but up. Indeed, it’s a fine balancing act, leaving behind an era of easy money, and making ends meet.


It's easy to forget Canada with the American preoccupation with its own problems. It will be fascinating to see what Canada's Conservative Government can do with it's grim future.


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Sun 10/16/11 11:54 AM
It is noteworthy that it was the Republicans who fought for the freeing of the slaves and gave blacks the vote. When democrats voted 61% to 39% in favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while the Republicans voted 80%-20% in favor. Conservative have defended the rights of blacks while the Democrats have not. Now I mean real right not assumed right.


It's worth reminding everybody of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, when racist Democrats in the south all decided to become Republicans. They have maintained that identity all this time.

In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to an alleged Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism and fears of lawlessness among Southern white voters and appealing to fears of growing federal power in social and economic matters (generally lumped under the concept of states rights). Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery prior to the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixicrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and continued through the latter decades of the 20th century under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.[1] The strategy was successful in some regards. It contributed to the electoral realignment of Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the 20th century came to a close, the Republican Party began trying to appeal again to black voters, though with little success.[1] During the 2000s decade, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized for his party's use of the Southern Strategy in the previous century. Michael Steele served as the party's first African-American chairman from January 2009-January 2011.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Good riddance for the Democratic Party. Now the Republicans are saddled with them. It's a difficult taint to deodorize.

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Sun 10/16/11 11:09 AM
Since you are unable to read and understand what the article said... let me quote from the article itself...
"But employment bounced back much more quickly. It took four years after the 1990 recession began for the labour market to recover; three years after the 1981 recession, and two years (for both GDP and jobs) to recuperate in the past recession. The downturn in the early 1990s was marked by a rare double-dip recession."

They are talking about the recession in 1990 NOT the the one in 2008. Trouble comprehending English after a remidial course in Ebonics???

While some areas particularly manufacturing was hit hard, the core value of the economy fell merely 3.3% in Canada. With little _actual_ bailout spending (as opposed to slated) Canada did indeed take q hard but quick hit during the recession. As your own article states. Of course Harper, who happened to teach economics at the University of Calgary which is known for its Miltonsque faculty did not pursue JMK policies which maintained the prolonged the great depression in the United States.


This is what happens when you skim an article, rather than actually reading it. (We are both guilty. I placed the double-dip in the wrong recession. I am not a student of Canadian economics history). The article is questioning why Canada did not experience the prolonged period of decimation in 2007 as in previous recessions, and the reason is that Canadians were able to maintain a high level of household spending. When you re-read the article, you will see that the reason for this is because Canadians had been much more disciplined about saving than Americans. Your Conservtiver Prime Minister may or may not have had some role to play in that. In any event, the article tells us that household spending only dropped by 2%, and that that was the reason for Canada's quick resilience.

John Maynard Keynes did not prolongue the Great Depression. FDR's reluctance to get into substantial deficit spending did. This is the same mistake Obama is making.

Rather I know such assertions were merely false claims excreted from the socialist rectum and flung in the hope that it would hit something and stick.

The rest of the assertions copied from a the radical socialist mouth piece for the extreme left was hacked off and not worthy of response. Communist dictatorships which instituted the dictatorship of the proletariat loved sticking democracy/democrat in the official name of the country. It was never about democracy but an agenda of subjugating and enslavement. Hmmm … Come to think of it the Democratic party favored slavery did they not?


You really should dial it back on the invective, lil Cowboy. It doesn't win arguments and says much more about you than about me. And BTW, your responses are not required. Nobody is waiting on pins and needles for them.

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Sat 10/15/11 04:34 PM
Yes, from New York, I'd say so


Ah, so you were there. Must have been quite a trip from Texas. Tell us all, what did you see? What did you smell? What did you hear?

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Sat 10/15/11 12:39 PM
I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN.


Really? I was at Occupy Portland and I didn't see or hear anything like that. I also didn't see any garbage on the ground or smell any filthy people. The cops were friendly and smiling. Odd. I guess our protestors are just a different breed.

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Sat 10/15/11 10:57 AM
Global Clueless Idiots!


Yes, please explain. Not much substance here. Just some kneejerk muttering. Hard to take seriously.

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Sat 10/15/11 10:53 AM
Edited by artlo on Sat 10/15/11 11:01 AM
i see no more equitable country than ours


Well, every country with a lower GINI than America's is more equitable. The table is easy to find.

Every country with universal benefits of any kind is more equitable than America. This is also easy to research.

frankly, and i'm quite pleased with how the country as a whole is doing

. . . which is exactly the problem in America.

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Sat 10/15/11 10:07 AM
It's simple, really. We know what more equitable countries have and why they have it. We want that. We know what countries with successful economies have and why they have it. We want that. We know what kind of Government we had during successful times and why we had it. We want that. We know what kind of a failure time we are in and why we are in it. We don't] want that.

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Sat 10/15/11 09:33 AM
And yet . . .
The act passed both houses of Congress with overwhelming support on May 10, 2010 with language that included “providing political, economic, military, and intelligence support for viable multilateral efforts to protect civilians from the Lord’s Resistance Army.”


Hmmm. Wonder what they have going that the rest of us don't.

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Sat 10/15/11 09:05 AM
Fanny and Freddy which are extensions of the US government began providing low interest loans to home buyers


Another faux News myth. Fanny and Freddy Mae do not and never have provided any kinds of loan to anybody. They are not lending institutions. What we are getting from you is the whole faux News fairy tale that we have seen over and over again. We point out the facts repeatedly, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

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Sat 10/15/11 08:59 AM
Edited by artlo on Sat 10/15/11 09:02 AM
Yes we did something in Canada about it. We elected a conservative government which is more amiable to at least a two tiered system. Next we kicked your backsides economically because we followed a more conservative economic policy. We were the first industrial nation to come out of the recession and we recorded the highest growth coming out of it. Furthermore, we spent the least on bailouts.


This is poppycock. This article describes how the recession in Canada was very quick and precipitous under your Conservative Prime Minister. In fact, Canada went through the full double-dip under your Conservative Prime Minister. The reason for Canada's quicker recovery was because household spending was maintained at a high level. Real Economists talk about aggregate demand, and that is something Mr. Harper was able to maintain. (Every Keynesian understands this concept chrystal clear, while it is a complete mystery to American Conservatives, who are doing everything they can to kill aggregate demand in the American economy.)

So why was this recession milder, with a speedier recovery? Household spending, Mr. Cross says. In prior recessions, it plummeted by nearly 6 per cent. This time round, it fell by only 2 per cent over two quarters and has already fully bounced back

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/why-canadas-recession-wasnt-as-brutal/article1868809/

I doubt the the loudest opponents are the most likely to freeload as such assertions which are thrown willy nilly are usually pulled out of one's rectum and flung around.

As for virtual slave labor, you should talk to your socialist fellow travelers in Peking about not enslaving their people. As a socialist I am sure you might have some clout with your fellow ideologues.


This is just silly Conservative, Faux News rhetoric.

The median rate of corporate tax around the world is between 20-25% yet the united states is 38%-50%.

As I wrote, the actual corporate taxes paid in America are about half of the published rates.

Ostensibly, the U.S. federal tax code requires corporations to pay 35 percent of their profits in income taxes.

But of the 275 Fortune 500 companies that made a profit each year from 2001 to 2003 and for which adequate information to draw conclusions is publicly available, only a small proportion paid federal income taxes anywhere near that statutory 35 percent tax rate. The vast majority paid considerably less.

In fact, in 2002 and 2003, the average effective tax rate for all of these 275 companies was less than half the statutory 35 percent rate. Over the 2001-2003 period, effective tax rates ranged from a low of -59.6 percent for Pepco Holdings to a high of 34.5 percent for CVS.

Over the three-year period, the average effective rate for all 275 companies dropped by a fifth, from 21.4 percent in 2001 to 17.2 percent in 2002-2003.Ostensibly, the U.S. federal tax code requires corporations to pay 35 percent of their profits in income taxes.

But of the 275 Fortune 500 companies that made a profit each year from 2001 to 2003 and for which adequate information to draw conclusions is publicly available, only a small proportion paid federal income taxes anywhere near that statutory 35 percent tax rate. The vast majority paid considerably less.

In fact, in 2002 and 2003, the average effective tax rate for all of these 275 companies was less than half the statutory 35 percent rate. Over the 2001-2003 period, effective tax rates ranged from a low of -59.6 percent for Pepco Holdings to a high of 34.5 percent for CVS.

Over the three-year period, the average effective rate for all 275 companies dropped by a fifth, from 21.4 percent in 2001 to 17.2 percent in 2002-2003.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_welfare/real_tax_rates_plummet.php

Your rant about high American Corporate taxes is simply twaddle.


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Fri 10/14/11 02:21 PM
Again with the corporate greed. Corporations should be greedy, they need to turn a profit for their shareholders who invest their hard earned money in them.


I hope you recognize that, by the same token, workers need to earn a living wage, and seek to keep improving that.

With the highest tax rate in the developed world why do you keep attacking corporations?


You do understand, don't you, that published tax rates bear little resemblance to taxes which are actually paid by the large corporations.

It shows ingratitude and you are biting the hand that feeds you.


This really embodies the Corporatist attitude. That by offering a job, an employer is reaching out with an act of magificent largesse. Like doing the worker some kind of a huge favor. This is arrogance at its highest.

No. The employer has to have employees if he wants to do business and make money. The employer has no choice but to do business with the worker who is willing to rent out his efforts in return for a fair return. Try making money for your share holders without them.


Do you really believe that governments create jobs?


Well, yes, I do. I had a Government job for 23 years. I got up each morning, went to my place of work, did the work that I had contracted to do and drew a paycheck for that work. It certainly felt like a job to me. Was I living a fantasy all those years? Stop whining because your Corporatist Gods aren't getting a free ride to the promised land. Stop whining because the 99% doesn't think that the Corporations and the employers should have all the power just because they can afford to buy their own Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices.

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Thu 10/13/11 03:04 PM
I wouldn't be above back handing anyone who gave me lip.


This is the mentality of somebody who views the Presidency as a 16th century monarchy. Somebody who wants his President to be a diety . . . inviolable in his authority and in his person. Don't think we need that in America.

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Thu 10/13/11 02:59 PM
Edited by artlo on Thu 10/13/11 03:23 PM
The Republicans who assembled Wednesday on a patch of the Capitol lawn known as the “Senate Swamp” claimed that they, too, had a jobs plan: repealing Obamacare.

What they don't have is any coherent notion of how this might work. That is, "repealing Obamacare would cause "A" to happen, which would result in "B", which would cause "C" to happen, resulting in the creation of jobs. It is some kind of a fantasy belief with no rationale. It is a religious belief, built on faith. It is not a rational belief. It is a notion derived from the Church of St. Foxnews.

I had a lot of problems with Obamacare, but job creation wasn't among them. It's like saying, "repealing the Affordable Care Act will stop global warming". It really is best to stick with rational, coherent arguments.

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Thu 10/13/11 02:45 PM
That would look cute in the newspapers.

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Thu 10/13/11 01:44 PM
Edited by artlo on Thu 10/13/11 01:46 PM
Forgot to source my post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-tea-partys-popularity-problem/2011/08/25/gIQATsBjhL_blog.html

Sorry about that.

The Tea Party lost favor by allowing republicans in. If they had immediately thrown Palin then the others out they would be rockin the polls right now.


Then, why didn't they do that?

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Thu 10/13/11 01:30 PM
It’s not been an easy month for the tea party. Take the GOP primary: they’re losing it. “The Tea Party movement was fueled by opposition to the Wall Street bailouts, President Obama’s health care reform legislation and out-of-control spending in Washington,” writes Phil Klein at the conservative Washington Examiner. “Yet the current favorite to win the Republican nomination has rejected the Tea Party line on all of these issues.” . . . The tea party is really, really unpopular. One of the least popular political forces in American life, actually. Dave Weigel notes that the latest Time magazine poll found that only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the tea party, while 54 percent approve of Occupy Wall Street. Ouch. But it’s par for the course. The tea party posts lower favorability numbers than President Obama (44 percent), the Democratic Party (44 percent) or the Republican Party (39 percent). . . And I imagine that’s one reason the tea party isn’t proving more effective in the Republican Primary. The Republican Party establishment, which wants to win elections, has made a point of kneecapping tea party candidates like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and to some degree, even Rick Perry. You can see the same process beginning now against Herman Cain. Similarly, if the Republican leadership thought a tea party-populism was a smart political strategy, they would be moving more forcefully to implement it. . . .
the closer the Republican Party gets to the general election, and the more they’re focused on beating Obama than saving their own skins, the more they’re likely to do to distance themselves from the tea party’s increasingly toxic branding.

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