It's amazing just how little was fixed after the 2008 financial crisis that the big banks caused.
Last week's IMF meeting couldn't have made that any more clear.
Earlier this year President Obama said in his State of the Union address, “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
This week Obama said that his administration has created a “more durable, growing economy” with “15 million new private-sector jobs since early 2010”.
My grandpa (former Steelworker local Union president) once told me if you do not vote then you do not have the right to complain and I totally agreement with this bit of wisdom.
I know some of our choices are terrible (Hillary and Trump), and many of us are disguised by this election or feel disenfranchised; however, let me give you my take on this circumstance.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council said last Wednesday that the US armed forces should be shut down rather than allow transgender service members.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17763208/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-...
I'll have to admit that my opinion of RBG has dropped after reading the above article.
The Sensible Futures Party.
Our platform:
1) phase out fossil fuel production according to the general template given here
2) a community garden in every suburb -- use eminent domain to take over vacant lots
3) redirect the military toward climate change mitigation work
I feel it can't be said enough. STOP the War in Syria!
Damn man, what are we doing?
I grew up during and served in the Vietnam war. I remember the horrors and atrocities and the lies. Wars are always based on lies and the war in Syria is no different.
The reasons that people are the way they are are extremely important to some people. Nobody knows exactly why this is.
The Savvy Psychologist, Ellen Hendrikson, at Scientific American, has been asked to explain why some people are transgender.
Colin Kaepernick's decision to simply take a knee during the National Anthem to protest police violence caused much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by people who lack the ability to determine what is important in life.
Well, now those people have a whole new reason to throw a fit.
