tom arvin here on the news you need to know this most republicans haven't held
any town hall meetings during this august recess
but they haven't plotting how to destroy our environment and pasta unions when
they come back to washington d_c_
house majority leader eric ever sent a memo to his caucus
that's because i was john bainer sent a similar letter to the president island a
busy schedule of repealing environmental and labor regulations beginning next
month
during the week of september twelfth republicans will go after the neighbor
national labor relations board
which is preventing boeing for moving a factory from washington state where
workers are unionized the south carolina were most workers are not unionized so
they can have access to cheaper labor
then the following month republicans applies to tackle least ten virumail
regulations they're cutting into the profits of big polluters
republicans argue they repealing regulations that ensure the air we
breathe the water we drink the food we eat is safe
will create jobs
in this line the pockets of america's allah guards like the coke brothers
as roy actually creates jobs
government spending on infrastructure extension of unemployment benefits and
stopping tax rewards to move jobs offshore
republicans have no intention whatsoever to address these issues
improving the economy come second who improving the profitability of will
barons outsource here's a bank srs
there's more evidence of a widening wealth any quality gap in america thanks
to thirty plus years of reaganomics
pretty the atlantic magazine two thirds of all new income in america between two
thousand two and two thousand seven which is just the top
one percent of americans of two out of every three dollars in america being
sucked up by the richest of the rich
not to mention that the wealthiest four hundred americans our nation's most
senior oligarchy soooon more wealth than the bottom one hundred fifty million
americans
i've seen their incomes double over the last twelve years
polly tax rates have been cotton path
talk about of for the rich by the rich connie
wealth inequality in america is at levels not seen since the nineteen
twenties
and we are now a more unequal nations of the ivory coast pakistani theo pia and
posix thanh
according to data from the c_i_a_ factbook
so in the entire american middle-class disappears
then can we all except the reagans vision of america
and a direction that the current public and party has a station added
elite is all for grumman
in the best of the rest of the news the hurricane erin crisis along the east
coast is now over
of the storm weakened considerably before skirting so the most populated
cities in america
from washington d_c_ to new york city is still up quite a mark on millions of
people
the reins of irene more than the winds caused the most damages heavy flooding
swept through upstate new york
and vermont as irene passed over
estimates the total storm damage at about thirteen billion dollars to five
million losing power
and more than twenty people were killed over the weekend as a result of irene
of this nation is felt the brunt of much more powerful storms the past
massive one thousand mile wide superstars like irene are rare
unfortunately however as global we were deemed continues unabated
storms like irene in the midwest mile wide tornadoes
are will be the new dog
will be the new normal all and unexpected federal eastern
as both john bear and eric enter again said that any disaster relief must be
accompanied
by budget cuts like two schools of police departments
here congressman may be watching you
to republican congressman dan webster from florida and tim griffith griffin
from arkansas have been caught creating what appeared to be watching lists of
constituents best tough questions of previous townhalls
men distributing these lists as if they were wanted posters to supporters
investigated question these constituents intentions and affiliations
the list features the names and pictures of six floridians including some
pictures full from based face book and other sources staffers of congressman
griffin racine any out these lists to attendees of a recent on all of that
what appears to be an effort to intimidate others
from asking similar tough questions
as in if you ask a question the congressman doesn't like ill end up on
one of these wanted posters to
one-person list as a cancer patient who s congressman weber what might happen if
people like her and the republican budget proposal
both vs two sixty six-year-old vietnam vet
book on hearing he was analysts said
i think it's pretty weird someone ask legitimate question all the sudden
somebody's gotta dot c_n_n_
is that had nothing to do it all russia
looks like republicans will go to great lengths including smearing their
constituents
make sure they don't have to answer tough questions
about their radical agenda
welcome to the united states a nation completely under the control of military
security industrial complex
nine eleven ten year anniversary just around the corner
any federal budget awash in red ink it's not going to look at that our government
spend seventy five billion dollars a year on spine americans
a lot of money goes in a bind security theater stuff like that shirt off x_-ray
poora scanners ever greater likelihood of getting his cancer than protecting us
from terrorist attack
considering there in twenty ten twice as many americans died for both bug bites
and lightning strikes than terrorism
seems a little strange so much money is spent this way
any and all the lobbyist private contractors who made fortunes and build
mansions in suburban virginia off the terrorism your industry
sony five billion sounds just right
i was the state of arizona honoring the forty eighth anniversary of doctor
martin luther king's i have a dream speech in the dedication ml immemorial
in d_c_
but try to dump the voting rights act of nineteen sixty five
airs on attorney general tom morn filed suit against the obama administration
claim parts without law that stopped the practice of preventing america african
americans from voting are unconstitutional
that's the way it is today monday august twenty nine
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