I'm tartan hear on the news
you need to know this House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal that
could prevent the next government shutdown but don't start celebrating
just yet
Tuesday night senator patty Murray and Congressman Paul Ryan announced in $85
billion dollar budget agreement congress accepts the plan would partially offset
the next round a sequester cuts
and save important programs like Medicare and Medicaid
but it does not address the budget slashing that already took place
and it does not extend long-term unemployment benefits and it is not ask
the wealthy to contribute more
to our nation in taxes in order to raise revenue the budget deal would require
federal workers to pay higher premiums for their pensions
it would lower payments to student loan collectors impose new security fees for
airline travelers
his budget plan but also will eliminate virtually all the sequester cuts for the
pentagon
but it does nothing to address the cuts are already get programs like head start
meals-on-wheels in Section eight housing apparently these are the drastic
measures we must go to in order to prevent another government shutdown
Democrats appear to be be giving up a lot at this deal won't even prevent
another budget standoff over the debt limit
the past five years republicans a push more and more austerity on our nation
and this budget does nothing to reverse that trend not only is austerity exactly
the opposite of what we should be doing to help our economy
it's also the wrong choice for the american people no nation in the history
the world has
ever cut its way to prosperity and we will not be the first
it's time to stop this pattern up taking from those who have the least
I'll never ask in those the top to pay their fair share it's time to put in end
to austerity
and start investing in our nation once again in screwed new states that refuse
to expand Medicaid
are throwing away billions in federal funding the taxpayers no states will
still be paying the federal taxes this end medicaid money
other states millions of americans are getting health care that their pain for
simply because republican governors
and state legislators refused to work with our president
Wisconsin alone will lose 1.8 billion federal dollars
by 2022 because the Governor Scott Walker in his right wing cronies in
texas won the
miss out on more than eight billion dollars thanks to Rick Perry
more importantly these republican lawmakers are preventing millions of
Americans in getting the health care they so desperately need
many people make too little to qualify for health insurance subsidies
and too much to qualify for medicaid in their states is partisan lawmakers would
rather see people go without health care
and do anything that could help Obamacare function well
this is about costs are budgets are deficits it's all about politics
and that's no excuse to prevent people from getting healthcare
investor the rest the news on Monday are government soldiers last remaining
shares in general Motors
taxpayers no longer own a piece like our company and we help save millions of
American jobs
in 2010 alone the auto bailout saved about 1.5 million jobs
and kept a major manufacturing industry alive
government loans a forty 9.5 billion to General Motors
accounted for the largest portion of the auto bailout the taxpayers got all but
ten point five billion that back
at a far better return than we got on any the bank bailouts
it's a small price to pay for keeping good manufacturing jobs here at home
according to the Center for Automotive Research by saving those jobs ensuring
that the auto industry had a future
the auto bailout boosted personal income by two hundred $84 billion dollars in
2009 to 2010
and save more than four million jobs just just a story successor General
Motors
it's an example of how government an work for the people
going to read cast out or radiation levels in the south are starting to come
down
all the levels in the southwestern are rising sure in Georgia is down to thirty
eight counts per minute was by 2:49 and Taylor South Carolina
is down to forty counts per minute was by 2:55 in the midwest Colorado Springs
is 59 counts per minute with spikes a 69
in Frederick wisconsin is averaging 46 was bikes a 59
Southwest Tucson Arizona is averaging 50 councilmen
spikes 79 in the North West Seattle Washington
is sitting at 31 with spikes a forty-five
adcast about corporate mines as their alert level is 100 counts per minute
and they are monitoring levels throughout our nation to keep us
informed
and finally Leo grand is homeless but hopefully not for long
a young program in named Patrick muck
mcconnell of approached him with an offer
take a hundred dollars or take an opportunity to learn how to write code
mister grant who lost his job at MetLife in 2011 decided to learn
the code any created his own app trees for cars
which just launched at the Apple Store is out helps users save the environment
by carpooling
in calculating how much co2 they're saving by
they are saving by writing together and because the proceeds will go to leogrand
he will be able to further his programming education
itself off the streets help users fight climate change
an official statement about his new apt mister brandt said trees for cars is a
great way to build relationships
strengthen communities help each other financially and energy wise
all under the umbrella of saving the environment
result same you give a man a fish you feed him for a day but if you teach a
man to fish you feed him for the lifetime
girl the same goes for teaching me code
and that's the way it ends today Wednesday December 11th
2013 I'm Thom Hartmann on the news
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