These Headlines and those to come like them are just the tip of an Iceberg Coming up on the horizon. The police state, spindoctors or the Main stream media, I’m afraid will not be able to cover up for the escalation of American anger against it own government.
As the voice of Americas more diverse and outside the mainstream political thinking, have been marginalized by the lack of representation in the U.S. House of representatives. The opportunity to have ones opinion and thoughts given voice in that house becomes day by day more muted. The House you see is supposed to represent the Population of the U.S. in a direct manner known as the one person one vote rule.(Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 1964). This Supreme Court ruling is negated by the self imposed, 1911 house rule, capping membership at 435. Google it! It is also problematic on account the House has never complied with this decision.

To the More Main stream among us, this may seem just fine and dandy. However what you consider The Main stream today was viewed quite differently years ago.
(Back in the day Main stream.)
Slavery was considered Main stream and it was morally sound to own slaves at one time.
This gave rise to the Radical political party the Republicans and their presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln.
How about Child labor laws, the 8 hour work day, safe working standards, Women’s suffrage, these were all considered radical ideas in their time however we today can’t imagine how dangerous the factory of 50, 75, or 100 years ago might have been. Their were our children, working in the mills loosing fingers, toes, and lives. Can you think of what it would be like today if the boss through his own fault could fire you for getting hurt on the job? Yet all these Ideas were considered radical in their day.
What I’m saying is some of the best Ideas to improve life for the American people came from places outside the Main stream, they came from “The radical Fringe” When we had a more representative and a more responsive House. In 1911 The House implemented a self imposed cap of 435 members. Since the House’s self imposed cap. We have added 4 stars to our flag, women’s suffrage doubled the amount of eligible voters in 1922, and we have added 200,000,000 people to the U.S. population. And still we have only 435 house members, that’s 1 for every 687,000, as of the 2000 census.
A growing number of People don’t want to bother voting any more because their vote doesn’t count. Notice I didn’t say, they feel as though their vote doesn’t count, I said their vote DOESN’T count. They are now too remote, ignored, disregarded, and disenfranchised. Why? This too comes back to the lack of representation in government, (the House).
Let’s look at My House Member, Rush Holt-(D) 12 dist NJ. He represents the city of Trenton and the surrounding Mercer, HUNTERDON, MIDDLESEX, and MONMOUTH county areas. So who does he speak for? The poor who live in the inner city? The wealthier middle and upper middle class? or the corporations, who make all the contributions to his next campaign, in the greater mercer, HUNTERDON, MIDDLESEX, and MONMOUTH county areas? This is a problem.
George Washington had the solution, it’s time to bring it back. It’s time we expand the house membership a bit. How about 1 house member for every 80,000 or 90,000, people. We could even match Canada’s parliament, 1 for every 93,000 people. What are the benefits of this action?
Well, It would make it little harder for candidates to pander to a populace. Smaller districts mean better responses from the Representative, It would make the House a little harder to buy and sell. It would bring fresh blood into the stale and unresponsive body the House has become today. It would bring a fresh perspective. it would end the seeming endless fund raising and re-election campaign of each House member. (Think about it they are elected to a 2 year term and from the minute they are elected they begin running for the next term. when do they have time to do real Representative’s work? Lets face it it’s a part time job.)We would have Citizen Representatives! This also would end the life time entitlement that current house members feel they have a right to. Like a 19 member staff, a hefty income, a lifetime of perks, free health insurance for life, after their first re-election. and a future as a lobbyist
The most important way it would help would be by Giving a voice to the voiceless. A voice that is heard is better than any act of violence, or bomb, that kills. It would end the duopoly that the Democrats and Republicans have on the government, that duopoly that strangles the very life out of our republic.
I fear a silence is descending upon us all. A silence that is oppressive, it is our silence. Let us not let it linger too long, for those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution probable. (JFK) Those Men and Women, who call themselves our representatives, are not. It’s time to clue them in on this.

But what’s happened since the Horseless cowboy got inoffice is this:
Good paying jobs have vanished, to be replaced by what used to be called ‘entry-level’ jobs. Sure the local Target may have been hiring (though not recently), but if you had a good IT job, a house and kids that you expect to go to college, taking that job will ensure you lose that house.
Or if you have young kids and you both work, and then both of youur jobs drop their benefits–you’re unemployed, but the first time you take your kid to the emergency room because she can’t breathe and is burnin up with fever, and you thing you can pay for it with your savings and you find that the procedure that cost $300 with health insurance costs nearly $2,000 without it–you’re both working, right? So what’s the problem?
Things have gotten really bad for the middle class really quickly for the last few years–and now the turbochargers have kicked in. It’s not just stagnant wages–it’s increased chaos and risk. Health care has turned from an incidental to a nightmare. If you wanted to get a good job, you got additional training–but now it’s the people with tech degrees and all manner of certifications who are manning the night booth at the self-serve gas station.
The dream is dying–and the Republicans deny it’s happening.

This sort of bland trollery makes me think you guys must still be in college. I live in a very, very Republican area–Dennis Hastert’s home district. You want to know why the district elected a liberal Democrat this year to Denny’s seat? Because the people out here are scared. Not just because of gas prices, but because of jobs, and health care, and the fact that the life that people were expecting would just get better in 1999 has vanished,
And the fact that Republican operatives deny thatthings are bad–5.5 percent, after all!–and other operatives sneer at working people as ‘Losers!”, while offering no help (we have to stat competitive!) or bizarre help {remove the tax break for employers’ health care! Drill in the Arctic for more oil!) is why Bob Foster is in Dennis Hastert’s seat, and why Rock-solid salt-of-the-earth Republicans are hoping that Obama will win without them having tovote for him–because they won’t be able to survive 4 more years of this–or even two.

So, Canada has higher taxes and yet their economy is at full blast right now…so exactly how does this little Republican theory of “less taxes – more jobs” work? I’m really confused here, because according to your theory, we should have an extraordinarily great economy!

But nope. Ever since the Bush tax cuts, wages have been virtually frozen. Ever since Bush got into power and start his wars, the barrel of oil has been skyrocketing! And not because of democrats, it has been steadily climbing ever since Bush was in power and thats a fact. Only recently has it jumped a crazy amount, but thats due to speculators in the market, not the democrats…you silly pseudo-cons.

More and more jobs have gone over-seas and more and more illegal immigrants have come under the Bush 8 yr term. Both these factors contribute to the stagnation of wages.

So as a result of the high price of oil which affects inflation for everything and as a result of little job protection and over-saturation of the job market….you get a middle and lower class which are getting more and more poor, while the top 1% who control the economy and the current Bush administration are getting richer and richer and richer. And thats exactly how they want it!

Of course that poll was taken in December 2007, long before oil hit $4.00 a gallon and before the recession really kicked in. I’m betting if you took the same poll today, the results would be much different.

It is if it means that we are actually paying our bills rather than mortgaging our country to China. The day will come when we will have to pay the piper. It’s not going to be pretty.

Polls show Bigoted Americans are pretty darn happy people when them colored folk ain’t working (keeps em out of the workplace so they don’t have to interact with em).
Interestingly enough, Racist Republicans are happier…

There, fixed it for ya!

I suspect that Obama is talking about helping people pay for home heating oil and other energy necessities for living. And even if he is talking about gasoline, I doubt that he is going to say that we should stop taxing gasoline to save the motorists a few pennies, resulting in the loss of many jobs and the further deterioration of our infrastructure like roads and bridges.

NOPE!

1. The income of more than 80% of Americans have been stagnant or falling for years.

2. The unemployment statistics have been played with ever since the great patron saint of the wealthy, Ronnie Raygun was president.

3. The ratio of employment to employable has been falling. Look at the number of those new jobs created on a month by month basis during w’s term in office. You need 150,000 new jobs a month just to keep even with population growth. W barely covered the job losses from his first recession.

4. How do the Republicans explain their inability to keep up with population growth? They do not.

5. Any idiot knows that an economy can not function in a rational manner when there is great wealth disparity as we currently have. You end up a third world nation.

This is what the Republican elite want. They want a third world country where they can live in a gated community and place their feet up upon the backs of their poor servants when they need to rest.