Virginia Foxx Lies Her Fool Head Off

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Actually, the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this country, just as we were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the ‘60s without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle, they love to engage in revisionist history. Rep. Virginia Foxx 11/19/09

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China - the country of millionaires

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The number of dollar millionaires in China is expected to grow to 450,000 by the end of this year, despite the overall decline in global wealth, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has said.

BCG Greater China partner Frankie Leung said: "China is arguably the most explosive wealth market in the world, as rising income and a high savings rate will continue to spur development." (c) http://en.rian.ru/business/20091120/156914626.html

I've always thought that the most part of millionaires live in the US.
It seems as if crisis makes customers save money and buy cheap goods and that fact let the Chinese entrepreneurs to inсrease their income.

College is Hella Expensive

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gi_1CaTjFsR3j2QntpKsXZY0sP1gD9C39TQO0
UC tuition has increased over 300% in the last decade. CSU tuition is also way way outpacing inflation. There are layoffs and furloughs, class size increases, and class offering reductions. And according to these interviewees (http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/students), it's not because the UC system has no money, but rather because the UC system places undergraduate education at a very low spending priority. I say jeers to the administrators. What should be done about this? What are the long-term implications of this trend in higher education? Any other thoughts on the matter?

HR 1207 (audit the fed) becomes an amendment to a bill

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Now to get the darn thing through the Senate. I've been finishing-up Bob Barr's book on the Impeachment of Clinton "The meaning of 'Is'" and am at the chapter on getting this trial through the Senate who poo poo'd the whole thing, gutting most/all of the REAL charges against Clinton including those w/in the Repub party. It is hauntingly sad to read the blow by blow, hence I hold scant hope for the bill but at least Dr. Paul found a way to get it moving, with out w/o the 300+ sponsors. There are just too many repeat behaviors from the Senate, and gov in general, for me to hold water in an ACTUAL audit of the Fed... but I'm still glad to know he found away around it since the gutted the original thing.
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The House Financial Services Committee has approved Rep. Ron Paul’s measure to drastically expand the government’s power to audit the Federal Reserve.

The measure, based on a Paul proposal that has attracted more than 300 co-sponsors, passed, 43-26, as an amendment to a financial reform bill. Florida Democrat and fellow Fed critic Alan Grayson co-sponsored the amendment with Paul and played a leading role drumming up support for it among committee members. The adoption of this amendment is an extraordinary victory for Paul, whose libertarian, anti-Fed leanings have often been dismissed by the political establishment.


The amendment would give the Government Accountability Office much greater to audit the Federal Reserve, which has a long history of independence from congressional audits. Paul and Grayson beat out a competing measure offered by Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.), who after weeks of negotiations with the pair felt their measure would threaten the Fed’s monetary policy.


This is a big victory in our effort to get an audit of the private central bank that is destroying this country. The people are tired, and action is starting to be taken thanks to Ron Paul.

Here is Congressman Paul's introduction of the amendment:

Watch on YouTube

Heil Hitler, you Jewish cry baby (yep, health care)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVS4Zgjm8HE&feature=player_embedded

Probably not news to some (it was linked from on a huffington post article a little while ago), but it's certainly indicative of....something.

Perhaps the general tone of the argument between the left and right on the issue.

Without even thinking whether either of these people are necessarily in the right or wrong on the issue itself, just watching this clip leaves me feeling outraged, and wondering if there's any way to cross the present political divide that presently exists in the United States on this issue.

So.

Does anyone out there, without necessarily saying what it is, still think there must be a compromise to show a way ahead on health care, that is acceptable to most Americans?

Or do you guys really feel that one side is absolutely right, the other side is absolutely wrong and that's the end of it? That the other side of the debate is composed of idiots who need to get with the program? That an agreeable solution can only be possible once the other side of political divide comes around to your sides way of thinking on the matter?