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Thursday, January 27, 2005
FRAMESHOP: Frameshop: You survived terror Cheney used the ceremony today commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz to link what the Nazis did almost a century ago with today's terrorism and, by the false link he's made in the past, also to the war in Iraq. As he and President Bush have done over and over, Cheney painted a very polarized world. Everything is either evil or good. All evil is linked and related. This conveniently justifies any action by the forces of good, even when those actions are international crimes and violates basic human dignity. Once again, FrameShop covers this trick of language and gives excellent tips for reversing the frame. DNC: Kicking Ass - Find a real solution Comment of the day.... Everytime the Repubs talk about the SS Crisis, the Dems should reply: "I agree, there is a crisis; but it's with the Healthcare system." It's so easy to turn this debate on it's head. If everytime they are on TV to discuss the SS Crisis, they bring up Healthcare instead. Focus the debate on why the Repubs want to fix a system that isn't in crisis and ignore one that is. If they do this, they can change the debate & be on the offensive side for once! Posted by C Mac @ 1/27/05, 12:00 AM Friday, January 21, 2005
An interesting explanation for what motivates this administration's domestic and foreign policy: " If what's guiding business now has any tradition, it only goes back a couple of decades to the 'discovery' of 'creative destruction,' an economic theory that looks at the world, sees that there is a certain amount of destruction involved in the process of creation and concludes that creation can be maximized by helping destruction along. " ... and ... "This attraction to failure is what puts them on a collision course with government, which is specifically designed not to fail. In other words, government functions need to be privatized so they can be made to fail and the vultures (speculators in the market) can pick up the pieces cheap." by hannah http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/1/21/0290/19011/96#96 Friday, January 14, 2005
The original intent of Social Security was not a gift to the elderly, nor a reward for hard work. It was a practical way to encourage older workers to retire to generate more advancement opportunity for the young. Social Security is a solid, beneficial program that has been maligned by people who will risk the strength of our country for personal gain. Robbing the Social Security Trust Fund, a resource for every American, in the greedy hope of making money for some lucky people (and ignoring the real risk involved to the whole program) is immoral. From Frameshop... FDR Said it Best Who better to explain what Social Security is really about than FDR? The following is a quote from FDR's 1935 Fireside Speech taken from a wonderful resource of FDR speeches at The Miller Center for Public Affairs in Charlottesville, Virginia. Notice how FDR talks about the purpose. ..... [FDR, Fireside Chat, April 28, 1935] The objective of the Nation has greatly changed in three years. Before that time individual self-interest and group selfishness were paramount in public thinking. The general good was at a discount. Three years of hard thinking have changed the picture. More and more people, because of clearer thinking and a better understanding, are considering the whole rather than a mere part relating to one section or to one crop, or to one industry, or to an individual private occupation. That is a tremendous gain for the principles of democracy. The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. They know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done in a day or a year, but that it is being done in spite of the few who seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion. Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better -- a lot more cheerful than for many, many years... The program for social security now pending before the Congress is a necessary part of the future unemployment policy of the government. While our present and projected expenditures for work relief are wholly within the reasonable limits of our national credit resources, it is obvious that we cannot continue to create governmental deficits for that purpose year after year. We must begin now to make provision for the future. That is why our social security program is an important part of the complete picture. It proposes, by means of old age pensions, to help those who have reached the age of retirement to give up their jobs and thus give to the younger generation greater opportunities for work and to give to all a feeling of security as they look toward old age. |