We’re Heading Left Once Again

SHAME ON CORPORATE WELFARE AND ALL INCENTIVE TO THE WEALTHIEST!!

CORPORATE SOCIALISM: Practiced by republicans to spread wealth from poor to rich

HOW DO YOU LABEL THIS APPROACH?

$500 MILLION CORPORATE WELFARE PLAN TO ATTRACT BIOTECH FACILITY SPURS DEBATE; GOV. BUSH'S PROPOSED GIVEAWAY PACKAGE
original by Jerry W. Jackson and Barry Flynn, Sentinel Staff Writers
Jeb Bush's bold plan to lure the prestigious Scripps Research Institute with more than $500 million in state and local money promises to be one of the nation's most expensive government incentives ever.
Bush characterizes the deal as a landmark opportunity to diversify beyond tourism. Legislators, who meet Monday in a special session to consider the proposal, have a chance, he said, to "endorse a grand new vision for our economy."

No one in Florida is likely to object to the prospect of bringing good jobs to the state. The key question is value: How much will the jobs cost, and are they worth the diversion of half a billion dollars from other potential uses?

Scripps says that within seven years of its start in South Florida, the nonprofit biomedical leader would employ 545 people in Florida with an average salary of $58,000 a year.

While the details are still unfolding, economic-development specialists from throughout the country are stunned by the basic arithmetic: The state's $310 million paired with up to $200 million that Palm Beach County has pledged, the package amounts to a staggering $935,780 per job.

I had always enjoyed your commentary on shows like Imus in the Morning. This article really exposes what a pompous elite you are.

McCain's spreading the wealth plan is more of the same of Bush's redistribution. So pick your spreader!

Why We Need to Abolish Corporate Welfare
by Todd Altman
Jan 20, 2003
Corporate welfare is defined by the Cato Institute as "any government spending program that provides unique benefits or advantages to specific companies or industries." Although transfer payments in general (to the extent they redistribute the earned incomes of labor and capital) are morally wrong, corporate welfare is the worst transfer payment of all because it constitutes stealing from the poor in order to give to the rich. Examples of such giveaways can be found online at the Banneker Center's corporate welfare shame page.
The federal government currently spends roughly $93 billion a year on programs that provide subsidies to private businesses. Not only does this give big business an unfair advantage over smaller competitors, it gives politicians an excuse to deny much-needed tax relief to the bottom 75% of taxpayers -- those who, according to the Tax Foundation, make less than $55,226 a year.
Specifically, the bottom 75% (over 96 million people) pay approximately $156.8 billion a year in federal income taxes -- with those who make below $27,682 (the bottom 50%) paying a little over $38.3 billion, and those who make between $27,682 and $55,225 paying the rest.
Thus, if we eliminated corporate welfare, that alone would allow for the income tax to be reduced by nearly 1/2 for those making between $27,682 and $55,225, and abolished entirely for those making below $27,682. This would benefit wage-earners enormously by offsetting the regressive nature of the payroll tax, and would benefit small businesses by eliminating the anticompetitive nature of corporate welfare spending.

Face it. This poll tells it all. Once the curtain is drawn, many democrats and independents will NOT vote for Obama.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/20/can-obama-win-anti-black-democrats/

The right wing nuts are out in force. Does McCain believe that labeling Obama as a socialist will bring moderate voters who have already rejected most of his negative campaigning? Why not go all the way and call him a commie, pinko,. Neocon, Bushie are the dirty words for this campaign cycle. They both fit McCain.

If only. I keep hoping. I remember RIchard Nixon (a crook) Ronald Reagan (an actor) who started all the de-regulation-- he was the one that deregulated the Airline industry--and now look at it. The anti- big government line is so tired and worn-out. It's not big gov or 'socialism' (eek!) versus "free enterprise" -- we just need
real honest government that is accountable, transparent, monitored and acting FOR the people. Yay Obama!

yes and the thought that it self-corrrects by lefting and then righting is indeed intriguing, rather jeffersonian only bloddleslsly

I just chuckle at the fact that John McCain has accused Obama of being a black, radical, Muslim, terrorist, and that's the guy he is going to loose this election too? That by itself speaks volumes about what the American public thinks of John McCain the decorated American war hero. The country is telling the world we are ready to move in a new direction even if the Republican Party isn't.

I just chuckle at the fact that John McCain has accused Obama of being a black, radical, Muslim, terrorist, and that's the guy he is going to loose this election too? That by itself speaks volumes about what the American public thinks of John McCain and the Republican party.

People who look to the government or Wall Street either one to save them are naive at best. Anyone who puts their trust in someone else to save them will never be saved. It is not the government that makes us great nor Wall Street - it is us - the little people who do nothing but go vote for President once every four years and then complain that they didn't do what we wanted! We have the power within us, we just don't use it. We put our energy and efforts in to voting once every four years for people who truly have no interest in us - NO MATTER WHAT THEY PREACH the year before an election. When we little people wake up and realize that we have given all our control and power over to a giant money consuming monster (either Wall Street or the Government) then maybe WE can fix the problem. Until then - all you people who think your one little vote is going to change the world -wake up - it takes far more than getting people elected to fix the mess we have allowed big government and big business to make. We are not helpless - as we may feel - we just complain on sites like this about the "other side" being wrong and then go about about on our merry way continuning to do nothing. No matter who wins - we deserve what we get and either way it will be bad - and we will have no one to blame but ourselves. And people who write articles like this that make us believe "government is our last best hope" when they are at the core of the problem to begin with!

For my opinion I believe this to be the most exciting time in American Politics. Despite the constant bombardment of overwhelmingly negative news coming from every corner you can imagine the voting citizens of this nation have an opportunity to affect change in a way unprecedented in decades. I, like many of the rest of you, will vote with our conscious, we will vote for what we believe is true and good, we will vote because deep down each American knows and believes in their heart that WE THE PEOPLE are what make this nation great. When the polls close and the confetti settles no matter who we will call the next president this nation will continue to be a great nation because WE THE PEOPLE have an unbreakable spirit that will continue to permeate through the grief and the hardship and the disappointment. I encourage each and every person to go out and vote your mind be the change you know deep down inside you can be and don???t ever forget what you are capable of if you believe.

For my opinion I believe this to be the most exciting time in American Politics. Despite the constant bombardment of overwhelmingly negative news coming from every corner you can imagine the voting citizens of this nation have an opportunity to affect change in a way unprecedented in decades. I, like many of the rest of you, will vote with our conscious, we will vote for what we believe is true and good, we will vote because deep down each American knows and believes in their heart that WE THE PEOPLE are what make this nation great. When the polls close and the confetti settles no matter who we will call the next president this nation will continue to be a great nation because WE THE PEOPLE have an unbreakable spirit that will continue to permeate through the grief and the hardship and the disappointment. I encourage each and every person to go out and vote your mind be the change you know deep down inside you can be and don???t ever forget what you are capable of if you believe.