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Dear MoveOn member,
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
Congress: Vote for the Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013 (HR 900)
Last Friday, my friend Congressman John Conyers introduced a bill called the “Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013″—a bill that, not surprisingly, cancels the sequester.
In case you haven’t heard, the sequester is an endless series of irrational and cruel budget cuts. Fortunately, since Congress invented the sequester, Congress can also kill it.
Here’s the entire bill:
“Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed.”
That’s it. That’s the solution, in a single sentence. No loopholes. No self-imposed crises. Just one sentence.
Join us by signing a petition in support of just-say-no to the sequester. 75,000 people already have.
Courage,
Alan Grayson
Thanks to Republican obstructionism in Congress, the nation was forced into the sequester last Friday -- a series of automatic and destructive budgets cuts that you and your neighbors are just beginning to feel.
In the face of these devastating cuts, House Speaker John Boehner went on TV and said, "I don't know whether it's going to hurt the economy or not ... I don't think anyone quite understands how the sequester is really going to work."
Really? We're not talking about some abstract numbers on a piece of paper -- this is real.
The sequester will cut 10,000 teaching jobs, 70,000 spots for preschoolers in Head Start, $43 million for food programs for seniors, $35 million for local fire departments, and access to nutrition assistance for over half a million women and their families.
And the reason congressional Republicans let these cuts go into effect is because they simply wouldn't support closing tax loopholes for millionaires and billionaires -- for things like yachts and corporate jets. I wish I were kidding.
A Place At The Table - Video Link
Wealth Inequity in America - VIDEO LINK
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester. - LINK
Quote: [I filed this quote away few years ago but can't I recall who to credit it to; I think it's from 'The Winning Words Project - The Government is US']
“Ever since the Reagan years, the GOP has been singularly focused on the long game. They have not wavered from a core, central determination to dismantle government and turn it over to the Corporations and enrich themselves in the process.
While modern Democrats put their efforts into winning short term battles the GOP has spent the better part of the last thirty years whittling away at our laws, bit by bit, regulation by regulation, court ruling by court ruling.
Make no mistake, Republicans have a Grand Plan for this nation that looks nothing like the America that progressives, liberals or Democrats envision. Worse yet, it won’t even resemble the one our Forefathers envisioned.”
I developed/take my working definition of irredeemable misuse listing of Venus anti-social nature in my astro – key word index (tri-part model for keys words: a) constructive use of qualities, b) destructive omission of qualities, c) irredeemable misuse of qualities) partly from the forensic research organization called ‘The Depravity Scale Project’
The Depravity Scale Project’s thesis of extreme outrageous behavior, among other things, works to create an evidence based distinction for ‘everyday evil’ as denying the needs of others.
Before I found this project, like many others, I believed that Reagan/GOP policies were outrageous public policy; but when Romney came along for the 2012 election calling himself ‘an EXTREME conservative candidate’ I could not have agreed more with him about that.
Romney is an early pioneer in ‘private equity investment business model’. Make no mistake, based upon private equity firms intent, actions, and attitudes the wealthy elite's Utopian ideology, like Mitt Romney, believe that America’s culture, domestic society, and government should be based on/founded upon denying the needs of “unworthy” others.
After undergoing the depth and breadth of the 2012 Republican political media show (the primary and general election campaign) the public saw the scope of the GOP ideology.
Many people in and out of politics call their policies out of bounds for a civilized society. Excerpted from work of ‘The Depravity Project’ to establish societal standards I would emphasize their distinction of evidence-based protocol of ‘everyday evil’ as extreme and outrageous behaviors at home, in parenting, at the workplace, and in communities.
(As I have, you may find that the attributes of depravity sound familiar to the ‘private equity’ business model)
- EXPLOITING physical, mental, emotional vulnerability to the loss of the victims;
- engendering irreparable destruction or damage to another person;
- drawing stature from destruction;
- engendering irremediable distress through trauma or loss;
- indulgence and greed to the end of parasitism;
- creatively causing suffering:
- choosing to extinguish identity, goals, dreams of those affects persons or institutions for goal of loss;
- metastatic influence, inspiring others to carry out outrageous conduct;
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