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MindMover's JournalThe GOP Eases Up on Prisons
Source: Business Week
Canion may never have gone to prison under proposed reforms backed by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, one of many Republicans across the country looking to reduce state corrections spending by softening sentencing laws. On Feb. 27, the state’s GOP-led House of Representatives introduced legislation that calls for special courts to steer drug users into rehab, which Deal says is cheaper than a jail sentence. “We must focus on transforming our corrections system into … a place where low-level offenders are reclaimed and restored to society as functioning members of the community, working to support their own families, and paying taxes,” Deal said last month in a speech to state lawmakers.
Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-gop-eases-up-on-prisons?campaign_id=rss_null
Sounds like a politician.....and paying taxes......
2012 tornado disaster relief: how you can help
The tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest and the South killed 13 people on Wednesday, and left several communities in need of cleanup volunteers, food, clothing, and monetary contributions. If you’re interested in helping the relief efforts, contact the following organizations to learn more.
http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10552569-2012-tornado-disaster-relief-how-to-help
Please help with a dollar or more, a prayer and anything that you can do.......and thank you....
The GOP Eases Up on Prisons
Source: Business Week
Canion may never have gone to prison under proposed reforms backed by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, one of many Republicans across the country looking to reduce state corrections spending by softening sentencing laws. On Feb. 27, the state’s GOP-led House of Representatives introduced legislation that calls for special courts to steer drug users into rehab, which Deal says is cheaper than a jail sentence. “We must focus on transforming our corrections system into … a place where low-level offenders are reclaimed and restored to society as functioning members of the community, working to support their own families, and paying taxes,” Deal said last month in a speech to state lawmakers.
Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-gop-eases-up-on-prisons?campaign_id=rss_null
Sounds like a politician.....paying taxes......
The Chinese Communist Party's Capitalist Elite
Here’s yet another metric in which China has blown past the U.S.: The richest 70 members of China’s legislature added more to their wealth last year than the combined net worth of all 535 members of the U.S. Congress, the president, his cabinet, and the entire Supreme Court. These wealthy Chinese are members of the National People’s Congress, the nation’s lawmaking body that opens its annual session on March 5.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-chinese-communist-partys-capitalist-elite?campaign_id=rss_null
I guess communist capitalism like western capitalism is good for a few.....
Today in Congress: you people are gonna want your money back
Source: Congress Matters
Less and less is happening on the floor every day. They're still going through the motions in the committees, with the appropriators and budget folks busily churning through their piles of paper in preparation for their busy season. But in the House yesterday, the only action was the party-line passage of the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act (plus the party-line rejection of every single amendment to it), and then the passage on voice vote of one suspension bill
Read more: http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2012/3/1/8301/45986
What do we pay these guys and gals $170,000 a yr to do????
Boehner Vows to Continue Contraception Fight
Source: NYT
1:30 p.m. | Updated The battle over whether to allow employers and health insurance companies to opt out of contraception coverage for reasons of religion or conscience may be over in the Senate, but House Speaker John A. Boehner signaled on Thursday that House Republicans would continue the fight.
Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/boehner-vows-to-continue-contraception-fight/
Why do we allow our politicians to continue to fight over our contraception choices.....?
Wealthy would cash in under Romney tax plan
Source: CNN Politics
According to a new analysis from the Tax Policy Center, wealthy Americans would see their taxes fall precipitously under Mitt Romney's new plan - which scraps the Alternative Minimum Tax and cuts marginal tax rates by 20%.
Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/01/wealthy-would-cash-in-under-romney-tax-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_politicalticker+%28Blog%3A+Political+Ticker%29
Ok, is it time to stop using our tax code as leverage to get elected and then do nothing substantial to change it for the common good.....
STOCK Act limps toward passage
Source: Politico
Congress is about to show what happens when it’s pressured into drafting new ethics rules for itself: not a whole lot.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73474.html#ixzz1npWObAfO
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73474.html
Could we get our politicians to show some class and become examples to look up to instead of leading the 1% to the trough.....we can only pray that someday soon they will wake up.....
Geithner, Top Congressional Tax Writers to Meet
Source: WSJ, Washington Wire
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to talk about rewriting the tax code at a Thursday meeting with the chairmen and ranking members of Congress’s tax-writing committees. The meeting – apparently the first since the administration rolled out its plan for a business-tax overhaul – is expected to be a closed-door session.
Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/02/29/geithner-top-congressional-tax-writers-to-meet/?mod=WSJBlog&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fwashwire%2Ffeed+%28WSJ.com%3A+Washington+Wire%29
So maybe we can get the tax code down to just one bibles length long, unlike the current seven (7) bibles long.....did someone in the house say corrupt......nah...
Mitt Romney, 'welfare queen'.......
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/20122164215194680.htmlRomney's wealth is based on the private equity business model, founded on tax-payer subsidies.
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