Compartmentalize the whole federal budget

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 5:14 AM PST

2010/12/08 · 05:14

Looked at as a whole, the Budget Commission Report is just another way to protect the wealthy and their assets, without appearing to do so.

What I found remarkable in that report is the insistence that, to fix the budget deficit, Social Security and Medicare must take a substantial hit. This is irrational. Both are solvent well into the future, and when the current income starts being inadequate to cover current benefits, the simple fix is to raise the FICA cut-off or eliminate it entirely -- and/or start paying off the loans the SSA made to the General Fund when FICA income vastly exceeded benefit payouts.

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Monday January 14, 2008 · 10:33 AM PST

2008/01/14 · 10:33

Dennis Kucinich is busy this week, in ways that should make headlines across the country.

Monday – Texas appeals court, to overturn Texas Democratic Party decision to keep Kucinich off the Texas primary ballot because he refused to sign a never-enforced, in fact unenforceable, open-to-interpretation loyalty oath.

Tuesday – Primary day in Michigan, and contrary to what you may have heard, Hillary Clinton is not the only candidate on the ballot. There are in fact three active candidates– Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, and Mike Gravel. And to all you Michigan Democrats – your vote WILL count. (More below)

Tuesday night – the Las Vegas Democratic Presidential debate, to which Kucinich was invited, and then uninvited less than two days later, by NBC.

Wednesday – the recount Kucinich requested of last Tuesday’s Democratic primary vote in New Hampshire is set to begin.

Let’s take them one at a time.

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 6:10 PM PST

2008/01/09 · 18:10

Is it really possible that 98 percent of New Hampshire voters rejected single-payer not-for-profit health care in Tuesday’s Democratic primary?

Were all the pre-vote polls identifying health care as the number one priority wrong? Do voters really want more of our tax dollars going to for-profit health insurance companies, to their highly-paid CEOs, and to all those stockholders in the form of dividends, as all but one of the Democratic presidential candidates propose, and NOT to funding a single-payer, not-for-profit government-run plan, Medicare for everyone in America, proposed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich?

That’s what Tuesday’s primary election results in New Hampshire would tell us.

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Tuesday December 25, 2007 · 11:59 AM PST

2007/12/25 · 11:59

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s plan to imprison thousands of "disloyal" American citizens, details of which were revealed in a New York Times article last Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007, goes back many years further than the 1950 letter Hoover sent to President Truman.

According to documents I obtained from the FBI in 2003, Hoover was maintaining a list of "dangerous" U.S. citizens in the early 1940s. In 1943, however, Hoover was told by then-U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle that the classification was "unreliable, is hereby cancelled, and should not be used as a determination of dangerousness or of any other fact."

But Hoover kept his list, and, according to the NYT report, in 1946 he asked Biddle’s successor for permission to resurrect it. Hoover was granted permission to do just that in 1948.

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Wednesday December 12, 2007 · 8:15 AM PST

2007/12/12 · 08:15

I want to let you know what’s going on in Iowa.

The Des Moines Register put out a press release last week announcing that six of the eight Democratic candidates for President had "accepted invitations" to debate this Thursday. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich was not among them.

What the Des Moines Register press release should have said is that they offered invitations to this debate to only six of the eight nationally recognized Democratic presidential candidates and that all six who were invited accepted.

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Tuesday March 13, 2007 · 1:57 PM PDT

2007/03/13 · 13:57

The ground in presidential politics shifted in Carson City, Nevada, on Feb. 21, 2007. That's when Congressman Dennis Kucinich, at a Presidential Candidates Forum, openly ridiculed those presidential aspirants who supported the Iraq War, and declared the current health care debate "one of the biggest frauds that's been put on the American people," and a "fault line" within the Democratic party.

Kucinich's principled stands on those two issues, the Iraq War and national health care, in that sequential forum (where only one candidate was on stage at a time) are the reason, in my opinion, that those other candidates suddenly had "previous engagements" and ducked out of both the April 5 CNN debate and the Fox News/Nevada Democratic Party debate scheduled for next August. They were not prepared to respond to those bold truths, and knew they would be forced to if they found themselves on the same platform with Dennis Kucinich.

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Sunday December 10, 2006 · 10:12 AM PST

2006/12/10 · 10:12

Peace activist Nancy Hill, 53, of Stonington, Maine, was jailed in Maine for her part in the sit-in at Sen. Snowe's office last September.
Hill was jailed on Dec. 1, 2006, for 24 hours in the Penobscot County Jail in what is believed to be the first court-ordered incarceration in Maine for a non-violent sit-in at a U.S. Senate office. Hill was one of eleven protesters who refused to leave the Bangor office of Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in September after Snowe refused to respond to repeated requests to sign a Declaration of Peace.

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Tuesday November 21, 2006 · 8:14 AM PST

2006/11/21 · 08:14

U.S. Senate race Post Election Analysis
Address to the Maine Democratic Party State Committee
Nov. 19, 2006 (edited and expanded for clarity)
By Jean Hay Bright
www.jeanhaybright.us

Excerpts
...Many people were reasonably assuming that the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and EMILY’s List were providing money and support, because that is their supposed reason for existing. Both organizations adamantly refused to help...

...If each Democratic candidate for federal office must start at ground zero, with lists, with people, with money, with campaign organization, if a Democratic candidate for federal office cannot expect even a modicum of support from the national Democratic party, then the reasons for running as a Democrat become less and less compelling...

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 4:32 PM PST

2006/11/09 · 16:32

From the Campaign Post-Mortem...
Here's the frustrating part: CNN's exit poll showed that 65 percent of Maine voters disapproved of the Iraq war. But of those who disapproved of the war, 66 percent told CNN they voted for Olympia Snowe anyway. So, of Snowe's almost 400,000 votes, an estimated 230,000 of them came from people who oppose the war....If people had been paying attention, if just 145,000 of those 230,000 anti-war voters had gone my way instead of to war-hawk Snowe, I would be apartment hunting in Washington.

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ME-SEN Sen. Snowe and the posting of "How to Make a Nuclear Bomb"

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 3:22 PM PST

2006/11/04 · 15:22

Press Release, Nov. 4, 2006

Maine's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Jean Hay Bright, Saturday questioned the extent of Sen. Olympia Snowe's involvement in the posting on the internet of directions on how to make a nuclear bomb, as revealed in a New York Times article Friday.

"We learned yesterday from the New York Times that the Senate Intelligence Committee, on which Sen. Olympia Snowe sits, is responsible for the posting on the internet of "detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs," Hay Bright said in a press conference Saturday afternoon at the Democratic Party campaign headquarters in Bangor. Read More

ME-SEN Protect the Vote: Press Conference

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 1:20 PM PST

2006/11/03 · 13:20

Nov. 3, 2006
Dixmont Memorial Park
By Jean Hay Bright

This is the speech I just delivered 300 feet away from my Town Office in Dixmont, Maine. Just before David and I walked to the Town Office to vote absentee on a safe paper ballot which I trust fully will be counted by my town clerk on election day. Read More

ME-SEN How's That Again?

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 12:08 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 12:08

To the Editor: Brunswick Times Record
Op-Ed By Jean Hay Bright
October 28, 2006 Read More

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