Posting History for LWelsch

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Universal Soldier One of my favorite protest songs is the Universal Soldier. Below are three versions.	LWelsch	02/26/2011	12	7	1	64
Our Public School System is Being Destroyed I repeatedly argue in diary after diary that the US and the world needs more and better education. I believe hundreds of billions of more dollars needs to be spent on pre-K through post graduate ...	LWelsch	07/07/2010	151	43	-	61
The Abyss - or the Black Hole Yesterday I posted a long comment in teacherken's diary Moral Priorities . The comment was on how the lack of ...	LWelsch	11/25/2010	24	12	-	61
The Future is not a Game to Win As I watched the president's Weekly ...	LWelsch	01/29/2011	28	17	1	61
President Obama is "Killing Me Softly with His Song" As I was reading Eugene Robinson's op-ed In budget wars, the GOP demands ...	LWelsch	04/12/2011	10	2	-	60
Going from deficit to surplus is easy I have written many diaries in 2010 on this subject. There are two parts to ending the deficit. The first is to revive the economy and the second is to reduce costs and increase taxes. They are not ...	LWelsch	04/12/2011	10	8	-	60
Without Short Term Stimulus Global Economy Will Go Over The Precipice The following Real News Network video explains why better than any other explanation I have seen. Watch and learn.	LWelsch	09/03/2011	7	8	1	60
More brinkmanship with a government shutdown coming soon I remember a diary I wrote not long ago End of September there is yet another ...	LWelsch	11/02/2011	4	-	-	60
Is President Obama channeling Herbert Hoover? This may sound like a weird question. Yet as I read Paul Krugman's op-ed What Obama Wants I couldn't help but ask ...	LWelsch	07/08/2011	13	5	-	59
Sexist Disgusting MN Republican Video This is one of the most disgusting sexist videos I have ever seen. To think that the Minnesota Republican Party put this on their web site ...	LWelsch	08/19/2010	47	16	-	58
We know how to reduce the deficit and create jobs I said this yesterday and I am repeating today. We know how to reduce the deficit and how to create jobs. The answer sounds simple, but is not as simple as it sounds. To create jobs the US needs to ...	LWelsch	11/12/2010	10	7	-	58
Not Thinking Most people do not think, rather, they memorize and regurgitate. When asked to recite the letters of the alphabet almost everyone regurgitates a, b, c, . . . A few might say q, w, e, . . . Someone ...	LWelsch	11/15/2009	12	-	-	57
Why did Democrats take a shellacking? There must be a reason. Many diaries on DailyKos appear to be in denial. Was the reason that John Boehner cries and voters love crying politicians? Was the reason that Mitch McConnell blocked ...	LWelsch	12/25/2010	78	6	-	57
Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying The article Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying is fascinating. I recommend highly that ...	LWelsch	02/15/2011	10	2	-	57
Where have all the jobs gone? Where have all the jobs gone? Long time passing Where have all the jobs gone? Long time ago Where have all the jobs gone? Corporationsl have killed them every one When will they ever ...	LWelsch	08/12/2011	10	6	-	57
Holy Wars: Should we be afraid of Islam? - Update I started watching "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" when Christiane Amanpour started hosting the show. When she started plugging next weeks show I went livid. The title is "Holy Wars: Should we ...	LWelsch	09/27/2010	131	7	-	56
Why I Gave The President's SOTU Speech An "F" In Two Words! He Failed! Tuesday afternoon I wrote the diary Tonight is the Night . I was correct the president did admit ...	LWelsch	01/26/2011	85	13	-	56
Jobs and Afghanistan are more important than health care 'YOU'RE SCREWED' Rep. Michael Capuano tells fellow dems. People are talking about what will happen in ...	LWelsch	12/15/2009	11	-	-	55
Hell No to Civility I will start with a definition of civility straight out of Merriam Websters: a : civilized conduct; especially : courtesy,	LWelsch	01/15/2011	17	9	-	55
Democratic recovery began in 2009 - For whom? The diary NBER confirms Obama - Democratic recovery began in 2009 claims we are now ...	LWelsch	09/21/2010	57	9	-	54
The $#*! has yet to hit the fan Some may argue Hell No the shit has hit the fan. I will respond just wait a year. Yes this is another doom and gloom diary. The real problem is the economy, both the US and the world economy ...	LWelsch	11/14/2010	24	17	-	54
Tornadoes and the Budget Somebody needs to point out that republicans and yes republicans from the states most impacted by the tornadoes want to cut funds for the agency that is providing relief from the devastation from ...	LWelsch	04/30/2011	6	8	-	53
Default is the lesser evil The main reason everyone has been saying default is so bad is that the US will lose its triple A bond rating. No one knows that and now there are rumblings that the US will triple A bond rating ...	LWelsch	08/01/2011	9	1	-	53
I remember the demonstrations and riots of sixties My neighbor's store was burned to the ground. There was smoke in the air and the smoke did not come from the steel mills. Demonstrators in Washington DC were rounded up in buses and then the buses ...	LWelsch	08/10/2011	5	2	-	52
Consistent republican message As I watched clips of the debate, clips of republicans in Iowa and clips of Governor Rick Perry; I heard a consistent republican message that jobs will be created by cutting the deficit through ...	LWelsch	08/14/2011	5	2	-	52
Jobs - The worst scenario Tonight is the night of the big speech. The bets are the proposal will be somewhere between three hundred to four hundred billion dollars. A good deal of money will be for extending unemployment ...	LWelsch	09/08/2011	3	1	-	52
"part of a pattern of fits and starts?" The closing paragraph of Charles Blow's op-...	LWelsch	09/10/2011	3	2	-	52
"The Wal-Mart Hippies" The article The Wal-Mart Hippies by David Brooks enraged me. While not a hippie myself, people who saw me sure ...	LWelsch	03/05/2010	64	12	-	51
The country was "not" founded in compromise There is something sad when a very intelligent man, President Obama, misses on such a major fact. The "Declaration of Independence" is not a compromise with England. For he who cannot remember ...	LWelsch	12/15/2010	140	11	-	51
Liberalism is not a failure, nor has it succeeded I just finished reading a great diary titled The Failure of Liberalism . I disagree vehemently ...	LWelsch	06/10/2011	9	2	-	51
Won't you please come to chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reminds me of Mayor Daley - not the last one. So interesting that a Daley replaced Rahm as chief of staff.	LWelsch	10/26/2011	2	4	-	51
The Education Crisis Those of you who read my diaries know that I am in favor of spending a whole lot of money to improve education in this country. Today's New York Times has two excellent op-ed articles, one by Bob ...	LWelsch	07/13/2010	16	9	-	50
Spending Cuts Where can spending in the federal budget be cut significantly? The answer is simple, defense and social programs. Yeah, a few tens of billions dollars might be cut in other areas of the budget, but ...	LWelsch	12/20/2010	14	4	-	50
Mediocre Employment numbers The New York Times reports that Spurred by Private Hiring, Job Growth Gathers Steam . The article notes ...	LWelsch	03/04/2011	5	4	-	50
Death of Osama bin Laden - First and Final Thoughts Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore have both expressed opinions that killing Osama bin Laden was wrong and violated Pakistan's sovereignty. I wish Osama bin Laden had be brought to trial and sentenced ...	LWelsch	05/25/2011	7	1	-	50
Government shutdown looms again I raised this ugly issue in my diary End of September there is yet another ...	LWelsch	09/22/2011	5	3	-	50
Deleting comments - update - and another I recently posted a comment to the diary Happy Moonday Pooties and Woozles and ...	LWelsch	12/14/2009	224	4	1	49
I do not want my tax dollars used to support religion I do not live in California. Public tax dollars in California have been used at Hastings College of the Law, part of the University of California, to support student groups as long as the groups do ...	LWelsch	04/19/2010	45	23	-	49
This is what I will tell my grandchildren about "How the Democratic Party Was Lost?" This is in response to the excellent diary How Will I Tell My Grand ...	LWelsch	12/26/2010	87	11	-	49
Dancing with the Stars Trumps the President I found the story Before Libya, White House Must Negotiate ...	LWelsch	03/29/2011	14	-	-	49
Unemployment rises once again Unemployment continues to worsen. In Job Growth Falters Badly, Clouding ...	LWelsch	07/08/2011	6	7	-	49
Some thoughts on people leaving DailyKos I have seen my share of Goodbye Cruel World Diaries. I was deeply disappointed to learn that Keith Olbermann has left us. And yet I ...	LWelsch	06/20/2010	147	4	-	48
The Republican budget if enacted will result in death for Americans When health care reform was being debated republicans made a big stink about "death panels," though nothing of the kind was in the bill or in the law. If the republican budget is enacted then many ...	LWelsch	04/05/2011	7	6	-	48
It is productivity - stupid Part of the underlying understanding of economics is the belief that in a capitalistic society people will behave rationally. Unfortunately people do not behave rationally. People do not minimize ...	LWelsch	08/08/2011	3	2	1	47
A Baby Boomer's Thoughts on Social Security Thanks to A Question For The Community I started thinking about Social Security. I was born in 1948 and am ...	LWelsch	07/11/2010	40	20	-	46
Is Almost Everybody Really that Stupid? I ask the question, because stupidity on economic issues is running rampant. I will start with President Obama. All the news outlets are reporting that ...	LWelsch	09/06/2010	68	17	-	46
Another Economic Collapse The Dow Jones industrial average fell 265.42 points today. See Wall Street Retreats in the Face of a ...	LWelsch	08/11/2010	78	10	-	44
Some Reflection Yesterday teacherken wrote an excellent diary, thankfulness = mindfulness = thankfulness (please ...	LWelsch	11/26/2010	3	2	-	44
Right-Wing Republican Bullies Robert Reich in Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Nation Hostage Again and Again properly writes: I hope the President decides he has to take a stand, and the ...	LWelsch	04/10/2011	2	2	-	44
I am against the Senate Bill LaFeminista in "Shut Up You Stupid Woman" and slinkerwink ...	LWelsch	12/20/2009	21	2	-	43
Some thoughts on big government Nobody wants big government. Yet I believe big government is inevitable. Conservatives are right to talk about pink (I mean black) helicopters. Why do I believe big government ...	LWelsch	02/16/2011	7	1	-	43
Jobs, Jobs, and again Jobs Okay employment is increasing. Yes there is the infamous bikini curve showing increasing unemployment rates under Bush and decreasing unemployment rates under Obama. The bottom line is that unless ...	LWelsch	04/26/2010	10	1	1	42
Krugman slightly misses In today's op-ed column Block Those Metaphors Paul Krugman, one of my favorite economists, misses the target on ...	LWelsch	12/13/2010	70	8	-	42
Killer Mike - "Burn" Listen to this carefully. This is not just the truth for African Americans, ...	LWelsch	08/05/2011	3	3	-	42
Sanity or Insanity People talk about the next election as if the election were between liberals and conservatives. The truth is the election is between the somewhat sane candidates and the truly insane candidates. If ...	LWelsch	06/16/2010	3	1	-	41
Pragmatic and Impractical Lately I have seen a number of diaries with hundreds of comments about how the "professional" left is not being pragmatic. By "professional" left the diaries refer to anyone who criticizes any ...	LWelsch	12/01/2010	38	6	-	41
The economy is going to get ya, if you don't watch out. Chinese inflation and US bond ratings will have an impact on our economy and the economies of many nations of the world. The result will be to slightly accelerate the fall into a Greater ...	LWelsch	04/19/2011	2	3	-	40
It is the economy stupid! Most important jobs, stupid! For years John Kenneth Galbraith was my favorite economist. He died and along came Paul Krugman. I still love Professor Krugman, but after listening to the following my favorite economist is John ...	LWelsch	12/05/2009	2	2	-	39
Is Chris Matthews a Racist Start by watching the video below See URL http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Chris-Matthews-On-Obama-I-Forgo The transcript reads: I was trying to think about who he was tonight. It's ...	LWelsch	01/31/2010	103	6	-	39
To worry about deficits is nonsensical. Yesterday I said that in a diary pushing education. I was also pushing the need for spending in order to provide for all the different things the US and the world needs. Little did I know one of my ...	LWelsch	05/31/2010	69	5	-	39
Privacy - What are your rights? We all know about unreasonable search. But, what about a right to privacy? Do corporations have the right to know where your cell phone is/was? What is stopping them? Do Google or Bing have a ...	LWelsch	06/24/2010	4	2	-	39
November's election is FUBAR Yeah, that is right. November's election is Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Let's start with the Republicans. The other night Ed Rendell called the republicans wacky. That they surely are. Look at ...	LWelsch	08/27/2010	35	9	-	39
A fool's paradise? As I read the New York Times article New Austerity Incites a Bitterness the Postwar Generation Did Without I came across the following Now, the point of departure is ...	LWelsch	11/14/2011	2	2	-	39
"raging, contradictory forces" In The Politics Of WikiLeaks Howard Fineman says The dominant impression is of an Obama ...	LWelsch	11/29/2010	1	-	-	38
Hostages? Surely you're joking Mr. President President Obama must be going bubble crazy. No one was being held hostage. To say someone was being held hostage is just plain nuts. The president speaks of this as a one time situation. The next ...	LWelsch	12/08/2010	15	5	-	38
"Washington’s Rogue Elephants" I learned a lot today about real elephants in the New York Times op-ed Washington’s Rogue Elephants . .	LWelsch	07/27/2011	6	4	-	38
Schizophrenia Sometimes I see something so profound on the web that I feel I must bring it to the attention of others. The New York Times health section has what to me is a profoundly serious feature ...	LWelsch	09/16/2010	25	26	-	37
Soon there will be many more suffering I just read a diary You Would Rather 2 Million Lose Unemployment Benefits? ...	LWelsch	12/07/2010	8	7	-	37
A Better Society The US is not a capitalist society. I am not arguing whether or not the US was a capitalist society, but that the US today is not a capitalist society. Further, the world economy is not capitalist.	LWelsch	12/31/2010	8	6	-	37
Fair taxation I got a phone call yesterday from a group taking a survey, actually an automated survey. I hate automated phone calls. If I get another from "Rachel of card holder services" I think I will sue for ...	LWelsch	11/18/2011	5	-	-	37
Some thoughts on the Deficit and Jobs Let's start with two simple truths. The US has a deficit problem. The US has has a Jobs problem. A third simple truth is the US needs to deal with both of these problems now. What is not a simple ...	LWelsch	11/11/2010	4	4	-	36
Groups I would like to see on the new DK or DK4 I have been trying out DK4. The improvements are fantastic. I particularly like the concept of groups. I recommend changing the name “groups” to “communities.” Below the ...	LWelsch	12/19/2010	19	10	-	36
While history never repeats itself there are similarities to what is happening now in Europe and the United States to what happened prior to WW II. First lets take a look at Europe. Prior to WW II the Germans had a huge deficit, in ...	LWelsch	06/17/2011	6	1	-	36
EFF Shared Sacrifice Since when is sacrifice payhing your taxes. To me sacrifice means losing one's health food or shelter. So now let's talk social security. Social security is paid up in full with lots of money saved ...	LWelsch	06/29/2011	3	3	-	36
Education! Education! Education! I have been heavily criticized on DailyKos for believing education plays a critical role solving many problems including ending terrorism and bringing about a better world for everyone. I have also ...	LWelsch	05/30/2010	5	3	-	35
David Rovics - Today's Protest Music If you do not know who David Rovics is then go to his web site and learn. Below are a few of my favorite protest songs.	LWelsch	02/25/2011	5	5	1	35
Listen to Sarah Silverman	LWelsch	06/03/2010	31	18	2	34
What Next?? There is little question that sometime during the winter a health care bill will be signed into law. The bill will look substantially like what just passed the Senate with some improvements. ...	LWelsch	12/24/2009	10	-	-	33
The Economy As teacherken pointed out school is starting for many this Monday. (See A Saturday morning pause ). Labor day is ...	LWelsch	08/22/2010	8	7	-	33
F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition Keith Olbermann properly nailed Jon Stewart's indictment of all cable news in Stewart's closing speech at Stewart's rally to restore sanity. Stewart should also have been nailed for saying nothing ...	LWelsch	11/03/2010	37	5	-	33
Another Day – Middle Class Held Hostage Again Remember all that unemployment insurance that President Obama negotiated. Guess what? Those benefits are being held hostage again. How? The answer is simple, if the government is shutdown, the ...	LWelsch	12/18/2010	10	3	-	33
Demographics Yesterday I read the diary Daily Kos Demographics: White. Over 50. Well-off. Male. UPDATED . There were over 2000 comments. I have ...	LWelsch	08/21/2010	18	5	2	32
The Real Truth is the US and the world is screwed One of my favorite diary authors, slinkerwink , posted an excellent diary,	LWelsch	12/02/2010	10	2	-	32
Do politicians believe in equality between the sexes? President Obama, democrats and republicans clearly do not. The health care bill recently signed into law clearly discriminates between a profession dominated by men and and a profession dominated by ...	LWelsch	04/05/2010	16	-	-	31
The Confederacy - Fear, Slavery and the Tea Party I am a northerner. I was born in upstate New York in Niskayuna. My mother was born in Pittsfield Massachusetts and while my father was born in Munich Germany, he was brought up in Manhattan. Yeah I ...	LWelsch	04/18/2010	22	8	-	31
My muse: President Obama is a part of the problem LaFeminista wrote an excellent diary called Morning Muse: Obama is not the problem. I disagree. The failure of President ...	LWelsch	09/04/2010	33	10	-	31
Justice, Punishment, & Rehabilitation Does our system of government deliver JUSTICE ? I do not believe so. I believe our laws and system of government deliver punishment in lieu of justice and in the false belief that punishment ...	LWelsch	02/23/2011	6	2	-	31
Oklahoma Cervical Ultrasound Law ...	LWelsch	04/29/2010	14	8	-	30
"1937 All Over Again?" The op-ed article That ’30s Feeling by Paul Kruman ends with How bad will it be? Will it really ...	LWelsch	06/18/2010	17	6	-	30
Has Change Come to Washington? blackwaterdog has written an excellent diary titled Change HAS come to Washington . Everything ...	LWelsch	08/28/2010	27	11	-	30
Only if we democrats win big is there a chance of avoiding catastrophe Why do I say a chance of avoiding catastrophe? I say that because only with a big democratic win, meaning more house seats and a greater than sixty-two seat majority in the Senate, will the ...	LWelsch	09/19/2010	27	9	1	30
Education, Jobs, Education Now that not so super Tuesday is over, I need to write about a topic that I have written about many times . education and jobs. The continuous oil flow in the gulf is a major catastrophe and yes ...	LWelsch	06/09/2010	6	2	-	29
Exporting Jobs - A False Issue (Updated) I recently read a diary that said Life is becoming harder and harder for most people and the prospects for the future are not good. More jobs will be exported. I responded ...	LWelsch	08/10/2010	51	2	-	29
I watched the news today oh boy Senate Republicans Defeat Reauthorization Of Jobless Aid, Tax ...	LWelsch	12/04/2010	27	2	-	29
Updated not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. So speaks Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The full quote from the article Justice Staffers Won't Be ...	LWelsch	08/12/2008	64	28	-	28
Pay as you go is stupid, dumb, idiotic Pay as you go or PAYGO as Wikipedia puts it, means "financing expenditures with funds that are currently available rather than borrowed." Aside from ...	LWelsch	02/13/2010	85	5	-	28
Some Thoughts on Basic Economic Principles I recently saw a diary entitle What's Wrong with Economics Today? . I felt the diary showed a lack of understanding of what I consider ...	LWelsch	07/01/2010	33	7	1	28
Hope has morphed into widespread gloom The last two paragraphs of Bob Herbert's op-ed column Fire and Imagination column are: Now, with so ...	LWelsch	08/14/2010	21	6	-	28
Protest Music: Springsteen (Banned) I lived in New Jersey from 1970 until 1983. I drove through Freehold many times and for a while lived near Asbury Park. Bruce Springsteen is one of my favorite musicians. Below is his song Banned.	LWelsch	03/08/2011	2	1	1	28
I am a social capitalist - I mean a capital socialist I believe neither socialism nor capitalism are ideal, but a mix of both will benefit society better than strictly one or the other. I will only address the issue of the "means of production." In a ...	LWelsch	08/09/2011	3	1	-	28

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