Posting History for LWelsch
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| Jobs / Financial Reform / Jobs This is not going to be a long diary - I never write very much. Yes, I am glad that the Health Care Bill is now a Law. The Health Care Law is barely a beginning and we need to move to single payer ... |
LWelsch | 03/28/2010 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 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 |
| Some thoughts on: Rules, Moderation, Civility I thank the author of Rules, Moderation, Civility . Good job! Well Done! I agree with some rules ... |
LWelsch | 04/08/2010 | 40 | 2 | - | 10 |
| Edmund G. Brown Jr. for Supreme Court Justice OK, I know he is on nobody's list for the Supreme Court. For starters he is probably too old and too liberal. But I cannot help but think of how all the recent appointments have been appellate court ... |
LWelsch | 04/11/2010 | 25 | 3 | - | 26 |
| I feel sorry for President Obama President Obama ran on change. Change is difficult. Part of the problem is that so many large changes need to happen. One was/is in health care. One was/is in nuclear arms. One was/is in the economy. |
LWelsch | 04/12/2010 | 68 | 15 | - | 131 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| What comes after financial reform? Okay, health care (such as it is, and boy does it need improvement) has passed. Something that looks like financial reform (too weak to be real reform) will pass. More people are getting jobs than ... |
LWelsch | 04/25/2010 | 8 | 1 | - | 18 |
| 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 |
| What will Democrats run on in November? The November election is coming. Many are predicting Democrats will lose. Despite Republican politicians being total assholes, Republicans are predicted to win many seats in Congress. Why? The ... |
LWelsch | 04/27/2010 | 34 | - | - | 19 |
| Oklahoma Cervical Ultrasound Law ... |
LWelsch | 04/29/2010 | 14 | 8 | - | 30 |
| Unless we change the world, terrorism will get us Over spring break my daughter took a trip with her friend to New York City. She stayed in an inexpensive (by New York standards) hotel in Times square. She ate in Times square. She saw a play not ... |
LWelsch | 05/02/2010 | 24 | 4 | - | 16 |
| The Chris Mathews Show and Kent State Some times on Sunday I watch The Chris Mathews Show . Last Sunday he had a long segment starting with ". . . it was 40 years ago this ... |
LWelsch | 05/05/2010 | 28 | 11 | - | 23 |
| Greece, Euro, Stocks, Energy, Unemployment, War, Terrorism SHIT happens. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, . . . all this shit happens and there often is little we people can do about these events. But much of what is happening today was due ... |
LWelsch | 05/06/2010 | 15 | 3 | - | 12 |
| Something there is that doesn't love a wall As a child I loved Robert Frost. I still do. As I think about immigration reform, I cannot help but think of the walls in Europe during the cold war and Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall .
I ... |
LWelsch | 05/07/2010 | 7 | 10 | - | 17 |
| Libertarianism versus Interconnectedness Before giving my own thoughts I provide Miriam-Webster's definitions for libertarian ... |
LWelsch | 05/23/2010 | 12 | 4 | - | 25 |
| 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 |
| 50 billion dollars is a start Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid is the headline in today's Washington ... |
LWelsch | 06/13/2010 | 8 | 3 | - | 24 |
| 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 |
| Listen to Sarah Silverman | LWelsch | 06/03/2010 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 34 |
| Some thoughts on the retirement of Helen Thomas I do not know where to start. I have a great many conflicting views. There are no easy answers. Many early immigrants, not all, came to the US to avoid religious persecution. JFK was the first ... |
LWelsch | 06/08/2010 | 79 | 12 | - | 27 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 9/11, Katrina, Deep Water Horizon 9/11, Katrina and the Deep Water Horizon have one attribute in common; they are all national tragedies. Perception, not reality, determined the course for the country in 9/11. Reality determined the ... |
LWelsch | 06/21/2010 | 9 | - | - | 94 |
| 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 |
| The problem lies in Pakistan Today's New York Times has an excellent front page article titled Pakistan Is Said to Pursue a Foothold in ... |
LWelsch | 06/25/2010 | 45 | 4 | - | 21 |
| Reducing deficit spending is not the answer - See Ireland I and others have argued for what feels like an eternity that reducing deficits is not the answer. Yesterday bobswern pointed out that Then again, as I'... |
LWelsch | 06/29/2010 | 33 | 12 | - | 25 |
| "a rhetorical-testosterone deficit" In today's Washington Post Kathleen Parker suggests the President Obama is "suffering a rhetorical-testosterone deficit" in her op-... |
LWelsch | 06/30/2010 | 7 | 8 | - | 83 |
| 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 |
| Education, Jobs, Education This is one of several diaries I have written with this title. First I would like to talk about our current economic problems. I started writing about them back in 2003 in the ... |
LWelsch | 07/02/2010 | 12 | 5 | - | 19 |
| 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 |
| Ronald Reagan vs. Barack Obama In the diary Who is More Conservative: Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama? Cenk Uygur ... |
LWelsch | 07/09/2010 | 65 | 14 | - | 177 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Robert Jensen The Color of the Race Problem Is White Adept2u recently wrote the excellent diary Tim Wise on White Privilege . Go watch the video and read the ... |
LWelsch | 07/14/2010 | 45 | 16 | 2 | 119 |
| Tangible Results askew wrote an excellent ... |
LWelsch | 07/16/2010 | 12 | 2 | - | 20 |
| No man is an island
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so ... |
LWelsch | 08/02/2010 | 16 | 5 | - | 13 |
| Losing the November election Despite the utter stupidity of republicans we democrats are in danger of losing November's election. By losing, I mean republicans will gain at least one seat in congress. There is a possibility ... |
LWelsch | 08/05/2010 | 28 | 5 | - | 19 |
| the cancer in the American heart — joblessness The title is taken from Frank Rich's op-ed How to Lose an Election Without Really Trying . The cancer unless treated ... |
LWelsch | 08/08/2010 | 7 | 4 | - | 27 |
| The lights are going out all over America — literally The title of this diary is the opening phrase to Professor Krugman's latest op-ed America Goes Dark . The article ... |
LWelsch | 08/09/2010 | 149 | 150 | 3 | 66 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| So much work! So many unemployed! People are starving. People don't have shelter. Floods are killing people. Forest fires are wreaking havoc. People are dying from lack of health care. Children are not receiving an adequate education. |
LWelsch | 08/15/2010 | 35 | 6 | - | 26 |
| The DSCC needs to get its act together I just received a "phone bank" call from the DSCC asking for a hundred dollars to maintain a democratic senate. The caller started by talking about our common goals. I pointed out that I was ... |
LWelsch | 08/16/2010 | 33 | 4 | - | 21 |
| Is anyone listening? Tom Toles makes a point in today's Washington Post. (Unfortunately DailyKos will not allow images from the ... |
LWelsch | 08/17/2010 | 16 | 2 | - | 22 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| The Way Back Machine Way back in 2003 I wrote Some thoughts on the Root Causes of our Economic Problems . The key ... |
LWelsch | 08/24/2010 | 3 | 5 | - | 27 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Forget what you know about education The New York Times has an interesting article Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits . There are some very ... |
LWelsch | 09/08/2010 | 31 | 16 | - | 70 |
| Silver Bullet I remember silver bullets from watching The Lone Ranger on television years ago. The Lone Ranger "decides to use only silver bullets—... |
LWelsch | 09/10/2010 | 5 | 3 | - | 19 |
| 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 |
| many millions of Americans trapped in a world of hurt So ends Bob Herbert's op-ed column Two Different Worlds .
The movers and shakers of our society seem ... |
LWelsch | 09/18/2010 | 5 | 8 | - | 27 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Who should replace Summers? I highly recommend that Geithner resign and that Barack make a recess appointment to replace Geithner.
The answer to the question posed in the title is simple, Professor Paul Krugman. The answer to ... |
LWelsch | 09/23/2010 | 41 | 4 | - | 27 |
| Some Democratic Politicians Insist on Harming Themselves There is/was an important opportunity for democratic politicians to help themselves this session. That opportunity was/is voting in favor of tax cuts on income below 250K while allowing tax cuts ... |
LWelsch | 09/23/2010 | 8 | 8 | - | 27 |
| 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 |
| KosAbility: My Dyslexia teacherken wrote an excellent diary titled KosAbilities: living with my dyslexia . Please read his diary on this ... |
LWelsch | 10/03/2010 | 44 | 29 | 1 | 67 |
| Should Americans Fear Christianity As I watched Holy War: Should Americans Fear Islam? , I kept wondering why? There was a ... |
LWelsch | 10/03/2010 | 64 | 15 | 1 | 189 |
| Hard Truths About Medicare - Updated I believe President Obama has done many good things for the American people. I also believe we must get out the vote and work hard to not just keep democratic majorities, but to improve the size of ... |
LWelsch | 10/05/2010 | 10 | 5 | - | 69 |
| 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 |
| Should your employer know how you spend your money? I pose this question in view of the Keith Olbermann's suspension. Campaign finance laws dictate disclosure of people who contribute to campaigns. Should this disclosure be made public? I would argue ... |
LWelsch | 11/06/2010 | 65 | 5 | - | 19 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "there will be blood sooner or later" So says Professor Paul Krugman in today's op-ed There Will Be Blood . I have been predicting for some time that ... |
LWelsch | 11/22/2010 | 18 | 16 | - | 118 |
| 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 |
| Some Reflection Yesterday teacherken wrote an excellent diary, thankfulness = mindfulness = thankfulness (please ... |
LWelsch | 11/26/2010 | 3 | 2 | - | 44 |
| "raging, contradictory forces" In The Politics Of WikiLeaks Howard Fineman says
The dominant impression is of an Obama ... |
LWelsch | 11/29/2010 | 1 | - | - | 38 |
| 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 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 |
| President Obama is FUBAR That is right President Obama is Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Unemployment is rising again. Despite the stimulus unemployment is now ... |
LWelsch | 12/03/2010 | 88 | 9 | - | 74 |
| I watched the news today oh boy Senate Republicans Defeat Reauthorization Of Jobless Aid, Tax ... |
LWelsch | 12/04/2010 | 27 | 2 | - | 29 |
| Change You Can Believe In This was the slogan President Obama ran on in 2008. It is a great slogan. Most people wanted a change; a change from the lousy economy; a change from health care that was expensive and poor; a ... |
LWelsch | 12/06/2010 | 16 | 5 | - | 66 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Information Technology Revolution The US and the world have to change due to the information revolution. There have been several information revolutions and they all have had profound impacts on the world. Paper and the printing ... |
LWelsch | 12/09/2010 | 23 | 17 | - | 237 |
| Galbraith Nails Obama - Minor update No this is not on taxes. This is on the broader issue of Whose Side Is the White House On? . James K. Galbraith "in a speech given on ... |
LWelsch | 12/10/2010 | 639 | 483 | 18 | 165 |
| The Economy is Changing Almost everyone - economists, citizens, voters, most here, and politicians of all stripes - FAIL to understand that the economy is changing and that society including government needs to ... |
LWelsch | 12/11/2010 | 44 | 18 | - | 96 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| principle, rules, negotiation, compromise, and common ground I recently wrote a diary title “the country was “not” founded on (yeah I know I said in) compromise.” I received many comments even though I pointed out that the constitution ... |
LWelsch | 12/17/2010 | 6 | 1 | - | 99 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| What are entitlements? I keep hearing the word entitlements used in the pejorative. Why? The answer is simple, republicans have changed the meaning of the word. |
LWelsch | 12/21/2010 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 93 |
| President Obama failed in his first two years in office I see op-ed articles and DailyKos diaries touting how successful President Obama has been since his election and how successful the 111 congress has been. E. J. Dionne ... |
LWelsch | 12/23/2010 | 206 | 20 | - | 380 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| New Year's Resolutions I resolve:
To limit my use of "Obama" in the title of diaries
To continue the struggle to improve the economy
To recognize capitalism is not the solution to every ... |
LWelsch | 01/01/2011 | 7 | 4 | - | 67 |
| Republican Weekly Address to the Nation I did not realize that republicans had a weekly address to the nation until I read ... |
LWelsch | 01/02/2011 | 20 | - | - | 77 |