As I drive from one place to another and see construction projects with signs that say "your stimulus dollars at work" it makes me wonder just HOW it is supposed to work.
Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of friends who do benefit directly from these projects, but those friends have always done that sort of work. However, I'm a 5-foot 2-inch female who just graduated with a journalism degree, teaches dance part-time and likes to think of herself as a performer. I have a 10-year-old daughter who needs food, clothing, activities to get into and a roof over her head.
I am in no way, shape or form inclined or trained to build anything. It would probably take months of training to get me to even be able to facilitate a construction company as a receptionist or anything close. So how am I benefiting from those stimulus dollars?
Why didn't they just break each of us off a check? that would have gone directly into the economy in a way that the so-called free market should work. I would have got my car work done that is still desperately needed and I still can not afford. that would have kept the body shop owner from laying off that extra mechanic. That mechanic would have been able to keep up the payments on his home and the bank he got his loan from would have had one less defaulted mortgage and maybe been able to stay solvent.
It makes sense to me.... does it make sense to you?
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7/12/10
1/8/10
SCHOOLS OVER PRISONS
SCHWARZENEGGER'S STATE OF THE STATE SPEECH- JANUARY 6, 2010
ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER GAVE A HAPHAZARD-SOUNDING STATE-OF-THE-STATE SPEECH. IT BEGAN WITH AN AWKWARD LITTLE FABLE COMPARING CALIFORNIA’S LEGISLATORS TO HIS HOUSEHOLD PETS; A MINIATURE PONY AND A POT-BELLIED PIG.
HE SAID THE TWO HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON CREATING A SYSTEM OF GETTING FOOD OUT OF A CONTAINER AND THAT THE STATE’S LAWMAKERS DID THE SAME LAST YEAR IN ORDER TO CLOSE THE HUGE BUDGET GAP.
PERSONALLY, GIVEN ANALOGY, THE PONY AND THE PIG SEEM TO HAVE A BETTER SYSTEM.
HOWEVER, OUR GOVERNOR MADE A FEW POIGNANT STATEMENTS. I’LL START WITH THE GOOD NEWS; HE PROMISED HE WILL PROTECT EDUCATION OVER PRISONS. WHAT A RELIEF. HE RECOGNIZED THAT THE STATE SPENDS 45% MORE ON “PRISON UNIFORMS THAN ON CAPS AND GOWNS.” HOW HE PLANS ON DOING THIS IS A LITTLE SHADY. HE SPOKE OF BETTER MANAGING THE PRISON SYSTEM, AND TURNING TO PRIVATELY RUN PRISONS, BUT NOT SO MUCH ABOUT CLOSING THEM OR DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE HIGH POPULATIONS WITHIN THEM.
HE ALSO VAGUELY SPOKE A BIT ON THE IMPROVEMENTS THE STATE IS MAKING TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS WITH IN THE SCHOOLS. THAT PARENTS CAN “FREE THEIR CHILDREN FROM DESTRUCTIVE SCHOOLS”, GET RID OF INCOMPETENT PRINCIPLES AND THE ABILITY TO CONNECT STUDENTS PERFORMANCE TO THE TEACHER’S PERFORMANCE.
WHAT HE DID NOT DIRECTLY SAY WAS THAT WE WOULD SPEND MORE ON EDUCATION. IT SOUNDED A BIT TO ME LIKE WE WOULD CORRECT THE RATIO OF MONEY SPENT. GOING FORWARD, HOWEVER, I’M GOING TO HOPE THAT THIS IS IMPLIED. I’M GOING TO ASSUME THAT ‘PRIORITIES’, HIS CHOSEN FOCUS WORD FOR 2010, MEANS THAT THE SAVINGS ON PRISONS WILL BE DIRECTLY DEPOSITED INTO THE EDUCATION FUND……
AMBITIOUS THINKING, I KNOW, BUT ONE CAN WISH.
THE NEXT POINT OF HIS SPEECH I FOUND TELLING WAS HIS TAXES/BUDGET REFORM PROPOSALS.
IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T NEED TO REFORM THE TAXES…. YES, IT IS UNREALISTIC TO GO ON BELIEVING THAT THE 144,000 TAXPAYERS, AS HE POINTS OUT, CAN CARRY 38 MILLION CALIFORNIANS.
HOWEVER… SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE REPUBLICAN, HE SAYS “WE SIMPLY CANNOT WAIT FOR THE RICH TO BOUNCE BACK”.
HIS TAX PLAN WAS APPROVED BY, HE BOASTS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FORMER DEMOCRATIC, CALIFORNIAN POLITICIAN WILLIE BROWN.
READING BETWEEN THE LINES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FOCUSES ON CORPORATE INTERESTS, THE FAKE PEOPLE.
AND WILLIE BROWN, LAST YEAR WAS DEFENDING GENERAL CONTRACTOR MONICA UNG, WHO WAS ARRAIGNED IN AUGUST 2009 FOR DOZENS OF FELONY FRAUD CHARGES INCLUDING FLAUNTING LABOR LAWS AND DEFRAUDING IMMIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OF THEIR WAGES.
THIS SHOULD BE INDICATIVE OF WHAT KIND OF TAX PROPOSAL THIS REALLY IS. READ MORE
IF THE 144,000 TAXPAYERS THE GOVERNATOR SPOKE OF WERE INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES, REAL PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU, I WOULD COMPLETELY AGREE WITH HIM, EVEN SMALL BUSINESS. THE DISCONNECT HERE IS THAT HE IS ALSO SPEAKING OF CORPORATIONS AND BIG BUSINESS.
THE PEOPLE WITH NO PULSE; WHOSE SKIN IS CONCRETE AND BONES ARE METAL AND WHO EAT REAL PEOPLE, REAL TAXPAYERS FOR DINNER.
I DIGRESS, I AGREE THAT WE HAVE TO REFORM TAXES. CALIFORNIANS ARE QUITE DISILLUSIONED WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCES. YOU SEE IT EVERYDAY ON THE STREET. PEOPLE DRIVING AROUND IN CARS THEY CAN’T AFFORD, WEARING EXPENSIVE CLOTHES AND GUCCI GLASSES WITH BOTOX ALL IN THEIR FOREHEADS, ALL THE WHILE WRITING IT OFF. AS AN EXPENSE BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ASPIRING MODEL… YOU DID ONE PHOTO SHOOT ON A TRADE FOR PICS ARRANGEMENT AND IN THE MEAN TIME HAVE AN UNDER-THE-TABLE PERSONAL ASSISTANT JOB THAT PAYS 3500 DOLLARS A MONTH. JUST AS AN EXAMPLE. BUT WE REAL PEOPLE WOULDN’T HAVE TO THAT IF THE FAKE PEOPLE , AGAIN CORPORATIONS AND BIG BUSINESSES, WERE REQUIRED TO PAY US A LIVING WAGE AND WEREN’T ABLE TO CUT SO MANY TAX CORNERS THEMSELVES.
ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER GAVE A HAPHAZARD-SOUNDING STATE-OF-THE-STATE SPEECH. IT BEGAN WITH AN AWKWARD LITTLE FABLE COMPARING CALIFORNIA’S LEGISLATORS TO HIS HOUSEHOLD PETS; A MINIATURE PONY AND A POT-BELLIED PIG.
HE SAID THE TWO HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON CREATING A SYSTEM OF GETTING FOOD OUT OF A CONTAINER AND THAT THE STATE’S LAWMAKERS DID THE SAME LAST YEAR IN ORDER TO CLOSE THE HUGE BUDGET GAP.
PERSONALLY, GIVEN ANALOGY, THE PONY AND THE PIG SEEM TO HAVE A BETTER SYSTEM.
HOWEVER, OUR GOVERNOR MADE A FEW POIGNANT STATEMENTS. I’LL START WITH THE GOOD NEWS; HE PROMISED HE WILL PROTECT EDUCATION OVER PRISONS. WHAT A RELIEF. HE RECOGNIZED THAT THE STATE SPENDS 45% MORE ON “PRISON UNIFORMS THAN ON CAPS AND GOWNS.” HOW HE PLANS ON DOING THIS IS A LITTLE SHADY. HE SPOKE OF BETTER MANAGING THE PRISON SYSTEM, AND TURNING TO PRIVATELY RUN PRISONS, BUT NOT SO MUCH ABOUT CLOSING THEM OR DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE HIGH POPULATIONS WITHIN THEM.
HE ALSO VAGUELY SPOKE A BIT ON THE IMPROVEMENTS THE STATE IS MAKING TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS WITH IN THE SCHOOLS. THAT PARENTS CAN “FREE THEIR CHILDREN FROM DESTRUCTIVE SCHOOLS”, GET RID OF INCOMPETENT PRINCIPLES AND THE ABILITY TO CONNECT STUDENTS PERFORMANCE TO THE TEACHER’S PERFORMANCE.
WHAT HE DID NOT DIRECTLY SAY WAS THAT WE WOULD SPEND MORE ON EDUCATION. IT SOUNDED A BIT TO ME LIKE WE WOULD CORRECT THE RATIO OF MONEY SPENT. GOING FORWARD, HOWEVER, I’M GOING TO HOPE THAT THIS IS IMPLIED. I’M GOING TO ASSUME THAT ‘PRIORITIES’, HIS CHOSEN FOCUS WORD FOR 2010, MEANS THAT THE SAVINGS ON PRISONS WILL BE DIRECTLY DEPOSITED INTO THE EDUCATION FUND……
AMBITIOUS THINKING, I KNOW, BUT ONE CAN WISH.
THE NEXT POINT OF HIS SPEECH I FOUND TELLING WAS HIS TAXES/BUDGET REFORM PROPOSALS.
IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T NEED TO REFORM THE TAXES…. YES, IT IS UNREALISTIC TO GO ON BELIEVING THAT THE 144,000 TAXPAYERS, AS HE POINTS OUT, CAN CARRY 38 MILLION CALIFORNIANS.
HOWEVER… SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE REPUBLICAN, HE SAYS “WE SIMPLY CANNOT WAIT FOR THE RICH TO BOUNCE BACK”.
HIS TAX PLAN WAS APPROVED BY, HE BOASTS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FORMER DEMOCRATIC, CALIFORNIAN POLITICIAN WILLIE BROWN.
READING BETWEEN THE LINES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FOCUSES ON CORPORATE INTERESTS, THE FAKE PEOPLE.
AND WILLIE BROWN, LAST YEAR WAS DEFENDING GENERAL CONTRACTOR MONICA UNG, WHO WAS ARRAIGNED IN AUGUST 2009 FOR DOZENS OF FELONY FRAUD CHARGES INCLUDING FLAUNTING LABOR LAWS AND DEFRAUDING IMMIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OF THEIR WAGES.
THIS SHOULD BE INDICATIVE OF WHAT KIND OF TAX PROPOSAL THIS REALLY IS. READ MORE
IF THE 144,000 TAXPAYERS THE GOVERNATOR SPOKE OF WERE INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES, REAL PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU, I WOULD COMPLETELY AGREE WITH HIM, EVEN SMALL BUSINESS. THE DISCONNECT HERE IS THAT HE IS ALSO SPEAKING OF CORPORATIONS AND BIG BUSINESS.
THE PEOPLE WITH NO PULSE; WHOSE SKIN IS CONCRETE AND BONES ARE METAL AND WHO EAT REAL PEOPLE, REAL TAXPAYERS FOR DINNER.
I DIGRESS, I AGREE THAT WE HAVE TO REFORM TAXES. CALIFORNIANS ARE QUITE DISILLUSIONED WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCES. YOU SEE IT EVERYDAY ON THE STREET. PEOPLE DRIVING AROUND IN CARS THEY CAN’T AFFORD, WEARING EXPENSIVE CLOTHES AND GUCCI GLASSES WITH BOTOX ALL IN THEIR FOREHEADS, ALL THE WHILE WRITING IT OFF. AS AN EXPENSE BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ASPIRING MODEL… YOU DID ONE PHOTO SHOOT ON A TRADE FOR PICS ARRANGEMENT AND IN THE MEAN TIME HAVE AN UNDER-THE-TABLE PERSONAL ASSISTANT JOB THAT PAYS 3500 DOLLARS A MONTH. JUST AS AN EXAMPLE. BUT WE REAL PEOPLE WOULDN’T HAVE TO THAT IF THE FAKE PEOPLE , AGAIN CORPORATIONS AND BIG BUSINESSES, WERE REQUIRED TO PAY US A LIVING WAGE AND WEREN’T ABLE TO CUT SO MANY TAX CORNERS THEMSELVES.
12/11/09
DEC. 11, 2009-- THE TARP FUND
AS PROMISED, HERE IS THE THE WEBSITE INFORMATION FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT PANEL OF THE TARP FUND.
THE GIST OF IT IS THAT BANKS ARE BEGINNING TO REPAY THEIR LOANS AND THE POWERS-THAT-BE SEEM TO THINK THE FUND HAS OFFSET ECONOMIC PANIC.
I SAY NO IT HASN'T. IT HAS SIMPLY MADE US 'LITTLE PEOPLE' REALIZE THAT WE ARE ON OUR OWN AND WE HAVE TO MAKE IT WORK... IN OTHER WORDS, IT KEEPS US QUIET AND DOCILE. FOR HOW LONG, I'M NOT SO SURE.
PRESIDENT OBAMA STARTED OFF THIS WEEK SAYING HE WAS HE WAS GOING TO END THE TARP FUND, AND EVEN BETTER, IT DIDN'T COST AS MUCH AS THEY THOUGHT. SO HE PLANNED TO REALLOCATE THE FUNDS INTO A JOBS-CREATION PACKAGE.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS QUICKLY RETRACTED, NOT BY THE MAN HIMSELF, BUT BY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. THEY ANNOUNCED THURSDAY THAT THE PROGRAM WILL BE EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER OF 2010.
WHAT THE HELL!
HERE ARE A FEW LINKS TO HELP YOU CATCH UP.
DON'T FORGET TO LISTEN IN TO THE SOAPBOX EVERY FRIDAY, 1-2 P.M. ON CAL STATE LONG BEACH'S GLOBAL RADIO STATION AT KBEACH.ORG.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION EXTENDS TARP DEADLINE
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT REPORT, DEC. 9, 2009
THE GIST OF IT IS THAT BANKS ARE BEGINNING TO REPAY THEIR LOANS AND THE POWERS-THAT-BE SEEM TO THINK THE FUND HAS OFFSET ECONOMIC PANIC.
I SAY NO IT HASN'T. IT HAS SIMPLY MADE US 'LITTLE PEOPLE' REALIZE THAT WE ARE ON OUR OWN AND WE HAVE TO MAKE IT WORK... IN OTHER WORDS, IT KEEPS US QUIET AND DOCILE. FOR HOW LONG, I'M NOT SO SURE.
PRESIDENT OBAMA STARTED OFF THIS WEEK SAYING HE WAS HE WAS GOING TO END THE TARP FUND, AND EVEN BETTER, IT DIDN'T COST AS MUCH AS THEY THOUGHT. SO HE PLANNED TO REALLOCATE THE FUNDS INTO A JOBS-CREATION PACKAGE.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS QUICKLY RETRACTED, NOT BY THE MAN HIMSELF, BUT BY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. THEY ANNOUNCED THURSDAY THAT THE PROGRAM WILL BE EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER OF 2010.
WHAT THE HELL!
HERE ARE A FEW LINKS TO HELP YOU CATCH UP.
DON'T FORGET TO LISTEN IN TO THE SOAPBOX EVERY FRIDAY, 1-2 P.M. ON CAL STATE LONG BEACH'S GLOBAL RADIO STATION AT KBEACH.ORG.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION EXTENDS TARP DEADLINE
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT REPORT, DEC. 9, 2009
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