The uber-rich profited as we got into our current economic mess. Having them now pay more in taxes will hopefully buy us time until other actions we take allow our economy to recover. Unfortunately, our economic answers are not simple. Even if we were to take all of the money income of the rich, it would not be enough to repay our national debt. Our goal must work to restore our working-class to the middle-class as it is they that have driven our economy when it was at its best.

What originally got us into this mess was the outsourcing of industry & jobs for short-term financial gain (though well-meaning NIMBYs passing environmental laws that moved “first-world” industrial pollution abroad where it is hardly regulated was of no help). As time went on, the gains of outsourcing became unsustainable because the jobs that create financial liquidity were no longer in the U.S. As money dried up, financial institutions (including government insured banks) began to use over-leveraged schemes in an attempt to maintain yields. Institutions knew such investments would inevitably fail so they also engaged in repackaging, misrepresenting, insuring & selling their investments before they failed. Of course eventually the music stopped and the piper became due. The threat that many of our major financial institutions would immediately fail only made matters worse. In its panic, our government spent horrendous amounts of borrowed money bailing out the very people involved in creating the crisis instead of on those innocently impacted.

We have since begun an era of actions that we hope will eventually lead towards economic recovery. While getting us to this goal will inevitably involve compromises we might prefer not to make, we should not allow lobbyist influenced politicians to balance our budget on vulnerable innocents such as by reducing COLAs for aged/disabled Social Security beneficiaries. Neither should we allow money influenced politicians to inoculate the rich from the pain of our country's current economic upheaval, especially since it was their greed that was much of the cause. Call, fax, & write to the President & your congresspersons & let them know how you feel.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
and/or
http://www.congress.org/

Bob Lutz Gets His
Electric Truck

24.0pt">VIA Motors - Heavy Duty Electric Trucks at NAIAS 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=g-D2LKg57r0&NR=1

VIA's eREV
Powertrain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=DmZUYpoFwhk&feature=endscreen

VIA Motors

http://www.viamotors.com/

Jay Leno's Garage:
Via Motors VTRUX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5STy6HRZEQ&feature=related

This is a full
size pickup truck, SUV, VAN that gets better gas mileage than a Toyota Prius
and also has 40 mile all electric range that you can not get with the Toyota
Prius. This is because the Toyota
Prius is parallel hybrid with a small 12 to 15 horse power electric motor and
drives the wheels in parallel/tandem with approximately 100 horse power gas
engine. The Via Motors product is a serial plug in hybrid with only the 402
horse power electric motor driving the wheels and the approximately 200 horse
power gas engine drives the generator only when needed. This is why a full size
pickup with much greater weight and inferior aero dynamics can be more fuel
efficient than a Toyota
Prius that is why parallel hybrid is the inferior design for a hybrid.

This product from
VIA Motors is a much better choice for a work vehicle for companies and people
than what is currently available. For 100,000 miles a conventional full size
pickup would cost $25,000 to operate versus $3,000 for VIA Motors product.

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SALVATION ARMY IS A FAR-RIGHT EVANGELICAL CHURCH

The Salvation Army is anti-gay and actively lobbies against pro-gay legislation in the US and abroad (I provide lots of evidence for this below). The money you put in that red can is going to anti-gay evangelical Christian lobbyists. They believe that since they’re a “church” they have the right to not hire gay people because we’re sinners. Great, well this sinner gives his money to real charities this holiday seasons, and not to anti-gay evangelical churches who lobby the White House and foreign governments to take our rights away. Much more background on the Salvation Army’s history of anti-gay bigotry here.

GIVE THE SALVATION ARMY THESE VOUCHERS INSTEAD

The pro-gay religious group Soulforce has made vouchers available that you can drop in the Salvation Army drop boxes instead of cash. salavation army vouchers anti-gay

Your Special Christmas Gift!

Note: Stephanie Miller and Bill Press have offered an explanation and an apology for supporting the Salvation Army. They explained that Current TV had asked them to participate in a fundraising competition to benefit the group. Stephanie admitted that she hadn't done her research and called herself a "bad gay." They have both pledged to drop the Salvation Army sponsorship and donate all funds already raised to the Trevor Project. Listen to the audio.

The Vulture in the wild performs an important ecological
function by scavenging.

I prefer the term Parasite Capitalism as it refers more
accurately what Mitt Romney did at Bain Capital.

The Parasite Capitalist regards if the host/victim sickens
and dies as “icing on the cake”.

As the Parasite Capitalist knows that they have taken all
they can take from the host/victim.

Parasite Capitalism only benefits the Parasite Capitalist it
is a liability to the rest of society it is not Classical Capitalism that can benefit majority of society.

However, there is no one running in the 14th district or the 20th district (pre-redistricting map). I don't know if the station's signal can even reach Fresno, but maybe this board can be seen by people in the current 20th district. Some districts are under- and non-represented while a handful of districts have a competitive amount of viable candidates.

Since no one has mentioned this yet, I thought this might be a good place to bring up this topic.

I felt the
chairman of CARB claiming to expert on Hydrogen fueled cars
shown himself to be either incompetent or cynical complicity with
the Auto industry and Oil industry. A statistical survey like John Hopkins did for the war in Iraq would show
the death and crippling caused by dropping the Zero Emission Mandate.

The
Hydrogen Fuel Car was a red herring to Kill the Electric Car but also
Killed the Hydrogen Car because internal combustion Hydrogen fueled
Car can be done without additional cost of $200,000 of
a Fuel Cell on a Car. On CBC in the 1978 Jack
Nicholson was demonstrating a conversion of internal combustion
car with the Hydrogen being produced by electrolysis using Photo Voltaic Solar Cells.

Bob Lutz Gets HisElectric Truck