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Email from Larry Kalb on State Level
Single-Payer Plans
Currently,
the
The
Washington Health Security Trust (WHST), a single-payer plan for
The upcoming elections (state, and
federal) - are not enough. We must change the culture - run by money -
in Congress and the statehouses. And we can!
If we want ...
·
energy
policy that is good for
·
health
care that is affordable, instead of simply enriching insurance and
pharmaceutical giants
·
an
end to out-of-control federal spending on earmarks and pork projects
If we're tired of banking
bailouts, and want a bailout of American families instead ..
We MUST support public financing
for Congressional campaigns - so that Congress listens to
constituents more than to moneyed special interests who "pay to
play" in the nation's capitol.
Become a citizen lobbyist! Call the offices of Senators
Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and your member of Congress. Urge them
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For information about Fair
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In just a few weeks, a national
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First Pledge -
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member of Congress
to be among the counted!
Ken Dammand: Support
Public Campaign Financing
Published by
The P-I's editorial on health care,
"It's time to rock," makes a concise case for the creation of a
single-payer healthcare system in the U.S. and appealed to delegates at the
Democratic convention to start us moving in that direction.
But even the populist Democratic Party
and its candidates, those most vocally supportive of universal healthcare, are
essentially controlled by corporate sponsors, corporate sponsored debate
forums, and lobbyists that control campaign finances. If elected officials of
any stripe are ever going to be free to remove the insurance industry and
pharmaceutical industry monkey from our backs, we the people must become the
source of those campaign funds.
This can be done. Brave politicians, of both
parties, have sponsored public funding legislation. But they need the backing
of the people because they risk losing the backing of special interests. Give
them that backing by calling Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and your
congressional representative and let them know you support public funding of
election campaigns. The Washington
Public Campaign website makes this
very easy. Go there and do it! And make a small money donation to Washington Public
Campaign's efforts to fight big money corruption. Ken
Dammand
Mikell Goe: Congressman Dave Reichert
is responsible for education woes
Published
by
It feels
like every day I open the newspaper I read a new story about school districts
struggling to pay for fuel for busses, food for students, and salaries for
teachers. Giving every child in this state a good education should be our
number one priority, so why aren’t we getting any relief from D.C.?
My
congressional representative, Dave Reichert, is part of the problem. He voted
for George Bush’s budgets that gutted education spending, and for lots of new
mandates that many districts couldn’t pay for even under good economic
conditions. Now, because of insufficient funds,
Unfunded
mandates from the federal government didn’t do anything but hurt our kids, but
they did let ‘compassionate conservatives’ like George Bush and Dave Reichert
claim they were doing something about this issue. Mikell
Goe
Bert Sacks: Free Press Curtailed at
Published by
In what have been called
"pre-emptive raids," the police surrounded homes and arrested people
who had come to
Many P-I readers enjoy Amy Goodman's
regular column. She was one of those arrested, along with two producers of her
show, Democracy Now! Video of her arrest shows she was clearly wearing her
press badges and shouting "Press!"
Some police officers had no
identification. When asked for their names, one screamed, "Shut up, shut
up!" Pre-emptive raids and press intimidation is a small but dangerous
precedent: It is
News followers will remember early in
the
Other members of the media have been
detained in
Donald A. Smith on Republican
Published by
It's no surprise that embarrassed
Republican candidates are listing "GOP" as their party affiliation on
ballots this election cycle.
What is surprising is that the race for
president is almost a dead heat. Republicans wouldn't stand a chance if the
voters knew and cared about the deliberate and systematic deception by
Republican leaders regarding the
But the Democrats refuse to hold
investigative hearings and the news media give anti-war coverage only when
protests turn violent. Donald A. Smith
Liberals and Democrats
A Call for Democrats To Attack
Michael Conrad notes with approval that, during our Democratic Convention, our
Democratic Leaders were playing offense against Republicans:
“If the electorate is
made aware of just how far outside of the mainstream John McCain is, he is
going to lose... by a lot. But voters aren't going to get to know the
real McCain unless we tell them about him. I thought that we missed an
opportunity to begin to define McCain Version 3.0 on the first day, and a quick
journey through the intertoobz showed that I was not alone.”
"Over the past month or so many Democrats have had the sick feeling
that once again their candidate brought a knife to a gunfight."
82 percent of Americans think our country is moving in the wrong
direction. The Bush-McCain Republicans messed up the country in their first
term, and they messed up the world in their second. If they get a third term,
even the solar system won't be safe.
...
If the
Democrats do not spend the remaining days of their convention -- hell, the
remaining days of the campaign -- in an all-out assault on the ruinous
Bush-McCain policies, they will lose.
Now delegates want a big shift tonight and see the focus from here turn
to a sharp contrast between Barack Obama and John McCain. It seems to me that
many of these delegates here will measure the success of this convention by how
effectively events here put John McCain on the defensive.
“Thankfully, on Tuesday,
we finally showed what we're capable of when we get our act together.”
New York Governor David
Paterson
"If [McCain is] the answer, then the question must be
ridiculous."
Kansas Governor Kathleen
Sebelius
"I'm sure you remember a girl from
Pennsylvania Senator Bob
Casey
"John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with George
Bush more than 90% of the time. That's not a maverick, that's a sidekick."
Pennsylvania Governor Ed
Rendell
"The only thing green in John McCain's energy plan is the billions
of dollars he's promising in tax cuts for oil companies."
Ohio Governor Ted
Strickland
"George W. Bush came into office on third base... and then he stole
second. And John McCain cheered him every step of the way."
Montana Governor Brian
Schweitzer
"If you drilled in all of Senator McCain's backyards... even the
ones he doesn't know he has... that single proposition is a dry well."
New York Senator Hillary
Clinton
"With an agenda like that, it makes sense that George Bush and John
McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities. Because these days
they're awfully hard to tell apart."
The Gallup Poll Daily Tracking Poll shows Barack Obama ahead by 8 points
after the Convention.
Republican Leadership Deficit – Sarah Palin
I’ve already commented
on John McCain’s schizophrenic campaign, trying to convince
Republicans that he is a loyalist to Bush’s conservative agenda and trying to
convince everyone else that he is an independent maverick. McCain’s choice of consistently
conservative Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate McCain demonstrates that he is a Bush
loyalist. Alaska Republicans have mixed reactions. The rigidly conservative Republican platform
and choice of rigidly conservative Sarah Palin limits John McCain’s appeal to Independents.
I also commented on the great breadth of Democratic leadership. There are dozens, perhaps over a hundred
Democratic leaders with more experience to be president than Sarah Palin. Unlike the Democrats, Republican presidential
candidates have frequently chosen unknown and unqualified vice presidential
candidates. Remember William
Miller. Spiro Agnew. Dan Quayle.
See all the presidential and vice presidential candidates. And notice that the Republicans didn’t have a
presidential candidate which appealed to most Republicans. Although this was difficult, owing to the
fracturing of the various types of Conservatives: Traditional Conservatives,
Libertarians, Christian Conservatives and New Conservatives.
Commercial media pundits
try to find rational arguments for candidate’s actions. It’s possible that like Bush looking into
Russian President Putin’s eyes, many of John McCain’s choices are impetuous choices, based only on his
notions of the moment. We’ve had eight
years of an impetuous stubborn decider-in-chief. We don’t need another four. More about John McCain.
In 2006, Sarah Palin
answered a policy questionnaire: Are you offended by the phrase ‘Under God’ in
the pledge of Allegiance? Why or why
not? Palin answered “Not on your
life. If it was good enough for the
founding fathers, it’s good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our
Pledge of Allegiance.” The Pledge was
written in 1892. It was not made the
official pledge until 1942. The word’s
‘Under God’ were not included until 1954.
Obviously, none of our founding fathers ever knew of our Pledge, without
or with the phrase ‘Under God’.
Contrary to Republican
lies, in 2006, Sarah Palin supported the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before it became a
national joke. For more. Cindy McCain says that Sarah Palin understands foreign policy, since
John McCain criticized
Barack Obama for not having visited
Our Democrats and
Republicans agree that a candidate’s family members should not be considered
relevant to the candidate’s election, unless the family member becomes
politically involved. In their incessant
search for drama, our commercial media pundits will publicize family members
anyway. Expect to receive many more similar insights into Sarah Palin’s political positions, experience and relatives. For more. For more. Sarah Palin is a GOPAC graduate. [Progressive
Majority is the Liberal version of GOPAC.]
The Republicans are striking back against the media. Better that than having them attack the
Democrats.
Sarah Palin delivered
well a speech which defined her as representing small town experiences and
values, extolled John McCain as a capable Conservative candidate for change,
attacked Barack Obama for his liberal values and lack of accomplishments, and
attacked the media for treating Republicans unfairly. She endeared herself to the Republican base;
but the Republican base isn’t large enough to elect McCain and her. As Obama spokesman pointed out, the
Republican Convention has given almost no attention to our hurtful economy and
what their solutions would be.
Republican
Un-Convention
Hurricane Gustav may
have given the Republicans an excuse for conducting an embarrassingly insipid
convention, especially by comparison with last week’s Democratic
Convention. 25% of all American
households watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. Unpopular President Bush only spoke from afar
for 15 minutes. Vice President Cheney
didn’t speak at all. Partly because the
Republicans have few popular leaders and fewer still who are willing to be
closely identified with the Republican Party, few Republican leaders spoke. Unlike the many Democratic leaders who spoke
at the Democratic Convention.
Many Republican
candidates and office holders seeking to distance themselves from the infamous
‘Republican’ brand planned to avoid the convention, including
Various Republican
speakers and Joe Lieberman emphasized that being Americans is more important than being Republicans or Democrats. Barack Obama said that in his key 2004 note
address. Various speakers emphasized the
importance of service to our country.
Remember that unlike most of our Democratic Leaders, most Republican
Leaders never served in our military.
Notice that many Republicans are now serving in prison.
Republican speakers
promoted compassion. But they oppose
using our government to express our compassion.
Notice that Republicans have opposed raising the minimum wage, opposed
Head Start, opposed public health care coverage for children, opposed funds for
education and college loans, opposed ‘socialized’ Medicare and Social
Security. They would restrict compassion
to voluntary contributions, which don’t begin to provide an adequate safety
net. The Republican platform is the most
consistently Conservative platform yet. Unlike Republicans, Democrats are the party of compassion.
In the 2004 conventions,
Democrats scarcely attacked President Bush and the Republicans. Instead they extolled John Kerry. The Republicans fiercely attacked John Kerry
both during their convention and in their ads afterward. The Republicans won the election.
This year, our Democrats
attacked the President Bush and John McCain, repeated referring to John McCain
seeking a third Bush term. And
surprisingly, the Republicans did little attacking of Barack Obama. Partly because he has offered very little
target. Republicans did repeat their
usual lies about Obama and the Democrats raising taxes and creating big
government. Contrary to their record,
the Republicans tell us that they seek small fiscally responsible government,
oriented to public instead of private interests. I will be surprised if the Republicans
receive any bounce from their convention.
Republicans have
attempted to create a country where everyone is on their own. They have created a political situation in
which each of their candidates is on their own.
In two months, they face enormous losses.
Basic
American Freedoms are Suppressed At Republican Convention
A free press is supposed to be a cornerstone of our democracy.
But journalists are being arrested at the Republican National Convention in
Amazingly, this story has been virtually ignored by the
mainstream press. The cable channels are providing extensive coverage of events
related to the Republican National Convention, but there has been a virtual
news blackout on the arrest of Amy Goodman and the "Democracy Now"
team.
Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for
trying to do their jobs. We must demand that CNN and MSNBC include this story
in their coverage of the RNC.
Click here to e-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein
and NBC News President Steve Capus to demand coverage of this brutally
important story.
Kate Stayman-London, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working
Assets For more.
Liberals Should
Promote Small Businesses
I have never understood
why Liberals have often forfeited the support of small businesses to
Conservatives. Small businesses are
often at the mercy of overly competitive markets. They are also subject to unfunded mandates
imposed by Liberals. We should instead
be supporting them for their ability to initiate new ideas, products and
services. And their ability to provide
services with sensitivity to their customers, community and environment. While they can be abusive of their workers,
customers and environment, much of their abuse may result from having too few
resources.
Besides producing jobs
to enhance our social and physical infrastructure and producing green jobs,
Liberals should assist small businesses by replacing our job (FICA) tax,
providing universal government funded health coverage, providing tax rebates to
fund presently unfunded mandates (such as family leave and retaining jobs for
workers called for national guard service), and other measures.
Notice that more
families have a small business involvement than a labor union involvement. We need to earn the support of both labor
unions and small businesses. For more.
Here’s the Beef
The
Gallup Poll Daily Tracking Poll shows Barack Obama ahead by 8 points after the
Convention.
Mountain
West States are turning blue.
Northeastern
Republicans are an endangered species.
Democrats
are on the road to 60 Senators.
Barack Obama must overcome racism
among older white voters (encouraged by Conservatives).
Democratic Convention speeches.
Barack Obama’s
acceptance speech (video).
Was
Obama’s speech an presentation of Liberal principles to America?
Jim Hightower
comments on Barack Obama’s advisors and future cabinet members.
David
Sirota says Democratic Wing of our Democratic Party has won over the corporate
wing.
Democrats
will empower unions.
AFL-CIO has created
Working American, a 2.5 million member on-line organization.
Ralph Nader argues
both Democrats and Republicans are ignoring our poor.
Presidential
candidates aren’t telling voters how severe our economic crisis is.
Need to eliminate all
nuclear weapons is ignored by Democrats and Republicans.
Robert
Kuttner says Liberals must not depend on Obama, but must support Liberal
proposals (video).
United
Steelworkers International President Leo Gerard praises Barack Obama and Joe
Biden.
While
campaigning in Ohio, Barack Obama says he’ll go to Alaska, the only state he
hasn’t visited.
A peek inside
Barack Obama’s grass roots campaign.
Sen.
Lindsey Graham says Obama Missed too many votes. Obama missed 46%. McCain missed 64%.
John McCain says
something. Then denies he said it. Again and again and again. (Video)
Could the
Georgia-Russian War be a Neo-Conservative election ploy?
Are
the Republicans trying to provoke violent protests of their convention? Or present the image?
Endorsements
for General Election Candidates
Tim Eyman’s Initiatives - August 29, 2008, September
5, 2008
Due to
Since 1998, Tim Eyeman has proposed 13 initiatives
and 1 referendum. Five have failed to
qualify for ballot. Two were defeated by
the voters. Seven have been passed by
voters. Of these that passed, three were
declared unconstitutional. One which was
declared unconstitutional was passed by a special session of the Democratically
controlled legislature. For more.
Apprenticeship and
Blue Collar Job Training Websites
· Washington Department of Labor and Industry Apprenticeship Information
· Seattle King County Building and Construction Trades Council
· Western Washington Cement Masons Apprenticeship
· Construction Industry Training Council
· Sisters in the Building Trades
· Edmonds Community College Construction Industry Training
· Green Industrial, Business and Career Expo
Marking the largest
change in California land use laws in a generation, the California
legislature has approved SB
375,
a bill which promotes both affordable housing and less sprawl in the
state. In a coalition as landmark as the legislation itself, affordable
housing advocates, the building industry, environmentalists, and local
governments came together to endorse legislation that will encourage more
compact development along transit corridors. The legislation's key
feature is to integrate what are now three separate planning processes --
regional development, affordable housing and transit development -- into a
synchronized system. This is considered a critical step in achieving
Key Features of SB 375 include:
·
Transportation and planning:
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) will set regional greenhouse gas
reduction targets, which will then be incorporated into each region's Regional
Transportation Plan (RTP).
·
Housing Planning: Local
jurisdictions' share of regional affordable housing will become aligned with
the land use plan.
·
Anti-Sprawl Incentives: New
developments that follow transportation planning needs will get quicker
approval under state environmental review systems. Local governments will
also have regulatory and other incentives to encourage more compact new
development and transportation alternatives.
The bill was supported by the California
League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) and the Natural
Resources Defense Council
(NRDC) who were elated over passage and have now turned their attention to
Governor Schwarzenegger, who must sign the bill for it to be enacted. Tom
Adams, CLCV Board President, said "SB 375 is not just another example of
California's SB 375 is building on
a range
of smart policies,
from inclusionary zoning to financial incentives for higher density
communities, in order to better coordinate state planning and local municipal
zoning while also promoting more affordable housing and smarter, more
environmentally sustainable growth in California. More
Resources Tell
a Friend About This
Here’s the Beef
See who’s filing to run for Washington state and federal offices.
Our 2002
Personnel System Reform Act and Governor Christine Gregoire produce top
management.
At
Democratic convention, Governor Christine Gregoire promotes green jobs (video).
Super size offshore
(Washington) wind turbines may be cost competitive.
Whatcom County bus
ridership increases 20% in one year, a national record.
Community Land Trust makes
houses permanently affordable. For more.
Seattle
Initiative battle will occur concerning fees for using plastic bags.
Two
Washington Counties have a Hispanic Majority.
Democrats are trying to get out the vote (audio).
Nation
and World
Economic Bubbles Are Fueled by Institutional Greed.
Suppose that you are a real
estate salesman, an real estate agency manager, a real estate appraiser, a bank
or other lending agency employee in charge of approving loans. You notice that your rivals and colleagues
are making more money by cutting corners: filling out fraudulent loan
applications, lying to borrowers, falsely assessing real estate to be worth
more, approving unsubstantiated risky loans, and more.
Similarly, suppose you are faced
with the temptation to repackage the loans deceptively, to sell the resulting securities
deceptively, or to loan money to those who buy the insecure securities. Suppose you resist the temptations for a
while, but as the bubble builds, the pressure builds to get involved or lose
your position. The pressure originates
with the desire of pension, mutual and hedge funds and various banking and
non-banking financial agencies to maximize their profits, often legally
required.
Even if you realize you are
becoming involved in a bubble, you believe you can get out before it
crashes.
The resulting bubble in crash is
partly due to infections greed and a rationalized irrational exuberance. But it is driven more by market competition
driven by institutional greed. If you
refuse to be irrationally greedy, to cut corners, you lose the competition. Others take over to drive the bubble.
Perhaps many of us have been
faced with a situation which pushed us to cut corners to succeed. It would be interesting to know what
proportion of us never succumb, succumb only after many efforts to play it straight,
succumb after only a few efforts, and succumb quickly and eagerly. In any event, it is sobering to notice that
our individual abilities to resist temptation play little role in the outcome.
Here’s the Beef
Fact Check provides analysis of claims of
Barack Obama, John McCain and others.
Are many of us afraid to
express our opinions?
Given
their failure, would we be better off if our commercial media go out of
business?
Bush’s
foreign policy arrogance followed by incompetence has led to impotence.
Unlike
in China, Indian land owners can stop building of infrastructure and factories.
Iraq
signs oil deal with China.
Increased
fuel prices hurt rural residents the most.
$3 a gallon
gas price may be level which stimulates attempts to use less gas.
Four
day work weeks saves commuting and heating fuel.
High
gasoline prices stimulate restraining automobiles from dominating our roadways.
California
bill attacks urban sprawl.
California
Insurance Commissioner supports pay as you drive auto insurance.
Can
we really use less energy in few person households? Should more people share energy use?
Is
purchasing carbon offsets justifiable?
Energy conservation is faster, easier and cleaner than
developing and implementing non-carbon fuels.
Artic
ice reduction may be reaching tipping point when global warming accelerates.
Amazon
Deforestation is increasing.
New Ecuador
constitution grants inalienable rights to nature.
Focus upon settling
chronically homeless persons into permanent housing is succeeding.
Troubled
financial companies can’t find buyers for their assets even at fire-sale
prices.
$1.5 trillion equals $5,000
for each American.
Schools are
receiving more low income and homeless students.
Equal Voices Campaign
presents a
bottom-up campaign to express concerns of low income families.
Our Liberal Spirit
Replacing Useless Work with
Useful Work
Many
of us are frenetically busy. We have
lots we want to get done now, soon, this year, during our lifetime. In our modern age, there are more
possibilities. They stretch our minds
and our dreams. We may want it all. But how much of what we do leads to any worthwhile
result, either externally or internally.
How much of it produces something useful? How much of it provides us great experiences,
memories, or growth? How much of it even
satisfies us while we do it or with the outcome. Looking back over my life, I find that most
of the many activities in which I passionately participated didn’t produce
anything useful, beyond my own experience.
How about you?
In
an earlier commentary, I suggested that we could often understand our economy
and needed changes, but examining what people are doing without emphasizing
what was motivating them (especially the money). Let’s imagine that we could motivate people
to quit doing many activities that aren’t useful: financial workers shifting
money around, health workers determining who is eligible for what, farmers,
workers, business managers doing unhelpful and destructive things because they
can be financially rewarded.
Like
someone trying to downsize a company, let us imagine downsizing our country to
eliminate non-useful jobs. Then imagine
upsizing our country with new more useful jobs: creating and maintaining our
physical and social infrastructure, caring for each other (family members,
neighbors, and strangers), and what else?
Do you doubt that we could find enough useful jobs to hire all those who
are now doing non-useful jobs? If we
eliminated the unfairly high amounts that some workers now earn, we might be
able to pay most of us more to do our new jobs.
Something to think about.
Recommended Books –
See our list of books for
liberals
Robert E. Rubin and Jacob
Weisberg, 2003, In an Uncertain World
This autobiography
portrays a life of a Wall Street executive who served in
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