President Obama has a web page The President’s plan to keep your taxes low and reduce the deficit. If we can pass this around so that the measures of social media show strong support for the President, he will be in a much stronger bargaining position. Do not under-estimate your own powers using social media.

Here is the graphic that goes along with the page mentioned above.

Admittedly, this story is not as strong and detailed as some of my other posts. Still, our strongest action might be to let the opponents know that there is some sort of a mandate.

Talking Points Memo has the article Labor Unions Launch Six-Figure Ad Blitz Opposing Spending Cuts To Medicare, Medicaid, Education.

One running theme of deficit reduction negotiations is that both parties support domestic spending cuts in their opening bids — Republicans demand them, and Democrats champion them alongside tax increases for high income earners.

Now a coalition of three labor unions — AFSCME, SEIU and National Education Association — are launching a six-figure ad buy pressuring swing-state Senate Democrats and targeted House Republicans to oppose spending cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and education — three items that neither side has taken off the table in talks about defusing a looming austerity bomb.

Here is one of the items in the ad campaign.

Compare this ad to my previous post Econ (There Is No) Crisis 12 – Deficits & the Debt.

Here is a very interesting video explaining a lot of things about our economic situation. Of course, it goes by too quickly to do any fact checking or analysis of what the author is presenting. However, if the facts and figures are as best as we know how to calculate and estimate, then it provides a lot of data for making the discussion more rational.

This post is expecially dedicated to WayneP. I hope he likes it.

The Real News Network has the video clip Did Anonymous stop Karl Rove from Stealing Ohio again? of the Thom Hartmann program.

If you believe in conspiracies and counter-conspiracies, then this would explain why Mitt Romney was so shocked by his loss and why Karl Rove just knew that the outcome of the Ohio vote would not match what the experts were predicting.

Could there be such a massive conspiracy without some insider eventually spilling the beans?

If this is all true, it shows a way of preventing voter fraud other than lawsuits that could drag on for years. Just out-con the con-men. The FBI and other agencies seem to be able to stop all terror plots in this country by running sting operations and catching the perpetrators in the botched attempt that the agency caused to be botched. If these agencies cannot think to run similar operations to stop voter fraud, then maybe it takes a private enterprise to do the job. What an irony that the Romneys and Roves who always tout private enterprise over government interference could have been stopped by a private enterprise.