The Daily Kos has the article Republican budget cutting nearly halved CDC’s emergency preparedness since 2006.

The Republican fetish with starving government has helped land West Africa in an Ebola crisis.

Do you think there is enough math skill left in the populace for people to still be able to put 2 and 2 together and come up with Republican budget cutting can be lethal?

From the YouTube video Republican Cuts Kill.

‘Republican Cuts Kill,’ which was produced by the Agenda Project Action Fund, mixes disturbing footage of the Ebola outbreak—including images of body bags, hazmat suits, and corpses—with clips of Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Rand Paul, and Republicans in some of the most competitive races around the country demanding more spending cuts. The demand for cuts is juxtaposed against testimony from top CDC and NIH officials detailing how budget cuts substantially hampered their ability to address the crisis.

It was The Daily Kos article Meet the toughest political ad in memory: “Republican Cuts Kill.” that introduced this video to me.

New economic Perspectives has the article We Now Know what Form of Bank Fraud at JPMorgan it Takes to Alarm President Obama by William K. Black.  Here is the key.

So, repeat after me, Jamie Dimon is an FSB agent secretly working for Putin.

Black forgot to add, “and he has Ebola.”

New Economic Perspectives has the article Beware of Policies and Legislation Based on the Generational Accounting Scam.

…the US has policy space to cope with recessions and depressions that many nations, including the nations of the Eurozone don’t have. Passing generational accounting-based legislation will only hamstring the US in using the policy space given us by the Constitution and the Founding Fathers to rebuild a rapidly declining America.

There is so much to do! We must not be prevented from doing it by a network of deficit terrorist fiscal legislation.
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In short, the w of generational accounting-based legislation supporters is not about sweetness, and light, and reasonableness and harmony, and the American people coming together to act “responsibly.” Instead, it is about the kind of noxious bipartisanship that aligns a group of high-placed elites in a conspiracy against what the American people have repeatedly said they really want: full employment and strengthened social safety net programs.
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Real Fiscal Responsibility can only be achieved if we defeat any and all generational accounting-based legislation. We must do that to safeguard the Federal Government fiscal policy space we will need if we’re going to recapture America for the 99% and reduce the growing inequality that austerity in Government spending has created among us.

Please do not foster “bipartisanship” that promotes the agenda of the network of deficit terrorists. This kind of terrorism is much more threatening than anything ISIS can throw our way.

Now for something completely different … (Where have I heard that before?)

If you like the video below, you have a chance to financially support Rick Weiland running to be the U.S. Senator from South Dakota.

Naked Capitalism has the post A Picture Worth 1000 Words: A Sighting from the McJobs Market.

…employers are following the lead of Obama, who last year touted Amazon warehouse jobs that paid below living wage levels as “middle class jobs.” With the President subtly jawboning wage expectations down, why shouldn’t employers see how far they can get with bottom fishing?

….The message from Obama is clear: Americans are now expected to celebrate when companies are willing to pay at or not much above a living wage [for a single person]. As long as you pay enough that the workers don’t wind up having to seek public assistance in the form of food stamps or emergency rooms for medical care, you’ll now be promoted as creating better conditions for Americans. That’s true as long as you remember that the Americans that benefit from this grinding down of ordinary citizens are Obama’s backers and other members of the elite.

So the questions I ask again,

Should we be looking for someone to run for the nomination for President in 2016 from the Democratic party who is  further  to the political right than President Obama?  Are we looking for a next President who will coddle the very oligarchs who want to grind us into the ground?

If you don’t think our next President should be the one I described above, what are you doing to make sure an unreformed Hillary Clinton does not get the nomination?  Do you think you should even bother to tell Hillary that the direction she is going in is not the one we need to be following?

Do you think there will be much middle class left if you wait until 2024 to fight for the type of President that we desperately need?

I’d truly like to get a sense of what progressive people are thinking if they favor Hillary Clinton over Elizabeth Warren.

Salon Magazine has the interview they headline as EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”

Nancy Weinberg posted a link to this article on her Facebook page. One comment on her post was as follows:

Heidi Fox I don’t want her to run for president. We need her in the Senate!

This is the kind of response that drives me up a tree. Here is my response in turn.

Steve Greenberg

According to Elizabeth Warren:
> “We have the opportunity. The moment is upon us.”
> We push back hard enough, we’re pushing for
> America’s agenda. Not an agenda to help a small
> group of people, an agenda to build a future for this
> country. And I believe we win. I believe it.

I sure would like to believe this, but at the moment I am still an agnostic. I am still fighting though.

However, I feel that people who do not want her to challenge Hillary Clinton for the nomination are giving Hillary a free pass to triangulate with the Republicans.

If you just give the nomination away to the Wall Street choice for President, what do you think you will gain from that? Is the fight just over? Or do you think we can start to fight some other time? How bad does it have to get, before you decide it is time to fight?

Do you think we should put any pressure on the Democratic Party to nominate for President someone on the people’s side instead of Wall Street’s side? If you think we should, how exactly do you propose to put on that pressure?

From The Boston Globe comes This Stuff’s in you land.

I don’t know why the people are so easily fooled by industry. Perhaps people are so used to seeing trash in the street they never notice that there are far more non-returnable containers lying around than their are returnable ones.

Do you know what class you are in in the class war currently being waged by the top 1% against the 99%?

You can go to the MoveOn.org page for Robert Reich: A Republican Senate would wage war on working families to sign up for various volunteer activities.

If you had troubles with the first question I posed above, just ask yourself if you think your family is in the working class as opposed to the leisure class.

The Daily Kos has the article Wendy Davis delivers address on Austin’s culture of corruption and Abbott’s role in TEF scandal which features the video below.

Sharon no longer wants to admit that she is from Texas. I feel like I rescued her from the state over 40 years ago. It would be nice if the voters of Texas gave her back the pride of birthplace that everyone would like to have.