$136 BILLION FOR STORMS IN 2012 = CLIMATE CHANGE

February 16, 2014 by concisepolitics

$136,493,OOO,OOO = MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS PAID FOR STORMS IN 2012 = CLIMATE CHANGE

$1.36 TRILLION = COST OF STORMS OVER 10 YEARS = BUT $ZERO ON STOPPING THEM

DOTS CONNECTED = BURNING FOSIL FUEL = CLIMATE CHANGE

THE STORMS = BANKRUPTING THE MIDDLE CLASS = CHRISTIE SLUSH FUNDS

CANADIAN OIL SHARE = DIRTIEST IN WORLD = KEYSTONE TO EXTINCTION = SHIP DIRTIEST OIL IN WORLD ACROSS AMERICA

FRACKING = MAN-MADE EARTHQUAKES + GROUNDWATER POLLUTION

FRACKING = MORE FOSSIL FUEL POLLUTION

Climate Change Threatens The Nation with Water Shortages and Hurricanes

Diminished Water = Needed by People and Agricultural

California = Worst drought in more than 100 years = Gov. Brown declared a drought emergency on Jan. 17, 2014.

US Budget = $1 billion “climate resilience fund” for research on new technologies

GOP House Voted = Halt restoration of a dried-up stretch of San Joaquin River and restore historic salmon runs so Farmers have water diverted to their crops = Environmentalists and Democrats oppose the bill, and Obama threatened a veto

California’s 2 Democratic senators proposed $300 Million into emergency aid for drought relief projects, upgrade city water systems and water conservation and speed up environmental reviews of water projects.

DOTS CONNECT = BURNING FOSIL FUEL = CLIMATE CHANGE

CLICK FOR SOURCE ARTICLE Center for American Progress

GOP = CLIMATE SEEMS MORE STABLE THAN EVER

LIKE GOD = GOP SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD

GOP = VISIT THE ISLANDS (LIKE NYC) AND GET THAT SINKING FEELING!

BUT GOP = CAN NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE A KILLING ON GREEN!

BAGGERS FOR BILLIONAIRES = NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THAT ONE!

February 16, 2014 by concisepolitics

BAGGERS FOR BILLIONAIRES = NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THAT!

“What’s the Matter With Kansas?” published 2004 = The Right had momentum and fiery self-righteousness for a stupid and barbaric philosophy = by THOMAS FRANK

Tea Party = SAME GOP 1% = BAGGERS FOR BILLIONAIRES = NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THAT!

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback right-wing henchmen = inflicted a stinging defeat on the moderate wing of the GOP = the traditional Republican weapon of massive tax cuts.

Brownback = Deliver lasting damage to the state’s public schools + harassment of abortion providers + Tough for people to vote = Wreckage Kansas now OPEN FOR BUSINESS UNDER the loving mercantile gaze of a “BIG GOD.”

BROWNBACK REFUSES MEDICAID EXPANSION = LIES

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Democrats = believe demographics alone will defeat the GOP = Fantasy

DEMS = Big thinkers of the Democratic Party conclude they can safely ignore WORKING CLASS using the MINORITY VOTER GROWTH + “millennials”

DEMS = Members of president’s cabinet = Meritocratic NEOLIBERAL believers = Openly in love with professional ELITISTS = more than ideology = awful story of “The Best and the Brightest” = EXTREME CENTRISM

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Last 40 years = conservatives invented conspiracy theories + Democrats did nothing while their pals in organized labor were clubbed into the ground

DEMS = Leaped to pass NAFTA + Repeal Glass-Steagall + LEGALIZE DERIVATIVES = Deindustrialization Rust Belt + WHITE COLLAR FRAUD AND WELFARE + Depopulation of the Great Plains = Inequality grows worse and worse every year

DEMS = Left working-class voters with nowhere else to go = RIGHT MOVEMENT

DEMS = Decades of moderating + Capitulating + Triangulating themselves into CORP CONTROL = Clintonism for fundraising

DEMS = ZERO appeal to working-class voters BUSH electoral disasters = Capitulations like Al Gore’s in 2000 = political poison = DEMS REFUSED TO MOVE LEFT = MONEY TOO GOOD FROM RICH = Friends with Big Finance + FILL Big Prisons

DEMS = Big thinkers of the Democratic Party conclude they can safely ignore Working-Class I described using the MINORITY VOTER GROWTH + “millennials” = unstoppable army at their back

DEMS = See no need to win back working-class voters or solve wrenching economic problems = No need to lift a finger but sit back and enjoy the demographic forces = KRUGMAN saying after the 2012 election, “Who cares what’s the matter with Kansas?”

Wheezing Democratic Party smug fantasy of demographic triumph will take them the way of all the other smug mechanical dreams = A DEEP DROP into DIRECTIONLESS irrelevance!

INEQUALITY and AMERICAN ANGER = Economic Populism = DEFEAT GOP

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Notorious “Summer of Mercy” in 1991 = Beginning of Kansas’s long march Right

Operation Rescue = chose Wichita as the place to make its stand = NOT in the South.

The right ate its way through the good sense of the nation = nation’s big right turn

RIGHT MOVEMENT = made the folkways of ordinary Americans into a kind of a cult

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Economic policies brought catastrophic harm to Americans

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Philosophy = Foe of ATATE was RULED BUSH DISASTER

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Common-man-hailing populism that Raised up an economic elite

RIGHT MOVEMENT = A Spectacle = A Circus of Delusion, Deceit, Devotion Disaster!

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Built out its culture of endless grievance = Gingrich 1994 + Fox

RIGHT MOVEMENT = GW Bush ascended the throne = Serious social movement

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Triumphs were preposterous = hold up a mirror and show this country the deep ironies

Kansas 1999 newspapers reported nasty dispute over the right way to teach evolution.

Kansas = BUSH revolt = most fatuous journalistic conceit of RED VERSUS BLUE = great fake showdown of all-American authenticity and highbrow liberal phoniness.

Kansas = HURT during GOP 30+ Years of BIG BUSINESS neoliberal decades = But KANSANS sign up MORE OF THESE BOSSES – WHY?

“What’s the Matter With Kansas?” published 2004 = The Right had momentum and fiery self-righteousness for a stupid and barbaric philosophy

Liberals = weak and anxious to compromise = even though they were often in the right.

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Began 1970s = NEVER served average people well = BUT THEY VOTED FOR MORE privatizing and deregulating Republicans as their situation grew worse.

WHY did people getting the shaft from the GOP have such trouble seeing it that way?

7th year of the GREAT BUSH Slump from Hell = TOP O.OOO13%‘s ugly SHIPPING OF JOBS TO SLAVE LABOR ASIA and deindustrialization of the Midwest and depopulation in farm country = the dilapidation of small-town America

Early 2000‘s America coming off a TECH economic boom with THE MARKET = GOD

Midwest = Historically Famous for its hard-times uprisings.

People were angry NOW = But not at the forces that were tearing their world apart = destruction triggered a reaction = Discontent pulls farther to the right.

Kansans = Who lose their jobs, land, or life savings head out to become registered GOP and protest abortion clinics and/or join the John Birch Society.

Kansans = Ask about remedies their ancestors push for unions, antitrust, public ownership = THEY PUMP TO FAR RIGHT TALKING POINTS

Deregulated banks = 2008 Financial Crisis = More deregulation calls = GOP HOUSE

Kansas GOP political battles are about class = social status

ESTABLISHMENT GOP = lawyers, newspaper publishers, professionals

TeaParty GOP = Blue-collar suburbs and humbler jobs

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Descendents of the Populists were in rebellion = furious at “elitists” demanding more power for the ELITISTS = Reverse French Revolution

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Demanding more power for the aristocracy = FULL BLOWN proletarian movement in which hard-working average citizen angry at upper-class wanted the UPPER-CLASS TO HAVE MORE POWER.

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Social Grievances = Hate ELITISTS + Hollywood + GOV+ scientists = part of everyday life = BUT WANTING TO GIVE THEM MORE POWER!

GOP = Gets WHlTE-WORKING CLASS VOTES with Disastrous Results for them

GOP mentally = Off-limits due to blatant contradictions between their populist rhetoric and their rich-enriching policy deeds.

GOP = Talks proletarian righteousness constantly = Sentimental way but for HARD CORE anger-stirring culture-war clichés = The Koch Brothers conservative bull CHIOT

RIGHT MOVEMENT = Secretly LOVES AND SUPPORTS RULE by professional ELITISTS = THEY claim to HATE

FACT: INEQUALITY = TRUMPS THE GOP AND MULTINATIONAL DEMOCRATS!

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CORKER (R-TN) = LIES AND LIES SOME MORE TO STOP UNION

February 15, 2014 by concisepolitics

GOP + CORKER = Outside interference IN VOLKSWAGEN PLANT UNION VOTE!

UAW LOST 626 TO 712 vote against UNION = jaw-dropping in unopposed campaign

CORKER (R-TN) = LIES AND LIES SOME MORE TO STOP UNION

GOP LIES = NO future state subsidies + SUV PLANT LIE + NO ONE WILL MOVE TO TN!

Volkswagen = signed 22-page neutrality agreement pledging not to interfere in election

Factors = GOP Outside interference and THREATS + PRESSURE by supervisors.

GOP public anti-union threats by right-wing politicians:

Tennessee’s Governor Haslam (R) = “I think that there are some ramifications to the vote in terms of our ability to attract other suppliers. When we recruit other companies, that comes up every time.”

Haslam (R) = “When the governor made his comments, we saw some movement at that time”

— Williams, UAW – announced it was exploring legal options and might petition the National Labor Relations Board to order a new election because of the threats issued by Corker, the governor and the leaders of the Tennessee State House and Senate.

Haslam (R) + CORKER (R) = ARE Blamed for loss due to GOP public anti-union threats

Haslam (R) + CORKER (R) = UAW President Bob King informed reporters, “We’re also outraged by the outside interference in this election. Never before in this country have we seen a U.S. senator, a governor and a leader of the Legislature threaten the company with incentives and threaten workers with a loss of product. That’s outrageous.”

GOP HOUSE AND SENATE 2 days before Election = suggested that Volkswagen might not receive future state subsidies if the plant unionized.

Corker (R-Tenn.) = pledged not to comment publicly about the ongoing election

Corker (R-Tenn.) = “I’ve had conversations today and based on those am assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new mid-size SUV here in Chattanooga.”

Volkswagen Chattanooga Chairman CALLED Corker A LIAR = union election would have no effect on the SUV decision

Corker (R-Tenn.) = DOUBLED DOWN = “Believe me, the decisions regarding the Volkswagen expansion are not being made by anyone in management at the Chattanooga plant…”

Corker (R-Tenn.) = “After all these years and my involvement with Volkswagen, I would not have made the statement I made yesterday without being confident it was true and factual.”

Corker (R-Tenn.) = “When Sen. Corker said he was not going to be involved and then he came back from Washington, D.C., we had a feeling that something was happening. Forty-three votes was the difference, so it’s very disturbing when this happens in the United States of America when a company and a union come together and have a fair election process.”

Corker (R-Tenn.) = Threats issued by Corker and GOV

Corker (R-Tenn.) = Burton’s argument = mirror Corker = “It’s not about union or anti-union, it’s about the way the UAW conducts business.”

GOP = Threats of workers losing their jobs by POLITICIANS is unusual.

MID MGT + Low-level supervisors not eligible for the union ignored the directive and actively opposed the UNION = wearing “Vote No” T-shirts in the days leading up to the union election = “The salaried people stood out front every day this past week with [anti-UAW] shirts on, and I truly believe they swayed the votes their way.”

“What the UAW is offering, we can already do without them. We were only given one choice [of a union]. When you are only given one choice, it’s BS. It would be nice if we had a union that came in here and forthright said, “Here is what we can offer.”

— Worker Burton

UAW President Bob King responded, “Our philosophy is, we want to work in partnership with companies to succeed. Nobody has more at stake in the long-term success of the company than the workers on the shop floor, both blue collar and white collar. With every company that we work with, we’re concerned about competitiveness.”

Neutrality agreement hampered UAW’s ability = barred UAW from holding one-on-one meetings with workers at their homes except at the worker’s express request = shocked some + difficulties in getting the UAW to engage the broader Chattanooga community despite the UAW being continually blasted on local talk radio, newspapers and billboards = Community activists said they had a hard time finding ways to coordinate solidarity efforts with the UAW = “There’s no way to win in the South without everyone that supports you fighting with you. Because the South is one giant anti-union campaign.”

But for one Southern man, progress still feels achievable. “I’m a stubborn man,” says Cliett. “Some are talking about quitting. I will be walking into the plant on Monday with my head held high and preaching the message of solidarity.”