Salon's Handy-Dandy Guide To Refuting The Birthers

A short break from the(apparently) endless job search.
Salon.com has a nice article up about the "birther" conspiracy theories. These are the same crackpots that show up at the townhalls to shout down ANY public discussion or discourse on health care. Played like puppets by the John Boehners, Rush Limbaughs, health/pharma/insurance corporations, etal.

Salon's handy-dandy guide to refuting the Birthers




















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A Billion Here Or A Billion There

From the(as always) far to rational mind of Left i.

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$25 billion to save (maybe) the American automobile industry? "Unthinkable" according to many, if not most, in Washington and on the airwaves. $57 billion to continue the wars against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan through 2009? Also "unthinkable," although in a different sense of the word. Unthinkable in that no one in Washington (outside of Dennis Kucinich and a handful of others) will give it a second (or even a first) thought. Nor will they give much, if any, thought, to the overall war budget of $581 billion. Challenging that is also "unthinkable."

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If Gates is staying as Sec. of "Defense" then I'm assuming that P.E. Obama feels he has all the time in the world to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember them?

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Nearly 200(And Counting) University Economists Plead With Congress To Bide Their Time On Bailout

And PLEEEZE whatever you do, DON'T listen to President 27%, or that guy(I think he was once a POW) that's running with Sarah Palin, the celebrity Guv.

Here's the economists:

To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate:

As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis. We are well aware of the difficulty of the current financial situation and we agree with the need for bold action to ensure that the financial system continues to function. We see three fatal pitfalls in the currently proposed plan:

1) Its fairness. The plan is a subsidy to investors at taxpayers’ expense. Investors who took risks to earn profits must also bear the losses. Not every business failure carries systemic risk. The government can ensure a well-functioning financial industry, able to make new loans to creditworthy borrowers, without bailing out particular investors and institutions whose choices proved unwise.

2) Its ambiguity. Neither the mission of the new agency nor its oversight are clear. If taxpayers are to buy illiquid and opaque assets from troubled sellers, the terms, occasions, and methods of such purchases must be crystal clear ahead of time and carefully monitored afterwards.

3) Its long-term effects. If the plan is enacted, its effects will be with us for a generation. For all their recent troubles, America's dynamic and innovative private capital markets have brought the nation unparalleled prosperity. Fundamentally weakening those markets in order to calm short-run disruptions is desperately short-sighted.

For these reasons we ask Congress not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action, and to wisely determine the future of the financial industry and the U.S. economy for years to come.

Signed...Link for signatures

Linked.

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