Day: July 30, 2010

The Economic Engine Of The US

From the VOMITORIUM

It is all so much BS!

We have hear all the attacks on the Prez and his jobs agenda….all the crap about it is small business that creates all the jobs and that small business should be a priority for the Obama admin……you have heard it all…….the Dems are failing the American people by NOT emphasizing small business and the creation of jobs…..

But wait!  The Repubs have a better idea right?

From the AP:

Senate Republicans in the United States blocked a bill to increase small business lending Thursday, dealing a setback to the jobs agenda of President Barack Obama.

The bill would create a $30 billion (U.S.) government fund to help community banks increase lending to small businesses, combining it with about $12 billion in tax breaks. Democrats say banks should be able to use the lending fund to leverage up to $300 billion in loans to small businesses, helping loosen tight credit markets.

Then if small business is the engine of our economy, why would they block a bill to help loosen up credit for the small businesses in this country?  Good question…..

Much of the bill had bipartisan support, but Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Democrats were blocking GOP amendments.

What would those amendments be?  Glad you asked……

GOP amendments included measures to beef up border security, impose a government spending cap and lower the estate tax, which is scheduled to return next year with a top rate of 55 per cent on estates larger than $1 million.

One Republican amendment would repeal a new tax reporting requirement for businesses that was included in the massive health care overhaul enacted last spring.

The amendments have NOTHING to do with small business….if the GOP is so hot for the small businessman then why would they scuttle a bill that would help the businesses and jobs?  It is an easy one to answer……politics…..nothing short of politics…it is NEVER about loosening credit for small business…it is about seeing that the Dems have nothing when it comes election time…..this screwing of small business helps Repubs and does NOTHING to help the American people…..Can you see the game for what it is now?

You want an idea of how the deficit expands so rapidly?  Earmarks!  You know those add-ons to bills…..the pork……what does border security have to do with small business?  What does a spending cap mean when you add on so much new spending?

Special interests and pure gamesmanship and small business is just a pawn in this elaborate game of politics…..

A Sad Day For Vets

Daily Agitator

This is one of the most disgusting stories this year!

Lots have been said about the care of vets and their treatment…..remember the sad condition of the vet hospital in Washington?  Remember the high number of suicides?  Remember the church that protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers?  The list goes on and on….all this is shabby and should be a crime but there is one that I could hardly believe when I first read it………this piece was posted on the Newser website:

It turns out that insurers handling death benefits for American soldiers have got a sweet scam going that enables them to keep profiting from the money even after it is supposedly paid out to families. They tell bereaved relatives that they’ve opened a convenient, interest-bearing account for their money that’s a nice, safe place to keep it and they give them a “checkbook.” But it’s not a normal checkbook, they don’t open individual accounts for each soldier, and they skim off most of the interest the money is making—giving beneficiaries 1% while it’s earning 4%.The military families are getting less than half the interest they would in a normal account, Bloomberg reports. Not only that, the money held in these general corporate accounts at Prudential or MetLife, isn’t insured by the FDIC. Prudential says they make it clear to military families that they can take their money out anytime they want, but an insurance law professor isn’t impressed. “It’s institutionalized bad faith,” he says. “It’s turning death claims into a profit center.”

Read more: http://www.newser.com/story/96760/insurers-rip-off-families-of-fallen-us-soldiers.html#ixzz0v6QzD2fA

Remember the names of the insurance companies….write them and let them know how you feel about their tactics toward the families of fallen soldiers…..this is what capitalism is all about?!  This is just a horrible thing to do to families after their loss.  This is CRIMINAL and these a/holes should be prosecuted and prosecuted hard……As a veteran who lost 9 of my closest friends in war…I find this offensive and unacceptable in all ways….there is a special place in Hell for pricks like these companies!