Republicans are not ethical

[Dick McManus]

Republicans are not ethical

Republicans are demanding major cuts in a nutrition program for low-
income women and children. The appropriation bill the House passed
June 16 would deny benefits to more than 700,000 eligible low-income
women and young children next year.

What kind of country are we living in?
More than one in three families with young children is now living in
poverty (37 percent, to be exact) according to a recent analysis of
Census data by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market
Studies. That’s the highest percent on record. The Agriculture
Department says nearly one in four young children (23.6) lives in a
family that had difficulty affording sufficient food at some point
last year.

Congressional Republicans want to reduce the federal contribution to
Medicaid by $771 billion over next decade and shift more costs to
states and low-income Americans.

Meanwhile the size of America’s school-age population keeps growing
notwithstanding. Between now and 2015, an additional 2 million kids
are expected to show up in our schools.

The congressional super-committee charged with coming up with $1.5
trillion of cuts eight weeks from now.

Marginal tax rates should be raised at the top, and more tax brackets
should be added for incomes over $500,000, over $1,500,000, over $5
million. The capital gains tax should be as high as that on ordinary
income.
Wealth over $7.2 million should be subject to a 2 percent surtax.
After all, the top one half of 1 percent now owns over 28 percent of
the nation's total wealth. Such a tax on them would yield $70 billion
a year. According to an analysis by Yale’s Bruce Ackerman and Anne
Alstott, that would generate at least half of $1.5 trillion deficit-
reduction target over ten years set for the supercommittee.

Another way to raise money would be through a tiny tax (one-half of
one percent) tax on financial transactions. This would generate $200
billion a year, and hardly disturb Wall Street's casino at all. (The
European Commission is about to unveil such a tax there.)
By Robert Reich
http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/7654-the-moral-question




The issue is not Due-Process-Free Assassinations, it is Obama is an
accessory after the fact to war crimes

Soon after his election, various military and political figures
reported that Obama reportedly promised Bush officials in private that
no one would be investigated or prosecuted for torture. In his first
year, Obama made good on that promise, announcing that no CIA employee
would be prosecuted for torture. Later, his administration refused to
prosecute any of the Bush officials responsible for ordering or
justifying the program and embraced the "just following orders"
defense for other officials, the very defense rejected by the United
States at the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
By blocking the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for
torture, Obama violated international law and reinforced other
countries in refusing investigation of their own alleged war crimes.
The administration magnified the damage by blocking efforts of other
countries like Spain from investigating our alleged war crimes. In
this process, his administration shredded principles on the
accountability of government officials and lawyers facilitating war
crimes and further destroyed the credibility of the US in objecting to
civil liberties abuses abroad.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/7663-focus-obama-a-disaster-for-civil-liberties




29 Sep 2011 Three soldiers serving with the US-led North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) have been killed in a roadside bomb attack
http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/7653-the-due-process-free-assassination-of-us-citizens

Fukushima

What’s emerging in Japan six months since the nuclear meltdown at the
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant is a radioactive zone bigger than that
left by the 1945 atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While
nature reclaims the 20 kilometer (12 mile) no-go zone, Fukushima’s
$3.2 billion-a-year farm industry is being devastated and tourists
that hiked the prefecture’s mountains and surfed off its beaches have
all but vanished.
The March earthquake and tsunami that caused the nuclear crisis and
left almost 20,000 people dead or missing may cost 17 trillion yen
($223 billion), hindering recovery of the world’s third-largest
economy from two decades of stagnation.
http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/344-208/7651-fukushima-population-flees-from-fallout


Dick McManus for Congress, D-WA
Democrat, Everett, WA
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