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if germany keeps up declining of paying what they own and did during ww2, we will have to seize all germanic property and in Italy as well,
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that if Hellas ever requests their loan, any Germanic property comes to us, if germany refuses to pay.
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- Co-founded the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition which mobilized 30,000 Austinites for just immigration reform in 2006—the largest march in the city’s history
- Coordinated “A Day without an Immigrant” along with the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition, closing down an estimated 80 percent of restaurants and construction sites in the city to demonstrate the significant role immigrants play in the U.S. economy
- Reduced Austin immigrant deportations by 60 percent through the formation of a broad-based coalition, compelling the Austin Police Department to issue citations for misdemeanor offenses instead of arresting offenders, which could have led to deportation
- Over the years, the number of hate crimes against immigrants has grown, along with an increase in the number of anti-immigrant groups.
- According to the FBI, hate crimes targeting Latinos has increased by 40 percent since 2003.
- There are an estimated 12 to 14 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., but there are simply too few visas to meet the vast need. In 2003 there was a staggering backlog of 6 million individuals awaiting approval for a green card, and for some the wait can last more than 10 years. 1
- Protect the rights of workers by ensuring that they can legalize their status with a pathway to citizenship. The reform also must strictly enforce workers’ rights regardless of immigration status. Additionally, Congress should pass legislation that values immigrants as full human beings, unlike the broken guest-worker policies which are rife with abuse (for more information click here.)
- Reunite families by allowing immigrants to legalize their status and visit family members in their country of origin. Many immigrant families are “mixed status” meaning that one parent could be a citizen, the other parent could be undocumented, and their children could be citizens. Families need to know they can live without fear of having loved ones deported or held in immigration prisons.
- Give students educational opportunities regardless of immigration status. Undocumented children should have the right to a full education, from elementary school to college.
- Respect the human rights of immigrants by ending militarization of the border, which violates the rights of immigrants and poses an environmental threat to wildlife living in the border area.
Immigration
Achievements:
Workers Defense Project is one of Austin’s leading immigrant rights organizations and has achieved the following:
Facts:
What’s the difference between “illegal alien” and “undocumented?”
Most immigrant rights organizations consider the term “illegal alien” to be derogatory and legally inaccurate. The word illegal carries a series of negative implications. For example, it is often assumed that “illegal” people have no civil or workplace rights, when in fact, all people have rights regardless of immigration status. Additionally, some people falsely think that entering the country without a visa is a felony crime, when in fact it is a civil violation (such as not paying your taxes accurately). “Undocumented” is a more accurate and dignified term because it simply means an immigrant’s status is not documented by immigration authorities.
Fair and Humane Immigration Reform
As a workers’ rights organization, WDP believes that comprehensive immigration reform is a necessary step in protecting all workers’ rights and ending abusive treatment of undocumented immigrants. It is time for Congress to stop legislation based on hate and pass real policy solutions that will improve the quality of life for 12 million undocumented immigrant men, women, and children. Any immigration reform must:
1. Bustos, Sergio “Backlog keeps immigrants waiting years for green cards” USA Today, 1/27/05
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Aug 04, 11
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Surita said she and her 21-month-old daughter crash at her sister's place with her two children. "We've been on the waiting list for housing since she was born," she said.
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hese job openings have become known as the much-hyped, "Texas Miracle." In his February 2011 state-of-the-state address, Governor Rick Perry boasted: "Our economic strength is no accident. It's a testimony to our people, our entrepreneurs, and, yes, to the decisions made in this building. Employers from across the country and around the world understand that the opportunity they crave can be found in Texas, and they're headed our way, with jobs in tow."
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The rich are getting richer. Their effective tax rate, in recent years, has been reduced to the lowest in modern history. Nurses, teachers and firemen actually pay a higher tax rate than some billionaires. It's no wonder the American people are angry.
Many corporations, including General Electric and Exxon-Mobil, have made billions in profits while using loopholes to avoid paying any federal income taxes. We lose $100 billion every year in federal revenue from companies and individuals who stash their wealth in tax havens off-shore like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. The sum of all the revenue collected by the Treasury today totals just 14.8% of our gross domestic product, the lowest in about 50 years.
In the midst of this, Republicans in Congress have been fanatically determined to protect the interests of the wealthy and large multinational corporations so that they do not contribute a single penny toward deficit reduction.
If the Republicans have their way, the entire burden of deficit reduction will be placed on the elderly, the sick, children and working families. In the midst of a horrendous recession that is already causing severe pain for average Americans, this approach is morally grotesque. It's also bad economic policy.
President Obama and the Democrats have been extremely weak in opposing these right-wing extremist proposals. Although the United States now has the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major industrialized country, Democrats have not succeeded in getting any new revenue from those at the top of the economic ladder to reduce the deficit.
Instead, they've handed the wealthy even more tax breaks. In December, the House and the Senate extended President George W. Bush's tax cuts for the rich and lowered estate tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. In April, to avoid the Republican effort to shut down the government, they allowed $38.5 billion in cuts to vitally important programs for working-class and middle-class Americans.
Now, with the U.S. facing the possibility of the first default in our nation's history, the American people find themselves forced to choose between two congressional deficit-reduction plans. The plan by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which calls for $2.4 trillion in cuts over a 10-year period, includes $900 billion in cuts in areas such as education, health care, nutrition, affordable housing, child care and many other programs desperately needed by working families and the most vulnerable.
The Senate plan appropriately calls for meaningful cuts in military spending and ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But it does not ask the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations to make any sacrifice.
The Reid plan is bad. The constantly shifting plan by House Speaker John Boehner is much worse. His $1.2 trillion plan calls for no cuts in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it requires a congressional committee to come up with another $1.8 trillion in cuts within six months of passage.
Those cuts would mean drastic reductions in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. What's more, Mr. Boehner's plan would reopen the debate over the debt ceiling, which is now paralyzing Congress, just six months from now.
While all of this is going on in Washington, the American people have consistently stated, in poll after poll, that they want wealthy individuals and large corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. They also want bedrock social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to be protected. For example, a July 14-17 Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 72% of Americans believe that Americans earning more than $250,000 a year should pay more in taxes.
In other words, Congress is now on a path to do exactly what the American people don't want. Americans want shared sacrifice in deficit reduction. Congress is on track to give them the exact opposite: major cuts in the most important programs that the middle class needs and wants, and no sacrifice from the wealthy and the powerful.
Is it any wonder, therefore, that the American people are so angry with what's going on in Washington? I am too.
Mr. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, is a member of the Senate Budget Committee.
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Home Page:
Year 2000 Economics
by Daniel
The Fourth Turning is a book about human social cycles in America written by two respected generational historians, Howe and Strauss. (Click here to visit their web site.)
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Budget Woes Strike Most Major U.S. Cities
Cities take different routes to counteract fiscal woes
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Jul 21, 11
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The ballot will ask voters if Boulder should pass a bond measure to operate the utility, and will also ask residents if they are willing to double the Climate Action Plan tax to help pay for the cost of negotiating with Xcel to get the municipal utility started.
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Boulder, which has a population of roughly
293,000100,000,
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Amidst the debt ceiling crisis, Zero Hedge publishes numbers showing that 29 public companies - including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Stanley - have more cash than the U.S. Treasury Department, which thanks to Geithner ties with Google at just $39 billion. So much for GOP claims that government has plenty of money and what they need are bigger tax breaks.
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ell, when I looked at 2007 it was "collectively" about 14 trillion dollars. ( 7.1 Investment + 5.3 Tax + 1.6 enterprise )
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In essence, the plan shifts each district westward to shed urban Democratic voters and gain suburban Republican voters.
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Even if the new map were approved next week, the new lines would not be in effect for the August recall elections. But they would apply in 2012, meaning that if Democrats defeated Darling next month, their odds of holding the seat next year would be poor.
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The argument by the conservatives that tax increases take money out of the economy is absurd. The debate that tax cuts create jobs by allowing the wealthy to keep more of their money is even more disillusioned. The simple point is tax increases simply increase revenue to the federal government, but the federal government doesn’t SIT on that money. They either pay workers or invest that money in infrastructure.
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The money that is spent to invest in our national or local infrastructure goes directly to private companies most of the time.
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The GOP’s Fallacy That Tax Increases Take Money Out Of the Economy
July 12, 2011By Ray Medeiros
The argument by the conservatives that tax increases take money out of the economy is absurd. The debate that tax cuts create jobs by allowing the wealthy to keep..
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Reagan, Tax Cuts, and GDP
July 12, 2011By State of thought
In honor of the 100th anniversary of President Reagan's birth this year, lets take a look at the effect of his tax cuts for the top marginal rate. When...
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to place phony charges on consumers’ phone bills – landline or mobile.
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typically buried deep inside bills in an effort to deceive customers.
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The first one was signed into law as a temporary measure in 1933 as a way to aid farmers suffering in the Great Depression. Since then it has come before Congress roughly every five years. Nutrition programs were added to the farm bill in the late 1970s to win the support of lawmakers from urban districts. The 2008 bill had a price tag of nearly $300 billion. It expires in 2012.
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What are EWG’s objectives for the next food and farm bill?
Since a lot of the money does go to nutrition programs like SNAP, it’s time to start calling it a food and farm bill and to increase investments in healthy food programs.
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The company's Leaf car was engineered in Japan and is currently made there, but soon 50,000 a year will be made on Wearside. Already a new battery plant has been built and a training college is under construction by the factory gates to educate mechanics in the mysteries of the lithium-ion future.
This car works: fast enough for my Nissan guide to frown as I gunned it past Newcastle's speed cameras. Apart from the silence and limited range – 110 miles on a £2 charge –
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are inevitable. The US population, if a critical mass is reached, represents the greatest threat to the Economic Elite. In
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GOP is falsely pushing the argument that America’s corporations are overtaxed. I included some great data courtesy of conservative commentator Bruce Bartlett whose New York Times piece did an extraordinary job of putting the lie to the Republican assertions.
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making $170 billion in profits during the period of The Great Recession, paid an effective tax rate of negative 1.5%.
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I got a union job because the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (under Republican president Richard Nixon) forced the telephone company to hire blacks, women...and me.
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I got a union job because the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (under Republican president Richard Nixon) forced the telephone company to hire blacks, women...and me.
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As Republicans position themselves for a 2012 presidential run, many have turned for counsel to Rob Portman of Ohio, a freshman senator whose experience in previous posts, including head of the White House budget office, makes him a sought-after adviser.
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As many leading Republicans talk about austerity and steep budget cuts, Portman is telling his party it must also focus on economic growth and jobs, or risk alienating voters.
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