Special Commentary by Big Dan: "I said this back in 2004: you get to keep ONE of your FOUR monthly unemployment checks when you lose your job. Now, it's worse! I said back then, that ONE check goes for Ronald Reagan's tax on unemployment (Reagan started taxing unemployment) and TWO checks go to COBRA, the continuation of your health benefits after you lose your job. If you got the max which was $500/week unemployment, pay $500 for the Reagan Tax and $1,000 for COBRA...and keep $500 a month to pay your: mortgage, heat, electricity, water, credit card bills, car payments, car insurance, food, gas, and all your bills - $500 a month to pay all that! Keeping your health insurance when you're unemployed is NOW IMPOSSIBLE and keep in mind unemployment is soaring. NOW everyone is listening to me! We have a broken system where you keep 25% of your unemployment unless you drop your health insurance and don't pay Ronald Reagan's unemployment tax!"
Consumers in Illinois who lose their jobs and have no other option but to buy their own health insurance will get socked this year with premium increases of up to 60 percent, according to state records.
Get Ready for a Mass Citizens’ Arrest of Health Insurance Companies
Steven Colbert picks up on the O'Keefe/Breitbart/ACORN media hoax "sting":
Tip/Wag - James O'Keefe & Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity joins Stephen for a heavily edited interview to talk about James O'Keefe's deceptive ACORN videos.
The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
Tip/Wag - James O'Keefe & Sean Hannity | ||||
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The (not) "liberal media" still hasn't retracted the hoax pimp story they shoved down our throats 24x7 for weeks leading to the Defund ACORN Act!!!
ACORN Strikes Back! 'Accountability' Campaign Demands Media Corrections for 'Pimp' Hoax Stories. Group asks '100,000 supporters' for 'Letters to Editor'. Cites BRAD BLOG coverage of NYTimes Editors' outrageous justifications for refusing to retract repeated misreporting...
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!! WE GOT SNAGGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...we'll have to postpone our GOP political stings against organizations that help the poor register to vote because they don't vote for Republicans. There goes our upcoming sting against the Salvation Army!!!
All these politicians and more, and the (not) "liberal media" need to issue official apologies and retractions and repeal the Defund ACORN Act:
You know how I'm always telling you on this blog about TV, radio, and newspaper propaganda? Sponsored by the government and the wealthy and the military? Remember I said the other day a cigar is the symbol of the wealthy and Rush Limbaugh always is pictured with a cigar? Meet Hal Turner:
FBI paid racist shock jock Hal Turner ‘in excess of $100,000′
FBI Operative Hal Turner Says Government Urged Him to Make Violent Statements
Here's a clip of Hal Turner:
Republican talking points leaked: push "FEAR"! This is no joke, just watch:
Geithner's Illegal Money-Laundering Scheme Exposed; Harry Markopolos Says “Don’t Trust Your Government”
Chris Hedges: Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama
Ever since deregulation caused a worldwide economic meltdown in September '08 and everyone became a Keynesian again, it hasn't been easy to be a fanatical follower of the late economist Milton Friedman. So widely discredited is his brand of free-market fundamentalism that his admirers have become increasingly desperate to claim ideological victories, however far fetched.
Naomi Klein: Milton Friedman did not save Chile. To say the late economist deserves credit for the country's building codes shows a lack of knowledge of pre-coup Chile
GLOBO-CHEM: