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Wingnuttia is all atwitter over an Oregon Medicaid study that they claim demonstrates that Medicaid does not improve the health of people on Medicaid. So I assume their points are to say that "Medicaid doesn't work" so "you are on your own" and if you are seriously ill perhaps you "should die and decrease the surplus population."
This is what happens when GOPropagandists -- who did not read this complex research study because, really, who cares? -- are paid to push simple...
Valley Interfaith again shows its true liberal colors with this Medicaid expansion community propaganda fest. Check out the confirmed guests here.
As examples, Rep. Heather Carter (LD15) is one of only two GOP House members earning the Arizona Conservative Coalition’s infamous RINO designation. The Pres. and CEO of the socialist leaning AZ Chamber of Commerce, Glenn Hamer, is perhaps best known for his extreme leftwing views, and overseeing the group’s endorsement of liberal Democrat Jane...
The Tea-Publican Party no longer does policy. Whatever President Obama and the Democrats propose, they simply take the exact opposite position -- even when it is their bill that they proposed. Some commentators have taken to calling the GOP the "post-policy party" -- they stand for nothing but obstruction. Jonathan Bernstein writes, GOP’s debt limit threat goes off the rails:
In 2010, Republicans threatened to put the nation into default unless Democrats agreed to fulf...
Gov. Brewer recently asserted that Arizona's controversial SB 1070 served as the catalyst for the creation of the immigration legislation now in Congress. Although much of SB 1070 was set aside by the courts, the governor believes the law, costly legal fights and publicity helped start the momentum that led to the current bipartisan immigration proposal.
The governor has a point because the SB 1070 effort was not a low cost affair. The publicity it generated saddled Arizona ...
Southern Arizona peace activists have organized a anti-drone protest outside of Fort Huachuca today, Monday, April 29.
Drones are a big deal in Southern Arizona. Ft. Huachuca, Davis-Monthan, Raytheon, the University of Arizona, and Cochise College-- all have a piece of the military industrial complex's drone pie, and if our esteemed US Senators have there way, more money for drones along the Arizona-Mexico border, more money for militarization of the border overall, an...
A World of Beer franchise will be opening on the ground floor of The Cadence, that giant, six-story, white student housing complex rising from the old dirt lot next to the Rialto Theater downtown.
What could be more perfect than a 3000-square-foot bar located under a maxi-dorm with 465 apartments? This sounds like a capitalist's dream and a parent's nightmare.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am not a beer drinker, so I don't see the point of opening another beer j...
Largest abortion provider gets sanctification from Obama:
They do such good work, after all. If you’ve read anything at all about the Kermit Gosnell infanticide trial, you’d realize why abortions are worthy of this president’s commendation. Not surprisingly, Barack Obama is the first sitting President to ever appear at such a gala. This event took place Friday in Washington, D.C.
Vowing he would never allow Republicans to cut taxpayer funds for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Ob...
The Blue Meanie posted yesterday about the control by the top one percent. His post was spot on, especially the closing, where he noted how Professor Krugman's cynicism regarding the prospect of the one percent simply coming up with a new (specious) justification for their austerian policies was entirely justified.
As I've noted in previous posts, we're living through a great experiment: How much wealth and how much income can we jam into the top 1% before the bottom 90% exp...
The elite über-rich plutocrats -- the one percent -- are in complete control of the economy and the government. The ninety-nine percent who lead their lives of quiet desperation trying to earn enough income to provide for their families and to pay the bills, are simply too exhausted, and too poor, to be politically active and engaged. They are the voiceless, whose suffering is ignored in favor of the well paid lobbyists doing the bidding of the plutocrats.
Back in 2009, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending what was then a 17-year legal battle in the Flores v. Arizona case. In their opinion, the justices wrote that lower courts erred by placing extraordinary focus on forcing Arizona to spend more money to assist English Language-Learner (ELL) students.
At the time, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote, the Court of Appeals “improperly substituted its own policy judgments for those of the state and loc...
The Birthers-Birchers-Secessionists of the Tea Party, i.e., the GOP insane clown posse, held a rally yesterday in opposition to Governor Jan Brewer's Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration plan. "Fringe" describes the unhinged from reality circus clowns who came up with this "genius" (sic) plan. AHCCCS might drop coverage for childless adults:
Thousands of Arizonans receiving health care through Medicaid could be thrown out of that program under one alternative offered by opponent...
(Phoenix, AZ) It seems there were a lot of questions directed at Mayor Stanton at a community meeting held at the Mayo Clinic on April 23rd. But it wasn’t zoning laws or the need to fix our streets that was on most people’s minds, it was the food tax. In fact some of the residents that attended wanted to know why Mayor Stanton isn’t keeping his campaign promise that he made to repeal it like he did during his campaign. While Mayor Stanton continued to tell residents that the t...
The Washington Post runs a 5-page report on the efforts undertaken by food stamp recruiters to coax people into signing up for taxpayer financed benefits. Potential recipients are lured with free food, gift packages for themselves and even their pets, and told “you deserve it.” Some states host SNAP-themed bingo games, others distribute fliers that read: “Be a patriot. Bring your food stamp money home.” Still other states throw food stamp parties where new recipients sign up en masse at...
The West Fertilizer Co. explosion in West, Texas last week put an exclamation point on the need for government safety regulations and enforcement. The "free market" philosophy of no regulations and the mythical honor system imposed by the market place gets people killed.
This company appears to have pushed the envelope to see how much it could get away with -- and due to lax regulations and enforcement by "business friendly" Texas regulatory agencies, it got away with qu...
In these times of calls for undefined smaller government and resistance to rescinding tax cuts, many Americans forget the role played by government-private sector partnerships in developing the nation's economy. In a country plagued by growing income inequality and aging infrastructure, the lessons from the past should not be ignored.
Over 150 years ago, there was a terrific need to improve communications between the eastern states and California. To remedy the problem, the f...
Statistics identifying the corrupting nature of inequality to our society are abundant. The crime rate, mental illness, divorce, or you name it, all can be shown statistically to increase with increasing inequality.
With an awful week of news, some stories fell through the cracks, but nevertheless are important. In economics news, the Reinhart and Rogoff study that is the heart and soul of conservative "austerity" economics was exposed as a fraud. It turns out these geniuses ignored certain data and made an Excel spreadhseet error that resulted in conservative "austerity" measures which imposed an economic depression. Oops! (They are not sorry or repentant).
Yesterday, April 18, marked the 108th day of 2013, or Tax Freedom Day — as calculated by the Tax Foundation. That is the day, four months into the year, when Americans have finally earned enough income to pay the tab for all federal, state, and local taxes for 2013. In the simplest of terms, that means you”ve been working from New Year’s Eve until mid-April just to pay your taxes. With that hard fact in mind, w...
More good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do
In his revealing, must-read 2-page report, The Daily Caller’s Neil Munro details the “Many loopholes hidden in the immigration bill” being shepherded by Arizonans John McCain and Jeff Flake, doing Obama’s work in collusion with the Gang of 8 gangsters. McCain admits it’s “not that much different from what we tried to do in 2007.”
Munro’s exposé comes as the reality of the ongoing criminality of those who will...
Tea-Publicans in the Arizona legislature enacted legislation that would declare privately minted gold and silver coins legal tender in Arizona. A version of the bill has passed both the Senate (Senate Engrossed version)and the House (House Engrossed version)and is awaiting concurrence in the Senate, before going to the Governor.
Tea-Publican legislators claimed that the global economy is on the precipice of financial ruin and the U.S. dollar could soon be worth less tha...
