I'm disappointed in Democrats, and you should be too!
It's been almost 2 weeks since the mid-term elections, and I've taken that time to figure out what could have possibly happened and who dissapointed me the most.
What...
The American Sperm Protection Act
Guest post by Brenda Cornwell
The newly signed North Carolina Motorcycle Safety bill reads in part:
“A person who causes a motorcycle operator to change travel...
Joe Scarborough says the Republican party extremism...
I want to say right up front, on a normal day, I do not agree with Joe Scarborough on just about anything, and normally spend my mornings mad tweeting him repeatedly....
The United Citizens BEAT Citizens United
I must admit that when Citizens United was upheld by the Supreme Court, I thought we were doomed. Super Pacs turned up in record numbers, several being orchestrated...
The GOP has a broken picker, they picked another lier!
What is wrong with the GOP and their ability to pick candidates? I thought the GOP would have learned their lesson after John McCain picked Sarah Palin. After a failed...
I must admit that when Citizens United was upheld by the Supreme Court, I thought we were doomed. Super Pacs turned up in record numbers, several being orchestrated by Carl Rove. Then we found out who some of the biggest donors were, Bob Perry, Harold Simmons, T. Boone Pickens, Shelden Adelson and The Koch Brothers among the most well known.
Why would anyone pour hundreds of millions of dollars into an election? What do they want in return? They aren’t there to give, they are there to receive.
I imagined that we would be inundated with negative ads, which we were, and that the Super Pacs would have an unfair advantage in the election. Boy was I wrong, American’s proved me wrong, and I am so happy about it, I should have had more faith that comm0n sense would win out in the end.
All I have to say to Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers is thanks. Thank you for the economic stimulus.
The GREED of Mitt Romney, and his political backers like the Koch Brothers, astounds me. They will do absolutely anything they have to, no matter who it hurts or kills, to increase their own bank accounts.
Make no mistake, the Koch Brothers want to get rid of environmental regulations so that they can willingly spew poison into our air and water supply. Environmental protections are there for a reason, to protect the American public from unscrupulous business practices. It costs less money to poison you than it does to protect you. These companies are already making record profits, but it’s never enough.
Please tell me when enough is enough. Wouldn’t you think that having more money than you can spend in 100 lifetimes would be enough?
Mitt Romney thinks nothing of shipping American jobs overseas, raiding pension funds for his own profit and doing business in foreign countries to avoid paying his fair share of taxes.
Is this the man you want for President? Are you willing to put him in a position of influence over financial regulations knowing his only priority is his own bottom line?
Are willing to put him in charge of Environmental regulations knowing he owes over $400 million dollars worth of favors to the Koch Brothers?
“…Mr. Romney’s generous retirement agreement ensures that he continues to profit from the deals and decisions that Bain makes. He owns about $8 million worth of Bain funds that hold 51 percent of Sensata’s shares. If Sensata saves money by closing the Freeport plant, that could add money to Mr. Romney’s trust accounts, now or after the election.”
Greetings from Bainport, Illinois
We’re workers at Bain Capital-owned Sensata, 2520 Walnut St, Freeport, Illinois. We’re fighting to save our jobs from being shipped to China by the end of this year. We are calling on Mitt Romney to come to Freeport, IL and we will camp across the street from our plant for as long as it takes!
For more information or to get involved email us at cnkwin2@gmail.com To send us some pizza love call Logan’s Bar & Grill (815) 232-4592
PDF of the report that shows wage calculations for those in China and pictures of the factory in China. Download and save and send people, this is crazy stuff.
Update #10
Was Sensata technologies in trouble? No, it was doing great. But they wanted more money. Read the report below to find out the truth
Bain Capital was founded by Mitt Romney in 1984 as a global private investment firm. Sensata Technologies, a Bain affiliate, was formed in April 2006 when the company purchased Texas Instruments’ sensors and controls division for $770 million. Just four years later, by 2010, Bain’s original investment had quadrupled to $3.2 billion, we believe largely due to outsourcing.
In 2011, when Bain and Sensata executives informed the Freeport workers, somewhat cavalierly, that they would be terminated in November 2012 and went on to explain that they were temporarily leasing the factory but were purchasing the machinery and the workers’ skills to train Chinese engineers before the work was shipped to China.
In fact, Mr. Jacob Sayer — a Sensata spokesperson, said they were closing the Freeport plant in order to cut costs. Mr. Sayer went on: “If that had not been part of the strategy, then the deal would not have been so attractive.” When questioned by Paul Harris of The Guardian (August 10, 2012), the same spokesperson refused to comment, saying “We don’t have a statement on the impact it has on Freeport.”
Bain and Sensata executives did not have a lot of time to talk about the 170 workers being terminated at the Freeport plant. The executives have had more pressing issues, such as setting up 12 Sensata/Bain capital funds “organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands” so as to avoid paying taxes.
I feel bad for those of you who don’t subscribe to HBO, Newsroom alone is worth the monthly cost, this show is fabulous.
In Episode 3 Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels, takes on the Tea Party who he suggests has been taken over by the Koch Brothers and have hijacked the Republican Party.
I know this is fiction, but the stories on this show are real, and Will McAvoy’s assumptions could not be more correct.
The Koch Brothers are in the process of buying our Government, and so far, we are letting them. Don’t forget, we have the power to stop them. Even with the 400 million they are expected to spend in this election cycle, they still only have 2 votes.
Come on 98%, pull it together. Even Will McAvoy, a Republican, can see what they are up to. I promise you, if we let the Koch Brothers win, we won’t like the consequences.
Thanks to Citizens United, the conservative Koch Brothers can anonymously spend millions of money to bend the political system to their will. Brave New Films’ latest documentary, ‘Koch Brothers Exposed’ uncovers the Koch Brothers’ influence and their attempts to poison our environment, our education system and our very democracy.
I must admit that when Citizens United was upheld by the Supreme Court, I thought we were doomed. Super Pacs turned up in record numbers, several being orchestrated by Carl Rove. Then we found out who some of the biggest donors were, Bob Perry, Harold Simmons, T. Boone Pickens, Shelden Adelson and The Koch Brothers among the most well known.
