americanprogress.org/issues/2009/01/recovery_reinvestment101.html Michael Ettlinger from the Center for American Progress explains why the US economy More

americanprogress.org/issues/2009/01/recovery_reinvestment101.html Michael Ettlinger from the Center for American Progress explains why the US economy needs a stimulus bill passed that leads with public investments. THE FACTS 1) WE ARE LOSING 15,000 JOBS A DAY. 2) THIS BILL IS ABOUT JOBS: IT SAVES JOBS, CREATES JOBS, HELPS PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS, and LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE JOBS. 3) CONSERVATIVES ARE PUSHING THE SAME, OLD FAILED BUSH POLICIES THAT GOT US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE – tax cuts that benefit big corporations and CEO’S at the expense of the middle class. STIMULUS BACKGROUND: 1) SAVES AND CREATES 3-4 MILLIONS JOBS: The recovery bill will save jobs that are currently on the chopping block and create jobs by making targeted investments and boosting economic activity. Relief for state and local governments will help them avoid making the layoffs of police, firefighters and teachers, more spending cuts, and tax increases that will worsen the downturn. Stemming the downturn will protect private sector jobs that are on the verge of being cut. The recovery bill will make targeted investments that will create millions of jobs. For example, the recovery bill’s… Investments in energy will create 459,000 jobs. Investments in infrastructure will create 377,000 jobs. Investments in education will create 250,000 jobs. Leading economists like Mark Zandi have concluded that targeted spending is the most efficient way to create jobs in a recession 2) HELPS PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS: The recovery bill will help people who lost their jobs with middle-class tax cuts and investments in programs that will put money in the hands of people who will spend it and protect the most vulnerable. The “make work pay” tax cut will give $1,000 to 95 percent of families. Expanding unemployment benefits, food stamps, and health coverage will lend a helping hand to out-of-work families. And investing in these kinds of programs is also one of the most effective ways to spur economic growth and create jobs. 3) FUTURE JOBS: The recovery bill will lay the foundation for future jobs by modernizing our economy and infrastructure for the 21st century. The recovery bill will… Modernize our schools by renovating and modernizing 10,000 schools attended by 5 million students, and making college more affordable for 7 million students. Modernize our energy grid by powering 6 million homes with renewable energy, and weatherize 2 million homes and 75 percent of federal buildings. Modernize our health care system by computerizing every Americans’ health records within five years. Modernize our infrastructure by repairing thousands of miles of roads and bridges, enhancing the security of 90 ports, funding 1,300 new wastewater projects and 380 new drinking water projects and constructing 1,000 rural water and sewer systems. 4) CONSERVATIVES ARE PUSHING FAILED, BUSH POLICIES: Conservatives are standing in the way of jobs by pushing the same old, failed policies that got us here in the first place: tax cuts that benefit big corporations and the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class. Bush’s tax cuts totally failed to create jobs – they only created one job for every $871,000 spent. But conservatives like Eric Cantor, John McCain and Jim DeMint are still pushing for more of Bush’s failed economic policies. Bush-style tax cuts contributed to this crisis – they’re not going to get us out. MYTH v. REALITY MYTH: House GOPers’ all-tax-cut plan would create 6 million jobs at half the cost. REALITY: The “6 million jobs” figure claims to be based on the work of White House economic advisor Christina Romer – but she says it distorts her research. Even Republican economists like Mark Zandi and Martin Feldstein believe that spending is the most effective way to create jobs. MYTH: The spending is too slow to create jobs. REALITY: According to the CBO, roughly two-thirds to three-quarters will be spent over the next 18 months MYTH: The recovery bill includes $80 billion in tax cuts for people who don’t pay taxes REALITY: This $80 billion expands the EITC, which goes to people who don’t pay income taxes but do pay thousands of dollars in payroll taxes. These people are also the most likely to spend the money and boost the economy. MYTH: The recovery bill cuts taxes for illegal immigrants. REALITY: To receive a tax cut, you must be a U.S. citizen and have a Social Security Number. These are the same requirements President Bush signed for last year’s rebates MYTH: The recovery bill is wasteful. REALITY: Even some of the weirder-sounding programs create jobs – for instance, the programs the Wall Street Journal recently held up as frivolous actually create 100 jobs at a cost that is ten times more efficient than the Bush tax cuts. And about a third of the spending identified as “waste” by House Minority Leader Eric Cantor goes to greening federal buildings green – which will pay for itself over the next few years. MYTH: The recovery bill will permanently expand government REALITY: The vast majority of spending in the bill will be temporary – one-time costs of building infrastructure or temporary help for families through tax cuts or unemployment insurance. MYTH: There should be more spending in the recovery bill on historic accomplishments. REALITY: The recovery bill is a landmark reinvestment in America – making a historic commitment to health care, clean energy, education, and infrastructure.
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfi28SxJ_4 Darfur AU And Global Politics AllAfricacom Washington hours ago In a year after Bush publicly accused Sudan of genocide the US flew Sudan's head of security and the supposed architect of the said genocide US adminstration divided over dealing with Sudan on Darfur Sudan Tribune all news articles » Our boys may be facing real war and I for one am scared Irish Independent Ireland hours ago So whether they are either simply engaging in the perfectly normal African practice of regional tribal genocide or are emulating their Islamic brothers in Darfur Is Just A Preview Huffington Post NY Oct Onefifth of the entire population of South Sudan was killed during the civil war prompting the US government to accuse the north of genocide in The US’s War In Darfur Black Star News NY Oct Debunking the claims of a genocide against blacks" or an Islamic holywar" against Christians Darfur's Arab and black African ethnic groups have Voice of America Sudan Contests US on Genocide Label for Darfur Voice of America Oct By Michael Bowman Sudan's foreign minister says President Bush is wrong to label the bloodletting and violence in the troubled Darfur region as genocide USbrokered truce in southern Sudan on brink of collapse Baltimore Sun United States Oct Analysts say that the UN mission in Sudan established primarily to monitor the south now devotes much of its energies to Darfur Beverly Hills students get a lesson in liberty Detroit Free Press United States Oct The coalition has pushed to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur Sudan has been a country wracked by civil war for more than years as the mostly Weekly News | Christian Views World Magazine Oct Nor is that only the case in distant history go this very week to Darfur in Sudan to see how a driedup water supply can help to ignite evil on a whole Darfur peace talks encounter obstacles Los Angeles Times CA Oct Sudan's government has stalled the increased deployment of peacekeepers for months objecting to troops from nonAfrican countries which it considers 'Elders' criticize West's response to situation in Darfur Christian Science Monitor MA Oct Washington is almost alone in branding the / years of violence in Darfur genocide Khartoum rejects the term European governments are reluctant to use 'Hostage' to a cause: Helping Sudan Ottawa Citizen Canada Oct At the time Sudan was in its fourth genocide he says which began in The systematic attacks on African Muslims and Christian Sudanese fall into five Carter: there is no genocide in Darfur Journal of Turkish Weekly Turkey Oct Brahimi also urged a comprehensive peace in Sudan Africa's largest country We cannot solve Darfur if the CPA (comprehensive performance assessment) is 'Genocide' doesn't mean the world will leap into action Vancouver Sun Canada Oct That is why for example the international community has been hesitant to apply the term genocide to what is happening in the Darfur region of Sudan Tutu Carter Foster Peace in Darfur ChristianToday UK Oct Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu met up with former US president Jimmy Carter in Darfur Tuesday to promote peace in Sudan's warravaged region by Ethan Service to aid Darfur Springfield State Journal Register IL Oct While in Africa Christian Solidarity International has been distributing survival kits to the population In many cases these simple kits can mean the The New Yorker Festival: Samantha Power on Obama Bush and What to Huffington Post NY Oct The Iraq syndrome is at the center of what will bring resolution to the genocide in Darfur Power said and the next US president will have to deal with Between Olmert and Khartoum Ha'aretz Israel Oct Indeed the genocide currently being perpetrated by Khartoum in western Sudan's Darfur region marks a continuation of the strategies and tactics deployed by Genocide Inflation is the Real Human Rights Threat: Yugoslavia and ZNet MA Oct Philip Gourevitch and the New Yorker whipped up sympathy in the West by labeling the Tutsis the Jews of Africa" the label stuck and it garnered even Christian Post Deadly Darfur Attack Targets Peacekeepers Amid Aid Pullout Christian Post Oct Last week at the United Nations Security Council meeting Bush denounced the violence in Darfur as genocide" and demanded that Sudanese government and The Nightmare Grows For Darfur's Refugees TheDay CT Oct As the Darfur conflict approaches its fifth year the environmental strain of the world's largest displacement crisis is quickly depleting western Sudan's
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