Sen. Elizabeth Warren went on the attack during her first Banking Committee hearing with regulators and asked why Wall Street banks haven’t been taken to trial. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry and EJ Dionne discuss whether Wall Street should be worried.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Goodell paid more than $29 million by NFL in 2011
Is it any wonder that ticket prices are as high as they are?
Nice job, Roger Goodell. Here's your pay: $29.49 million.
NFL owners nearly tripled the commissioner's compensation in the 2011 tax year and likely made Goodell the best paid commissioner in U.S. sports.
According to the league's most recent tax return, much of Goodell's pay comes in the form of a $22.3 million bonus. His base pay was $3.1 million. The NFL was scheduled to file the return Friday.
President Obama has no Interest in Stronger Campaign Finance Laws
Source: The Sunlight Foundation, Huffington Post:
There's a certain conventional wisdom that President Obama wants stronger campaign finance laws, and to protect our democracy from the corrupting effects of money in politics.
It's a story that you should no longer believe.
The arc of the Obama presidency may be long, but so far, it has bent away from transparency for influence and campaign finance, and toward big funders.
There's the obvious examples, like promising (and failing) to put healthcare negotiations on C-SPAN, only to negotiate a secret agreement with a segment of the industry the reform effort sought to regulate.
Ohio man with gun at Batman movie acquitted on weapons charge
Criminal justice farce. This individual should not be allowed to carry weapons. The next time he will kill lots of people. Then we will demand to know why he was carrying a dozen guns. This case is not an aberration:
An Ohio man arrested after he brought a handgun and knives to a late night showing of the Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises", two weeks after the Colorado theater mass shooting last summer was acquitted on Friday of a felony weapons possession charge.
Prosecutors had accused Scott A. Smith, 38, of being drug addicted and in possession of a weapon, a felony that calls for up to five years in prison in connection with the incident last August at a suburban Cleveland movie theater.
Smith this week pleaded guilty to two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, but rejected a deal on the more serious felony possession charge that required him to give up his weapons collection and barred him from owning guns in the future.
Prosecutors accused Smith of being addicted to prescription pain and anti-anxiety drugs and using marijuana to help himself sleep, making it illegal for him to possess firearms.
Bush Was a Total Disaster, Obama Is WORSE
Source:
Sure, Bush made the rich richer.
But Obama has actually redistributed wealth from the middle class to the very richest more than Bush.
Specifically, income inequality has increased more under Obama than under Bush.
Indeed, inequality in America today is worse than it was in Gilded Age America, modern Egypt, Tunisia or Yemen, many banana republics in Latin America, twice as bad as in ancient Rome – which was built on slave labor – and worse than experienced by slaves in 1774 colonial America.
A new study shows that the richest Americans captured more than 100% of all recent income gains. As Huffington Post notes...
Fort Hood hero says Obama betrayed victims of massacre
Source: Sign of the Times:
Former Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who helped stop the deadly shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, claims that the US government has neglected the surviving victims of the attack, leaving them without proper medical care in the aftermath of the shooting.
source: SOTT.net
When 39-year-old US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at the Texas military base Fort Hood, he left 13 people dead and 32 wounded. Most of the wounded were service members, some of which were preparing to go to Afghanistan. But the gunshot wounds served as a setback for many, inflicting crippling disabilities that in some cases require years of treatment.
And the US government has largely abandoned the wounded soldiers, Sgt. Munley said in an interview with ABC News, which will be broadcast Wednesday night.
"Betrayed is a good word," Munley said. "Not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of. In fact they've been neglected."
Including Munley herself.
Financial Crisis Cost Tops $22 Trillion, GAO Says
Financial Crisis Cost Tops $22 Trillion, GAO Says - The Huffington Post [feedly]
The 2008 financial crisis cost the U.S. economy more than $22 trillion, a study by the Government Accountability Office published Thursday said. The financial reform law that aims to prevent another crisis, by contrast, will cost a fraction of that.
House moves to extend pay freeze for fed workers
Why not try freezing or reducing the unjustified salaries of the members of Congress. Maybe they shouldn't be paid at all until the politicians start doing their jobs:
House conservatives want to extend to a full three years the current freeze on cost-of-living pay increases for the nation's 2 million civilian federal workers.
They say that blocking a modest raise proposed by President Barack Obama for the last nine months of this year will save $11 billion over the long run and that well-compensated federal employees can afford it.
Democrats, and a few Republicans, say federal workers have already done more than their fair share in helping reduce the federal deficit and they are being singled out for punishment by anti-government lawmakers.
The House on Thursday took up legislation by freshman Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., that would block the 0.5 percent pay increase Obama ordered in December and scheduled to go into effect at the end of March. DeSantis said federal spending is out of control and his bill "tackles Congress and our bloated federal government head-on." His bill would affect across-the-board pay increases but not merit and longevity raises.
Obama’s SOTU TV Audience Numbers Continue to Drop, Now Lower Than Bush’s Lowest
The "magic" is starting to deminish. The President's words are just more empty promises:
The number of Americans tuning in to President Obama’s State of the Union has dropped every year since he first took office, and this year was no exception.
Four million fewer people watched Obama Tuesday night than the smallest audience recorded during all of President Bush’s eight years in office and all but one of President Clinton’s. (See graph.pdf for audience number comparison.)
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