If Congress does not act on the sequester by March 1, automatic spending cuts will go into effect, and one of the things that will be affected will be Congressional salaries. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came out firmly opposed to cutting lawmakers’ pay, saying it would be beneath the dignity of members of Congress.
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Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that allowing the automatic cuts should be “out of the question,” and responded to a question about whether members of Congress would be willing to accept a pay cut.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Nancy Pelosi Against Congressional Pay Cuts
If anyone deserves a pay cut it's the Congress:
World Bank warns economic powers: Climate change is real
Are they also part of some liberal scientist conspiracy? Hardly:
The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the finance chiefs of the world’s leading economic powers that global warming is a real risk to the planet and already affecting the world economy in unprecedented ways.
Adressing the G20 finance ministers at their meeting in Moscow, Jim Yong Kim called on the world powers to “tackle the serious challenges presented by climate change.”
“These are not just risks. They represent real consequences,” said Kim, calling the lack of attention to the issue by finance ministers and central bank chiefs “a mistake”.
No, Chicago Isn’t Proof That Gun Regulation Doesn’t Work
Source:ThinkProgress.org
Chicago had an outright ban on handguns from 1982 until 2010, when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. So there’s no reason to believe that strict regulations on gun ownership were responsible for a spike in gun homicides in 2012, two years after Chicago was forced to loosen its gun laws. Moreover, there’s simply no credible evidence that wider gun ownership or looser gun laws reduce crime.
So why did Chicago’s homicide rate increase in 2012? Pollack says “there’s no simple answer.” But he points to three factors are particularly important: escalating gang conflict as a consequence of police crackdowns and shifting gang territory, outdated law enforcement practices, and — yes — access to guns.
Russian Meteor Highlights The Danger Of Space Funding Budget Cuts
Russian Meteor Highlights The Danger Of Space Funding Budget Cuts -
As hyperbolic as that may sound, it’s true: Asteroid 2012 DA14, the hunk of rock hurtling 17,000 miles above us today, wasn’t discovered until last year — too late to do anything about it, had it been on a collision course. According to comments from Ed Lu, a former astronaut and head of a nonprofit dedicated to protecting humanity from asteroids, “[w]e only know the locations and trajectories of about 1 percent of asteroids this size or larger [...] So for every one of these, there’s 99 out there we don’t know about.”
65 Republicans Supported Increasing The Minimum Wage When Bush Was President
65 Republicans Supported Increasing The Minimum Wage When Bush Was President | ThinkProgress -
President Obama’s call for a minimum wage increase in Tuesday’s State of the Union address — like nearly all of his proposals — was met with immediate opposition from Congressional Republicans. But six years ago, many of the same Republicans supported a similar proposal backed by Republican President George W. Bush.
Indiana National Guardsman Gunned Down Protecting Young Son
Horrifying story. It's why we need new gun laws and greater ways of dealing with gang violence. The President should go to Cook's funeral:
Cook, who had only recently come home from a year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan, was in his car on his way to visit his grandmother on Feb. 2 when a gunman opened fire on him and little Antoine. As bullets suddenly rained down on the car, Cook threw himself on top of the boy.
source: ABC News
"When I got to his grandma's house they had rushed Antoine to the hospital already. He was in the emergency room," recalled Cook's fiancée Laquana Norwood in a phone interview with ABC News. "I didn't know where Will was. I saw his car outside. The police had everything taped off. After that I just rushed straight to the hospital and that's when I found out that Antoine had been shot in the left leg and a bullet had grazed his right leg and the right side of his head. They had found Will on top of Antoine."
Melissa Harris-Perry: President Obama Mentioned Poverty More in Last 4 Weeks than in his Last 4 Years
Perry is a staunch supporter of this President. But she is willing question some of Obama's lack of interest in the people who helped put him in office. She previously demanded that he go to Chicago and address gun violence. And he did. The problem is he is addressing these issues after he was re-elected. President Obama barely, if at all, mentioned poverty during the previous campaign. If only the left, including Perry, had demanded he address the suffering of the 99 percent during the last campaign. Dr.Cornel West did.
Perry today discussed Obama's "new found passion" for poverty on her program. He mentioned poverty 4 times during the recent SOTU. That's more than is his previously 4 SOTUs combined, she said.
Minimum Wage Rate was Higher in Real Terms in 1968
The minimum wage rate, in real terms, was higher in 1968 than it is today: $10.59/hour. So why is the President proposing $9/hour? And why did it take him 4 years to come out for an increase? The White House is claiming that raising the rate would benefit the economy. So wouldn't it have made sense to see to raise it in 2009?
Joe Scarborough: Wall St., Banks are Too Big to Jail
Joe Scarborough denounced a system where Wall St. and the banks engaged in criminal conduct and are not punished. They are instead rewarded for their reckless conduct with government bailouts.
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