- Walker Threatens More Layoffs if Anti-Union Bill Not Implemented | Firedoglake – David Dayen
- With the anti-union bill tied up in court, Scott Walker just isn’t getting the fiscal benefits he hoped would balance his budget from forcing municipalities to cut public-sector wages. So he’s back to threatening layoffs again.
- Congress Very Concerned About Fixing Deficit They Intend to Create | Firedoglake – Jon Walker
- The problem is that leaders of both parties have both pledged an unshakable commitment to, in the near future, make our deficit projections dramatically worse by extending all or most of the Bush tax cuts.
Se, we live in a bizzaro world where we are told that a legitimate political debate is our politicians telling us how critical it is to force regular people to sacrifice to solve problems that don’t actually exist currently but that the politicians have decided they will fight to create.
- Teen Rape Victim Punished By Her Church | Booman Tribune – Steven D
- A fifteen year old girl…was called out before her congregation and forced to confess to a "sin" she did not commit. Publicly humiliated and shamed before family and friends. Torn from her family and shipped thousands of miles away to an unknown Baptist family in Colorado where she was essentially treated as a prisoner who had committed a crime. Forced to give up her child for adoption and never see her baby again. …
That is where they want to take this country and the rest of the world. That is the New Jerusalem they dream about and hope to bring to fruition in their lifetimes. That is why "The Family" on C Street is so insidious and a real and present danger to our democracy. [link]
- At Some Oakland Schools, Cuts to the Bone — and Beyond – The Bay Citizen
- At least three of those schools could lose over 95 percent of their teachers, according to the Oakland Unified School District and principals at those schools. The schools facing the most drastic losses are located primarily in East or West Oakland, the city’s lowest- income neighborhoods.
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