Congress Saves Air Travelers From Sequester, Stiffs Cancer Patients And Hungry Seniors

Deep and arbitrary spending cuts, part of the austerity measures hatched by Congress two years ago and known as sequestration, are beginning to take a severe toll on vulnerable Americans dependent on crucial government programs. President Obama has described the sequester as a “self-inflicted wound” on the economy that could lead to another recession. Uneducated [...]

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  A MILITARY DRONE BASE RIGHT HERE IN BROOKSVILLE! “A PARANOID PORTION” OF THE POPULATION PROTESTS. With the support of Senator Bill Nelson, an aviation authority applies to Hernando County FL to locate there one of the 6 drone sites slated for development in the U.S. Protests are launched by a Nature Coast peace group [...]

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  PLAN TO GET SICK AFTER 2014? BETTER PLAN TO MOVE TO MASSACHUSETTS IF YOU WANT HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. This is a reasonable interpretation of a finding that the great majority (up to 98%) of health care services will be unavailable to Americans after the “Affordable” (Obamacare) health insurance system kicks in that year. The [...]

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  EQUATING ZIONISM WITH FASCISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM? OH MY! As U.S. White House and Congress denounce this comparison made by the Turkish prime minister, many Jews and non-Jews, in Israel and elsewhere, get the point of comparing the “war crimes” of Zionist Israel with that of Hitler or Mussolini. Back in 1991 the UN rescinded [...]

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  ARE ELDERLY AMERICANS THE “PICTURE OF AFFLUENCE?” Thatfflu is the picture drawn in a new Pew Research study of the “net worth” of American households. The average net worth of seniors of $170,500 seems “affluent” only by contrast with the almost non-existent amount of $ 3,700 for those under 35. With many older people now [...]

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Bloated Military-Industrial Complex Will Handle "Devastating" Sequestration Just Fine...

Will the nation’s vaunted military-industrial complex survive what some have billed as the “disaster” of mandatory sequestration cuts? Yes, and likely stronger than before. The self-imposed “sequester” wrought by the failure of Congress to reach a budget deal are scheduled to deliver more than $1 trillion in government spending cuts within weeks. Despite promises from [...]

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