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tom harvard here on the news you need to know this president obama unveils his
vision for america today in the form of the twenty thirteen federal budget
president calls for three point eight billion dollars in spending extra with
new investments in our roads and infrastructure education and
manufacturing sectors
also included in the budget are a year-long extension of emergency
ployment benefits and a payroll tax cut holiday an extension of payroll tax cut
for one hundred sixty million working americans
on the deficit reduction side the president's budget cuts the deficit by
four trillion dollars over the next ten years
by raising taxes on corporations very wealthy
like letting the bush tax cuts expire for top income earners
they also trims down federal entitlement programs like medicare and medicaid
cuts defense budget by five percent over the next decade
first president's budget massive investments in infrastructure education
and manufacturing
by paid for by making millionaires billionaires pay their fair share of
taxes
will be just one vision laid out for the nation
republicans will soon unveil their vision
which will likely call for even lower taxes on the super-rich
more investments and dirty oil rather than clean energy and the destruction of
medicare as we know what
which really should our nation take
on that invests in creating a more competitive nation or the one that
thanks to thirty years of reaganomics bush in omics clintonomics brought us to
where we are today
becoming a rapidly undeveloped even superpower
greece is screwed
creek one acres past a another brutal austerity package today
unfortunately
canceled city capital of athens is on fire
fierce riding on the streets slip dozens of buildings
fire more than a hundred people injured
fifty
police officers and hundreds arrested spain
european technocrats got their bailout and austerity through the greek
parliament despite massive opposition by the voters
over a hundred thousand people took part demonstrations i'm in the streets over
the weekend
thus far two years of austerity has only driven the greek economy down
and that's led to further economic traction and social unrest
but since it makes the global banks are stepping
here comes around him
bus to the rest of the news
he'd mit romney campaign found its footing again over the weekend by
winning the maine caucuses
addictive drug all by a one hundred ninety four votes
but it's all good news for rodney a new national poll but public policy polling
shows rick santorum with a hefty fifteen point lead over army across the nation
it's the first time since i'm spotted so severe topping national all of the race
but what is all this mean
no longer say inform stays on top and ronnie looks like a flawed candidate the
greater likelihood
that millionaires and billionaires within the republican party might
staging
who in tampa and hold a brokered convention
begets amala crisper stevens
our nation's deficit problem as a lot to do with the rampant corporate tax
dodging
last week the congressional budget office found that spike corporate
profits rebounded
breathe recession levels
corporate tax revenue is at a forty-year law
thanks to increase used
tax loopholes offshore tax havens
in fact the united states loses more than ninety billion dollars a year
thanks to corporate c_e_o_s like their romney
stashing their profits in tax havens
like the cayman islands
as the center for riken progress notes more money is lost attacks dodging
that is spent on four different government departments including the
department of homeland security the department of education the department
for housing and urban development
and the department of veterans affairs
the government loses more money to tax dodgers than it spends educating our
next generation
aesthetics act there recipe for long-term economic success
time to crack down on a rich guys in corporations were dodging taxes
is more proof that the outrage on the right over president obama's new
contraception policy is a
birds on a majority of catholic voters approved of a policy requiring religious
institutions
to cover contraceptives in their employees' health care plans
despite republicans calling the policy an all-out attack on catholicism
by twenty nine percent of catholics bold
sorts call last week's debate what our really wants
temper republicans extract voters from the real issue economy which is
beginning to approve under the watch president obama
now republicans are scrambling
three five culture
the fight for free and open internet when global over the weekend as tens of
thousands of people rallied across europe
against controversial anti carter fitting trade agreement on his act-up
similar so but hyper
came to crack down on copyright infringements on the internet
actor is an agreement among several nations around the world
clued in the united states and twenty-two members the e_u_
to establish a legal framework to protect property rights
agreement will go into effect six at fifty-six poor nations sign it something
that
weekends protests
we're trying to prevent
and finally new jersey governor chris christie is firmly staking out his
position on the wrong side of history
today the new jersey state senate is expected to pass a bill to legalize
same-sex marriage
and jersey state house is expected to be the same
following the footsteps of the washington state legislature
they're pretty marriage last week
suspect in washington the seven th st nation legally recognized the americans
the governor crist christy has vowed to veto the legislation new jersey choosing
instead to keep gays and lesbians as second-class citizens in that state
democrats in the state legislature trying to muster up enough votes to
override christie's veto
let's hope they succeeded because
and overcome the bigots
as part of the king famously said the ark of the moral universe is long
but it bends toward justice
that's the way it is today february thirteen went well
tom carver