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ginger penske and for tom harkin here on the news you need to know this
meet the billionaire who is trying to buy the twenty twelve election for mit
romney
it's casino mobile shelving adelson
adelson has already contributed a whopping ten million bucks to mit
romney's corporate super pack slush fund forbes's quoting a source within the
adelson camp that says the billionaire plans to spend a limitless amount of
money to help romney during the election
sense no prices to hike to defend the nation from president obama's socialism
the source then floated the possibility of adelson spending as much as one
hundred million dollars until the election in favor of ronnie
according to forbes adelson is one of the fifteen richest people on the planet
with an estimated net worth of nearly twenty five billion
meaning he could bankroll an entire one billion dollar presidential campaign
and hardly notice
welcome to the brave new world of american politics
billionaires only are welcome
inscribed eras the world's richest man in mexican telecom tycoon carlos slim
doesn't have to worry about his own retirement
but he wants the rest of the world to worry about theirs
speaking to the newspaper el universal slim called in
on end developed nations around the world to raise their respective
retirement great beaches to seventy
slim argues that simply people are living longer today
therefore they should be working longer too
slim echoes what a lot of very wealthy people in the united states are arguing
for raising the eligibility age for social security from sixty-five to
seventy
that includes multimillionaires like congressman paul ryan and billionaires
like lobbyist pete peterson
but what these oligarchy don't understand is they are the only ones
living longer
the rest of america's workers are not
according to the economic policy institute the top fifty percent of
wealthiest americans
have seen their life expectancy go up dramatically from seventy nine years to
more than eighty five years
but the bottom fifty percent of americans
have only seen modest gains with their life expectancy creeping up from seventy
seven point seven years seventy nine point six years
with the new deal the economic elite made a deal with working americans that
their basic needs would be met
with the social safety net
but today the elites are shredding that deal and trying to bring feudalism back
to america
the best of the rest of the news jamie diamond was lobbed softballs yesterday
and what was supposed to be
a severe senate grilling of the j p morgan chase c_e_o_
rather than demanding to know what led to the three billion dollars in sudden
losses at the bank
senators just up to diamond
senators on both sides of the aisle including chuck schumer bike grateful
and bob corker
tried to justify diamonds losses and even asked ivan to recommend regulations
that
congress should place on the banks
as the republic report details the kid gloves approach senators had to diamond
has a lot to do with the campaign contributions they've received from
diamonds bank
senator schumer corker and pray bull all have j p morgan chase
as their top political donor this election cycle
still doubt that we have the best government money can buy
according to a new study by the institute for economics in peace the
world is getting more peaceful but the united states is still a pretty violent
place to live
the just-released twenty ten global peace index ranks the nations of the
world based on how peaceful they are
taking into consideration things like prison populations political instability
wars and military expenditures
iceland ranked first on the global peace index which the united states ranked
eighty aids out of one hundred
fifty eight nations no surprise considering the u_s_ has the highest
incarceration rate in the world
and is currently waging a limitless war on so-called terror in several nations
across the middle east asia and africa
more than a half century ago dwight eisenhower warns the nation about the
growing influence of the military industrial complex
tragically his warnings were ignored
rhode island is now the seventeen th st to the nation to decriminalize
possession of a small amount of marijuana
independent governor lincoln chafee sign the legislation into law
which makes possession of an counts of marijuana
or last a civil violation with a one hundred fifty dollar fine
step off felony or misdemeanor
seven more states may join rhode island in the second
half of this year
and may even go a step
and legalize and regulate marijuana
like alcohol
the long overdue nixon's half-century war on drugs maybe finally
nearing its and
the republican war on women has reached the military republican staffer in the
house told the army times that house republicans plan to restrict military
women's
access to abortion
in cases of *** and ***
bipartisan support a senate committee approved the amendment giving military
when in the same access to abortion cases of *** and *** as ordinary
citizens but the house republicans say they have social objections to the
amendment
and will likely strip it out of the national defense authorization bill
that means that two hundred thousand women serving in our nation's military
won't have the same rights to reproductive health services
as other women in america
and that's the way it is i'm ginger density in for tom apartment