NYTimes: With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules. More of the same from big money
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Ayn Rand Hates AmericaNYTimes: With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules. More of the same from big money
This is same song , third verse. Regulations are neutered and pushed back so that more money can be made. Who wins? Not us. From The New York Times: With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules A ferocious pushback led Education Department and White House officials to relax an effort to cut off the huge flow of federal financial aid to unfit educational programs. http://nyti.ms/syzQvE
Buy Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too, Joplin! Available at Amazon.com for Kindle Also on Barnes and Noble for Nook Coming soon in paperback! Oh how I wish we had Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt today...a quote that applies today
Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses —whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter. Such a man is only the more dangerous if he occasionally does some deed like founding a college or endowing a church, which makes those good people who are also foolish forget his real iniquity. These men are equally careless of the working men, whom they oppress, and of the State, whose existence they imperil. There are not very many of them, but there is a very great number of men who approach more or less closely to the type, and, just in so far as they do so approach, they are curses to the country. (Forum, February 1895.) Mem. Ed. XV, 10; Nat. Ed. XIII, 9.
From Andrew Sullivan, the quote of the day
"Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever's left out there. Ask them about that," - Barack Obama.
Republicans really aren't as concerned about voter fraud as they are denying blacks and the poor the right to vote
The continuing myth of voter fraud
Buy Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too, Joplin! Available at Amazon.com for Kindle Also on Barnes and Noble for Nook Coming soon in paperback! It is a shame that it takes personal tragedy to realize that healthcare should be for allWOMAN WHO ATTACKED OBAMA OVER HEALTH CARE REFORM APOLOGIZES AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS | In an op-ed titled “‘Obamacare to the rescue,” a woman who was once so angered by the Affordable Care Act that she left the Democratic Party is apologizing to President Obama. Spike Dolomite Ward found out three weeks ago that she has breast cancer. She and her husband had given up their health insurance to pay their mortgage, and she didn’t know how she would afford months of expensive treatment. But then she discovered that she could receive coverage under the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, which is part of ACA. Ward specifically addresses other opponents of health care reform who might not understand her plight because they have insurance through their employer. “[T]hings can change abruptly. If you still have a good job with insurance, that doesn’t mean that you’re better than me, more deserving than me or smarter than me. It just means that you are luckier. And access to healthcare shouldn’t depend on luck,” she said.
More on Romney, the "Job-Creator" Why exactly are people like him superior to government people?From the LA Times: Bain managers said their mission was clear. "I never thought of what I do for a living as job creation," said Marc B. Walpow, a former managing partner at Bain who worked closely with Romney for nine years before forming his own firm. "The primary goal of private equity is to create wealth for your investors." Four of the 10 companies Bain acquired declared bankruptcy within a few years, shedding thousands of jobs. The prospectus shows that Bain investors profited in eight of the 10 deals, including three of the four that ended in bankruptcy. -- LA Times Article here
Buy Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too, Joplin! Available at Amazon.com for Kindle Also on Barnes and Noble for Nook Coming soon in paperback! Too much government in business? Where's the evidence?
I submit for your consideration Massey Energy and ask why there wasn't more government in this business, so that thirty + people might still be alive.
Massey is paying $200 million in fines and settlements for among other things: a “perfect storm” of poor ventilation, equipment whose safety mechanisms were not functioning and combustible coal dust. Federal investigators have also said that Massey kept two sets of books so that accounts of hazardous conditions in Upper Big Branch would be kept hidden from inspectors. -- Big government was really oppressive towards Massey Energy before the explosion: In the year prior to the explosion, Upper Big Branch was cited by safety inspectors 515 times and ordered to shut down operations on 52 occasions. In case you weren't familiar with the case, Don Blankenship the CEO had destroyed lives, the environment and other businesses with reckless abandon for years. He even bought, yes bought for $3 million, the state's supreme court. So much for state's rights and local regulation. And Republicans tell us he wasn't taking home enough of his $18 million paycheck he received for negligent homicide. NY Times link: Buy Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too, Joplin! Available at Amazon.com for Kindle Also on Barnes and Noble for Nook Coming soon in paperback! The most Mitt Romney ad possible, "It's Morning Again On Wall Street"
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Ouch...now Huntsman piles on Romney. This only helps our side. I believe Romney will win the nomination
but there will be a bad taste in the mouth of the rabid right wingers, which hopefully will suppress their turnout
Check out the Tim Corrimal Podcast for this week, I am a guest and we talk about my book, Ayn Rand Hates TuscaloosaEpisode 189 – Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too, Joplin!December 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment The Tim Corrimal Show
On episode 189 of The Tim Corrimal Show, I am joined at the round table by Joseph (@Marnus3 on Twitter), Sarah (@s_cosgrove on Twitter) from the “Mashrabiyya Blog” and George Kelley (@aynhatesamerica on Twitter), who is the author of “Ayn Rand Hates Tuscaloosa, And You Too, Joplin!“ You can check out George’s blog at http://www.aynhatesamerica.com, his website at http://www.onesinglecandle.com/ and his book is available in electronic format at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. On today’s show, we start out with introductions and then a discussion about George’s new book. Then after the “All A Tweetie” segment, we move on to the GOP 2012 Clown Car Update featuring Herman Cain exiting the race, Ron Paul’s ad against Newt Gingrich and Newt’s speech about debating President Obama using all sorts of dog whistle statements and ending with “Unlike the President, I study American History”. Then after a good word from our friends at BubbleGenius.com, we discuss the Iowa students challenging Michele Bachmann on Same Sex Marriage. And finally we close out with the Foxisms of the Week segment. Join in the Fun. Call the listener line at 202-657-4277, leave a message and we’ll play it on the show. Also be sure to follow me, @timcorrimal on Twitter. The Tim Corrimal Show is now available on the Stitcher.com Mobile App for your Smart Phone or Tablet. Also be sure and check out Larry the Liberal’s Progressive America Droid App which is available at http://droidmill.com/progressive-america-131721.html Be sure and support my co-host, Dave, and his wife in the Illinois Marathon raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at http://bit.ly/rEI8Kb |
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