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Mar 14 · so what else is new, eh?
But I have been going through some IRS stats from table 5 here
Here is a summary.
In 1986, the top 1% had 11.299% of all income. In 2006, they had 22.062%. In order to be in the top 1% you need a household AGI of $388,806.
In 1986, the bottom 50% had 16.661% of all income. In 2006, they had 12.515%. In order to be in the bottom 50% you need a household income of less than $31,987. In 1986, that number was $15,786. But in 2006 dollars, that 1986 number is $3
Mar 13 · This is a tragic story. A lovely Winter Haven home with unbelievable problems.
From the Winter Haven Newschief:
George Aycrigg / News Chief, file The Garrison family Joseph, left, Daphne, Danielle, Jacob and Joe in front of their dream home that is falling down due to wood rot. Monday, December 28, 2009.
They did all the right things folks should do when buying a home.
WINTER HAVEN - Nestled among magnolia trees, the stately traditional home at Cypresswood Golf and Country
Mar 14 · Let me get this straight. The Senate will pass a public option if the House will. And the House will, because it already did. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t allow it. So the mortal enemy of public-option backers is . . . Dennis Kucinich.
Why? Because when Congressman Kucinich said he'd stand for a public option he stupidly thought he was supposed to mean it.
Let's review a brief history of the disease known as "health insurance reform."
When the president and the speaker o
Mar 14 · As long as we're going to dump most of our money into wars and the military and Wall Street and health insurance bailouts, students are going to have to go into debt to afford college. But it would cost the students less and the government less, if private companies were not permitted to act as middlemen profiting off public loans to students.
One of the companies so profiting, Sallie Mae, is based here in Virginia and funnels millions of dollars from its profits into lobbying to make sure t
Mar 13 · When I learned a few days ago that Michele Bachmann was going to be holding a “Kill the Bill” rally at the Minnesota State Capitol I knew that I had to be there. While I have my problems with the bill that is currently being pushed through Congress, this rally was obviously about something much larger than this particular bill. The people holding this rally were not just against the current bill, they were against any government assistance which provides health care to those who are less fortu
Mar 13 ·
...They would make it a PRECONDITION for passing HCR.
:kick:
Grayson's Medicare Buy In bill, if Democrats are to be taken at their word, should be a no-brainer:
The Senate was ON THE VERGE OF PASSING HRC that INCLUDED a Medicare Buy In until the Administration pressured Reid to bow to Lieberman's threats to deny HCR its 60th vote. . . . And now 51 Senators now say they will , if the House acts first.
Yet on the same day this , Nancy Pelosi
If Nancy Pelosi an
Mar 12 · This is stunning to me...that 70 schools in Detroit are being replaced with 70 new schools. The group doing the taking over is called Excellent Schools Detroit. It is apparently a coalition of groups with vast power.
Someone must have allowed this takeover to happen. It appears the Gates Foundation, the Skillman Foundation, and probably the Broad Foundation through Robert Bobb, one of their Broad superintendents are quite wealthy and influential groups. Public education is being hand
Mar 12 · I'll start by saying that I feel very, very badly for anyone that doesn't have health insurance. I do know how that feels. I don't want to rub it in anyone's face, but I do want to vent a little.
So, in Oklahoma, believe it or not, we have state subsidized health insurance for those people who make below a certain, mandated, amount of money. Last year, my husband qualified for it, based upon his, and my income. Even though I have my own insurance, both of our incomes are calculated into the equ
Mar 12 · This is a fascinating page of "evidence" that dinosaurs lived with men.
A big hat tip to for this "treasure" of a link.
Vast numbers of Christian evangelicals take issue with the "science" of Ross and Dewitt. They prefer to believe that, with everything else going on, Noah's family found the time to toss scraps of flesh to velociraptors and shovel vegetable matter into the mouths of triceratops. ("Don't turn your back on that one!" "Watch out for those horns!") The website Top Ten Pro
Mar 12 · Wilkerson, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, interviewed by Lawrence O'Donnell tonight (12 March 2010) on the matter of Karl Rove's book and its attempts to justify the use of torture techniques during the Bush administration.
WILKERSON: "Let me say this, I saw - I had the highest clearance, Top Secret SCI - I saw almost everything Secretary Powell saw. I saw no proof of any of the things that Karl Rove indicated, and, as a matter of fact, no proof that a
Mar 12 · Call it the calm before the storm. Democrats in Washington are going through one of those "It's quiet out there... too quiet..." cliché moments, as everyone holds their breath in anticipation of the beginning of the end of the health reform debate in Congress.
What everyone's waiting on is for Congress to leap into action. But, in a surprising twist, this time it might actually happen.
OK, that was a cheap shot, I freely admit. What we're really all waiting for is the Congressional Budg
Mar 12 · 'The Times Botched the Story', Author Says About ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax on 'Democracy Now!'
President of National Housing Institute decries: 'Act of defunding ACORN by Congress is a national disgrace'...
"This reporting was done by not just the right-wing press, but every one of the mainstream press, and I’m talking about...the New York Times," said John Atlas, author of the new book Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America’s Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Group on this morning's
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