Funny that you'd post that after defending the OWS stance against reporting sexual assault to police. From your source:
No mention of getting the rapists counselling there, let alone making it the sole action to be taken.Women need to know that they can call their experiences "rape" and report them as crimes.
Speaking of Wall Street, it's getting hammered again today. The Dow is down by more than 300 points right now.
Not good…
Inability of Republicans to compromise after pledging to Grover Norquist that they won't raise taxes is a big part of the problem. Why is the GOP beholden to this idiot?
Because spending cuts will mainly affect poor and middle class which are already hit heavily by the crisis?
On the contrary, Demecrats HAVE comprised to make spending cuts, but Republicans have not compromised to raise taxes, or cut spending on defense. I see no compromise coming from Republicans at all.
The current set of ninnies in Congress are doing nothing to inspire people and companies to release the purse strings. Cutting the deficit won't help in that matter. Demand needs to rise, not supply.
One of the problems with companies not spending their cash though is that they are extremely (and IMO correctly) concerned about how the level of government deficit and debt is going to affect them.
Really? I have a hard time believing that. That's just rightwing propaganda.
I think they are more concerned about not being able to pay monstrous amounts to their top execs. The large debt actually is keeping interest rates low, and more money in the pool.
One of our corporate muckity-mucks came down last month and stated flat out that we would not be doing any front office hiring and minimal hourly hiring until the real costs and effects of Obamacare were determined. Single data point, but conclude what you will.Really? I have a hard time believing that. That's just rightwing propaganda.
I think they are more concerned about not being able to pay monstrous amounts to their top execs. The large debt actually is keeping interest rates low, and more money in the pool.
I think that's the result of "Super Congress" gridlock. Apparently your lawmakers (on both sides) are completely incapable of reaching any sort of conclusions on anything…
One of our corporate muckity-mucks came down last month and stated flat out that we would not be doing any front office hiring and minimal hourly hiring until the real costs and effects of Obamacare were determined. Single data point, but conclude what you will.
You'd think that after a couple of years, that would be figured out by now? Sounds like an excuse…