American money stinks

This video is depressingly hilarious. 
It's important for us to remember that well designed policy matters, even on a microlevel; and to understand that we can make a positive difference in peoples' lives by making small changes.

See below for how the Euro successfully deals with the problem.

The bills are different sizes! Who woulda thought?

You stay classy, Republican party...

The videos speak for themselves...Shameful

Society is crumbling from within! Save yourself!

Today marked the first day that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was officially repealed. A Clinton-era compromise (Republicans and centrist Democrats didn't want gay men and women serving in the military at ALL) that allowed gay people to serve in the military starting in the early 90s, DADT has utterly failed to make the military more stable, us safer, and cost the U.S. government millions of dollars in lost investment in trained personnel and more importantly the loss of tens of thousands of brave men and women who were willing to fight and die on behalf of our country.

This is indeed an historic moment; one that gets close to Truman's achievement of desegregating the Army in the 1950s. So here comes the mass moral decay of our country and the dissolve of unit cohesion, right? Watch the video below of a current U.S. soldier being unburdened by just telling the truth about who he is.

My favorite moment -

Soldier: "Do you want to tell Mom for me?
Dad: Laughter..."I don't believe so..."

Republican logic - new stimulus to cost close to $0

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the small-ball initiatives that President Obama will propose tonight in his "Jobs Address" will cost roughly $300-$400B. However, due to the fact that President Obama is choosing to lay out a distinctly bipartisan plan instead of a dramatic liberal jobs agenda, much of the proposed legislation is comprised of - you guessed it - tax cuts!


And we know from our favorite congressional Republicans, that tax cuts that they propose, don't qualify as government spending! Tax cuts merely allow you to keep more of your freedom money, that you earned. And luckily, none of that money that you consented to spending by voting for representatives who spent it on political priorities you agreed with is currently allocated to funding two and a half (Libya) wars, social security payments, medicare payments, an unpaid prescription drug bill, aging infrastructure, increased veterans healthcare benefits due to said wars anything at the moment.

So forget that big fairly modest amount considering the high unemployment figure number! When all is said and done Republicans will not agree to the $130B in infrastructure spending which will actually do more to create jobs than any other stimulative policy, as today's CNN article on the stimulus stated,

"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the parts of the program that got the most criticism -- actual spending on projects and aid packages -- was the most effective in creating jobs." (emphasis mine)

So of the roughly leftover $170B in tax cuts, by the Republicans own logic will cost the government $0, because it won't be spending any money.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy your $0 stimulus. It's not costing you anything.