CountMore.org gives advice to college students on where to register to vote (home state or college state) for their vote to count for the most in the electoral college. It’s a great college voting resouce.
I would like to propose my own bailout plan. My suggestions, listed below, are predicated on the singular and simple belief that the rich must pull themselves up by their own platinum bootstraps. Sorry, fellows, but you drilled it into our heads one too many times: There… is… no… free… lunch.
A must-read proposal.
Senator Bernie Sanders:
For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.
(Via DF, via µ Slabs, via Democracy Now!)
Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families (even though more than half of American think he’ll raise their taxes).
Calculate your tax cut at ObamaTaxCut.com
NYT:
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, the longest-serving Republican senator in United States history and a figure of great influence in Washington as well as in his home state, has been indicted in connection with a federal corruption investigation.
Yes! Lock the man up and get someone non-senile in there instead.
You may remember Stevens from his series of tubes remarks or simply from the fact that he’s the king of pork-barrel politics in the Senate.