Congress should focus on the "Confidence of the American" mean (ContributorNetwork)

Comment | Whenever the political press uses the word "confidence", it means rather sensitive feelings of Wall Street and business tycoons. You see, at heart, these cutthroats are really sensitive flowers, that even the reference to taxes or regulations could send them dans a fading out. This is why the Republican budget proposal slashes so health insurance and other parts of our social safety net - in order to avoid disturbing these snowflakes special and unique by making bear them their share of this burden.

It is the theory. So how has it worked so far? Thus, Wall Street profits are soaring at the same time that the rate of unemployment. So if the idea was that giving corporate money would create jobs, it does not appear to have worked that.

Here's why our representatives at the Congress should worry more about the "confidence" of the average American and give us the kind of breaks that they give the rich:

It creates jobs

The idea behind "Reaganomics", "If"theory was that by giving people rich alms of Government (through subsidies or tax breaks) money would "redistribute" for the poor. But as the links above show, it is the case record income inequality, which is not surprising since it is basically a socialism for the rich.

If you have given Apple $ 1 billion tax relief, it would probably just add to its Treasury of $ 60 billion. That is money that is not spent to create jobs. Whereas if you gave to 1 billion in food stamps, which is $ 1 billion that is immediately passed to buy food for the hungry poor. Money flows through the economy by putting more Americans to work to manage the increase in demand. He gets a job and prevents your grandmother to eat food of chat... which is no way to love?

It is the thing without cruelty

It is easy for the rich Republicans like Rush Limbaugh to accuse the poor to be lazy. But when confronted with real disabled and poor people that programs like food stamps and health insurance are designed to help - as it was on one of his radio programs - it a même de answer "I talk to people like you." He knows even what being a stub is like.

Here's a newsflash for Rush: people choose to be in these situations. The unemployment rate is so high because people are lazy and do not want to work, it is so high, because there are more unemployed there jobs. And new jobs that are created all tend to be overseas.

The way things are at the moment, in a country where you have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" you beg for the whole of the foregoing. If you have lost your job, you have to beg for a new, because without it you don't have health insurance and can't make your mortgage payments or rent. And holes more than the Republicans cut in our social safety net, you have to beg and I hope that someone who wants to make money feels like taking a chance on you.

These things are supposed to be rights. Why should we have to beg for them?

It is clear

Government is increasing spending on projects of works during the 1930s and World War II, during the 1940s, as the countries of the great depression. It put Americans back to work, and he put money in their pockets, allowing them to save the hospice or begging.

What debt going is to is to keep alive of hungry people. This is why we should be concerned about the poor and the unemployed now, instead of pocketing of rich people to all other costs. Because that is what this debate on the "deficit" is really for.

Acts of Congress stop fake caller ID fraud (CBS News)

(AP)  Congress moved Wednesday stop scammers who use fake caller IDs to deceive people by revealing social security numbers of card credit and other essential information.

House lawmakers try to finish the work of the year has also adopted a second consumer protection law that would crack down on vendors of third parties attacking people during the online purchase transactions.

Previously, the Senate passed two bills and votes in the Assembly send them to Barack Obama President for his signature.

Invoice ID calling, sponsored by representatives Eliot Engel, D - N.y., and Joe Barton, R - Tex, the question of the ?spoofing addresses of ? where scammers use the ID of the caller, for example, a bank or a Government to deceive people by providing private information Office.

Engel cited a case where the New York City police discovered an identity theft ring that uses the ID caller spoofing steal $ 6,000 victims more than 15 million last year. In another case, a SWAT team has closed a neighbourhood of New Brunswick, New Jersey, after receiving a call with an ID of fake calling someone in distress.

Rep Tim Murphy, R-in Pennsylvania, said that he was a spy phone that constituents bombarded by calls that reveals his Office.

The draft law applies to persons who use IDs of the appellant, the number appearing on the phone of the person who receives the call, to defraud or harm unfairly obtain something of value.

Exceptions are made for the application of the law or who need to hide or change the IDs of the activities of intelligence or organizations such as the centres of violence home change numbers to protect the occupants of a shelter.

The Bill authorizes civil penalties of up to $10,000 for each offence, until a total of 1 million dollars for every single act.

Online purchasing protection Act deals with a practice where third-party vendors interrupt online transaction process and try to register consumers as clients or members of the club. Consumers may not realize that they are dealing with another company and they can register for membership for which they are then responsible for recurring monthly fees.

Senator John d. Rockefeller, Trade Committee President and promoter of the Bill, said well-known, trustworthy sites are hundreds of millions of dollars by passing on information of their customers, including credit and debit card numbers, billing to these third party vendors.

He said a one-year investigation by its Committee revealed that these costs unauthorized third-party vendors have already cost consumers more than 1 billion.

Bill would require the post-transaction advertisers disclose the terms of their offers and information billing directly to consumers. Prohibit Internet retailers to transfer information from billing to third-party vendors and cracking down on use of ?negative options? where consumers are charged monthly until they communicate with vendor third to cancel their membership fees.

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