Rick Santorum Warns Voters Of America’s Demise

Santorum, for all his talk about religion, values, morality and the consequenc­es that come with not adhering to his vision, neglects to explain about his former ties with K street and all the money that went back and forth, in many of the christian teachings worship of money is very bad. I would be very interested in his explanatio­n of his previous associatio­ns and behaviors and how he would reconcile his religious views with his political actions.
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Eating On $3.39 a Day Is No SNAP, Nevadans Find

What makes me so angry is that all this attention to the poor and the federal programs that are in place to help them survive, is so that the GOP can deflect from the real issue at hand; which is Have the economic and political policies that have been adopted in this country and are reflective of the GOP ideology been successful for the country as a whole? The answer is a resounding no. Therefore since the GOP can’t defend their policies on the overall value for the country, they use their energy to demonize the poor and blame them for using up all the financial resources. Since the GOP is hell bent in keeping those very resources for themselves in terms of low capital gains taxes and the lowest top income tax bracket ever 35%, they need the scapegoat of the poor and the lower classes to otherwise occupy middle class anger.
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Jan Brewer Recall Possible As Arizona Collective Bargaining Has Democrats, Unions Planning Protests

It seems to me that the GOP singular agenda is to rewind the clock and bring us back to the 19th century to the time of big time robber barons, unions weren’t even a blip on the screen, women, immigrants and minorities knew their place. There isn’t any forward thinking on their part, they are focused on big oil and big coal with newfound interest in natural gas, the fossil fuels of the past. Science has become something to be viewed with suspicion almost like the middle ages when Galileo was imprisoned by the church. To be excited for the future is to read progressiv­e journals and literature­, the GOP has become ossified.
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Wall Street Executives Thrive Under Obama But Still Won’t Support Him

The Wall Street power brokers don’t want to be associated with anyone talking about the need for policies to redress the imbalance in the concentrat­ion of wealth and power in our country. I am sure that the 1 percent long for the days before the Great Recession, when the 99 percent were more or less oblivious to the stagnating wage crisis due to the imagined wealth in the middle class and working class housing equity bubble. Those families thought that they had more of an equitable stake in our society and when the curtains fell away from the housing implosion and the 99 percent were left without jobs or housing equity, everyone woke up and realized that the balance had completely shifted to the 1 percent, we are now trying to figure out how the 99 percent can reclaim 40 years of lost ground.
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Assembling a new vacuum, an adventure

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eureka vacuum, obsolete appliances, postaday2012, rug beaters, upright vacuum

My vacuum of 17 years died recently, it was a remnant of the olden days when vacuums were made from very solid and heavy materials. I had to let the “silver pig” go the way of all obsolete appliances, it could no longer be resuscitated and goodness knows I have taken the silver pig apart so many times over the years, I could have qualified as a mechanic at this point. Alas, nowadays vacuums no longer come with durable parts, everything is plastic, as I came to find out when I took the Eureka vacuum out of the box.

It is an upright vacuum so you would think that it is more or less in one piece but no, the handle needed to be attached and the other small plastic parts that hold the hose which itself has to be snapped on, that didn’t illicit much confidence in the vacuum when I had finished assembling the vacuum. All the pieces made of plastic had to be snapped on, when something snaps on it stands to reason that it can then snap off, which two pieces did while I was vacuuming. All in all it did a decent job, I did hit a few snafu’s during the virgin run of the Eureka, I had to unclog the hose, the vacuum shut itself off when it felt that the canister was overfilled with dog hair, I do recognize that the automatic shutoff is a good safety feature. I did have to break out the screwdriver because 3/4 of the way through the first floor, the rug beaters weren’t turning anymore and I went to the manual that came with a spare belt and the manual suggested that the belt could have snapped which, after I undid the four screws of the casing, was the case. So all I had to do was lift the rod, slip the belt into place, re-screw the casing and I was able to finish the first floor, do the stairs and completely vacuum the upstairs, all four bedrooms and the bathroom. The upright does go smoothly from bare floor to various carpet heights and it does go from floor vacuuming to tool vacuuming very easily as well. I’m not as impressed as I’d like to be but my former vacuum was an exceptional piece of machinery and quite expensive. I didn’t feel that the expense was something that we should do right now. I’ll be fine with Eureka,like I said, I’m practically a licensed vacuum mechanic.