After spending much
of the day on the downside, U.S. stocks reversed
course to rally sharply Friday afternoon, as
investors pushed through an ugly employment
report from the Labor Department and dismal
housing data from the Mortgage Bankers
Association.
Click here for video summary of what really
happened.
Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister and the
leader of United Russia Party, clarified his views on the socio-economic
situation in the country during his televised communication with the people
of Russia. Many of his answers did not seem to be inspiring to common people
and representatives of the business community. A man made a call from the
city of Penza and asked Putin point blank: “Is it true that you wanted to
hang Saakashvili by something?” “Why by something?” Putin responded
(AP) Guest lineup for the
Sunday TV news shows:___ABC's "This Week"; _ Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice, Ron Gettelfinger, president, United
Auto Workers.___CBS'
"Face the Nation"; _ Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Jeff
Sessions, R-Ala.___NBC's "
;Meet the Press"; _ President-elect Barack Obama.___
CNN's "
;Late Edition" _ Rice; Govs. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.,
Big labor unions have destroyed countless American
industries, including the Detroit automakers who are now begging
Congress for a bailout. But these unions don't just control
factories and assembly lines. Our public education system is a
slow-motion car crash, driven the same union special interests
that brought the auto companies to the brink of bankruptcy.
This insightful new video shows how teachers
unions protect bad and incompetent teachers, block school reform
efforts, and use their members' dues money to support a radical
left-wing agenda.
Compared to other developed countries, the
United States has the worst educational quality per dollar spent
on schools, ranking 18th in reading and 28th in math. Millions
of American children are being shortchanged by dysfunctional
schools, but efforts for education reform are invariably stopped
by powerful union interests.
These unions fight tooth and nail against any
meaningful change to their comfortable status quo - while
students and taxpayers pay the price.
After decades of denial, there is a growing
realization around the country that teachers unions' defense of
the status quo cannot continue. A new generation of reformers,
including Michelle Rhee, the chief of public schools in
Washington DC, are fighting those unions and pushing for renewed
accountability and an end to the broken tenure system.
TeachersUnionFacts.com is a project of the non-profit Center
for Union Facts. With your support, we can fix our public
schools and expel these special interest groups. Your
tax-deductible donation will help us show Americans the truth
about today's teachers unions.
Please make a contribution today, and forward this message
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back our schools.
As
a political party, we run candidates every November that wish to be
elected to office in order to push public policy in a Libertarian
direction. However, there is more to the Libertarian Party than just
running candidates for office. We are also one of the leading advocacy
groups for libertarian policy in the United States. That is why our
press releases, party communications, blog entries and party officials
are constantly talking about the Libertarian response to current issues.
Many times, we lead the way on key issues that other organizations have
not yet jumped on.
This is how we represent you, and what your donations fund.
Here are a few examples:
Bailouts, Bailouts, and More Bailouts
Soon
after the first news of potential bailouts was announced, the
Libertarian Party took the lead against the use of trillions of
dollars of taxpayer money to prop-up corporations who have made bad
lending decisions. It was the Libertarian Party who called for,
from the very beginning, the protection of taxpayers from these
plans, and to let the market work itself out.
While
others were debating whether to let the government intervene in the
economy, the
Libertarian Party said "NO!" to more regulation and more
government power.
Soon,
others began standing behind us.
The
Libertarian Party has now signed-on to a coalition letter from the
National Taxpayers Union calling for transparency in the
bailouts. Though it appears the government still plans to use your
money to bailout Wall Street, Detroit, and who knows who else?we are
at least on the front lines to ensure that money is not wasted even
further.
20,000 Uniformed Troops in Your Back Yard
In 1878,
the Posse Comitatus Act passed that forbid the use of the US
military in domestic law enforcement. Now, 130 years later, the
federal government has announced plans to deploy 20,000 troops for
duty inside the United States!
Who is
standing up to this? It's not the Republicans, and it's not the
Democrats. It's the Libertarian Party.
We have
taken the lead on fighting this by issuing
strong statements against the use of the military as
peacekeepers inside our own borders. Both
Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, and
Bill Redpath, the Libertarian Party's national chairman, have
strongly expressed our
concern and contempt for what Bill calls "evidence of a
disturbing trend of militarism in today's society."
Until the
book closes on this issue, the Libertarian Party will be fighting
for your Constitutional rights, even if no other political party
will do the same.
Operation ELECT-US
When one
election is over, the next one has already begun.
Operation ELECT-US is a initiative developed by the Libertarian
Party to recruit as many candidates as possible for winnable local
offices in 2009.
It is
said that all politics are local, and that is why the Libertarian
Party works hard to elect Libertarians to local office. From
smoking bans to fast food bans, many of these issues of liberty are
fought in council chambers of cities across America.
This is
where Libertarians need to be.
Our focus
on the local level is the reason why we have more than two hundred
Libertarians serving in office right now. The more Libertarians we
have running means more Libertarians are elected to office, which
then increases the exposure of the Libertarian Party.
Electing
Libertarians is how the Libertarian Party is serving you.
What Can Gold
Do For You?
These are just three examples of how we are standing up for you on a
daily basis.
Now, we ask that you stand up for us.
Your donation of
$25, $50, $100 or $1,000 will help the Libertarian Party continue to
be the beacon of liberty in the United States. With your help, we can
continue to lead the fight for smaller government, less taxes and more
individual freedom.
When you make your
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available at the bottom of the donation page) on how we can better serve
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Tell us what you'd like to see the Libertarian Party doing to protect
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help the Libertarian Party continue to be the Party of Liberty in the
United States.
Together, we can return America back to the vision of our Founding
Fathers�a country where government is restrained, and individuals are
free.
Live free,
Andrew Davis
Director of Communications
Libertarian Party
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The
massive layoffs now occurring in the USA will impact Obama voters the most.
6.7%of all USA workers are now without jobs.
When companies down size they try to keep their most intelligent people.
Most Obama voters are NOT very intelligent. Obama
voters were proven to be ignorant by Zogby November's unemployment
numbers are out and things are not looking good at all, especially for the USA's
most ignorant workers.
Employers cut 533,000 jobs, the most in 34 years, and the unemployment rate
rose to 6.7 percent.
The perfect storm, as Glenn Beck has been warning, is coming ashore.Are you prepared?c
(AP) Former
President Bill Clinton said Friday the U.S. government has
no choice but to spend its way out of its worst economic
crisis in decades. With the U.S. economy in a recession,
Clinton said President-elect Barack Obama must also shore up
plummeting property values; The big risk now for America
