Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (43774)	5/15/2013 11:41:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"think of domestic issues." I am. RR increased government employees, raised SS taxes, raised income taxes, raised corporate taxes, quadrupled the deficit while tripling the debt, and was a Keynesian who spent money to increase employment. Raygun "I support the Brady Bill" signed gun laws in Calif. cuz he didn't want the Panthers to exercise their second amendment rights. Environmentalist Raygun signed the world's first coastal protection plan. Gay marriage wasn't an issue, but he had many gay friends in Hollywood, and one daughter says he'd be in favor. = every federal budget for more than four decades has provided public funds to Planned Parenthood and the preventative health care services they provide. That would include, by the way, budgets approved under five Republican presidents -- Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Bush -- none of whom saw the need to scrap funding for the health organization washingtonmonthly.com The 2013 Appalachian Voices report, "Growth of U.S. Coal Jobs: Federal Data Showing Coal Mining Employment Trending Higher Since 2009," looks at Mining Safety and Health Administration data on coal mining jobs, which shows that the average number of coal-mining jobs under the Obama administration has been 15.3 percent higher than the average under George W. Bush. The report points to increased exports and decreasing productivity - requiring more workers to extract harder to reach coal - as reasons for the increase. = California Proposition 6 was an initiative on the California State ballot on November 7, 1978, [1] and was more commonly known as The Briggs Initiative. [2] Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County, the failed initiative would have banned gays and lesbians, and possibly anyone who supported gay rights, from working in California's public schools. The Briggs Initiative was the first failure in a movement... Openly gay San Francisco native and politician Harvey Milk was instrumental in fighting the measure, and opposition from a variety of public figures from California Governor Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter helped to defeat it. Public opinion swung fairly quickly from general support of Proposition 6 to what became overwhelming opposition. en.wikipedia.org