Bad Deeds for 4-23-2011

 

Republican “Medicare” Plan Will Cost an Additional $100,000 for Every Man, Woman, and Child in the Country – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that under the Republican Budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, the increase in the cost of buying Medicare equivalent policies would be $30 trillion more than the cost of Medicare. This additional waste comes to almost $100,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. This waste is a direct transfer from retirees to the insurance industry and the health care industry.

 

Families of the Workers That Were Killed on the Deep Water Horizon Rig in the Gulf of Mexico are Being Sued by TransOcean – The workers that were killed on the Deep Water Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico are now being sued by TransOcean. You didn’t read that wrong, the families and children of the men killed that day are being sued by the contractor to BP. Shelly Anderson is the widow of a rig worker and she appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan and revealed that TransOcean had brought a lawsuit against her and her children and the rest of the families that lost their loved one to limit their liability in the completely preventable explosion that killed her husband. Her lawyer who also appeared on the program explained that TransOcean was filing a suit in the court of their choosing and limits their liability to the value of the rig at the time that it sunk. That means after it exploded, and before it sunk.

 

Koch Industries Tells Employees How to Vote – On the eve of the November midterm elections, Koch Industries sent an urgent letter to most of its 50,000 employees advising them on whom to vote for and warning them about the dire consequences to their families, their jobs and their country should they choose to vote otherwise. The Nation obtained the Koch Industries election packet for Washington State—which included a cover letter from its president and COO, David Robertson; a list of Koch-endorsed state and federal candidates; and an issue of the company newsletter, Discovery, full of alarmist right-wing propaganda.

Legal experts interviewed for this story called the blatant corporate politicking highly unusual, although no longer skirting the edge of legality, thanks to last year’s Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which granted free speech rights to corporations.

The Kochs were major supporters of the Citizens United case; they were also chief sponsors of the Tea Party and major backers of the anti-“Obamacare” campaign. Through their network of libertarian think tanks and policy institutes, they have been major drivers of unionbusting campaigns in Wisconsin, Michigan and elsewhere.

 

Average Corporate CEOs Now Get $11.4 Million in Total Compensation; How are You Doing? – 2010 was a good year to make lots of money—if you were a CEO. CEOs of the largest companies received, on average, $11.4 million in total compensation last year, according to an analysis of 299 companies in the S&P 500 Index. Overall, CEOs of just 299 companies received a combined total of $3.4 billion in pay in 2010, enough to support 102,325 jobs paying the median wages for all workers. Are these CEOs being paid to expand their companies, grow the real economy and create good-paying jobs? Apparently not. According to the Federal Reserve, U.S. corporations held a record $1.93 trillion in cash on their balance sheets. A lack of business investment is one reason that more than 14 million Americans remain unemployed. During the past decade, CEOs of the largest American companies received more in compensation than ever before in U.S. history.

 

Republican Lies About the Deficit – Meet Big Mike. He’s gonna break down the Republican lies about deficit for you. Watch the video at the link.

 

Republicans Using Average Citizens as Bait
In the Superman movies, the villian realizes that Superman actually cares about humans and takes advantage of this weakness by harming innocent citizens.

In real life, the Republicans realize that Democrats actually care about humans and take advantage of this weakness by harming innocent citizens. To prevent further harm, Democrats give in to Republican leaders, allowing them to proceed with their real agenda of gathering up more power and riches for themselves and their meg-rich supporters.

Doesn’t the guy in the photos below look like he could play the role of Otis, Lex Luthor’s henchman?

 

Regards,

Jim