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Here are some tweets that could use your love.  Help empower others voices by going and giving one or two of them a quick RT...

 Taifa Smith Butler 

Gov. Deal releases Competitiveness Initiative report--outlines more biz tax breaks and no REAL $$ investment in education--oversight?

 Climate Progress 

Warren Buffet’s Utility Explains Clean Energy Investment: “This Is a Vote for Renewable Energy. It is Not a Bet.” 

 Moira 

Indiana pushing ahead with right-to-work (for less) legislation even tho 69% of voters say slow down and allow debate. 

 John Schmitt 

"GDP growth disappointing in last quarter of 2011" says EPI's Josh Bivens 

 bryanlong 

 spreads the word about a viable way to fix the HOPE Scholarship. GA supports family income cap.

 NRDC 

What do the 16 scientists who signed this WSJ op-ed on have in common? NONE of them are climate scientists

 NRDC 

The  says there's no need to panic about climate change. Whew. Also, your dentist said not to worry about that stroke you're having.

 Tom Raftery 

RT :: what scares me more than climate change is how many relatively intelligent people don't see it as a problem

 SocSec Campaign 

 3.5 million+ in  rely on  yet candidates would send it on a raft to Cuba 

Occupy London, on Hayek, in the Financial Times

Fans of Friedrich von Hayek may be surprised to learn that the Austrian economist is the talk of Occupy London. Hayek’s observation that distributed intelligence in a voluntary co-operative is a hallmark of real economy rings true beneath the bells of St Paul’s. Occupy is often criticised for not having a single message but that misses the point: we are committed to incorporating different preferences before coming up with policies. In this sense, it could be said we work more like a market than the corporate boardroom or lobbyist-loaded politics – our ideas are radical but also just and democratically decided.

Debt itself is not an inter-generational burden #GOP #fail

Dean Baker reminds us that Government debt is not an inter-generational burden:

Since ownership of the debt will utlimately be passed on to future generations (ignoring the portion that is held by foreigners -- which a function of the trade deficit), the debt itself is not a generational burden.

It can raise important issues of distribution within generations and the taxes needed to pay for the debt can create economic distortions, but many other things also lead to economic distortions (like patents and copyrights).

To carry this point a step further, since deficits that stimulate the economy today are likely to increase investment (especially if they are used to finance public investment and education), they are likely to make out children richer. Furthermore, the Fed could simply hold this debt and use higher reserve requirements in future years to stem an inflationary impact from a greater volume of reserves in the banking system. In that case, interest on the debt would be paid directly back to the Treasury. Where is the burden on our kids?

Occupy the Courts – Pre-Events, March & Rally (FYI for my Atlanta readers)

Occupy the Courts – Pre-Events, March & Rally


Contacts: Don Dressel, Atlanta Move to Amend, 404-307-2405

Darlene Jones-Owens, Everyday People Occupy Atlanta, 770-328-9036


The January 21, 2010 Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United v FEC, outrageously equated corporate money with "free speech." Political cash from corporate sponsors is used abundantly and anonymously in campaigns, drowning out the voices of “We the People.” For three days this week, Atlanta organizations including Atlanta Move to Amend, OCCUPY Atlanta, Everyday People OCCUPY Atlanta, MoveOn Atlanta Council, GA Peace & Justice Coalition, Teamsters, AFL/CIO, Green Friends/Atlanta Friends Meeting, 350.0rg/Atl., GA Sierra Club, Georgia WAND, Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace, Citizens Climate Lobby, and Environment Georgia will join together to protest the second anniversary of the Citizens United ruling. Speakers and artists will deliver short but powerful messages on the impact the decision is having on our politics, jobs, schools, environment, public services, military, and basic freedoms.The press is invited to all events.

Event #1: Sign-Making Party

Wednesday, January 18: 5 – 9 PM
American Friends Service Center, 60 Walton Street. 

Event #2: Shoe-Toss at US Supreme Court

Thursday, January 19: 2 – 6 PM at 
Woodruff/Troy Davis Park, 91 Peachtree Street.
Bring an old shoe to toss at an image of the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court.

Event #3: Occupy the Courts March and Rally

Friday, January 20, 2012 1 – 4 PM

  • March from Woodruff/Troy Davis Park, 91 Peachtree Street to

  • Rally at the Courtyard of the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 75 Spring Street,

  • “Mourning Democracy” Funeral March back to Woodruff/Troy Davis Park