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Actually, "the Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do | Truthout - 0 views

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hear it again and variation after on a core message: if you tax rich people kills jobs. about job-killing tax hikes or that taxing the rich hurts jobs taxes kill jobs taxes take money out of the economy the they won't be able to provide jobs. ... on and o

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  • thinkahol * on 15 May 11
     
    You hear it again and again, varia­tion after varia­tion on a core mes­sage: if you tax rich peo­ple it kills jobs. You hear about "job-killing tax hikes," or that "tax­ing the rich hurts jobs," "taxes kill jobs," "taxes take money out of the economy, "if you tax the rich they won't be able to pro­vide jobs." ... on and on it goes. So do we rea­l­ly de­pend on "the rich" to "create" jobs? Or do jobs get created when they fill a need?
Felix Gryffeth

Cheney should face charges on use of torture - 0 views

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cheney bush torture

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  • dismiss the torture and murder of a human being is an unrepentant sociopath.
  • discussion of his fears, as if they somehow justify torture and murder.
  • inventing nightmare scenarios to come up with an excuse for torturing defenseless prisoners.
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  • The law anticipates this defense and rejects it in its entirety. It states that there are no “exceptional circumstances whatsoever ... that may be invoked as justification” for torture.
  • dismiss the torture and murder of a human being is an unrepentant sociopath.
  • to a discussion of his fears, as if they somehow justify torture and murder.
  • better display of our professed devotion to justice and human rights than anything afforded those who were condemned to torture without a trial.
  • What makes this argument so pathetic is that the people making it are often enthusiastic supporters of drone strikes.
  • excuse offered up by the conservative media is that the methods and tactics used didn’t meet the legal definition of torture. Unfortunately for them, that argument has already been tried and rejected in trials for war criminals.
  • law anticipates this defense and rejects it in its entirety. It states that there are no “exceptional circumstances whatsoever ... that may be invoked as justification” for torture. Cheney’s cowardice is simply not a legal defense for interrogation methods that included waterboarding, rectal rehydration and hypothermia
  • inventing nightmare scenarios to come up with an excuse for torturing defenseless prisoners.
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