Comments - Transition Whatcom Election Forum - Transition Whatcom2024-03-28T13:26:03Zhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/comment/feed?attachedTo=2723460%3AEvent%3A69377&xn_auth=noThebest way to ensure the So…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-11-15:2723460:Comment:728742011-11-15T06:47:11.285ZRichard McManushttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DickMcManus
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<p>The<br></br>best way to ensure the Social Security program’s long-term solvency is to lift<br></br>the ceiling on income subject to Social Security payroll taxes (now $106,800.)<br></br>We need Medicare for all. Medicare has lower administrative costs than private<br></br>insurers.</p>
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<p>We<br></br>should tax carbon-based fuels, and divide the revenues equally among all<br></br>Americans. It’s the best way to get us to switch to non-carbon fuels,…</p>
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<p>The<br/>best way to ensure the Social Security program’s long-term solvency is to lift<br/>the ceiling on income subject to Social Security payroll taxes (now $106,800.)<br/>We need Medicare for all. Medicare has lower administrative costs than private<br/>insurers.</p>
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<p>We<br/>should tax carbon-based fuels, and divide the revenues equally among all<br/>Americans. It’s the best way to get us to switch to non-carbon fuels, and<br/>stimulate research and development of them. And by dividing the revenues, the<br/>typical American would come out ahead even though some prices would increase.</p>
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<p>We<br/>may need global anti-trust rules for transnational corporations which now exist<br/>only at national level and to limit how closely tied transnational corporations<br/>are, one possible solution: firms should be taxed for excess interconnectivity<br/>to discourage this risk.</p>
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<p>Source:<br/><b>Robert<br/>Reich on the Economy</b></p>
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<li><b>Support a Financial Transaction Tax</b> – This was proposed in 1971 by Nobel Laureate<br/> economist James Tobin “to throw some sand in the gears of our excessively<br/> efficient money markets.” This proposal would apply a sales tax on Wall<br/> Street transactions and serve as a brake on high frequency computer<br/> trading that significantly increases market volatility. According to a<br/> recent <i>New York Times</i> article, a tax of just .5 % could raise up to<br/> $175 billion in revenue a year, even if the total number of transactions<br/> were reduced by half.</li>
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<li><b>Close the “Carried Interest” Loophole in the Capital Gains Tax</b> – This loophole allows managers of<br/> financial partnerships, such as hedge funds, private equity funds, venture<br/> capital funds and real estate funds to pay tax on bonuses at just 15 % rather<br/> than the personal income rate of 35%. Closing the loophole would raise $20<br/> billion over the next decade.</li>
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<li><b>End tax breaks to oil & gas companies</b> – It’s time to end the tax breaks and<br/> subsidies for big oil companies. The big five oil companies have made more<br/> than $1 trillion the last decade as gas prices for the consumer have<br/> risen. It’s estimated that eliminating subsidies could reduce the debt by<br/> up to $122 billion over a decade.</li>
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<li>We<br/> need to resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act and <u>break up the biggest banks.</u> And we should have a tax on financial<br/> transactions. Even a tiny one of one-half of one percent would generate<br/> $200 billion a year.</li>
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<li>We<br/> need to end the Federal Reserve System and return the control of the money<br/> supply to the US Treasury Department.</li>
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<li>The<br/> bottom line is super capitalism will no longer works because we are<br/> running out of cheap oil and other resources. </li>
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<p> check out my online book and<br/>learn about the crimes of the CIA and US war crimes</p>
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<p><b><i>SOME UNKNOWN HISTORY OF<br/>THE U.S.</i></b><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/messages">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/messages</a></p>
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<p><b>Operation<br/>Mockingbird /CIA propaganda directed at Americans</b></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/message/434">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/message/434</a></p>
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<p>The political party of the working class has refused to<br></br>demand justice</p>
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<p>Sept. 13, 2011: Former Co-Chair of<br></br>the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence<br></br>Committee, Bob Graham called for a new 9/11…</p>
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<p>The political party of the working class has refused to<br/>demand justice</p>
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<p>Sept. 13, 2011: Former Co-Chair of<br/>the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence<br/>Committee, Bob Graham called for a new 9/11 investigation.</p>
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<p><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/the-co-chair-of-the-congressional-inquiry-into-911-and-former-head-of-the-senate-intelligence-committee-calls-for-a-new-911-investigation.html">http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/the-co-chair-of-the-congressional-inquiry-into-911-and-former-head-of-the-senate-intelligence-committee-calls-for-a-new-911-investigation.html</a></p>
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<p><b>The World Trade Center buildings collapsed<br/>was due to controlled demolitions</b></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPNRrylH00&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPNRrylH00&feature=related</a></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/850">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/850</a><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2FNewsViewsnolose%2Fmessage%2F851&h=MAQCdbeAoAQAS7rkqgi3yAJbYZJw1RFi0pIDlO8UlfPRKdw">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/851</a><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/852">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/852</a></p>
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<h6>The false federal indictment and imprisonment<br/>without a trial of CIA contract agent, Susan Lindauer SEE<br/><br/><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43zl4fzDQg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43zl4fzDQg</a></h6>
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<p><b>People<br/>who want a new investigation of events of 9/11</b></p>
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<p><a href="http://www2.ae911truth.org/signpetition.php#supporters">1,598</a> architectural and engineering professionals</p>
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<p>400+<br/>Professors and PhDs in physics, <strong>Metallurgical Engineering, Materials<br/>Engineering,</strong> Structural Dynamics, Aeronautical<br/>Engineering</p>
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<p><br/><br/>Also google “Questioning Patriots”</p>
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<p><b>Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth</b><b> </b></p>
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<p>Fixing the economic mess we are in:</p>
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<p>We<br/>need Medicare for all. Medicare has lower administrative costs than private<br/>insurers.</p>
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<p>There<br/>should be a 2 percent annual surtax on all fortunes over $7 million. This would<br/>only hit the richest half a percent of Americans at the very top of the heap.<br/>And would yield $70 billion a year – enough to improve our schools and make<br/>college affordable to everyone. </p>
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<p>The<br/>best way to ensure the Social Security program’s long-term solvency is to lift<br/>the ceiling on income subject to Social Security payroll taxes (now $106,800.)<br/>We need Medicare</p> Dick McManus for Congress, D…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-11-15:2723460:Comment:728722011-11-15T06:44:13.263ZRichard McManushttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DickMcManus
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<p><b>Dick McManus for Congress, D – WA 2012</b></p>
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<p>Democrat, Everett, WA<b> </b></p>
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<p>I request your<br></br>endorsement and it doesn’t matter to me where you live.</p>
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<p>I believe that in order for the<br></br>citizens to know who they really are,…</p>
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<p><b>Dick McManus for Congress, D – WA 2012</b></p>
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<p>Democrat, Everett, WA<b> </b></p>
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<p>I request your<br/>endorsement and it doesn’t matter to me where you live.</p>
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<p>I believe that in order for the<br/>citizens to know who they really are, public officials and candidate must speak<br/>up on all issues, not just local and state issues. Some national issues go to<br/>the very heart of who they are.</p>
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<p><br/><br/>1. We need to add a statement to the Democratic Party<br/>platform "Human evolution is a fact." Why? It is because it is the<br/>duty of honorable citizens to speak truth to witch-doctors who run for office.<br/><br/><br/><br/>2. Population growth is a problem.<br/><br/><br/><br/>3. We demand the prosecution of Bush et. al. for high<br/>crimes and war crimes.<br/><br/><br/><br/>4. We demand a new investigation of the events on 9/11.</p>
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<p>5 <br/>We need to require the super rich to pay more into social security</p>
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<p><br/><br/>We need to<br/>re-name the Reagan airport after <b>William E. Dodd. </b> <u>History matters</u><b>.</b></p>
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<p> <b>William E. Dodd,</b> was the US ambassador to<br/>Germany starting in 1933. He repeated requested to his bosses back at the State Department to<br/>allow him to make one sort of protest or another regarding the Nazis’ treatment<br/>of the Jews. Invariably, his requests<br/>were denied.</p>
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<p>The Nazis paid<br/>attention to their image in the United States. They never abandoned their<br/>penchant for violence, but early on they sometimes moderated it and always lied<br/>about it.</p>
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<p><b>Where I stand on all the issues - also called<br/>a platform</b></p>
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<p><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/885">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/885</a></p>
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<p><b>Background of why I stand on issues:</b></p>
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<p><b>74 kings who rule the USA.</b></p>
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<p>Both parties are not rotten in<br/>quite the same way.</p>
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<p> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779">http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779</a></p>
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<p><b>The necessity of helping the sick and the poor.</b></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://bible.cc/proverbs/3-27.htm">Proverbs 3:27</a><br/>instructs those to not withhold goods from the deserving when it's in their<br/>power to do so.</p>
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<p> Jesus defined the Christian's role of aiding<br/>the needy in <a target="_hplink" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A35-41&version=NASB">Matthew 25: 35-41</a> and speak out against religious<br/>hypocrites in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23&version=NIV">Matthew 23</a>.</p>
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<p> The idea of wealth redistribution isn't new -<br/>Luke the Apostle actually advocated for it in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4%3A32-35&version=NIV">Acts 4</a>, in a passage</p> FYI, see my Forum posting her…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-10-12:2723460:Comment:701922011-10-12T03:37:39.558ZDavid MacLeodhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DavidMacLeod
FYI, see my <a href="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/questions-for-candidates-tw-forum-on-friday" target="_self">Forum posting here</a> for a listing of some of the questions that will be asked, and for relevant background information (link to the Energy Resource Scarcity/Peak Oil task force report, etc.)
FYI, see my <a href="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/questions-for-candidates-tw-forum-on-friday" target="_self">Forum posting here</a> for a listing of some of the questions that will be asked, and for relevant background information (link to the Energy Resource Scarcity/Peak Oil task force report, etc.) I encourage LOTS of Transitio…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-10-11:2723460:Comment:704792011-10-11T21:56:35.944ZKate Clarkhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/KateClark
I encourage LOTS of Transition people to attend- we need to show these candidates that there are a large number of citizens who are concerned about THESE Issues! If only 20 people show up it gives the message that resource depletion is a "fringe" issue that very few constituents take seriously. So PASS THE WORD!
I encourage LOTS of Transition people to attend- we need to show these candidates that there are a large number of citizens who are concerned about THESE Issues! If only 20 people show up it gives the message that resource depletion is a "fringe" issue that very few constituents take seriously. So PASS THE WORD! - For Immediate Releas…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-10-08:2723460:Comment:700722011-10-08T02:13:47.591ZDavid MacLeodhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DavidMacLeod
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<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal"><b>Contact: Tom Anderson</b></p>
<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal"><b>Phone: 360-739-1968</b></p>
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<p align="center" class="yiv1177193404msonormal"><b>Transition Whatcom to Host Candidates Forum</b></p>
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<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal"><b>Contact: Tom Anderson</b></p>
<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal"><b>Phone: 360-739-1968</b></p>
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<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal" align="center"><b>Transition Whatcom to Host Candidates Forum</b></p>
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<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal">Transition Whatcom, a local grassroots organization, will host a candidate’s forum to give the public a chance to hear the County Executive and Bellingham Mayoral contenders’ thoughts about energy-related issues that the group believes may challenge our communities in the next few years. Specifically, the candidates will be questioned about their plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as their thoughts about adapting to possible climate change related impacts; how they intend to manage the effects of rising energy prices on government and services; and their thoughts about how Whatcom County and Bellingham can remain relatively economically stable in spite of global and national economic volatility. Most importantly, the candidates are invited to discuss how they intend to cooperate with other elected officials to address these and other problems. </p>
<p class="yiv1177193404msonormal">Transition Whatcom is not a political organization and does not endorse any candidate or platform. However, many members are concerned that between climate-related changes, resource limitations, and economic instability, societies are likely to face some serious challenges in the near term. The forum will include opening comments from candidates, and moderated questions from a list previously provided to them, and will conclude with open questions from the audience. The forum is intended to allow candidates to discuss their policies and opinions about these issues and how they plan to collaborate in solving them. It is hosted by Transition Whatcom under the assumption that solutions to any critical big picture problems will require solutions from across the political spectrum. </p>
<p>The forum will be held at the Whatcom County Council Chambers at 311 Grand Avenue in Bellingham, on October 14 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. The general public is invited. For more information contact Tom Anderson at 739-1968, or <a href="http://us.mc1603.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Tomxyza@comcast.net" target="_blank">Tomxyza@comcast.net</a>.</p>
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<p><i><u>About Transition Whatcom</u></i></p>
<p><i>Transition Whatcom is a grassroots network of individuals, neighborhoods, and local communities who are working to significantly reduce individual and collective energy use and dependence while providing for basic needs in times of energy scarcity and economic instability. The group operates under the assumption that even though energy use will decline, the resulting changes, if well-planned, may result in a greater sense of community well-being and purpose.</i></p>
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<p align="center">+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +</p> I'd like to see the candidate…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-10-06:2723460:Comment:697642011-10-06T18:30:56.661ZAngela MacLeodhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/AngelaMacLeod
I'd like to see the candidates demonstrate how they would work collaboratively on the issues facing our county, rather than hear them debate and argue.
I'd like to see the candidates demonstrate how they would work collaboratively on the issues facing our county, rather than hear them debate and argue.