Yo, here is a traitor in the Conservative Movement, who needs another job, like ditch digging!!! Let`s see who the others are?
First GOP senator calls for vote on Garland court nomination
By
ALAN FRAM
Mar. 18, 2016 9:21 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mark Kirk became the first Republican senator to break with party leaders and call for a vote on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court selection, saying Friday, "It's just man up and cast a vote."
The statement by Kirk, who faces a difficult re-election battle this fall in Democratic-leaning Illinois, came two days after Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy created by the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Garland, a Chicago native, is chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Kirk's stance directly contradicts the path charted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that most GOP senators have followed. McConnell has said for weeks that there will be no Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for any Obama nominee for the vacancy and no confirmation vote by the Senate.
First GOP senator calls for vote on Garland court nomination
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Sen. Mark Kirk Below:
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If I had my choice the first Republicans to be voted out would be the ones who filibustered the bill that would take federal subsidies away from the mega-profitable Corporations who continue to ship jobs overseas while receiving those subsidies, hell they even deduct the cost of moving from their tax bill, which they minimize to the maximum by using the loopholes handed out to them by
your representatives. So a business has a right to pursue profits, that's a given. What about facts like - These businesses have grown and prospered by utilizing all the infrastructure American taxpayers have funded over the years - The American consumer, while they still had a seat at the table of power and earned decent wages were on the whole loyal customers who made these companies profitable and rich - Many of these companies received subsidies from the American taxpayer while those companies became huge profit makers and and their CEO's went from earning
30X the average worker to 300X - while the American middle classes wages stagnated - But the mother of all insults inflicted on the American Taxpayer? How about the fact that they are the Venture Capitalists who invested in,and partially or wholly subsidized much of the technology that is the author of not just most of these companies golden bottom lines who are saying "**** you, American Worker, we go where we can pay slave labor wages!" Not just America's economy but the World's economy revolves around American taxpayer developed tech. Did you know that? Are you getting your royalty cheque every month from (just to scratch the surface, one example out of many) the Darpa R&D?
(DARPA - Defense Advanced Research an Development Agency is of course wholly funded by you American taxpayer). Darpa research and development (translation:
your R&D) is responsible partly or in whole for;
1)
The Internet Although there are many individuals to whom the development of the net can be attributed, without DARPA it simply wouldn’t exist. The first host-to-host connection between PCs on the new Arpanet was established at 10.30pm on 29 October 1969, creating the world’s first fully operational packet-switching network. By December, a four-node network was up and running, the first email was sent across it in 1972, and people started referring to it as the internet in 1973.
2)
Windows, the World Wide Web and videoconferencing The GUI that was the forerunner of Windows was Darpa developed. The oN-Line System was the brainchild of PC mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart, who in 1961 proposed to the director of information sciences of the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to “develop a comprehensive framework for augmenting human intellect”. Oh yeah, the
Mouse was one of the minor products of Darpa funded research.
3)
Google Maps - In 1979, 30 years before Google Darpa funded some MIT students who demonstrated the roots of Google's street view complete with roof mounted camera's. If you ever wished you were an early investor in Google, guess what? You were.
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Siri Yup, American taxpayers have a considerable stake in Apple too. COLA, Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes was funded by DARPA in order to develop better tools for soldiers in the field. The private company that was born out of that was bought by Apple in 2010.
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GPS How many trillions upon trillions of dollars worth of business has this one Darpa/Taxpayer technology generated? What the **** would the world do without it if the American Taxpayer foreclosed on it, demanded back royalty payments, sent its Repo Men to seize all the tech utilizing it? Or have you been reimbursed for the tax dollars? Have all the businesses that benefit from this list of tech said thanks?(and this is a tiny scratch on the surface, Darpa is responsible for trillions upon untold trillions worth of high-tech, then you have to get into other R&D contributors like NASA) Laughing....Laughing...that thanks has been every sort of plant closing all over America, and millions of jobs shipped to where oppressed peoples have to work under slave labor conditions for less than a buck an hour. I'm not pinning all this theft from Americans on just the Republicans but they have been the biggest and loudest boosters of Cut-throat Vulture Capitalism and some of the "conservative" posters on these boards have been happy to parrot the myth of the "job creators" and have been the biggest fanboys of lowering taxes on the top 1% who are the Princes of Thieves. I think a lot of you have awoke to the truth finally, that's why the revolt in the Party, why a human wrecking ball like Trump is cheered on while he demolishes the very foundations of the GOP. Hopefully out of the rubble something positive will emerge. And the most positive thing possible would be an electorate with the blinkers off and the Fox News filters removed. 'Til then the Corporatocracy is going to keep treating America like P.T. Barnum blowing through Smallville North Dakota after he's milked the local yokels for all they're worth. Or is there a line up of USMB "conservatives" waiting to explain why I'm so wrong? Ready to recite to me and lecture me on the CEO Mantra that his only, his one and only responsibility, is to maximize profits for his shareholders, only bound by what the laws permit. (Of course when his lobbyists have written those laws....) And if SCOTUS has decreed that his Corporation has all the rights of a person like you and me that doesn't mean it really
is a person who can recognize that good citizens owe responsibilities to the society that has nurtured them. A Corporation has no conscience nudging it to moral behavior or the least imperative to acknowledge gratitude for services rendered or any inherent altruism to suggest foregoing the slightest percent of profit that might benefit victims of the carnivorous predatory practises coded into its DNA or LLB or INC LTD..
