DAILY NEWS
Medicare split, where’s Teddy, Squeeze…
Friday, August 24, 2012
MEDICARE
► In the (Aberdeen) Daily World — Herrera Beutler talks health care at Willapa — “I look at the Paul Ryan proposal, and maybe it’s not perfect but it’s the only proposal that anyone has written down and say ‘let’s have a debate,’ ” Herrera Beutler said.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Wait. What?! You, and every other Republican from Washington’s delegation, voted for Ryan’s imperfect Medicare voucher privatization because it’s “the only proposal anyone has written down”?! You should read more.
ELECTION
► At PubliCola — Eyman’s two-thirds requirement has killed jobs, harmed state residents, report says — Initiative hawker Tim Eyman’s I-1185, which would renew the requirement that two-thirds of the state legislature vote for any tax increase, would have devastating impacts on the state’s ability to create jobs, invest in health care and education, and erode public safety, a new report from the Washington Budget and Policy Center concludes.
► In today’s Seattle Times — Former state GOP leader Dale Foreman endorses Cantwell — Foreman, a Wenatchee attorney, apple grower and chairman of the U.S. Apple Association, said he is supporting the two-term incumbent’s re-election over Republican challenger Michael Baumgartner because of her work in support of the apple industry.
► From AP — Romney uses secretive data mining — Mitt Romney’s success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data-mining project that sifts through Americans’ personal information – including their purchasing history and church attendance – to identify new and likely, wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned.
► In today’s Seattle Times — Judge rejects Libertarians’ bid to keep Romney off Washington’s ballot
NATIONAL
EDITOR’S NOTE — How exactly does holding middle-class tax cuts hostage to extending tax cuts to the wealthiest 1% address “the crushing burden of debt”?
► At AFL-CIO Now — Trade deficit with China cost 2.7 million jobs — A new report shows that between 2001 — when China was admitted into the World Trade Organization — and 2011, the U.S. trade deficit with that nation eliminated or displaced 2.1 million manufacturing jobs. Those jobs represent more than half of all U.S. manufacturing jobs lost during that time.
T.G.I.F.
► For today’s T.G.I.F., one of the entire staff of The Stand’s all-time favorite bands: Squeeze and “Another Nail in My Heart.” If you — yes, you — don’t have the album Argybargy by Squeeze, go get it. Right now. You can thank us later.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend — brought to you by the Labor Movement.
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