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Local Lodge E-Board
Meeting September 15th, 2010 at
4:30 p.m.
Stewards Training
at
9:00 a.m. September 18th
Local Lodge
meeting
is on
September 18th,
2010 at 10:00 a.m.
Retirees Business
Meeting September 1st,
2010 at 10:00 a.m.
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WASHINGTON —
Summoned to success by President
Barack Obama, the
Democratic-controlled Congress
approved historic legislation
Sunday night extending health
care to tens of millions of
uninsured Americans and cracking
down on insurance company
abuses, a climactic chapter in
the century-long quest for near
universal coverage.
To pay for the changes,
the legislation includes more than $400
billion in higher taxes over a decade,
roughly half of it from a new Medicare
payroll tax on individuals with incomes over
$200,000 and couples over $250,000.
A new excise tax on
high-cost insurance policies was
significantly scaled back in deference to
complaints from organized labor.
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Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by
individual citizens while being exempted from many of the
responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in
being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual
citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely
what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of
public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations
that they have the same right as any individual to influence the
government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against
the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation
and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal
voice in the political debates surrounding important issues.
David C. Korten, in When Corporations
Rule the World
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a
financial element in the larger centers has owned government ever
since the days of Andrew Jackson."
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter to Woodrow
Wilson's closest adviser, Col. Edward M. House dated November 21,
1933
- Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be
governed no better than we deserve.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
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- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from
history that man can never learn anything from
history.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
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The liberty
of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism —
ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any
controlling private power — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within
AFL