*Investigators Failing to Link Manning to Assang! - This is so fantastic. Despite their bluster the US government cannot find any evidence supporting their accusation that Julian Assange induced Private Manning to leak classified docs.
*Bernanke Warns of Lengthy Unemployment
- Ben Bernanke: "Following the loss of about eight-and-three-quarter million jobs from 2008 through 2009, private-sector employment expanded by a little more than one million in 2010. However, this gain was barely sufficient to accommodate the inflow of recent graduates and other new entrants to the labor force, and therefore not enough to significantly erode the wide margin of slack that remains in the labor market. Although the growth rate of economic activity appears likely to pick up this year, the unemployment rate probably will remain elevated for some time."
*GOP Proposes $74B in Funding Cuts
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: "The job of government is to create the conditions for businesses to expand and to thrive. And what we need to do in Washington is make sure we’re creating a better environment for businesses to act with a little more confidence about the future."
Okay, ear-muffs people, holy-fucking-shit, dude. That is NOT the job of the government. The American-fucking-people are the government's first responsibility. So cutting funds to food programs for pregnant woman, slashing the high-speed rail project's budget and gutting the US Environmental Agency by 17% are the absolute last things we should be doing. And please tell me how these things will help businesses to thrive? What businesses are helped by starving pregnant women and their children? What businesses are helped by delaying efficient, earth-friendly travel? What businesses are helped by limiting the government's ability to keep track of environmental violations? Not businesses I want our government making laws to support, that's for sure. When is everybody going to wake up and realize we are all just a series of numbers with dollars signs to the our current government...which is a business! So what they are saying is that their job is to make sure they themselves get richer and we get more and more poor. Need further proof that it's coming from all sides? How about President Obama planning to cut $3 billion from a heating assistance fund in the middle of one of the coldest winters on record. Every. Damn. One. Of. Them. *end rant*
In much better news...
*Doctors: Rep. Giffords Speaks for First Time Since Shooting
- Doctors say Giffords was recently able to request toast for breakfast, a significant milestone in her recovery from a major brain injury.
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