Newt Gingrich released information this week that he was paid $25,000 a month as a Historian. 
Anyone with any connection to Historians, Librarians or any ‘-arians’ would know that would be the annual salary for someone in that field.
Since money isn’t cheap, what do you suppose that Freddie Mac executives were expecting to get by paying Mr Gingrich so much money? This was before the financial crisis of 2008 and Freddie Mac was sitting on a lot of cash … but to pay a ‘consultant’ $250,000 a year requires some sort of ‘deliverable’. What history is worth that much to a fortune 10 company? The history of influence and connections to the congress would be the most likely suspect.
Corporations are not people. For instance, corporations do not drink water. Nor do they sleep or eat potato chips.
Corporations do need to have some of the properties that people have. For instance, they need to be able own property, pay taxes, own copyrights, own trademarks and inventory.
But how this has become that corporations are citizens — that is that they can spend money in political campaigns is beyond me. Corporations have such vast wealth compared to the average US person that they can quickly overpower the voice of the common person. The money is speech argument is fine if it’s just you and I. But toss in someone with 1000′s of times of money and we’re not on equal footing.
My opinion is that corporations are people – that is that they can hold assets, be fined, own cars, trucks, etc, but they are not citizens. That is they cannot vote. So since they cannot vote, they should not be able to contribute money to election campaigns.
To fix this issue requires an amendment to the constitution … a major action … yet the Independant Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has started this action. Checkout and sign the Corporations Are Not People and petition on Sen. Sanders website.
Reason to cut taxes.
Liar.
Hypocrisy 1.
I remember during the Bill Clinton Presidency how Newt Gingrich attacked President Clinton for years over the Monica Lewinsky affair. Yet, as it appears, Newt himself was doing something similar. So if you’re doing it too, what place do you have to stand on morale grounds? Claiming new found religion? God? Confession? In my opinion, you are who you are and your actions prove it. So while claiming faith, attacking a President on unfaithfulness, and while at the same time being unfaithful should show the person has no faith and no values.
The causes of the US Budget deficit are diverse. Causes include two unfunded wars, an unfunded prescription drug plan for Medicare, an unfunded tax cut (The ‘Bush’ Tax Cut), and a large recession. But somehow during 2011 the political focus in the US Politics has been on cutting spending. But the suggested spending is not where the real money is. It’s been more of a witch hunt with folks using the budget cutting ax to simply chop out programs that don’t fit their political agenda.
The largest parts of the US Budget, in no particular order, are Interest on the National Debt, Social Security, Medicare, and Defense. These 4 items account for more that 80% of spending. But no-one is looking at those. Instead their trying to cut funding for a bridge, or a regulatory division of the Commerce Dept. Peanuts.
I say lets cut an aircraft carrier or two. Below is a snip-it of an article in the Jan 9 2012 The Nation by Mikhail Gorbachev. In my opinion, the most important quote in the article is “During the first decade of the twenty-first century US military budgets accounted for nearly half of the world’s spending on armed forces.” Seems to me that that leaves us plenty of room for cutting. Hand me the ax please.
Mikhail Gorbachev Article in The Nation Jan 9 2012