Can ya Pod this one first?

"Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) continued to stress Sunday that disaster relief funds for tornado-ravaged Missouri would have to be offset in the federal budget with cuts elsewhere. 

 The House majority leader added on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that there was a certainly a federal role in helping to rebuild Joplin, Mo., and that Congress would move after getting a request from President Obama. 

 “Because families don’t have unlimited money,” Cantor said. “And, really, neither does the federal government.”

Could Obama ask him from the Oval Office (very politely, of course) to go fuck himself??

they don't know how to count

Nor do they know how to use the tools available

I need your help Jolly, or anyone else can chime in

If our opponents are made up of the so called moral majority, then let’s use that information.

If WE the people, would insist that everyone and every Corporation pays a 10%  tithing, not to the church; but to SOCIALSECURITY ADMIINISTRATION; to the cause of caring for the needy..

Social Security, Medicare, maybe even college tuitions being outright supported by EVERYONE paying the 10%, to do the work that GOD would do. In affect we would be loaning the money to do his work .

To the religious right; what excuse could they give for not loaning to God? To the unreligious; what excuse could they give to not pay forward a measly 10%.

We change the dynamic of the discussion;

No longer can the right say :" the left milks the rich"

The left could say we want EVERYONE to succeed, because the more each individual and corporation succeeds, the more MONEY IS PUT INTO THE SOCIAL TREASURY, Simply stated, the people would want 10% of a million rather than 10% of a dollar to be put into the Social treasury.

For we on the left are not envious; but we are encouraging prosperity. "Please make lots and lots of money". As long as you pay your 10% social tithe.  

We want everyone to become a millionaire ....DUH  

My question to you is this; would 10% of all wages and earnings serve the Social aspect of our government?  Anyone?

(The 10% is separate from the taxes taken to support the military or all other aspects of government)

The 10% Tithe’ sole purpose, is to assure the widow, the fatherless children, our elderly and our most vulnerable are cared for.  If the 10% was sufficient maybe it could be expanded  to include more aspects of the Social needs.

College to deserving students, so they could make lots and lots of money, so they can contibute to the Social Security treasury    

!0% is such a miserly amount, leaving the government and the people 90% to do what they wish.

For pennies on the dollar we show we truly care for one another

Social programs protected from the whims of Senators, bent on grieving the people, threatening chaos with debt ceiling blackmail.

Remove from the clutches of the crooked bankers and their senator servants, the Peoples money.

The Social Security Accounts,  is a separate account set up for the sole purpose of serving the peoples social needs  

Senators keep your hands off of the people’s money; get your own revenue to pay for your wars and whatever else you want to squander your revenues on.

Our Social Protection Net will remain our (the peoples) social net. Free from corrupt politicians and bankers.

Senator you go serve the bankers, we’ve got our own treasury to serve our needs.

Will that idea empower us?

"Obviously there are folks whose overall record is less "liberal" than Schumer who are willing to do the right thing on this, so saying we need to elect 50 Senators more liberal than Shumer does not describe the task."

Granted, it is not an exact measure of the task. But the fact is that the plutocrats own the Democratic party right now. Progressives are very much the junior partners in the coalition with Wall Street, they get listened to only when ... they agree with the bankers. The dems can pass some decent policy on social issues - issues where the rich and the working class share values - but they can't pass any policies that raise taxes on the rich or hurt corporate interests (hence HCR based on regressive taxes and corporate subsidy). They can't pass policy that has well-organized grassroots support and 75% approvals. Saying progressives just need to organize better and elect better reps is misguided, imho. It isn't going to happen without a revolution in how the Dem party is structured and operates and in its dominant political culture. And there is apparently little understanding of how broken the national party is. 

So, sure, 50 senators left of Schumer does not describe the task. the task is much greater than that.

Greater, and in a different sense, much easier. Forget about Washington, and focus on State-level action, setting up public financial institutions for small business and infrastructure and regulated mortgage-markets, expanding banking for the poor, prosecuting mortgage related financial fraud, exposing abuses and clamping down on them, implement counter-cyclical fiscal policy. Just like most of Asia learned to do after the '98 crisis, insulate the states from the fallout of Wall Street casino finance. In short, it's impossible to collar the rabid predator that is Wall Street at this point. It is however possible to ... lock them out of the house.