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Author Archives: Dave Bradley
Ernst And Grassley Vote To Cut Medicare And Medicaid
As part of the budget bill passed late Thursday night by the senate Medicare will be cut by a massive $500 billion over the next ten years and Medicaid will be cut by an even more massive $1 Trillion over … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Budget, Charles Grassley, David Koch, economic inequality, Joni Ernst, Medicare, Republican Policy
Tagged medicaid
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The Reynolds Budget Crisis Isn’t Going Away
picture credit: Iowa Starting Line From the Iowa Democratic Party Five years ago, our state had a budget surplus of nearly $1 billion dollars, but due to massive special interest tax giveaways by the Reynolds Administration, our state sits with … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Budget, Kim Reynolds
Tagged accountability
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Sunday Funday: If It Weren’t So Serious I’d Laugh Edition
(6.5 minutes) So much of what is going on in politics is so ludicrous that it seems like our daily lives are a script written for Saturday Night Live or a story from the Onion or from Andy Borowitz. It … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Dave Loebsack For The People
I feel fortunate to live in a district where the member of congress is more concerned about the needs of the constituents than the whims of the donors with the super deep pockets. The Republican members of the Iowa delegation … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, David Loebsack
Tagged autoimmune diseases, diabetes, Puerto Rico
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Free Press, Licensing, Corporations And Net Neutrality
This is the concept of Net Neutrality that is under fire from the current FCC (3 minutes). From 2015: The current president (who, thanks to his own Secretary of State, should be referred to as the Effing Moron) caused quite … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa
Tagged Freedom of the press, net neutrality
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ICYMI: Ajit Pai Reconfirmed For Five Years
From This Week Tonight from last May 20 minutes Expect An All Out Assault On Internet Neutrality Next From Lucia at FreePress.net: Yesterday (Monday) the Senate reconfirmed Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai. The 52–41 vote split mostly along party lines, with … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Internet Issues
Tagged Ajit Pai, net neutrality
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Sunday Funday: Paying The Consequences Edition
2.5 minutes Safety signs are posted for your benefit and that of those around you. Please pay attention or you will suffer consequences. Why didn’t someone post a sign saying “Voting For Republicans Will Result In Loss Of Freedom And … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Some Good News From Next Door
Seems like we are swimming in a veritable ocean of bad news on an almost hourly basis. Therefore a story that shows even a small glimmer of sanity must be spotlighted in hopes that whatever caused it to happen is … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Labor
Tagged Illinois labor, right to work, temp labor, temp workers
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Party Of Death?
Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare: “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre in Las Vegas … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Affordable Care Act, Blog for Iowa, Budget, Climate Action, Climate Change, economic inequality, gun control, Medicare, poverty, Racism in America, Republican Obstruction, Republicn Policy
Tagged medicaid cuts
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SCOTUS To Hear Case Designed To Gut Unions
Grassley’s Obstruction About To Pay Huge Returns For The Wealthy Thursday morning the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus v. AFSCME The SCOTUS has once more agreed to hear a case designed to gut public unions. In 2016 an 8 … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Charles Grassley, Economy, Labor, Republican Obstruction, Republican Policy, SCOTUS, union busting
Tagged Fair Share, SCOTUS obstruction
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