REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
July 1, 2012

'So take some time tonight to celebrate; this is a
victory for the people. Actually, more than a victory,
it is a mandate that all of us must now make sure
that a second-term Obama continues to move the
ball down the field, toward a system like they have
in every other First World country on the planet. He
simply has to improve Medicare and then expand it
to every citizen in the country. The countries that do
this, their people live an average of two to four years
longer than we do. Is there a reason anyone doesn't
want an extra four years of their lives? Or that our
babies would have a better chance of surviving their
first year like they do in the 48 countries that have a
better infant mortality rate than we do? Exactly who
is opposed to this? You'd have to be a bit.crazy. '

Filmmaker/Activist Michael Moore
June 28, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/ckuylaw

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/88owgqc
Socialized Medicine
Plante - Tulsa World

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
July 2, 2012

'Meanwhile, the refusal of the Shamir government to
freeze construction in the settlements brought about
one of the most serious crises ever to occur between
Washington and Jerusalem, when Bush froze loan
guarantees of $10 billion that Israel had requested
for absorbing the growing wave of immigrants from
the former Soviet Union.

'Benjamin Netanyahu is, unfortunately, Shamir's
heir as prime minister and Likud leader. Netanyahu
will also respond to American initiatives, as long as
they don't threaten the wholeness of the land and
harm the settlement enterprise. He also tried, and
even succeeded, in recruiting American Jewry and
Congress to block the efforts of the U.S. president to
advance the negotiations with the Palestinians.

'Thus Shamir's policies - to stave off an agreement
with the Palestinians and the chance of peace with
the Arab states - are also the policies of our current
prime minister, his loyal student.'

Editorial
On Yitzhak Shamir, Israel's seventh prime
minister, who died last week 'leaving a
diplomatic legacy that is dangerous and sows
despair. '
Haaretz (Israel)
July 2, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/72xkxcl

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/83tkaox
Hot Aircraft
Jeff Danziger

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
July 3, 2012

'The fact that Monti* would use every trick in the
book to break the German resistance to further
bailout loans was already becoming clear before the
Brussels summit. The Italian committed the first
foul at the G-20 summit of the leading industrialized
and emerging economies two weeks ago in Mexico.

'During a break, the European members of the G-20
met with US President Barack Obama in a smaller
room at the conference center in Los Cabos. To
Merkel's surprise, Monti and Obama handed out a
document that advocated direct purchases of
sovereign debt by the euro bailout fund, without
special conditions. Hollande and Spanish Prime
Minister Mariano Rajoy supported the unusual
Italian-American alliance.

'Merkel was not pleased, and the meeting was
adjourned. Others who were present, including
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy
and European Commission President Jose Manuel
Barroso, felt that it was inappropriate to discuss a
domestic European problem with the US president. '

Spiegel (Germany)
July 2, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/7k62hjn

* Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/77tx5mo
Choice
Ted Rall

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
July 4, 2012

'But the real issue here isn't Bain's betting record.
It's that Romney's Bain is part of the same system
as Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase, Jon Corzine's
MF Global and Lloyd Blankfein's Goldman Sachs-a
system that has turned much of the economy into a
betting parlor that nearly imploded in 2008,
destroying millions of jobs and devastating
household incomes. The winners in this system are
top Wall Street executives and traders, private-
equity managers and hedge-fund moguls, ?and the
losers are most of the rest of us. The system is
largely responsible for the greatest concentration of
the nation's income and wealth at the very top since
the Gilded Age of the nineteenth century, with the
richest 400 Americans owning as much as the
bottom 150 million put together. And these
multimillionaires and billionaires are now actively
buying the 2012 election-and with it, American
democracy.'

Economist Robert Reich
The Nation
July 16-23, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/8y32826

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7tfala2
Mr. Scott's Legacy
Jim Morin - Miami Herald

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
July 5, 2012

'The point is that younger people weren't around
when Thatcher was in power or when Marxism was
associated with the Soviet Union. We tend to see it
more as a way of understanding what we're going
through now. Think of what's happening in Egypt.
When Mubarak fell it was so inspiring. It broke so
many stereotypes - democracy wasn't supposed to
be something that people would fight for in the
Muslim world. It vindicates revolution as a process,
not as an event. So there was a revolution in Egypt,
and a counter-revolution and a counter-counter
revolution. What we learned from it was the
importance of organisation.'

Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, a 22 year-old
English and drama student at
Goldsmiths College, London, on why
she considers Marxist thought to be
relevant today

'Why Marxism is on the rise again'
Guardian (UK)
July 4,  2012
http://tinyurl.com/cteks3k

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7zn3uve

"We have discovered of what NOTHING is made!"

... but it is SOMETHING!"
Le Temps - Geneva

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
July 6, 2012

'The June 2012 employment report from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics released this morning showed
80,000 jobs were added last month. This pace of job
growth means two things: We are not in-nor are we
slipping into-another recession, but neither are we
getting the kind of job growth that will bring down
the unemployment rate. In other words, the labor
market is treading water. This would be perfectly
fine if we were at full employment, but with the
unemployment rate now above 8 percent for 41
months straight, this is an ongoing, severe crisis for
the American workforce.'

Heidi Shierholz
Economic Policy Institute
July 6, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/6upaq4p

Toon of the Day
ttp://tinyurl.com/84bav9l
God Particle
Signe Wilkinson

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
July 7, 2012

'The Supreme Court is again putting up
constitutional barriers against laws to redress want
and inequity. While it handed liberals a victory on
the Affordable Care Act, it also gave a boost to
conservatives to revive the old laissez-faire
Constitution in the polity and courts: new doctrine
and dictums for their attack on the welfare and
regulatory state.

'But there is a silver lining for liberals as well: in
much the same way that the conservative court of
the 1930s forced Franklin D. Roosevelt and his
allies to construct the constitutional foundations of
the New Deal state, today's court challenges the
White House, the Democrats and the liberal legal
community to reassert a constitutional vision of a
national government empowered "to promote the
general Welfare" and - in Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg's terse formula - "to regulate the national
economy in the interest of those who labor to
sustain it.'

William E. Forbath, professor of law
and history at the University of Texas

New York Times
July 6, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/72x8eeh

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/79lxhw8
Games of Thrones
Pat Bagley -  The Salt Lake Tribune

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