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Presidential Economic Address to Joint Session of Congress – C-SPAN Video Library
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10 Things Conservatives Don’t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan | ThinkProgress
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BBC News – Supercomputer predicts revolution
RT @brainpicker: Supercomputer scrobbles old news articles, predicts Egyptian Revolution and bin Laden’s location http://j.mp/pFn6H7
Chart of the day: America’s surprisingly tiny small-business sector – The Washington Post
RT @ezraklein: The United States has fewer small businesses than any other developed nation: http://t.co/MKtHTDX #in1graph
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GOP Reps. Dismiss Tax Cut For Working Americans In Favor Of Giveaways To Corporations | ThinkProgress http://t.co/nSVSZBa
GOP Derides Obama Jobs Plan As ‘Second Stimulus,’ Ignoring Success Of The First | ThinkProgress
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Kerry Cancels Fundraisers, Vows To Avoid Lobbyists While On Super Committee | ThinkProgress http://t.co/2pXKQRz
Pictures: Best Astronomy Photos of 2011 Named
RT @NatGeo: Best astronomy #photos of 2011 named: http://t.co/0FLN24t #space
Warren Buffett And Bill Gates On Why The Wealthy Need To Pay More Taxes | MoveOn.Org
RT @joliva99: Warren Buffett And Bill Gates On Why The Wealthy Need To Pay More Taxes http://t.co/bofMaPE via @moveon #tcot #taxtherich # p2
Attica Is All of Us: Cornel West on 40th Anniversary of Attica Prison Rebellion
RT @democracynow: Attica Is All of Us: Dr. @CornelWest Discusses the 40th Anniversary of #Attica #Prison Rebellion. http://t.co/p9uXExz
Obama’s American Jobs Act Would Help Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs | Moneyland | TIME.com
RT @art2u2: Obama’s American Jobs Act Would Help Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs | Moneyland | http://t.co/MOUjOYx #teaparty #tcot #ocra …
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Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Ready for American Jobs Act | Center for American Progress http://t.co/iPb9MHn
Ten Years After 9/11, Little-Known Sikh Community Still Target of Violence and Harassment
RT @democracynow: 10 Years After 9/11, the #Sikh Community Remains a Target of Violence and Harassment in the U.S. http://t.co/THzlo2M # …
Democracy Now! | Headlines for September 12, 2011
RT @democracynow: Democracy Now! National & Global News Summary for Monday, Sept. 12. READ – WATCH – PODCAST – SHARE: http://t.co/Vw7h1JQ
RT @climateprogress: September 12 News: Coral Reefs “Will be Gone by the End of the Century,” Thanks to Climate Change and Ocean Acid… …
GOP Policy Chairman Tom Price: Obama’s Payroll Tax Cut For Working Families Is ‘Class Warfare’ | ThinkProgress http://t.co/VBfapgh
RT @mattyglesias: Why Congress won’t pass a jobs bill: “Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?” http://t.co/RE …
RT @NYTimeskrugman: Satire Is Dead http://t.co/8JJn9Ka
Climate and weather: Extreme measures : Nature News
RT @NatureNews: RT @ClimateReality: How can you link hurricanes, floods and droughts to climate change? @NatureNews magazine explains ht …
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RT @RajaAlthaibani: “Im a great believer in transparency”Great interview w/PeterGabriel on using video to advance HRcauses http://t.co/L …
Rick Perry: I am going to be honest with the American people – USATODAY.com
RT @thinkprogress: Perry pens op-ed on Social Security, doesn’t use the words “Ponzi scheme,” “failure” or “monstrous lie.” http://t.co/ …
Leda Huta: Keystone Pipeline Could Push Endangered Whooping Crane Into Extinction
RT @TarSandsAction: Keystone XL tar sands pipeline could push whooping crane into extinction: http://t.co/WhjDNa4 #noKXL thx @dirtyoilsands
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: You Look at Me Like You’ve Never Seen a Neo-Hipster Before.
RT @mcsweeneys: You Look at Me Like You’ve Never Seen a Neo-Hipster Before. http://t.co/zwgHXdk
RT @thinkprogress: Perry wants to end Social Security. Romney wants to privitize it. http://t.co/3QDhFZA #choices
RT @worldresources: Reading @OurWorld20 – Will Keystone XL pipeline make conservationists of conservatives? http://t.co/qTdqdxo #environ …
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In jobs speech, Obama urges passage of $447 billion package – Carrie Budoff Brown & Jennifer Epstein – POLITICO.com http://t.co/2LSAdvH
Moody’s: Obama plan will add 1.9M jobs – Mackenzie Weinger – POLITICO.com
Moody’s: Obama plan will add 1.9M jobs – Mackenzie Weinger – POLITICO.com http://t.co/ciIztkz
Massive Unemployment: Proof That Global Capitalism Doesnt Work | Economy |… – StumbleUpon
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RT @Oxfam: Oxfam Takes on Land Grabs – Rich Investors: “They’re Not Countries, They’re Commodities” http://t.co/v7ZMiUk v @treehugger #GROW
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan http://t.co/mYXbffP
The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9/11… – StumbleUpon
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Cheney Claims Waterboarding ‘Produced Phenomenal Results’ | ThinkProgress
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State of Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles: Grant clemency to my brother, Troy Davis http://t.co/uokLBUg via @change
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Dennis Kucinich to Congress: “Come Home, America” | NationofChange
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The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9/11 | ThinkProgress
RT @thinkprogress: America has spent $1.2T on wars since 9/11 http://t.co/XbHv1Uh #icymi
RT @ACLU: Race not factor in use of #deathpenalty? Louisiana SC sees issue w/Confed Flag & Texas expert sez being black = danger. http:/ …
-Climate-change-and-2012:-The-Republican-war-with-scientific-reality from… – StumbleUpon
Daily Kos: Climate change and 2012: The Republican war with scientific reality http://t.co/8LnNSqh
RT @ACLU: A source of shame to all Americans: No victim of the Bush administration’s #torture regime has had his day in court. http://t. …
The Dirty Little Red State Secret: Welfare Disguised as Defense Spending
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Paul Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At His Town Hall: ‘I Hope He’s Taking His Blood Pressure Medication’ http://t.co/EdJPfIx
Nina Hagen – Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen 1983 – YouTube
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Obama unveils jobs plan to ‘jolt’ economy – Americas – Al Jazeera English
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Setting Their Hair on Fire – NYTimes.com
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Obama Team Feared Coup If He Prosecuted War Crimes | Justice-Integrity.org http://t.co/rAqWgEv
News | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
RT @DalaiLama: HHDL’s message “After Sept. 11, yearning for peaceful co-existence” http://t.co/UM1ubQP
GOP Legislator: Homosexuality Is ‘More Dangerous’ Than Terrorist Attacks Because We Have To Deal With It Every Day http://t.co/MYXLcqV
Daily Kos: Rick Perry had an innocent man executed, and should be made to answer
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America’s Poverty Tax: How the Working Poor Get Stiffed – The Daily Beast http://t.co/tfmeYCB
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‘Americans will end these wars and change the foreign policy that got us into them, the same way we got out of Vietnam.’ http://t.co/Jrf3IEi
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love… – Leo Tolstoy (Born Sept. 9, 1828) http://t.co/MnUyvh8
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The New GOP: Anti-Kids, Anti-Jobs, Anti-Business … And Anti-Republican | NationofChange http://t.co/iAk4nIT
Ifc ONION NEWS NETWORK TO AIR GOV. RICK PERRY’S FIRST PUBLIC EXECUTION | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source http://t.co/u3SWoQ7
Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 11th 2011 – Summify
. @eadvocate, @kobretenov & @michaelmacv thanks for summarizing my news! http://t.co/osEtiGz
UN independent expert on foreign debt and human rights – YouTube
RT @UN: How does foreign #debt affect #HumanRights? #Humanrights expert explains in this @UNRightsWire video http://t.co/FDm1WHx
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Cheney Won’t Take Anything Back, Laughs At War Crimes Accusation | ThinkProgress http://t.co/iO9OgZy
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Terrorism Expert: Since 9/11, Only 33 Deaths From Muslim Terrorism Vs. 150,000 Deaths From Murders | ThinkProgress http://t.co/MocK3Ey
Joshua Oakley: “I never meant to say that …” « Deck.ly
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As Their States’ Bridges And Roads Crumble, GOP Leaders Remain Opposed To Infrastructure Investment | ThinkProgress http://t.co/uURw9gT
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“Mystic Landscape O 011” Photography art prints and posters by Jutta Rund – ARTFLAKES.COM
RT @bookofwisdom: “The eye altering, alters all” William Blake http://t.co/lZcjxPM
Top 10 Reasons Why Green Jobs Are Vital to Our Economy | ThinkProgress – StumbleUpon
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exxon-climate-change-deniers from thinkprogress.org – StumbleUpon
Exxon Makes Billion-Dollar Bet Climate Change is Real, Here Now and Going to Get Worse But Keeps Funding Deniers http://t.co/9TncTwZ
‘Blaming Exxon for these activities is like blaming a raccoon for going through your trash….’ – Christopher Jones http://t.co/9TncTwZ
Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America | Books | The Guardian – StumbleUpon
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Who Would Win Under Obama’s Jobs Plan – Yahoo! Finance
Who Wins Obama Jobs Act: Teachers, Cops/Firefighters, Construction Workers, Unemployed, Small/Big Business, Taxpayers http://t.co/Ok22iIx
How 9/11 Taught Universities To Overcome Their Discomfort With American Power | The New Republic
RT @tnr: Larry Summers: How 9/11 taught universities to overcome their discomfort with American power http://ow.ly/6qIFE #protests
Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Act | The White House
Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Act | The White House http://t.co/opjAWWH
Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 10th 2011, #4 – Summify
. @yogamoo, @P2Blogs & @randyferrell showed up in my social summary! http://t.co/C0YOkoc
Indecision 2012 – The Great Right Hope – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 09/08/11 – Video Clip | Comedy Central http://t.co/XWzWCxh
Love Everyone Often 09/10/2011 | Joshua Oakley – Alchemy, Dreams, Stars, Visions, Magic
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Trumka: In Speech, Obama ‘Goes to the Mat’ to Create New Jobs | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
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The economics of happiness – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
RT @AJEnglish: Opinion: The economics of happiness http://t.co/SShVWtl
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Barney Frank: Republicans Don’t Want the Economy or Obama to Succeed | Video Cafe http://t.co/43XIc3l
The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for Sept. 10, 2011 – The Daily Beast
RT @thedailybeast: Regret Over the Iraq War, the Failure of School Reform, and More of This Week’s Best Reads. http://t.co/StZdLje By @d …
the-enlightened-rich-want-to-be-taxed.html from nytimes.com – StumbleUpon
The Enlightened Rich Want to Be Taxed – NYTimes.com http://t.co/26My1K1
President Obama Presents American Jobs Act (Enhanced Version) | The White House Video
President Obama Presents American Jobs Act (Enhanced Version) | The White House http://t.co/TLShHy5
Presidential Economic Address to Joint Session of Congress – C-SPAN Video Library Video
Presidential Economic Address to Joint Session of Congress – C-SPAN Video Library http://t.co/nK2sTMV
Daily Kos: Wow, Obama Gets Krugman Seal Of Approval
Daily Kos: Wow, Obama Gets Krugman Seal Of Approval http://t.co/F1tLrHg
Apocalyptic GOP Is Dragging Us Into a Civil War | Rolling Stone Politics |… – StumbleUpon
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RT @NRDC: “The oil companies that stand to profit from this pipeline do not have the American public interest as their interest.” http:/ …
RT @UNDP: The Gender Inequality Index explained: http://t.co/q5eNG1V #genderequality v @kohmiyao
Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 10th 2011, #3 – Summify
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Murdoch’s NY Post Fabricates Statistic to Vilify Green Jobs | ThinkProgress
RT @climateprogress: Murdoch’s NY Post Fabricates Statistic to Vilify Green Jobs http://t.co/jlDcezc
Why We Love: 5 Must-Read Books on the Psychology of Love | Brain Pickings
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Daily Kos: Preventing Crazy from going Mainstream- Tea Time with the Larouchies http://t.co/eyyrA87
Google discloses carbon footprint for the first time | Environment | The Guardian
RT @SustainableNet: Google discloses carbon footprint for the first time – The Guardian http://t.co/1DaYa1d
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Citing successes, Ban urges more preventive diplomacy to defuse conflicts
RT @UN: Citing successes, Ban Ki-moon urges more preventive diplomacy to defuse conflicts http://t.co/HQBwywZ
Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 10th 2011, #2 – Summify
Some awesome reads: http://t.co/Httt5k4 thnx! @chompie97, @SpiralLoveHeart & @chipsmow
Green Jobs Aren’t Going Anywhere | Cai Steger’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
RT @NRDC: “Clean energy is the focus of the 21st Century global #economy.” NRDC’s Cai Steger explains: http://t.co/J8DFpzl #cleanenergy …
APOD: 2011 September 10 – Rollback from GRAIL s Rocket
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Flailing: Right-Wing Media Scramble To Find Attacks On Obama’s Jobs Address | Media Matters for America http://t.co/5wcdYXF
Democracy Now! National and Global News Headlines for Friday, September 9, 2011 Video
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GOP Reps. Dismiss Tax Cut For Working Americans In Favor Of Giveaways To… – StumbleUpon
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GOP Derides Obama Jobs Plan As ‘Second Stimulus,’ Ignoring Success… – StumbleUpon
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GOP Policy Chairman Tom Price: Obama’s Payroll Tax Cut For Working Families Is ‘Class Warfare’ http://t.co/IXOeQ0E
How 9/11 Provoked the U.S. to Hasten its Own Decline – Global Spin – TIME.com
RT @TIME: Washington’s reaction to 9/11 hastened America’s decline | http://t.co/WEKNBWj (via @TIMEWorld)
In jobs speech, Obama urges passage of $447 billion package – Carrie Budoff… – StumbleUpon
Moody’s: Obama plan will add 1.9M jobs http://t.co/BuJ8SdJ In jobs speech, Obama urges passage of $447 billion package http://t.co/IwmzoYG
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cheney-claims-waterboarding-produced-phenomenal-results from thinkprogress.org – StumbleUpon
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Caravan – The World Is Yours Video
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Dennis Kucinich to Congress: “Come Home, America” | NationofChange – StumbleUpon
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Paul Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At His Town Hall: ‘I Hope… – StumbleUpon
Paul Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At His Town Hall: ‘I Hope He’s Taking His Blood Pressure Medication’ http://t.co/vEDUH1U
Obama unveils American Jobs Act – Americas – Al Jazeera English – StumbleUpon
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Setting Their Hair on Fire – NYTimes.com – StumbleUpon
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Obama Team Feared Coup If He Prosecuted War Crimes – StumbleUpon
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Thomas Mayer, Historian, Says Perry Misses Point on Galileo – NYTimes.com
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Can the Human Race Shift From Sprint to Marathon? – NYTimes.com
RT @yalefesclimate: RT @YaleE360 @revkin: Can the human race shift from sprint to marathon? http://t.co/OSBHh54 A discussion of the Anth …
REPORT: As Their States’ Bridges And Roads Crumble, GOP Leaders Remain… – StumbleUpon
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President Obama presented his plan for job creation and economic growth before a joint session of Congress. In his remarks he appealed for pragmatic bipartisanship and swift action in order to restore jobs and spur economic growth. He also outlined several parts of the plan that emphasized infrastructure investment, veterans programs, small business incentives, tax reform, and federal spending priorities.
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For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 08, 2011Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Act
THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT
1. Tax Cuts to Help America’s Small Businesses Hire and Grow
- Cutting the payroll tax in half for 98 percent of businesses: The President’s plan will cut in half the taxes paid by businesses on their first $5 million in payroll, targeting the benefit to the 98 percent of firms that have payroll below this threshold.
- A complete payroll tax holiday for added workers or increased wages: The President’s plan will completely eliminate payroll taxes for firms that increase their payroll by adding new workers or increasing the wages of their current worker (the benefit is capped at the first $50 million in payroll increases).
- Extending 100% expensing into 2012: This continues an effective incentive for new investment.
- Reforms and regulatory reductions to help entrepreneurs and small businesses access capital.
2. Putting Workers Back on the Job While Rebuilding and Modernizing America
- A “Returning Heroes” hiring tax credit for veterans: This provides tax credits from $5,600 to $9,600 to encourage the hiring of unemployed veterans.
- Preventing up to 280,000 teacher layoffs,while keeping cops and firefighters on the job.
- Modernizing at least 35,000 public schools across the country,supporting new science labs, Internet-ready classrooms and renovations at schools across the country, in rural and urban areas.
- Immediate investments in infrastructure and a bipartisan National Infrastructure Bank, modernizing our roads, rail, airports and waterways while putting hundreds of thousands of workers back on the job.
- A New “Project Rebuild”, which will put people to work rehabilitating homes, businesses and communities, leveraging private capital and scaling land banks and other public-private collaborations.
- Expanding access to high-speed wireless as part of a plan for freeing up the nation’s spectrum.
3. Pathways Back to Work for Americans Looking for Jobs.
- The most innovative reform to the unemployment insurance program in 40 years: As part of an extension of unemployment insurance to prevent 5 million Americans looking for work from losing their benefits, the President’s plan includes innovative work-based reforms to prevent layoffs and give states greater flexibility to use UI funds to best support job-seekers, including:
- Work-Sharing: UI for workers whose employers choose work-sharing over layoffs.
- A new “Bridge to Work” program: The plan builds on and improves innovative state programs where those displacedtake temporary, voluntary work or pursue on-the-job training.
- Innovative entrepreneurship and wage insurance programs: States will also be empowered to implement wage insurance to help reemploy older workers and programs that make it easier for unemployed workers to start their own businesses.
- A $4,000 tax credit to employers for hiring long-term unemployed workers.
- Prohibiting employers from discriminating against unemployed workers when hiring.
- Expanding job opportunities for low-income youth and adults through a fund for successful approaches for subsidized employment, innovative training programs and summer/year-round jobs for youth.
4. Tax Relief for Every American Worker and Family
- Cutting payroll taxes in half for 160 million workers next year: The President’s plan will expand the payroll tax cut passed last year to cut workers payroll taxes in half in 2012 – providing a $1,500 tax cut to the typical American family, without negatively impacting the Social Security Trust Fund.
- Allowing more Americans to refinance their mortgages at today’s near 4 percent interest rates, which can put more than $2,000 a year in a family’s pocket.
5. Fully Paid for as Part of the President’s Long-Term Deficit Reduction Plan.To ensure that the American Jobs Act is fully paid for, the President will call on the Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reduction necessary to pay for the Act and still meet its deficit target. The President will, in the coming days, release a detailed plan that will show how we can do that while achieving the additional deficit reduction necessary to meet the President’s broader goal of stabilizing our debt as a share of the economy.
AMERICAN JOBS ACT OVERVIEW
The American people understand that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the middle class has been under attack for decades. That’s why President Obama believes we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis – we need to rebuild the economy the American way, based on balance, fairness, and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street. We can work together to create the jobs of the future by helping small business entrepreneurs, by investing in education, and by making things the world buys. The President understands that to restore an American economy that’s built to last we cannot afford to outsource American jobs and encourage reckless financial deals that put middle class security at risk.
To create jobs, the President unveiled the American Jobs Act – nearly all of which is made up of ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, and that Congress should pass right away to get the economy moving now. The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans. And it would do so without adding a dime to the deficit.
Tax Cuts to Help America’s Small Businesses Hire and Grow
New Tax Cuts to Businesses to Support Hiring and Investment:The President is proposing three tax cuts to provide immediate incentives to hire and invest:
- Cutting the Payroll Tax Cut in Half for the First $5 Million in Wages:This provision would cut the payroll tax in half to 3.1% for employers on the first $5 million in wages, providing broad tax relief to all businesses but targeting it to the 98 percent of firms with wages below this level.
- Temporarily Eliminating Employer Payroll Taxes on Wages for New Workers or Raises for Existing Workers:The President is proposing a full holiday on the 6.2% payroll tax firms pay for any growth in their payroll up to $50 million above the prior year, whether driven by new hires, increased wages or both. This is the kind of job creation measure that CBO has called the most effective of all tax cuts in supporting employment.
- Extending 100% Expensing into 2012:The President is proposing to extend 100 percent expensing, the largest temporary investment incentive in history, allowing all firms – large and small – to take an immediate deduction on investments in new plants and equipment.
- Helping Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses Access Capital and Grow: The President’s plan includes administrative, regulatory and legislative measures – including those developed and recommended by the President’s Jobs Council – to help small firms start and expand. This includes changing the way the government does business with small firms. The Administration will soon announce a plan to accelerate government payments to small contractors to help put money in their hands faster. The President is also charging his CIO and CTO to, within 90 days, stand up a one-stop, online portal for small businesses to easily access government services. As part of the President’s Startup America initiative, the Administration will work with the SEC to conduct a comprehensive review of securities regulations from the perspective of these small companies to reduce the regulatory burdens on small business capital formation in ways that are consistent with investor protection, including expanding “crowdfunding” opportunities and increasing mini-offerings. Finally, the President’s plan calls for Congress to pass comprehensive patent reform, increase guarantees for bonds to help small businesses compete for infrastructure projects and remove burdensome withholding requirements that keep capital out of the hands of job creators.
Putting Workers Back on the Job While Rebuilding and Modernizing America
- Tax Credits and Career Readiness Efforts to Support Veterans’ Hiring:The President is proposing a Returning Heroes Tax Credit of up to $5,600 for hiring unemployed veterans who have been looking for a job for more than six months, and a Wounded Warriors Tax Credit of up to $9,600 for hiring unemployed workers with service-connected disabilities who have been looking for a job for more than six months, while creating a new task force to maximize career readiness of servicemembers.
- Preventing Layoffs of Teachers, Cops and Firefighters:The President is proposing to invest $35 billion to prevent layoffs of up to 280,000 teachers, while supporting the hiring of tens of thousands more and keeping cops and firefighters on the job. These funds would help states and localities avoid and reverse layoffs now, requiring that funds be drawn down quickly. Under the President’s proposal, $30 billion be directed towards educators and $5 billion would support the hiring and retention of public safety and first responder personnel.
- Modernizing Over 35,000 Schools – From Science Labs and Internet-Ready Classrooms to Renovated Facilities:The President is proposing a $25 billion investment in school infrastructure that will modernize at least 35,000 public schools – investments that will create jobs, while improving classrooms and upgrading our schools to meet 21st century needs. This includes a priority for rural schools and dedicated funding for Bureau of Indian Education funded schools. Funds could be used for a range of emergency repair and renovation projects, greening and energy efficiency upgrades, asbestos abatement and removal, and modernization efforts to build new science and computer labs and to upgrade technology in our schools. The President is also proposing a $5 billion investment in modernizing community colleges (including tribal colleges), bolstering their infrastructure in this time of need while ensuring their ability to serve future generations of students and communities.
- Making an Immediate Investment in Our Roads, Rails and Airports: The President’s plan includes $50 billion in immediate investments for highways, transit, rail and aviation, helping to modernize an infrastructure that now receives a grade of “D” from the American Society of Civil Engineers and putting hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job. The President’s plan includes investments to improve our airports, support NextGen Air Traffic Modernization efforts, and resources for the TIGER and TIFIA programs, which target competitive dollars to innovative multi-modal infrastructure programs. It will also take special steps to enhance infrastructure-related job training opportunities for individuals from underrepresented groups and ensure that small businesses can compete for infrastructure contracts.The President will work administratively to speed infrastructure investment through a recently issued Presidential Memorandum developed with his Jobs Council directingdepartments and agencies to identify high impact, job-creating infrastructure projects that can be expedited in a transparent manner through outstanding review and permitting processes. The call for greater infrastructure investment has been joined by leaders from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue.
- Establishing a National Infrastructure Bank:The President is calling for Congress to pass a National Infrastructure Bank capitalized with $10 billion, in order to leverage private and public capital and to invest in a broad range of infrastructure projects of nationaland regional significance, without earmarks or traditional political influence. The Bank would be based on the model Senators Kerry and Hutchison have championed while building on legislation by Senators Rockefeller and Lautenberg and the work of long-time infrastructure bank champions like Rosa DeLauro and the input of the President’s Jobs Council.
- Project Rebuild: Putting People Back to Work Rehabilitating Homes, Businesses and Communities. The President is proposing to invest $15 billion in a national effort to put construction workers on the job rehabilitating and refurbishing hundreds of thousands of vacant and foreclosed homes and businesses. Building on proven approaches to stabilizing neighborhoods with high concentrations of foreclosures, Project Rebuild will bring in expertise and capital from the private sector, focus on commercial and residential property improvements, and expand innovative property solutions like land banks. This approach will not only create construction jobs but will help reduce blight and crime and stabilize housing prices in areas hardest hit by the housing crisis.
- Expanding Access to High-Speed Wireless in a Fiscally Responsible Way: The President is calling for a deficit reducing plan to deploy high-speed wireless services to at least 98 percent of Americans, including those in more remote rural communities, while freeing up spectrum through incentive auctions, spurring innovation, and creating a nationwide, interoperable wireless network for public safety.
Pathways Back to Work for Americans Looking for Jobs
- Reform Our Unemployment Insurance System to Provide Greater Flexibility, While Ensuring 6 Million People Do Not Lose Benefits: Drawing on the best ideas of both parties and the most innovative states, the President is proposing the most sweeping reforms to the unemployment insurance (UI) system in 40 years help those without jobs transition to the workplace. Alongside these reforms, the President is reiterating his call to extend unemployment insurance, preventing 6 million people looking for work from losing their benefits and extending what the independent Congressional Budget Office has determined is the highest “bang for the buck” option to increase economic activity.
- Reemployment Assistance: States will be required to design more rigorous reemployment services for the long-term unemployed and to conduct assessments to review the longest-term claimants of UI to assess their eligibility and help them develop a work-search plan. These reforms are proven to speed up UI beneficiaries’ return to work.
- Work-sharing:The President will expand “work-sharing” to encourage arrangements using UI that keep employees on the job at reduced hours, rather than laying them off.
- State Flexibility for Bold Reforms to Put the Long-Term Unemployed Back To Work:The President is proposing to provide additional funds to allow states to introduce new programs aimed at long-term unemployed workers, including:
- “Bridge to Work” Programs:States will be able to put in place reforms that build off what works in programs like Georgia Works or Opportunity North Carolina, while instituting important fixes and reforms that ensure minimum wage and fair labor protections are being enforced. These approaches permits long-term unemployed workers to continue receiving UI while they take temporary, voluntary work or pursue work-based training. The President’s plan requires compliance with applicable minimum wage and other worker rights laws.
- Wage Insurance: States will be able to use UI to encourage older, long-term unemployed Americans to return to work in new industries or occupations.
- Startup Assistance: States will have flexibility to help long-term unemployed workers create their own jobs by starting their own small businesses.
- Other Reemployment Reforms: States will be able to seek waivers from the Secretary of Labor to implement other innovative reforms to connect the long-term unemployed to work opportunities.
- Tax Credits for Hiring the Long-Term Unemployed:The President is proposing a tax credit of up to $4,000 for hiring workers who have been looking for a job for over six months.
- Investing in Low-Income Youth and Adults: The President is proposing a new Pathways Back to Work Fund to provide hundreds of thousands of low-income youth and adults with opportunities to work and to achieve needed training in growth industries. The Initiative will do three things: i) support summer and year-round jobs for youth, building off of successful programs that supported over 370,000 such jobs in 2009 and 2010; ii) support subsidized employment opportunities for low-income individuals who are unemployed, building off the successful TANF Emergency Contingency Fund wage subsidy program that supported 260,000 jobs in 2009 and 2010; and iii) support promising and innovative local work-based job and training initiatives to place low-income adults and youths in jobs quickly.
- Prohibiting Employers from Discriminating Against Unemployed Workers: The President’s plan calls for legislation that would make it unlawful to refuse to hire applicants solely because they are unemployed or to include in a job posting a provision that unemployed persons will not be considered.
More Money in the Pockets of Every American Worker and Family
- Cutting Payroll Taxes in Half for 160 Million Workers Next Year: The President’s plan will expand the payroll tax cut passed last December by cutting workers payroll taxes in half next year. This provision will provide a tax cut of $1,500 to the typical family earning $50,000 a year. As with the payroll tax cut passed in December 2010, the American Jobs Act will specify that Social Security will still receive every dollar it would have gotten otherwise, through a transfer from the General Fund into the Social Security Trust Fund.
- Helping More Americans Refinance Mortgages at Today’s Historically Low Interest Rates: The President has instructed his economic team to work with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, their regulator the FHFA, major lenders and industry leaders to remove the barriers that exist in the current refinancing program (HARP) to help more borrowers benefit from today’s historically low interest rates. This has the potential to not only help these borrowers, but their communities and the American taxpayer, by keeping borrowers in their homes and reducing risk to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Fully Paid for as Part of the President’s Long-Term Deficit Reduction Plan.
- To ensure that the American Jobs Act is fully paid for, the President will call on the Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reduction necessary to pay for the Act and still meet its deficit target. The President will, in the coming days, release a detailed plan that will show how we can do that while achieving the additional deficit reduction necessary to meet the President’s broader goal of stabilizing our debt as a share of the economy.
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Tax Cuts to Help America’s Small Businesses Hire and Grow
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Cut employer payroll taxes in half & bonus payroll cut for new jobs/wages
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Extend 100% expensing in 2012
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Putting Workers Back on the Job While Rebuilding and Modernizing America
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Teacher rehiring and first responders
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Modernizing schools
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Immediate surface transportation
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Infrastructure bank
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Rehabilitation/repurposing of vacant property (neighborhood stabilization)
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National wireless initiative
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Veterans hiring initiative
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Pathways Back to Work for Americans Looking for Jobs
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UI Reform and Extension
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Jobs tax credit for long term unemployed
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Pathways back to work fund
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More Money in the Pockets of Every American Worker and Family
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Cutting employee payroll taxes in half in 2012
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* Proposal has a gross cost of $10bn, but a net deficit reducing impact of $18bn because of spectrum auction proceeds.
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Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about “Obama spending” and “Obama deficits” and how the “Stimulus” just made things worse. Solution: Here are three “reality-based” charts to send to him. These charts show what actually happened.
Spending
Government spending increased dramatically under Bush. It has not increased much under Obama. Note that this chart does not reflect any spending cuts resulting from deficit-cutting deals.
Deficits
Notes, this chart includes Clinton’s last budget year for comparison.
The numbers in these two charts come from Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables Fiscal Year 2012. They are just the amounts that the government spent and borrowed, period. Anyone can go look them up. People who claim that Obama “tripled the deficit” are either misled or are trying to mislead.
The Stimulus and Jobs
In this chart, the RED lines on the left side — the ones that keep doing DOWN — show what happened to jobs under the policies of Bush and the Republicans. We were losing lots and lots of jobs every month, and it was getting worse and worse. The BLUE lines — the ones that just go UP — show what happened to jobs when the stimulus was in effect. We stopped losing jobs and started gaining jobs, and it was getting better and better. The leveling off on the right side of the chart shows what happened as the stimulus started to wind down: job creation leveled off at too low a level.
It looks a lot like the stimulus reversed what was going on before the stimulus.
Conclusion: THE STIMULUS WORKED BUT WAS NOT ENOUGH!
More False Things
These are just three of the false things that everyone “knows.” Some others are (click through): Obama bailed out the banks, businesses will hire if they get tax cuts, health care reform cost $1 trillion, Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme or is “going broke”, government spending “takes money out of the economy.”
Why This Matters
These things really matter. We all want to fix the terrible problems the country has. But it is so important to know just what the problems are before you decide how to fix them. Otherwise the things you do to try to solve those problems might just make them worse. If you get tricked into thinking that Obama has made things worse and that we should go back to what we were doing before Obama — tax cuts for the rich, giving giant corporations and Wall Street everything they want — when those are the things that caused the problems in the first place, then we will be in real trouble.
If they will pay attention ….
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Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 8th 2011, #3 – Summify
Come check out my summary! http://t.co/MTkjL5X (w/ @sciam, @lloydmj & Coachforyou)
Stop Blaming Obama for Your Lightbulb Problems – Chris Good – Politics – The Atlantic
Stop Blaming Obama for Your Lightbulb Problems – Chris Good – Politics – The Atlantic http://t.co/s24B6Rc
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers’ Secret Seminar | Mother Jones
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers’ Secret Seminar | Mother Jones http://t.co/VBj2MXY
Prisons burdened with small crimes and poor management, report finds | Minivan News
RT @UNDP: New study on prisons in the #Maldives reveals ways to reduce prison population by 2/3
http://t.co/w6ak6Ok v #minivannews
RT @NRDCWater: Do you think the freaky weather is climate change? Well, so do a lot of scientists, it turns out. See our take: http:/ …
127 areas to be proposed as English marine conservation zones | Environment | The Guardian
RT @guardianeco: 127 areas to be proposed as English marine conservation zones http://t.co/sctDNlu
RT @guardianeco: How to ensure climate change finance is well spent | Neil Bird and Jonathan Glennie http://t.co/kQItxee
Global steps vital to preserve worldwide soil fertility and avoid famine, UN warns
RT @UNEPandYou: RT @un: Global steps vital to preserve worldwide soil fertility & avoid famine, @FAOnews chief warns http://t.co/IBCqeel
chinas-rise-isnt-our-demise.html from nytimes.com – StumbleUpon
China’s Rise Isn’t Our Demise by: Vice President Joe Biden – NYTimes.com http://t.co/ahqVj2s
Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 8th 2011, #2 – Summify
Come check out my summary! http://t.co/1qHtIFM (w/ @ekarff, @dmbrown111 & @bleustocking)
U.S. food insecurity reduced, but still affects millions: USDA | Reuters
RT @SustainableNet: U.S. food insecurity reduced but still affects millions: USDA – Reuters http://t.co/e7bdTgj
– #FoodSecurity
Deep-sea fish in deep trouble: Scientists find nearly all deep-sea fisheries unsustainable
RT @greenforyou: Scientists find nearly all deep-sea fisheries unsustainable #green http://t.co/WNjdNFW
Just Trying To Help: Right-Wing Media Advise Obama To Use Jobs Speech To Resign | Media Matters for America http://t.co/LLid2A3
Electability a Primary Liability for Perry – NYTimes.com
RT @fivethirtyeight: [new article] Electability a Primary Liability for Perry http://t.co/iOd7xep
The Surprising Case For Post Offices | The New Republic
RT @tnr: The impending loss of your local Post Office won’t just hurt your mail carrier; it could end up hurting you http://ow.ly/6omdQ …
Home page | UNiTE T-Shirt Competition
RT @UNDP: RT @sayno_unite: Educate yourself about the causes and consequences of violence against #women and girls http://t.co/jyFfwQu # …
Solar Cheaper Than Coal by 2013 in Parts of Europe : TreeHugger
Solar Cheaper Than Coal by 2013 in Parts of Europe : TreeHugger http://t.co/FJ7unmR
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy Video
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy http://t.co/8qZU8Ci
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy – YouTube
RT @GreenMuze: Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy http://t.co/0OZJ6B8
The Onion nails core dilemma of tackling climate change | Grist
RT @grist: So funny because it’s true: @TheOnion nails core dilemma of tackling climate change http://t.co/KDIU9qA
Nobel Winners Call on Obama to Reject Keystone XL | Mother Jones – StumbleUpon
Nobel Winners Call on Obama to Reject Keystone XL | Mother Jones http://t.co/R41MQSl
Jobs Crisis – Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
Jobs Crisis – Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont) http://t.co/Aq5NBpp
Elizabeth Warren’s Populist Revival – The Daily Beast
RT @thedailybeast: Elizabeth Warren’s Populist Revival: Possible Senate candidacy rebuke to Tea Party. http://t.co/Hi9Xwdj #cheatsheet
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty : The New Yorker
RT @SunFoundation: TX has a problem with lousy forensic evidence convicting people, including 1 man who might have been innocent – http: …
Top 10 Reasons Why Green Jobs Are Vital to Our Economy
RT @drgrist: Romney: “[Obama] keeps talking about green jobs, where are they?” Answer: http://t.co/gGICWFf
Al Jazeera’s journey across post-9/11 America – Americas – Al Jazeera English
RT @AJEnglish: Video: Al Jazeera’s journey across post-9/11 America http://t.co/xygA6Uv
The Balanced Budget Amendment And The GOP’s Secret Fear | The New Republic
RT @tnr: Remember: the #BalancedBudgetAmendment is completely insane, as explained here http://t.co/iuqAPhi
Romney adviser: Perry ‘has lost’ – Ben Smith – POLITICO.com
RT @thinkprogress: Romney adviser: “He’s lost. No federal candidate has ever won on the Perry program to kill Social Security. Never has …
RT @sciam: Did the U.S. Overreact to the 9/11 Attacks? Undoubtedly http://t.co/Zk5kD8e
GOP Reagan Library Debate Live-Blog | ThinkProgress
RT @thinkprogress: Rick Perry calls for unmanned drones to patrol the border. Which Obama is already doing. http://t.co/CowUvbz
GOP Reagan Library Debate: video compilation of the craziest moments from tonight’s debate | ThinkProgress http://t.co/BIhpA1A
yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/kh3xmtswj Shared by thinkprogress
RT @CAPAction: RT @marshallfitz nevr cease 2 amaze RT @thinkprogress: Hitler/Obama/Marx sign at #TeaParty rally in NM 2day http://t.co/X …
Joshua Oakley’s Summary, September 8th 2011 – Summify
. @NDHduz, Karl Knox & @aymanfadel thanks for summarizing my news! http://t.co/wXAEYJK
Live-Blogging the Republican Debate at the Reagan Library – NYTimes.com
RT @thecaucus: Fact Check: Is Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme?” by @calmesnyt http://t.co/vF4dqjn
PolitiFact | Education statements
RT @politifact: All of our fact-checks on education http://ow.ly/6ojY8 #ReaganDebate
Santorum Gets It All Wrong on Poverty in America | Mother Jones
RT @MotherJones: Santorum Gets It All Wrong on Poverty in America http://t.co/btLU7Bf
American fears: a decade after 9/11 – Americas – Al Jazeera English
RT @AJEnglish: American fears: a decade after 9/11 http://t.co/CxsWyeH
Live-Blogging the Republican Debate at the Reagan Library – NYTimes.com
RT @thecaucus: Fact check: Bachmann on health care law: http://t.co/07LcEKj #ReaganDebate
Sizing the Clean Economy: A Green Jobs Assessment – Brookings Institution
RT @LCVoters: Romney: “[Obama] keeps talking about green jobs, where are they?” Actually, there’s 2.7 million across clean economy: http …
RT @politifact: Perry has said before that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. We looked at the evidence and rated that False. http://ow. …
Rick Perry Newsweek Interview on Federalism, Medicare, and 2012 Race – The Daily Beast
RT @SunFoundation: In an interview with The Daily Beast, Perry said SS and Medicare are unconstitutional – http://t.co/ORrcsWU #sunlive …
Green Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs — and Are Growing Steadily | Business | GreenBiz.com
RT @LCVoters: #ReaganDebate Green Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs — and Are Growing Steadily http://t.co/rIvMRbe
Angry White Man | The New Republic
RT @tnr: #RonPaul is officially the voice of the paranoid right. And, just to reiterate from a previous piece, #racist http://t.co/cTqM07a
PolitiFact | Michele Bachmann says Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs
RT @politifact: Bachmann said Obamacare would kill 800,000 jobs, per the CBO. That’s Mostly False. http://ow.ly/6oisk #ReaganDebate
Only 34% of Tea Partiers Say Climate Change is Real : TreeHugger
Only 34% of Tea Partiers Say Climate Change is Real : TreeHugger http://t.co/XgQDREs
PoliticsGlobalWarming2011 from yale.edu – StumbleUpon
Politics & Global Warming: Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Tea Party| Yale Project on Climate Change Communication http://t.co/HV2tX8C
Only 34% of Tea Partiers Say Climate Change is Real : TreeHugger
RT @TM_Climate: Only 34% of Tea Partiers Say Climate Change is Real : TreeHugger http://t.co/bHxq5eo (via @jinnietemplin)
GOP Debate Watch | Obama for America | 2012
RT @BarackObama: We’ll follow along as the candidates backtrack, double down, and fail to mention important issues at all. http://t.co/o …
Nobel Winners Call on Obama to Reject Keystone XL | Mother Jones
Nobel Winners Call on Obama to Reject Keystone XL | Mother Jones http://t.co/SzSL2kB
Climate change news, comment and analysis | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Climate change news, comment and analysis | Environment | guardian.co.uk http://t.co/4XnwQk5
My social summary is out! http://t.co/j1ec0Ds (w/ James Stanley, @PetRescuePolls & @QueerjohnPA)
My social summary is out! http://t.co/j1ec0Ds (w/ James Stanley, @PetRescuePolls & @QueerjohnPA)
Love Everyone Often 09/06/2011 | Joshua Oakley – Alchemy, Dreams, Stars, Visions, Magic
Love Everyone Often 09/06/2011 http://t.co/RKhdRpm
Love Everyone Often 09/07/2011 | Joshua Oakley – Alchemy, Dreams, Stars, Visions, Magic
Love Everyone Often 09/07/2011 http://t.co/j6Wqk2y
Love Everyone Often 09/05/2011 | Joshua Oakley – Alchemy, Dreams, Stars, Visions, Magic
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Recent College Graduates Wait for Their Real Careers to Begin – NYTimes.com
Recent College Graduates Wait for Their Real Careers to Begin – NYTimes.com http://t.co/FJIIdDz
