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These are my links for September 12th from 15:03 to 15:21:

• Obama Seeks to End Tax Breaks to Pay for Jobs Plan – President Barack Obama would pay for his $447 billion jobs plan by ending a series of tax breaks for oil and gas companies, hedge-fund managers and people making more than $200,000, the White House said Monday.

  In total, Mr. Obama's plan would end about $467 billion of tax breaks over 10 years, said White House Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew. The president has previously proposed ending the tax breaks, but has faced stiff resistance from Republicans.

  By choosing to end the tax breaks, the White House is likely setting itself up for a fight with Republicans. Over the summer, Republicans said they wouldn't end tax breaks amid concerns doing so as the U.S. is coming out of a recession would hamper the recovery.

  Mr. Obama said he expects an uphill battle. "There's going to be enormous resistance," the president said during a surprise visit to a briefing White House officials were hosting with people from minority news websites.

  The president said he needed everyone's help to get the jobs package passed. "I want you guys to pump this up," Mr. Obama said. "Either Congress gets it done, or if Congress doesn't get it done, people know exactly what's holding it up," he said later. The president's remarks at the event weren't on his public schedule to reporters.

  "It would be fair to say this tax increase on job creators is the kind of proposal both parties have opposed in the past," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio). He continued, "We remain eager to work together on ways to support job growth, but this proposal doesn't appear to have been offered in that bipartisan spirit."
  The White House disputed the notion that raising taxes on the wealthy would hurt growth. The measures to pay for spending "are spread out so that there aren't negative impacts," said White House press secretary Jay Carney.he

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• Obama Plans to End Tax Breaks to Pay for Jobs Program – White House budget director Jack Lew outlined Obama's proposals for paying for the plan, targeting the rich and corporations as the president has in the past to no avail. A limit on itemized deductions and certain exemptions on individuals who earn over $200,000 and families who earn over $250,000, which would raise roughly $400 billion over 10 years.

  Lew said the "tax provisions" that Obama was proposing included:

  A limit on itemized deductions and certain exemptions on individuals who earn over $200,000 and families who earn over $250,000, which would raise roughly $400 billion over 10 years.
  A proposal to treat carried interest earned by investment fund managers as ordinary income rather than taxing it at capital gains rates, which would raise $18 billion.
  Eliminating certain oil and gas industry tax breaks that would raise $40 billion.
  A change in corporate jet depreciation rules that would raise $3 billion.

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  Note:Being rich to Obama just went down to $200K a year from $250K a year income.

  Will it be $150K next?

• EPA Regulation forces closure of Texas energy Facilities, eliminates 500 Jobs – Texas energy company Luminant announced on Monday new burdensome Environmental Protection Agency regulations are forcing it to close several facilities, which will result in about 500 job losses.

  The company will be idling — stopping the usage of — two energy generating units. It will also cease extracting lignite from three different Texas mines.

  The EPA regulation Luminant cites as too burdensome is the new Cross-State Air Pollution rule, which requires Texas power generators to make “dramatic reductions” in emissions beginning on January 1, 2012.

  “We have hundreds of employees who have spent their entire professional careers at Luminant and its predecessor companies,” Luminant CEO David Campbell said in a statement. “At every step of this process, we have tried to minimize these impacts, and it truly saddens me that we are being compelled to take the actions we’ve announced today. We have filed suit to try to avoid these consequences.”

  The company said it has been trying to meet the new standards, but won’t be able to do so without closing down several facilities and eliminating 500 jobs.

  “As always, Luminant is committed to complying fully with EPA regulations,” Campbell said. “We have spent the last two months identifying all possible options to meet the requirements of this new rule, and we are launching a significant investment program to reduce emissions across our facilities.”

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These are my links for September 2nd through September 6th:

• Rescue those Boeing jobs in South Carolina – You have to wonder about a federal agency that sticks it to an American manufacturer creating thousands of good-paying jobs inside the nation's borders instead of overseas.

  Fortunately, we hope, you won't have to wonder about it for long. We suspect the end is near for the brief reign of an overbearing pro-union majority on the National Labor Relations Board. That should help to lift an economy in dire need of job creation. It also should lift Chicago's Boeing Corp., the manufacturer targeted in an outrageous NLRB complaint earlier this year.

  With little fanfare, board Chair Wilma Liebman left the agency after her term expired Aug. 27. President Barack Obama's recess appointment of another board member, labor lawyer Craig Becker, runs out Dec. 31. Combined with a long-standing vacancy, those departures would leave just two of the board's five seats occupied. So in the absence of any new appointments — which Republicans have vowed to block — the board will fall short of a quorum.

  Good.

  Don't get us wrong, the NLRB has important work to do. It investigates unfair labor practices and monitors union elections. Trouble is, the agency swerved left after the Obama administration stacked the board in favor of unions. Better to temporarily deactivate the board than to keep it going in its current direction.

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  Wonder if Chicago Tribune will endorse Obama this time around?

• Calls for more regulatory restraint come after Obama halts EPA Ozone Plan – Now that President Barack Obama has stopped Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson from continuing with her plan to tighten ozone regulations, it’s unclear if the politically embattled chief executive will halt additional administrative rules.

  In his letter to Jackson, Obama’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein said the president directed him to “minimize regulatory costs and burdens” in all agencies. Republican leaders and industry groups are jumped on that promise Friday, demanding new cutbacks on more of the regulatory burdens they say his administration has placed on the economy.

  “I am glad that the President has finally recognized the job-killing potential of these EPA regulations,” House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy said in a statement, adding that he is “hopeful that the President will continue down this road of lifting excessive burdens so the economy can grow and we can get people back to work.”

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• House Republicans paint target on NLRB’s proposed union election rules – House Republicans plan to move on legislation in the coming weeks to block a proposed rule by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that will speed up union elections.

  The proposal, backed by labor but heavily criticized by business groups, was tagged as one of the 10 most harmful regulations proposed by the Obama administration in a memo sent by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to House Republicans this week.

  "The hope is to move forward in the coming weeks with a proposal that will rein in the NLRB, and protect employers’ right to free speech and workers’ ability to make a fully-informed decision in a union election," a House Republican aide told The Hill.
   
  In his memo, Cantor said the labor board’s proposed rule will afford “little time” to employers and workers who do not want to unionize.
   
  “This summer, the NLRB issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that could significantly alter current union representation election procedures, giving both employers and employees little time to react to union formations in the future. The result will increase labor costs and uncertainty for nearly all private employers in the U.S,” Cantor said in the memo.

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• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Endodontists Not Likely to Obtain Implant Referrals from General Dentists? – Flap's Dentistry Blog: Endodontists Not Likely to Obtain Implant Referrals from General Dentists?
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• Palin Bashes ‘Permanent Political Class’ at Tea Party Rally : Roll Call Politics – RT @rollcall: Palin Bashes 'Permanent Political Class' at Tea Party Rally:
• EXCLUSIVE: Palin’s surprise visit delights bride and groom « New Hampshire Journal – RT @patjhynes: EXCLUSIVE: Palin’s surprise visit delights bride and groom « New Hampshire Journal: #nhj
• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-09-05 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-09-05 #tcot #catcot
• President 2012: Sarah Palin IS Running | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Sarah Palin IS Running #tcot #catcot
• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Endodontists Not Likely to Obtain Implant Referrals from General Dentists? – Flap's Dentistry Blog: Endodontists Not Likely to Obtain Implant Referrals from General Dentists?
• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-09-04 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-09-04 #tcot #catcot
• Day By Day September 3, 2011 – Asylum | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day September 3, 2011 – Asylum #tcot #catcot
• Dilbert September 3, 2011 – Optimist » Flap’s California Blog – Dilbert September 3, 2011 – Optimist
• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: 2011 Disneyland Half Marathon Expo – 2011 Disneyland Half Marathon Expo
• foursquare – Waiting for the running gang to arrive before breakfast (@ Ronnie's Diner)
• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Endodontists Not Likely to Obtain Implant Referrals from General Dentists? – RE: Digital Panoramic type radiographs have other indications for use besides implant surgery. 

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• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-09-03 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-09-03 #tcot #catcot
• California State Board of Equalization Member Betty Yee is the Amazon Tax WIMP of the Day » Flap’s California Blog – California State Board of Equalization Member Betty Yee is the Amazon Tax WIMP of the Day
• California Board of Equalization Member George Runner Asks Governor Jerry Brown and Legislative Leaders to Accept Amazon.com Job Proposal » Flap’s California Blog – California Board of Equalization Member George Runner Asks Governor Jerry Brown and Legislative Leaders to Accep…
• Flap’s Links and Comments for September 2nd on 14:59 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for September 2nd on 14:59 #tcot #catcot

These are my links for September 2nd from 14:59 to 15:08:

• Black unemployment rate: Highest since 1984 – The August jobs report was dismal for plenty of reasons, but perhaps most striking was the picture it painted of racial inequality in the job market.

  Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its highest level since 1984, while the unemployment rate for whites fell slightly to 8%, the Labor Department reported.

  "This month's numbers continue to bear out that longstanding pattern that minorities have a much more challenging time getting jobs," said Bill Rodgers, chief economist with the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

  Black unemployment has been roughly double that of whites since the government started tracking the figures in 1972.

  Economists blame a variety of factors. The black workforce is younger than the white workforce, lower numbers of blacks get a college degree and many live in areas of the country that were harder hit by the recession — all things that could lead to a higher unemployment rate.

  But even excluding those factors, blacks still are hit with higher joblessness.

• Texas power officials say new EPA rule could cause ‘emergency events’ – The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operator of the state's power grid, said in a report today that a new federal environmental regulation would reduce generating capacity and put the grid "at increasing risk of emergency events," including rotating power outages.

  The Jan. 1 implementation date for the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, designed to curb air pollution from power plants, leaves ERCOT with "an extremely truncated period" in which to assess the impact of the rule and "no realistic opportunity to take steps that could even partially offset the substantial losses of available operating capacity," it said.

  The report outlined three scenarios, with even the "best-case scenario" expected to result in the loss of an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity during peak consumption periods, ERCOT said.

  "Had this incremental reduction been in place in 2011, ERCOT would have experienced rotating outages during days in August," the report said.

  Rotating power outages are implemented as an emergency measure when electricity demand is close to exceeding power supplies from generators.

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These are my links for August 29th from 08:31 to 08:55:

• Workplace Notice Poster for Worker’s Rights – WORKPLACE NOTICE
  Worker Rights The National Labor
  Relations Board May Not Tell You About
  For additional information:
  www.workforcefairness.org
  The Right to Decide Workers have a right to decide whether or not
  they want to be represented by a collective
  bargaining unit.
  A Secret Ballot Workers have a right to a secret ballot vote to
  decide whether or not they want to form a
  collective bargaining unit.
  A Vote on Contracts Workers have a right to vote on contracts that
  affect their salaries, benefits and workplace rules.
  Workplace Fairness Workers have a right to know that penalties for
  violating their rights will be assessed equally
  against both employers and organized labor.
  The Right to Decertify Workers have a right to vote via secret ballot to
  decertify a collective bargaining unit.
  You Control Your Dues Workers have a right to prohibit their dues from
  going to organizations that use them for political
  causes they do not agree with.
• An EPA Moratorium – Since everyone has a suggestion or three about what President Obama can do to get the economy cooking again, here's one of ours: Immediately suspend the Environmental Protection Agency's bid to reorganize the U.S. electricity industry, and impose a moratorium on EPA rules at least until hiring and investment rebound for an extended period.

  The EPA is currently pushing an unprecedented rewrite of air-pollution rules in an attempt to shut down a large portion of the coal-fired power fleet. Though these regulations are among the most expensive in the agency's history, none were demanded by the late Pelosi Congress. They're all the result of purely bureaucratic discretion under the Clean Air Act, last revised in 1990.

  As it happens, those 1990 amendments contain an overlooked proviso that would let Mr. Obama overrule EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's agenda. With an executive order, he could exempt all power plants "from compliance with any standard or limitation" for two years, or even longer using rolling two-year periods. All he has to declare is "that the technology to implement such standard is not available and that it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so."

  Both criteria are easily met. Most important, the EPA's regulatory cascade is a clear and present danger to the reliability and stability of the U.S. power system and grid. The spree affects plants that provide 40% of U.S. baseload capacity in the U.S., and almost half of U.S. net generation. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, which is charged with ensuring the integrity of the power supply, reported this month in a letter to the Senate that 81 gigawatts of generating capacity is "very likely" or "likely" to be subtracted by 2018 amid coal plant retirements and downgrades.

  That's about 8% of all U.S. generating capacity. Merely losing 56 gigawatts—a midrange scenario in line with FERC and industry estimates—is the equivalent of wiping out all power generation for Florida and Mississippi.

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• Eric Cantor – Memo On Upcoming Jobs Agenda – As you know, we released The House Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators earlier this year. While the debt crisis has demanded much of our attention, our new majority has passed over a dozen pro-growth measures to address the equally troubling jobs crisis, such as the Energy Tax Prevention Act and the Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act. Aside from repeal of the 1099 reporting requirement in ObamaCare, however, each House Republican jobs bill now sits dormant in the Democrat-controlled Senate. You can view the progress of our jobs bills at MajorityLeader.gov/JobsTracker.

  When we return next week, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will begin meeting to take an additional incremental step towards addressing our debt crisis. During this time, it is essential that the House continue our focus on the jobs crisis. Below are two areas of our jobs agenda that I want to bring to your attention for our upcoming fall and winter legislative schedule.

  REPEAL OF JOB-DESTROYING REGULATIONS TO CREATE MIDDLE CLASS JOBS

  Since passage of H.Res. 72 on February 11, our committee chairmen have been investigating and inventorying regulatory burdens to job creators. They’ve found many that have tied the hands of small business people and prevented job growth. By pursuing a steady repeal of job-destroying regulations, we can help lift the cloud of uncertainty hanging over small and large employers alike, empowering them to hire more workers.

  Our regulatory relief agenda will include repeal of specific regulations, as well as fundamental and structural reform of the rule-making system through legislation like the REINS Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act, and reform of the Administrative Procedures Act (all three bills are expected on the floor in late November and early December).

  The following is a list of the 10 most harmful job-destroying regulations that our committee chairmen have identified, as well as a selective calendar for their repeal. These regulations are reflective of the types of costly bureaucratic handcuffs that Washington has imposed upon business people who want to create jobs.

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These are my links for August 26th from 06:03 to 14:40:

• Take Texas out of cross-state air pollution rule – Remember the rolling blackouts during the extreme cold this winter? Are you ready for more of the same all summer long? Are you ready for job cuts? Are you ready for businesses to stop coming to Texas costing us new jobs? That's what is likely to happen if the Environmental Protection Agency does not reconsider including Texas in its cross-state air pollution rule.

  We've heard the threats of rolling blackouts this summer because of hot temperatures and record power usage. If you take away a significant percentage of the state's capacity to produce electricity a threat becomes a reality and we start losing power on a regular basis.

  The state will lose that capacity because the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule would force Texas lignite coal-fueled power plants to shut down or reduce output, eliminating perhaps as much as 10 percent of the state's capacity to produce electricity. The EPA figures that those plants could just import low-sulfur Wyoming coal. The EPA figures wrong. It would take a long time to convert and permit the necessary changes to those plants, and cost ratepayers a lot of money. Plus right now there is no excess production of coal in Wyoming to meet the additional demand and the impacts of getting that coal to Texas have not even been considered.

  What happens to your bottom line? We will all pay higher electric rates. It's supply and demand. For businesses still trying to recover from some really bad economic times, that could mean layoffs. For those businesses looking to move to Texas from other states, this might just make them decide to stay put. Who wants to come to a state where the rates are high and the lights go out every time it gets hot? I wouldn't.

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• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to Speak at the Reagan Presidential Library » Flap’s California Blog – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to Speak at the Reagan Presidential Library
• President 2012 GOP South Carolina Poll: Rick Perry 31% Vs. Mitt Romney 20% Vs. Michele Bachmann14% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP South Carolina Poll: Rick Perry 31% Vs. Mitt Romney 20% Vs. Michele Bachmann14% #tcot #catcot
• Poll Watch: 65% of online adults use social networking sites – Fully 65% of adult internet users now say they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 61% one year ago. This marks the first time in Pew Internet surveys that 50% of all adults use social networking sites.

  The frequency of social networking site usage among young adult internet users under age 30 was stable over the last year – 61% of online Americans in that age cohort now use social networking sites on a typical day, compared with 60% one year ago. However, among the Boomer-aged segment of internet users ages 50-64, social networking site usage on a typical day grew a significant 60% (from 20% to 32%).

  “The graying of social networking sites continues, but the oldest users are still far less likely to be making regular use of these tools,” said Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and co-author of the report. “While seniors are testing the waters, many Baby Boomers are beginning to make a trip to the social media pool part of their daily routine.”

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• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Weight Loss: The Best Approach? – Weight Loss: The Best Approach?
• Flap’s California Morning Collection: August 26, 2011 » Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Morning Collection: August 26, 2011
• President 2012 Poll Watch: Tea Party Supporters Are Backing Rick Perry | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Poll Watch: Tea Party Supporters Are Backing Rick Perry #tcot #catcot
• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Video: Federal Investigators Auditing Texas Dental Medicaid Over Orthodontic Treatment for Tens of Thousands – In this tight money economy? What an abuse of the system.:
• California RINOS to Meet this Weekend » Flap’s California Blog – California RINOS to Meet this Weekend
• Speaker John Boehner Assails Obama Over 4,257 New Regulatory Actions | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Speaker John Boehner Assails Obama Over 4,257 New Regualtory Actions #tcot #catcot
• Los Angeles Roadrunners: Run/Walk 5 for 2012 » Flap’s California Blog – Los Angeles Roadrunners: Run/Walk 5 for 2012
• Weight Loss From Reducing Calories Can Lead to Unrealistic Expectations | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – Weight Loss From Reducing Calories Can Lead to Unrealistic Expectations
• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Morning Drill: August 26, 2011 – The Morning Drill: August 26, 2011
• California Online Sales Tax Proponents Move to Invalidate Amazon.com Sponsored Online Sales Tax Referendum » Flap’s California Blog – California Online Sales Tax Proponents Move to Invalidate Amazon.com Sponsored Online Sales Tax Referendum
• Flap’s California Blog » Flap’s Comments On His Home, California – California Online Sales Tax Proponents Move to Invalidate Amazon.com Sponsored Online Sales Tax Referendum #tcot
• Dilbert August 26, 2011 – Again? » Flap’s California Blog – Dilbert August 26, 2011 – Again?
• Day By Day August 26, 2011 – Kulture King | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day August 26, 2011 – Kulture King #tcot #catcot

These are my links for August 25th from 08:58 to 09:02:

• Texas Railroad Commission urges AG to challenge EPA cross-state pollution rule – The Texas Railroad Commission is asking Attorney General Greg Abbott to "bring a prompt legal action" to delay implementation of a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that state officials say would jeopardize electric reliability in the state.

  Luminant, the Dallas-based power generator, maintains that the planned Jan. 1 implementation of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, designed to curb air pollution from power plants, would force it to mothball some operations and would significantly lower revenue as a result of reduced electricity generation and wholesale power sales.

  The biggest impact is expected to be at Luminant plants in East Texas that burn lignite coal, which the company also mines in the region.

  The Railroad Commission, in a letter to Abbott dated Tuesday, said the rule "will have serious adverse economic consequences for Texas without demonstrable environmental and health benefits."

  The commission said the rule "threatens the viability of the Texas lignite mining industry, its jobs and associated economic activity" and "many coal-fired power plants may be forced to limit or shut down operations" as a result of the regulation.

  The commission noted that it regulates the surface mining of lignite coal.

  "About 45 percent of the electric power generated in Texas comes from coal, and almost 40 percent of that coal is Texas lignite, which provides Texans with jobs and a low-cost fuel," the commission said in the letter.

  The "potential loss of lignite for power significantly threatens electric reliability in Texas" and is needed "to keep the lights on," the commission added. The chairwoman of the Public Utility Commission and officials who run the state's power grid have expressed similar concerns.

  EPA officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

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  But, the Feds don;t care. It is the environment and to hell with Texas and Texas business.

• EPA’s Looming Blackouts – Energy: It won't matter which light bulbs we use as the administration's implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs be when the lights go out?

  It's called the Cross-State Pollution Rule, announced last month, and its implementation over the next 18 months will likely result in the loss of a fifth of the nation's electricity-generating capacity.

  The result will be likely power shortages, skyrocketing rates and inevitable brownouts and rolling blackouts.

  Based on Bush-era EPA proposals that the federal courts threw out in 2008, this latest example of legislation is designed to usurp state powers to regulate their in-state emissions by making it a federal issue on the grounds pollution crosses state lines.

  The rule requires coal companies in 27 states to slash emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide by 73% and 54%, respectively, from 2005 levels by 2014. "Just because wind and weather will carry air pollution away from its source at a local power plant doesn't mean that pollution is no longer that plant's responsibility," says Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson.

  The targets are states such as Texas that not only resist federal encroachment on their powers but dare to try to balance environmental quality. The EPA claims huge health gains as its justification, but those claims are in doubt. Poverty and joblessness, which this and other EPA rules will create, carry their own health risks.

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These are my links for March 2nd from 14:05 to 14:10:

• California Still Barking Up the Wrong Tree for Taxes – The Amazon tax is back for debate. Again.  Despite court rulings that the thing is unconstitutional, despite proven records of failure in those states who have tried it, California’s Democratic leadership is again proposing the online tax.

  None of the excuses for this wasteful proposal make sense. Some retailers claim that taxes are needed to even the playing field between brick and mortar stores that do collect tax, and online retailers who do not. After all, that is why our local WalMart is suffering, right? But a recent LA Times article shows that retailers such as WalMart are hurting, not because they compete with Amazon, but because they have scaled back their merchandise offerings, forcing customers to look elsewhere to complete their shopping lists.  In fact, WalMart is not losing customers to online retailers so much as they are losing their customers to even lower priced offerings such as dollar stores. 

  Meanwhile, retailers like Amazon, using technology to streamline delivery processes, and offering a wide variety of items,  just posted major increases in sales. In this video from CNN  executives claim Amazon shows 26-40% growth, from the same time last year, with 15,000 employees hired in 2010. And yet, California’s Dems want to effectively slap one of the major employers in the US who is actually offering good paying jobs, with benefits.

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  But, California Democrats in the state legislature have never met a tax they did not like – even if it does not involve capturing that much revenue.

  To the LEFT, it is more about punishing people in the marketplace in search of a social justice "fairness."

• Koch Brothers Receive Praise From Obama Administration – Progressives may have decided that businessmen and libertarian political benefactors David and Charles Koch are the latest harbingers of the vast right-wing conspiracy, but they could be shocked to learn that several Koch Industries subsidiaries have been working closely and productively with…the Obama administration.

  Specifically, it’s with Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency that Koch Industries has been playing nice. In Texas last fall, for instance, the Koch-owned Flint Hills Resources helped forge an agreement between the EPA and the Texas Commission on Environmental Equality in a regulation dispute. The move got the company praise from the EPA, calling the agreement a “model for other companies.” (…)

  The EPA under President Obama has also praised Koch subsidiaries Georgia-Pacific and Invista for their cooperation with the agency. Georgia-Pacific even won an award from the EPA in 2009. Leftists may complain that these right-wing bogeymen are unfairly challenging federal environmental regulations so they can “keep pumping out pollution for free,” but it seems the Obama administration has a lot of positive things to say about the brothers Koch.

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  The Koch Brothers are businessmen and it is in their interests to NOT pollute the environment and alienate/poison their customers.

  The LEFT is laughable in their conspiracy theories regarding the Kochs