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Tu reconnais que ce n'est pas parce qu'une reforme passe qu'elle est forcement bonne pour le pays? (dans ce cas pour moi, je fais reference au healthcare reform). Quand tu essaies de ressencer les problemes de ce pays, quels sont ceux qui sont majoritaires et dont le changement peut beneficier le plus grand nombre de personne? Cette strategie est un peu parallele aux ideaux des Democrates (justice sociale). Pendant les elections, les gens ont cite l'economie comme 1er probleme de ce pays et je suis d'accord avec eux, mais je reconnais que le retablissement d'une economie stable est un projet a long terme. Mais sur du court terme, quels sont les problemes qu'on peut regle? (Ps: quand je parle de court terme je ne fais pas allusion a 1 ou 2 mois ou seulement quelques jours. Un an ou 2 ans pour moi constitue du court terme vu que tout cela doit passer par le Congres et le Senat avant d'arriver chez le boss pour etre approuve).

Et quand je dis que les Democrates doivent revoir leurs strategies, je fais allusion a ses strategies qui peuvent les aider a regagner la confiance du peuple et par consequent regagner le Congres et garde le Senat.
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[foxyforever]

Pour illustrer ce que je dis dans on premier paragraphe du post precedent:
Imagine tu as un patient qui chaque fois manque d'honorer son rendez-vous a la clinique pour qu'on s'occupe d'une plaie qu'il a au fessier depuis deja 3 mois. Si tu es le medecin qui suit ce patient, a la longue tu vas t'enerver parce que tu vas croire que le patient n'est pas serieux et il refuse d'etre involve dans son traitement. Par contre si tu poses les questions au patient pour savoir pourquoi il ne peut pas honorer ses rendez et tu te rends compte que c'est parce qu'il n'a pas de moyen de transport pour arriver a la clinique et il refuse de depenser son argent de bouf pour payer le taxi pour aller a la clinique de peur de ne pas avoir quelque a se mettre sous la dent apres. Pour lui, manger prend priorite devant sa plaie. En passat, patient est aussi diabetique. Maitenant que tu as connaissance de ce qui est prioritaire pour ce patient, tu peux developper un plan d'action pour adresser ses besoins selon leur priorite.
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Very interesting article

The Blue State Budget Crisis
By Michael Gerson
WASHINGTON -- Following the midterm elections, attention understandably focused on those parts of the South and Midwest where the Obama coalition collapsed. But a second wave of trouble is coming for the president and his party, precisely in those states where the first wave barely reached. Having experienced the revolt of red America, Democrats must now deal with the fiscal crisis of blue America.

While massive state budget shortfalls are not limited to predominantly Democratic states, they are concentrated in them. "In California and New York," says John Hood of the John Locke Foundation, "the fiscal crisis flirts with bankruptcy." Explanations include rising Medicaid costs, increased spending on higher education, and the long-term challenge of funding public pensions. At the same time, says Hood, "All the major sources of revenue have cratered." The states doing worst are the ones, such as California and New York, that had irresponsible budgets going into the recession. States that were fiscally responsible during good economic times, such as Indiana, have had a softer landing.
The political crisis in many states has been delayed by President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, which temporarily plugged gaps in state budgets, and by a variety of budget gimmicks. Illinois, for example, has simply delayed payouts to doctors providing Medicaid, leaving about $6 billion in unpaid bills that will be eventually covered by the issuing of debt.

But now comes the reckoning. Stimulus support of state budgets is running out. Gimmicks generally work only once. And much of the country has turned hard against tax increases that might help close the gaps. Following the economic panic of 2008, a number of states hiked taxes as an emergency measure. But with Republicans recently electing their highest total number of state legislators since 1928, even Democratic governors will think twice about proposing tax increases.

Governors are seeing their options dramatically narrowed, leading them toward severe spending reductions -- cuts in popular programs and in aid to local governments. We are likely to see more municipal defaults, with state governments unwilling or unable to bail out failing cities. While it remains unlikely that states themselves will default on their debt, several governors have attempted to claw back past benefit promises to public employees -- which Josh Barro of the Manhattan Institute calls "an implicit default."

What are the political effects of the blue-state budget crisis? In Washington, it will set up a conflict between desperate governors and the new Republican House. States will seek federal help and pressure their congressional delegations for support. But there is little chance that conservatives will add a new state bailout to all the bailouts that have come before. Any additional economic stimulus would likely be in the form of tax relief, perhaps a payroll tax holiday, not in cash payments to state governments.

For the president, entering his own re-election campaign, the teetering finances of blue America are a serious challenge. Obama, fairly or unfairly (but mainly fairly), has become a big-government brand name. West Virginia's governor and future senator, Joe Manchin, demonstrated that Democrats are willing to run in contrast to Obama when it serves their interests. Other Democratic governors -- perhaps in Colorado and Illinois -- might be tempted to distance themselves as well, establishing what Hood calls "alternative brands to Obama himself."

Most significantly, the blue-state financial misery continues and deepens the ideological crisis of American liberalism. Few politicians in traditionally liberal states now speak about the expanding promise of progressive government and the welfare state. New Jersey is already in conservative revolt. New York's Democratic governor-elect, Andrew Cuomo, campaigned on a promise of budget cuts without tax increases. The New York congressional delegation shifted significantly in a Republican direction. While California remains in denial -- even after a budget crisis that has lasted for a decade -- that could rapidly change as well. It may be Democratic governors who are forced by economic reality to limit the size and ambitions of government, delivering a body blow to liberalism itself. If progressive activism can't survive in these places, it will be difficult for it to survive anywhere.

All these calculations change, of course, with a dramatically growing economy, providing states with additional revenue and the president with political breathing room. But absent that desired development, Obama's political challenges, and the backlash against liberal government, are only beginning.

Someone said, "Capitalism is the unequal sharing of wealth, Socialism is the equal sharing of misery, with the exception of the elitist ruling class that still live like royalty on the misery of the rest". He is absolutely right.
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Jazziste tu aimes trop quoter ce que les gens disent. Toi meme tu dis quoi??? Tu vis dans l'ombre des autres??? What do YOU think? What's your OWN point? Utilise un peu tes mots et dis ce que tu penses pardon. Ca rendra service a tout le monde.

The new Bess
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Hum ...

Barack la meme je ne le comprends plus. Est-il confus? Ou alors il devient simplement republicain?

Ce bonhomme la commence a me decevoir aussi un peu hein
What type of deal is that?
The new Bess
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''You've Got to stop this war in Afghanistan''

Last words of Richard Holbrooke...

I Hope he got the message

May his soul rest in peace.

The new Bess
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I watched how he touched people, how he inspired them, and I realized he has tapped into the oldest American belief of all: We don't have to accept a situation we cannot bear.

We have the power to change it. That's Barack Obama, and that's what he will do for this country. He'll change it.
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Rahm Emanuel elected next mayor of Chicago

Gery Chico AP – Chicago mayoral candidate Gery Chico left, greets customers at Yolk restaurant in Chicago Tuesday, Feb. …

* Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Slideshow:Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

By DON BABWIN and DEANNA BELLANDI, Associated Press Don Babwin And Deanna Bellandi, Associated Press – 1 min ago

CHICAGO – Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, easily overwhelming five rivals to take the helm of the nation's third-largest city as it prepares to chart a new course without the retiring Richard M. Daley.

With 89 percent of the precincts reporting, Emanuel was trouncing five opponents with 55 percent of the vote — a margin that allowed him to avoid an April runoff. He needed more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright.

It was the city's first mayoral race in more than 60 years without an incumbent on the ballot and the first in more than two decades without Daley among the candidates.

Daley and his father have led Chicago for more than 43 out of the last 56 years.

Reginald Bachus, the 51-year-old pastor of a West Side church, said this was "a very critical time for Chicago.
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"We really need a mayor who has vision. It's my personal opinion everyone else would have been a manager, and I think Rahm has vision," Bachus said.

The other major candidates — former Chicago schools president Gery Chico, former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — had hoped to force a runoff but were no match for Emanuel's momentum and money.

Chico had 24 percent of the vote compared to 9 percent for both del Valle and Braun. Two other lesser-known candidates each got about 1 percent.

Emanuel's victory capped a campaign that included an unsuccessful legal challenge to try to keep him off the ballot

The campaign began last fall when Daley — with his wife ailing, six terms under his belt and a future of fiscal challenges facing Chicago — announced he would not seek re-election.

Chico and Braun swiftly conceded to Emanuel. Both were badly outspent in the campaign. An attempt to make Braun the consensus candidate for the city's black voters fizzled.

I like !!!!
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Karzai Rejects U.S. Apology For Killing Of Nine Afghan BoysHamid Karzai


Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan Boys Killed, Afghanistan Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan Civilian Deaths, Hamid Karzai, Hamid Karzai US Criticism, Nato, NATO Afghanistan, World News


KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president on Sunday rejected a U.S. apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a NATO air attack and said civilian casualties are no longer acceptable.

According to a statement from his office, Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week's killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters.

NATO has also apologized for the mistaken killings. Civilian casualties from coalition operations are a major source of strain in the already difficult relationship between Karzai's government and the United States, and they generate widespread outrage among the population.

"President Karzai said that only regret is not sufficient and also mentioned that civilian casualties during military operations by coalition forces is the main reason for tension in relations between Afghanistan and United States," the statement said. "It is not acceptable for the Afghan people anymore. Regrets and condemnations of the incident cannot heal the wounds of the people."

The killing of the nine boys took place on March 1 in the Pech valley area of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.

Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, who directs day-to-day operations of coalition forces across Afghanistan, later issued a video statement of apology.

In the video, Rodriguez said troops at a base in the valley were responding to a rocket attack and dispatched attack helicopters to the location they were told the rockets came from. He said the helicopters thought they were engaging insurgents, but it later turned out they were boys from a nearby village who were cutting firewood.

Karzai appealed to Petraeus to do more to prevent such incidents. He made the remarks to Petraeus during a Sunday meeting of the National Security Council, a body that includes Cabinet members and senior political and military officials.

According to the statement, Petraeus said during the meeting that the killing was a mistake by coalition forces and extended his condolences and regret to Karzai and the Afghan people, promising that such an incident will not be repeated.
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"President Karzai said that repetition of such incidents would affect relations and the environment of trust between us. The continuation of such incidents is not tolerable and not acceptable for the Afghan people and government," the statement said.

NATO operations against insurgents in eastern Afghanistan have caused friction with the Karzai administration in recent weeks after government charges that the military has caused a number of civilian deaths and casualties.

Last week, Karzai warned President Barack Obama in a video conference call that U.S.-led forces must do a better job addressing civilian casualties.

Earlier this month, the Karzai administration claimed that 65 civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in Kunar. NATO has said that video of Kunar operations on Feb. 17 – the main event of more than three days of fighting – showed troops targeting and killing dozens of insurgents, not civilians.

Civilian deaths have jumped this year primarily because of increased attacks from insurgents, according to U.N. data. Insurgents recently have started carrying out indiscriminate attacks against soft targets such as banks, supermarkets and sporting events.

But allegations of civilian deaths from NATO forces – who pledge to protect the population – often cause much more anger.

Hundreds of people from a left-wing political party marched through Kabul to protest U.S. military operations and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops.

They chanted "death to America, death to the American government" and carried pictures of Afghans killed or wounded in recent airstrikes. They burned an effigy of Obama.

Violence has been on the rise in eastern Afghanistan and earlier in the day a roadside bomb killed 12 civilians, including five children, in Paktika province.

a spokesman for the governor of the province, Mokhlis Afghan, said another five people were wounded when the bomb planted by insurgents exploded next to a truck carrying civilians.

Paktika borders Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, used as safe havens by insurgents fighting U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan. Insurgents regularly cross the rugged frontier to attack coalition forces and the region has seen an increase in fighting, as well as a rise in casualties.
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According to the statement, Petraeus said during the meeting that the killing was a mistake by coalition forces and extended his condolences and regret to Karzai and the Afghan people, promising that such an incident will not be repeated.
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Never mind, j'ai compris
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[voyelle]

US governement shutdown, every year the same scenario


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/08/government-shutdown-the-latest/?hpt=T1
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http://www.latribune.fr/actualites/economie/international/20111007trib000654955/la-demande-de-reconnaissance-d-un-etat-risque-de-couter-cher-aux-palestiniens.html

[Waddle]

Depuis hier, les USA accusent l'Iran d'avoir voulu tuer un ambassadeur saoudien sur le sol américain:

http://www.20minutes.fr/monde/iran/804312-etats-unis-accusent-iran-complot-assassinat