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Romney Economics: Bankruptcy and Bailouts at GST Steel

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Kansas City's GST Steel had been making steel rods for 105 years when Romney and his partners took control in 1993. They cut corners and extracted profit from the business at every turn, placing it deeply in debt.

Women's Health in the Elections Discussion

The Fort Bend County Young Democrats will present an evening of discussion with Planned Parenthood of Houston & Southeast Texas (PPHSET) Action Fund on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 from 6:30-8:00 pm at the Sienna Branch Library located at 8411 Sienna Springs Blvd., Missouri City, Texas 77459.

Drop the Curtain on the Perry-McDonnell Agenda

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It's politics over public health. Texas Governor Rick Perry and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell have been hard at work passing "emergency" legislation to eliminate women's health care in their states.

We've had enough. We're watching anti-women's health politicians like Govs. Perry and McDonnell and we will be standing up to their radical policies.

Latinas are Watching

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Women are Watching is Planned Parenthood Action Fund's 2012 campaign to educate women and men across the country about the unprecedented attacks on women's health and where candidates stand on pivotal health care issues, empower women to hold anti-women's health candidates of either party accountable, and work to elect pro-women's health candidates up and down the ballot.

Women Are Watching

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 Women are Watching is Planned Parenthood Action Fund's 2012 campaign to educate women and men across the country about the unprecedented attacks on women's health and where candidates stand on pivotal health care issues, empower women to hold anti-women's health candidates of either party accountable, and work to elect pro-women's health candidates up and down the ballot.

War in Iraq costs $500,000 per minute!

Amount the war in Iraq costs per minute, according to a new analysis by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard’s Linda Bilmes, put out by the American Friends Service Committee. The study finds that this $720 million a day could buy homes for 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children.

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2

Favorite Quotes

So, President Obama and the Democrats did not weaken Medicare. They strengthened Medicare. When Congressman Ryan looked into that TV camera and attacked President Obama's Medicare savings as "the biggest, coldest power play," I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Key cuts that $716 billion is exactly to the dollar the same amount of medicare savings that he had in his own budget.

Democratic National Convention, September 5, 2012