"Remember when Sen Reid said ""Taxpayers will not pick up the tab", and when Pelosi said ‘BP is going to pay the bill..there will be no taxpayer dollars…" Or when Obama said "We will make BP pay for the damage…". Guess what – taxpayers are effectively footing the bill!" (via Matt Leonard)

“Remember when Sen Reid said “”Taxpayers will not pick up the tab”, and when Pelosi said ‘BP is going to pay the bill..there will be no taxpayer dollars…” Or when Obama said “We will make BP pay for the damage…”. Guess what – taxpayers are effectively footing the bill!” (via Matt Leonard)

BP to cut U.S. tax bill by $10 billion because of losses in gulf spill
www.washingtonpost.com
BP said Tuesday that it plans to cut its U.S. tax bill by $9.9 billion, or about half the amount pledged to aid victims of the disaster, by deducting costs related to the oil spill.

Destroying Appalachian Community Radio. Just another part of the vast right wing agenda.

Destroying Appalachian Community Radio. Just another part of the vast right wing agenda.


An Appalachian Radio Voice Threatened From Afar
www.commondreams.org
WHITESBURG, Ky. — Rich Kirby, a part-time producer for WMMT, the community radio station here, was interviewing two local aid officials the other day about the effect of Washington’s proposed budget cuts on this region, in the heart of Appalachia.