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Original Caption: Lilly Mae Sheets, Fireco, West Virginia, near Beckley, Stands Outside Her Raleigh County Home. Her Husband Was Hurt by a Roof Fall in the Mines in November, 1973, and Did Not Receive Workman's Compensation until March, 1974. They Received No Welfare Or Food Stamps, But Were Given Credit at a Local Grocery Store. The Delay in Receiving Compensation Was a Frequent Complaint of the Miners 05/1974

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An Bord Pleanála, Irish for The Planning Board, their offices alongside the new LUAS cross city extension through Dublin City Centre & to Broombridge in Cabra.

After all the planning, the extension is launched in just two weeks time on Saturday 9th December 2017.

Tram 4001 is seen on these rails for the very first time, testing on Sunday 17th June 2017 on Marlborough having just completed the first ever circuit of O'Connell Street & now heading back southbound.

As a New Year dawns and the tax-cut terrorist Republicans poised to get their boney fingers around the neck of the "People's House" in 2011, I shutter with the painful knowing that since they sold out to the Railroads in the late 1890s, the Republican Party does not get out of bed in the morning unless they can turn the government into a mere appendage to the affairs of banksters and are so wedded to the policies that have tanked the economy twice in a century that economists like Nouriel Roubini are outright speculating that Republicans are actively trying to tank the economy for political gain.

Though it baffles the mind why any working person would vote Republican in the Republican-induced race to the bottom world we have been living in since Reaganomics, we have to remember that it is merely a testament to the power of propaganda that has many unsuspecting dupes believing that anything less than complete corporate enslavement has something to do with Hitler, or Stalin or “freedom” itself.

A recent study that (once again) stated the obvious - There is a direct correlation to the amount of Fox News an “Average Joe” views, to the amount of outright lies said “Average Joe” believes as Gospel truth.

Unfortunately, merely parroting the agenda of our corporate masters does not mean they will ease the sting of their lash across these poor dupes’ pitiful shoulders.

The tragedy is, in the Republican “trickle down” world of peons, the unwashed masses of working people may be convenient photo-op props to stand on a pile of rubble with while broadcasting manly bravado though a bullhorn, but they quickly transform into outright nuisances who dare pester their “betters” for the privilege of health care after inhaling toxic dust Republicans ensured them was safe in the war zone Republicans created through incompetence.

So as we look to the New Year, let’s brace ourselves for what is to come by remembering that past performance may be indicative of future performance.

As normal people (non-Republicans) fought in this Lame Duck Congress for things such as the repeal of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in corporate America’s oil wars, Lame duck Republicans fought for THEIR CORE VALUES, such as LESS safety regulation of our food supply. They also fought to eliminate funding for health reform, fought to eliminate out funding of Wall Street Reform and actually delivered a letter to the President stating more tax giveaways for those earning over a quarter million dollars a year was their number one priority - and they would do nothing else unless the country bended to their deficit-ballooning, no-job-creating demands.

Republican also fought to ELLIMINATE the estate tax for the VERY RICHEST estates in the country while simultaneously fighting to end unemployment benefits for Americans out of work due to the direct result of the Republican Reaganomics CHEAP LABOR agenda. In fact, many Republican Legislators themselves, without apology, boasted their opposition to President Obama’s capitulation to the tax-cut terrorist demands BECAUSE it EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT… and out there in Faux News land, “Average Joe” Republicans shook their head in agreement, chiming “yup, yup” as their Medicare card nestled ironically in their pockets.

Yes. This is nothing new for Republicans. They are ideologues bent on permanently creating a society where the rich own and run everything and everyone else knows their “place.”

Just like the world of Charles Dickens – just in time for Christmas!

Let’s take a trip down memory lane with a famous editorial written to Tulsa World Oklahoma by Clint C. Gold in 1999 that explains very succinctly what liberal policies have done for America - it is also good ammunition for your holiday debates with your Teatarded uncle.

The letter is read periodically by Mike Malloy on his radio show.

CLINT C. GOLD

10/24/1999

Tulsa World

Not too long ago, my wife and I attended a TV football party in south Tulsa. With a lopsided score, the conversation turned to a livelier subject -- politics. The crowd was, of course, top-heavy with Republicans. With each point expressed their faces became more flushed, eyes bulging a little more and veins popping in their foreheads as they railed against the liberal programs. Finally a lone, liberal voice asked: "Will you people name me one bill your party ever passed to help the working man of this country?" The question created much din and clamor, and someone sputtered, "Well, what have the Democrats done?"

The liberal responded with a few programs and was

interrupted by howling and disdain. He noted that he had not promised they would like the programs and he asked to complete his statement -- a difficult task to ask of Republicans.

He spoke of Social Security; Medicare-Medicaid; Peace Corps; unemployment insurance; welfare (for the poor and corporate); civil rights; student grant and loan programs; safety laws (OSHA); environmental laws; prevailing wage laws; right to collective bargaining (which brought about paid medical insurance, paid vacations, pensions, etc.); workers" compensation; Marshall Plan; flood-disaster insurance; School Lunch Program; women’s rights.

He spoke of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which

established a minimum wage, instituted child labor laws, and set up time-and-a-half pay for over a 40-hour week.

He mentioned FHA-HUD with its public housing, urban renewal and 44 million residential homes (before WWII almost 70 percent of our nation were renters; by the 1970s this had been reversed). And farm-conservation subsidies -- USDA programs, Farmers Home Administration (the bankers didn't want to make rural loans), small flood-control lakes (more than 3,000 in Oklahoma alone), rural water districts, rural electricity (REA).

The GI Bill was passed, which the Republicans at the

time bitterly opposed. They were salivating over millions of returning veterans to hire as cheap labor. More than 8 million have used college benefits, creating millions of entrepreneurs; most of us had never dreamed of college. For the unemployed GI, there was $20 a week for 52 weeks to help get started (a lot of money in those days). The Veterans Administration provided more than 2 million home loans.

For the bankers at the football party, it was pointed

out that the liberals saved their industry with the

creation of FDIC and FSLIC, insuring their deposits, and saved Wall Street with the establishment of the Securities Exchange Commission.

The oil men came on bended knees to FDR at a time when

East Texas oil was 4 cents a barrel and begged him to save their industry. He did; prorationing overturned the rule of capture and the days of flush production were over. Prorating has served this great industry (and nation) well.

And the list went on and on, but of course this group

didn't let him get halfway through. He noted they were weary, inattentive, so again he challenged them to offer up any Republican legislation examples.

I'm sure your party has authored one or two comparable bills from time to time, but I can't think of any, and apparently you can't either. What it boils down to is this: the liberals dragged you into the 20th century scratching and screaming with your heels in the mud, fighting anything that’s progressive, everything that’s made this country great. You Republicans have never understood that the spending power of blue-collar workers, obtained through

Democrats and unions, is what really made this country great. You really believe "The Good Life" was obtained from your own endeavors. You cloak your greed in religion and patriotism, railing against any form of tax, never comprehending that these programs have benefited all of us and our country."

Well, I almost didn't make it out of the house. My wife and I didn't even get to see the end of the football game.

If Reps. Steve Largent or J.C. Watts had been there,

perhaps politics would never have come up, only the game plan ... pity.

Clint C. Gold is former mayor of Moore Oklahoma and a retired savings and loan executive.