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 Aiken County Democratic Party meets at 7pm on the 3rd Thursday of every month at The Aiken County Council Building.  We meet to foster active interest in the local, state and national Democratic Party, to support campaigns, and to engage in grassroots activism. See “Events” page for date of our next meeting.http://www.aikencountysc.gov/DspLoc.cfm?qLocID=CLhttp://www.aikencountysc.gov/DspLoc.cfm?qLocID=CLEvents/Events.htmlshapeimage_13_link_0shapeimage_13_link_1shapeimage_13_link_2
 Media Reports Major Defense Budget Cuts As Obama Proposes Increase In Defense Budget  LINK  LINK   Gates tailors defense plan to win battles with Congress  LINK   With Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which started April 1st, we saw a tax cut for 95 percent of American workers.  A tax credit is appearing now in people's pay checks and a first-time homebuyers tax credit.  LINK   Very Few Small Business Owners Would Face Tax Increases Under President's Budget  LINK       11.4%: March SC Unemployment Rate At Highest Point Since 1983  LINK   Thousands of jobs for South Carolina from stimulus funds  LINK   The NEW "Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act"  LINK   Tea Bag This: CEO Greed LINK   Who is behind the Tea Party?  Grassroots effort or Astroturf?  LINK,  LINK,  LINK,  &  LINK   US launching UBS tax fraud probe: report   LINK   "The Obama administration ... endorsed legislation to crack down on offshore tax havens, raising the stakes in a showdown between the United States and bank-secrecy nations such as Switzerland...." LINK   Tax Shell Game: The Taxpayer Cost of Offshore Corporate Havens  LINK   A Senate report estimated in 2008 that the United States loses up to $100 billion a year in tax revenue to offshore tax havens  PDF  LINK   Guess who's not paying their taxes?  LINK   How to Defend Offshore Tax Havens From Obama LINK   Child Poverty in Rural America (check out South Carolina in the link)  LINK   MIT Professor Tells Boehner To Stop ‘Misrepresenting’ Green Economy Legislation LINK   Halliburton, KBR, Cheney - Bribes - Investigtion   LINK, LINK, & LINK .   Five Things to Know about the Employee Free Choice Act  LINKhttp://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/media-reports-major-defense-budget-cuts-as-obama-proposes-increase-in-defense-budget.php?ref=fp1http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/you-can-lead-a-reporter-to-water-but-you-cant-make-him-call-it-a-spending-increase.phphttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66433.htmlhttp://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/04/15/obama_highlights_tax_breaks.html?hpid=topnewshttp://www.cbpp.org/2-28-09tax.htmhttp://www.indigojournal.com/diary/685/114-march-unemployment-rate-at-highest-point-since-1983http://www.thestate.com/politics/story/696838.htmlhttp://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-02-2009/0004981476&EDATE=http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/17/tea-bag-this-ceo-greed/http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/freedomworks-long-history-of-teabagging.phphttp://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/the_tea_party_movement_whos_in_charge.phphttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dick_Armeyhttp://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/lobbying-clients-teaparties/http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_launching_UBS_tax_fraud_probe_re_04022009.htmlhttp://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52307V20090304http://www.uspirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/tax--budget-policy/tax--budget-policy--reports/tax-shell-game-the-taxpayer-cost-of-offshore-corporate-havenshttp://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/REPORTTaxHavenBanksJuly1708FINALwPatEliseChgs926080.pdfhttp://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/guess-whos-not-paying-their-taxes.htmlhttp://washingtonindependent.com/32254/how-to-defend-offshore-tax-havens-from-obamahttp://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/childpoverty.aspxhttp://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/01/reilly-letter-to-boehner/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7991447.stmhttp://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/bribery-scandal-rocks-big-oil.aspx?GT1=33002http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7927832.stmhttp://www.seiu.org/2009/03/five-things-to-know-about-the-employee-free-choice-act.phpshapeimage_14_link_0shapeimage_14_link_1shapeimage_14_link_2shapeimage_14_link_3shapeimage_14_link_4shapeimage_14_link_5shapeimage_14_link_6shapeimage_14_link_7shapeimage_14_link_8shapeimage_14_link_9shapeimage_14_link_10shapeimage_14_link_11shapeimage_14_link_12shapeimage_14_link_13shapeimage_14_link_14shapeimage_14_link_15shapeimage_14_link_16shapeimage_14_link_17shapeimage_14_link_18shapeimage_14_link_19shapeimage_14_link_20shapeimage_14_link_21shapeimage_14_link_22shapeimage_14_link_23shapeimage_14_link_24
 I wish to forward a message from Lee Ballenger            --- John Brecht, ACDP Chairman     Dear Aiken Democrats,   It's not often you find a group of people who will come out on a Thursday night to hear someone talk about Guatemala.  I think it speaks to your dedication to "democracy" and to your commitment moving our great nation in the right direction.   Thanks so much to all of the great questions and especially to those who asked how they could help.   The Guatemalan Human Rights Commission does a great job in exposing the lies which have been used to repress the people of Guatemala. You can support this efforts by purchasing Guatemala products from their on-line catalog at www.ghrc-usa.org.  Your purchase represents what "free" trade really should be: working people helping working people.   The average wage in Guatemala is $2 a day. Imagine if you spent $20 on a gift for someone from the GHRC catalog you would be providing nearly a month's wages for one person. That purchase would represent one Guatemala who would not be forced to seek work in South Carolina or one Guatemalan child who would not have to leave school to support his/her family.   "Each of you must be a messenger to say something in the name of truth to expose the lies"---Archbishop Romero   All the best, Leehttp://www.ghrc-usa.org/http://www.ghrc-usa.org/shapeimage_16_link_0shapeimage_16_link_1
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