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The All Progressives Congress has described as a good first step the order by President Goodluck Jonathan for the removal of the #BringBackJonathan billboard in Abuja.

It further described the billboard a mockery of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag that has helped to call global attention to the fate of the over 200 girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted by Boko Haram militants five months ago and have remained in captivity.

In a statement on Wednesday by APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party, however, said the President made a mockery of his administration and his country by waiting for an international condemnation of what it called the shameless and brazen usurpation of the#BringBackOurGirls hash tag before issuing the directive to stop it.

APC said, Had the US newspaper, Washington Post, not written a stinging editorial, skewing the Jonathan administration for appropriating the BringBackOurGirls hash tag for his re-election, the administration would have continued its brazenness without regards to the feelings of the parents of the girls or indeed the Nigerian people.

Again, the administration has waited for a global opprobrium before doing what is right. Recall that it took an international media campaign before the Jonathan administration acknowledged, after all of 19 days, that the Chibok girls were missing in the first instance.

Recall also that it took a 17-year-old, Yousafzai Malala, to make the President realise that he should meet with the parents of the girls, even if he eventually insulted the grieving parents by inviting them to Abuja instead of going to visit them in their abode? It is important that we dont make a mockery of our own people, so that we dont become an object of international mockery.

APC said belated as the Presidents directive on #BringBackJonathan hash tag was, it was a good first step that must be quickly followed by another directive, ordering the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria to immediately stop its rallies.

The party believed the TAN rallies had offended the sensibilities and intelligence of Nigerians.

APC said, The noisy and sycophantic rallies being held across the nation, ostensibly to collect signatures from Nigerians urging Jonathan to seek re-election, contrast with the challenges currently facing the nation, which is being dismembered, town by town, by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.

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The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday described the order by President Goodluck Jonathan for the removal of the #BringBackJonathan campaign bill boards as belated.

The party however described the order as a good first step but that it fell short of what Nigerians expected from the President.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement he issued via an e-mail from London.

The party described the #BringBackJonathan as a mockery of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag that had helped to call global attention to the fate of the over 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram almost five months ago and remain in captivity.

According to the statement, the President made a mockery of his administration and his country by waiting for international condemnation of the shameless and brazen usurpation of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag before issuing the directive for it to stop.

The statement partly read, Had the US newspaper, Washington Post, not written a stinging editorial skewing the Jonathan administration for appropriating the BringBackOurGirls hash tag for his re-election, the administration would have continued its brazenness without regards to the feelings of the parents of the girls or indeed the Nigerian people.

Again, the administration has waited for a global opprobrium before doing what is right.

The party noted that it took an international media campaign before the Jonathan administration acknowledged, after all of 19 days that the Chibok girls were missing in the first instance.

It also recalled that the President only agreed to meet with parents of the abducted girls after the intervention of the 17-year-old Yousafzai Malala.

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Progressives have always fought for the U.S. Postal Service, as part of a broad commitment to public services and a special commitment to meet the needs of the rural communities from whence the populist and progressive movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries emerged.

When Robert M. La Follette sought the presidency in 1924, he did so on a Progressive Party platform that made a specific commitment to fight for the Postal Service.

We believe that a prompt and dependable Postal Service is essential to the social and economic welfare of the nation, declared La Follettes supporters. Their campaign made a specific commitment not merely to maintain the USPS but also to aid postal workers, declaring: As one of the most important steps toward establishing and maintaining such a service, it is necessary to fix wage standards that will secure and retain employees of character, energy and ability.

La Follette and the progressives of the past were right to fight for the Postal Service, and for postal workers.

And it is right to maintain that fight today. That is why U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., is leading a bipartisan group of senators in seeking a moratorium on irresponsible and unnecessary cuts to the Postal Service.

Ignorant and irresponsible politicians and pundits keep trying to perpetuate fantasies about supposed debts run up by the USPS. But the reality, notes Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who worked with Baldwin and Montana Sen. Jon Tester to craft the moratorium letter, is: The Postal Service is not going broke. Instead of slashing decent-paying jobs and slowing down mail, the Postal Service must be allowed to sell more products and offer more services that the American people need. We must also end the Bush-era mandate to prefund 75 years of future retiree health benefits. This mandate is responsible for all of the losses at the Postal Service for the past two years.

The mandate must be lifted as part of a broader plan for modernizing and expanding postal services. But, in the meantime, USPS infrastructure must be maintained.

That's why Baldwin and Sanders both speakers at Saturdays Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo are calling for a one-year moratorium on implementation of an austerity agenda that would undermine the integrity of the system by slowing down mail delivery nationwide, closing up to 82 mail processing plants and eliminating up to 15,000 jobs.

This is an essential struggle for all Americans who recognize that austerity attacks on the Postal Service like attacks on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid represent an attempt by corporate interests and their political pawns to weaken essential public services. They do so to ease the process of privatization, which will lead to less service at a higher price.

Some politicians are more than ready to do the bidding of the privatizers. But Baldwin and Sanders have gotten a majority of senators to sign the call for a moratorium. In addition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Senate Republicans such as Utahs Orrin Hatch and Missouris Roy Blunt are signers.

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BAD Trade Deals killed America -Right Wing fascists blame progressives
This is a topic libertarians generally ignore and blame liberals and Democrats over.

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Why is the best that progressives offer the poor so second-rate?

We ask this question in light of Scott Stringers just-released housing report. The city comptroller compares owner-occupied units, market-rate rentals, rent-regulated and public housing (run by the New York City Housing Authority).

Of these, he says, public housing shows the greatest frequency of maintenance deficiencies. Rental units regulated by government come in second.

Check out the chart: The more government control, the worse the condition. Other data in the report confirm the trend more generally, with owner-occupied units typically in the best shape and public housing and rent-regulated units in the worst.

Yet Stringers answer is to dump even more money into a losing proposition: Securing funding for NYCHAmust be a priority, he says. Others claiming to champion the poor will no doubt echo this folly.

For his part, even before this report was out, Mayor de Blasio was looking to bring more apartments under government control by getting Albany to cede rent-regulation authority to the city.

Its not just housing where the needy get shafted by government. Medicaid patients often get lousy health care. And parents with kids trapped in failing public schools can tell you what thats like.

If progressives want to help the poor get ahead, why not help them get what better-off people already have private housing, private care, private schools rather than consigning them to the inferior government alternative?

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