...Or least the underlying causes of Europe’s financial woes are horribly misunderstood. Neo-conservatives are joyously rubbing their hands, readying their decades old talking points about “socialism” and its pitfalls.
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The good news is the economy added 431,000 new jobs last month. The bad news is that most of them were not private sector jobs.
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It's time somebody talked to us like we're grown ups. We're mad at BP, we're mad at the government, we're mad at the people who were supposed to plan for the worst. But we're not mad at ourselves.
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David Brooks dismantles the notion that Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the right wing opinion media have any real power. And he does so rather convincingly.
With Health Care reform dominating the headlines, and stimulus dollars being poured into the economy by myriad government agencies, there is a lot of fear of "Big Government" right now.
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Let's take a look at a transcript from a recent exchange between Peggy Noonan and Paul Krugman on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Paul Krugman has just bluntly asserted that there is little to no competition in Health Care today.
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What will likely be billed as a "victory" for the music industry, is actually the straw that will break the camel's back. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued a woman for downloading 24 songs and was awarded $1.92 Million by a jury in Minnesota.
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This story got me thinking today:
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8 of the 10 states who receive the most federal dollars per dollar of federal taxes paid voted for John McCain. Both McCain's Arizona and Palin's Alaska get more back in spending than they pay in taxes (though Alaska is much, much worse).
It's called satisfying your base while dodging future political liability. Seems odd that the Pork tamer and his buddies would skip out on such an important vote.
"Government Waste" is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon as a truism. If the government is involved, there's waste. It's a given, and it's usually egregious.
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Materialistic, churlish women who don't have the perspective necessary to recognize they're better off than 99% of Americans (or a SOUL for that matter), whine about how hard it is to live with banker husbands and boyfriends. Grab a barf bag and read on...
There aren't enough curses in the English Language for these selfish, childish, materialistic bimbos. I can hardly help unleashing a tirade of epic proportions on these women.
Al-Queda shows its willingness to use racial epithets against black people. Excellent. The more these despotic crackpots pop off at others the better. The more indescriminate their popping-off the better.
There are a couple objections usually raised to the idea that "green collar" jobs represent the future of our economy and a way out of ecomic recession as well as foreign oil dependence.
A lot of European leaders have been mentioning a "return to Bretton Woods" in global economics. Other's have offered veiled comments about "greater discipline" in monetary policy.
Someone needs a game changer. We'll see what tonight has to offer. There are 2 problems McCain must overcome.
From today's self-fulfilling-prophecy department, comes news that the stock market falls due to recession worries. That would be the recession that is aggravated by the recent falls in the stock market.
After weeks of personal attacks seem to have backfired in the polls, apparently the Republicans want to double down on the strategy.
While many of us have heard of the controversy regarding aerial wolf hunts in Alaska, some may not be aware that a back-and-forth battle for the status of wolves has been waged in the courtrooms of the Mountain West.
Economically, it is in vogue now to wring our hands when talking about China and India. Protectionists scream that American Jobs are being shipped overseas at an alarming rate.
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