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Fix It!!
“This is war(fare)“! We’ve heard that declaration quite frequently though, in recent weeks, the rhetoric has toned down somewhat and been replaced by other nonsense spewed by the CONservative spin...
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I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing…
…Open up the door, I’ll get it myself. Class warfare? Indeed… But not in the way it has been portrayed by the masters of spin. It’s about equity, equality, opportunities and a level playing field. I...
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99% vs 1% – A New Name For An Old American Institution
When Mitt Romney said, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich; they’re doing just fine,” I was...
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Ann Romney – Mother of the Century
For a while there, it looked like the culture wars had been put to bed, if not for good then for a lengthy slumber. Turns out it was for slightly longer than a cat nap. And whom do we have to thank...
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If they don’t want to be part of the social contract, let them go.
I met a woman recently and she asked this question: Why should the government have the right to tax people and tell them how much they should pay in taxes for things they do not want, like feeding the...
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Make Them Eat Cake
The US House of Representatives voted to defund $40 billion dollars from the SNAP program of food assistance for the poorest of the poor. SNAP, better known as the food stamps assistance program, is...
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‘I Dream of Gini’– Measuring Income Inequality
One of the problems with economics is that economists use complex words like “coefficient,” making a term like “Gini coefficient” unpopular before people even know what it means. If the term referred...
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