How is it most of the bluedogs always manage to scrounge up dissenting votes for their party, but somehow Republicans always seem to stick to their guns when in opposition? The recovery package vote yesterday was reminiscent of the Clinton tax vote of '93 when there was not a single conservative yes vote in the Senate whereby a tie was unlocked by VP Gore's vote. Not much change over the years. If Obama wants real change via bipartisanship he'll have to resort to tort...
Bill Gates on the one hand stated that we are in need of high quality immigrants to meet our technical advances; on the other hand, Microsoft is laying off 5000 workers. That’s not good news for Obama’s quest to save jobs, let alone create more. Furthermore, even if there were a need for more techies, our education system doesn’t fill the need, and if the demand for them from the recovery package became reality the tech companies would simply continue hiring foreigners. Nor do...
Like swimming against the current wherein Obama tries to save jobs at the same time trying to create more. In an economy going no where, there is the danger of managing mere busy work. For instance, to save 30,000 Circuit City workers a new chain of no return would have to start up in face of the drastic reduction in purchasing power—and what’s more brutally realistic is to form a chain gang of retailers doing clean up work. The key, of course, is to begin to rebuild a via...
According to Newsweek’s reporter on religion, eighty percent of Americans believe in death escorts you to heaven where some kind of self identity endures. However, only[?] 50% believe in a reunion with the flesh—ugh. But don’t despair, there are those who testify "our bodies will be the very same as we had in life, but buff and beautiful." And, of course Victoria thin or Brad Pitt muscular.
The thousands of city dwellers who bought a home in Levittown and millions of others elsewhere was for the purpose of establishing a homestead in which to build a family, or enhance its lifestyle—surely, they were not thinking of making an investment, or furthest from their mind that the $8000 Levitt home in 1948 could be worth $7000 in 1949. Of course, the moneychangers of "irrational exuberance" in ensuing decades saw it differently. Promote the euphoria of suburbia to insure a...
Why does the "other" party play into FDR’s "fear in itself"? How can the party of states’ rights object to bailing out the states desperately cutting budgets to the detriment of their financial status? What better way to kick off the economy than to assist locales in Medicaid, school budgets and repairs, community colleges, and a host of other ways to reduce unemployment roles and deterioration of infrastructures? Apparently, the party perceives aid as just another road to perks rath...
I can't believe Obama is hamstringing the move to digital because a latenik minority didn't get off their ass to purchase a digital TV or at least a converter by now. The forty dollar giveaway was like the foodstamps for electronics. A terribly costly program that was unnecessary. I'll wager the manufacturers of antennas were responsible for lobbying it or those in the sticks still watdh Oprah in snow. If you want an immediate stimulus why not give away HD TVs to the great u...
Now that it's a foregone conclusion the domestic autoworkers will be subject to wage controls will their management also be struck with rollbacks as well? Also a foregone conclusion is that most JoeUsers' unionbashers will applaud the ostensibly competitive rollback and future controls and thus ironic that in a sense it is redistribution of wealth which so many ironically argue against even though much of the "wealth is from the much renounced legacy.
"Many Iraqis, however, believe al-Zeidi was a hero for insulting an American president widely blamed for the chaos that has engulfed their country since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003." Total hogwash! Regardless of the errors of his ways Bush--goes without saying--does not deserve this arrant disrespect. I thought Iraqis were sandal-footed?--guess the perpetrator got the shoes from the US Army. Well, at least the shoes were bomb-free.
Obama's decision to resign from the Senate was an enormous blunder. He should now renege on his resignation and storm the Senate to fight for the auto industry with a loud vote. Btw, does anyone know if Biden gave up his vote, too? What jerks.
BLAGOJEVICH IS SCUM FROM HELL AND SEAN HANNITY IS ECSTATIC! -- HOPING THE SCANDAL WILL NAIL OBAMA.
I’d be the last guy to defend a CEO making 21mil a year even if his company was stumbling over bales of profit, let alone one losing billions. Hell, Lou Gehrig cap in hand had to beg for a $40k contract, so I seethe when an A-Rod winds up with a 250mil multiyear contract, and Manny turns down Torres’ offer of 40mil for two years because he—in his old age no less—wants 100mil for four years! Then there are these part time pitchers with 4.0 ERA getting 1...
Since WAMU went under with a reserve of $45 for every $10,000 loaned, I shudder to think what the ratios of government bailouts are. I suppose with the exclusive right other than counterfeiters to print the Fed’s own money, it probably does not technically apply; on the other hand, the Fed does pretend to "borrow" in order to meet the demands of the bailouts. They keep saying the "taxpayer"—actually China taxpayers—must be protected by so-called assets when...
According to an article in Newsweek an atheist can be pro life. Oh, really? The inference here is that this is an oddity and that most atheists and secularists are consequently free choice. The truth is that both sides are irrelevant to a woman's right to choose one way or another. A secularist woman is free to choose life or abortion as is a religious woman free to choose either. The woman is not railroaded by conscience or belief but rather the comfort or discomfort of her mind ...
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