economy
November 13, 2009
- President Obama has announced that he is going to have a Jobs Summit in December.For the love of God, Barack, can't you do anything without some grandstanding? You've finally come to accept the fact that joblessness is a problem - despite your claims that the stimulus has created or saved - what is it now? - a gajillion jobs? Something gets my Spidey senses a-tingling over your numbers, though I ...
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October 30, 2009
- I'm going to borrow a format from one of my favorite fantasy football weekly articles and use it for politics and current events. The format is called Fantasy/Reality. The gist is, I take a statement of conventional wisdom and describe why it's either fantasy or reality. Simple, right? Ok, let's go.Governor Corzine, being the financial genius he is, foresaw the impending recession and set New ...
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October 20, 2009
- While I've been paying a bit of attention lately to the local stage to try to do my part in making sure we don't have another disastrous four years under Governor Jon Corzine (especially since I unfortunately did my part to put him IN office by voting for him), the national circus has continued. Rather than a long-winded tirade today, let's just do a tally, shall we?$6,700 - The amount of ...
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September 30, 2009
- The real problem with government, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the people of this country can be summarized in one word, "selfishness." If I were given the opportunity to glue an adjective to the front of that word, I'd use the word, "childish."The main issue we face is not what health care we get, how good it is, who is covered, how much doctors or insurance ...
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September 25, 2009
- So, there's a new super Viagra coming out, that has proven to be effective in some large percentage of mice. It's a rub-on cream.To tell you the truth, I am just too damned lazy to make a joke about this while I know each and every one of you already has one swirling around in your demented little heads, so go ahead, insert joke here.Sometimes, life just tosses you a meatball so perfect you don't ...
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September 22, 2009
- Dear Participants of the UN General Assembly: The last few days, I'm in a funk. According to Dr. Oz on the Oprah website that's fine. I can take some macca or some ginseng. According to Maureen Dowd's Op-Ed from September 19th in the New York Times, it's to be expected. Overall, women aren't very happy these days. The global recession is causing stress all over the place. According to Dowd women ...
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September 19, 2009
- If you like the U.S. right wing and want to see its ruling philosophy in action in its purest form, look no further than the cruel, failing state of Mexico. The Republican-style, conservative government in Mexico has always favored the wealthy ruling elite, with no real policies to improve its almost nonexistent middle class. The salient characteristic of the Mexican economy is inequality. ...
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September 4, 2009
- Thank goodness America wasn't in recovery from eight years of a Republican contract on America back when another president, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed Medicare into law back in 1965, a program that now covers 41 million people.
Still, to hear people talk, one might understand why President Obama is encountering so much opposition to his health care reform bill, one that is modest, and ...
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August 28, 2009
- Got to give the President a big bowl of props for interrupting Obama Rama on Martha's Vineyard with his valiant effort to paint a big old smiling happy face on the side of the economy. Although in the future, he might want to come up with something a bit more reassuring than "we're losing jobs at a much slower pace." Hey everybody, did you catch that? The economy is doing less badly. ...
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August 12, 2009
- The results of our Newsletter Poll are in! Thanks to everyone who participated. Here's how you answered this question:"In this troubled economy, how are you saving money on your book habit?" It seems that the difficult economic climate has made librarians (some of our favorite people) more popular: about half of you said you were saving money by visiting libraries instead of ...
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