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Budget Cutting Goal Should be $1 Trillion or More
Watching Meet the Press this morning I felt vaguely ill as the mendacious Dick Durbin (D-IL) and the reprehensible Lindsay Graham (R-SC) discussed the budget. Durbin was in the ridiculous position of...
View ArticleConservatives Divide and Conquer the Middle Class
Did you ever wonder why Wall Street bankers think they are worth $100 million bonuses? They think they are worth it because they have skewed the concentration of wealth in the United States. They are...
View ArticleTelling It Like It Is: Medicare, Social Security, and the Problems With Both
Over the last week or so, Washington has been set ablaze with controversy over Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan’s latest proposition to save the federal budget for the next fiscal year. Drawing sharp...
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Book Review: Beyond Caring (Books on Books) by Paul Graham
Paul Graham’s 1986 photobook Beyond Caring was made with the same instrument — the Plaubel Makina 6X7 — Martin Parr used for his photobook The Last Resort, originally released the same year and...
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History and Consequences
With all of the information that is available, the public remains confused. It may have to do with the sources of their information, but the latest polling data says that 47 percent of Americans say...
View ArticleWe Can’t Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
Americans should be used to the high political drama coming out of Washington. Oh, there are the stories of marital infidelities, disappearing Congressional aides, toe-tapping senators and the like....
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The Not-So Great Society
Mitt Romney revealed a lot about himself when he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety-net there.” Weeks before he had asserted that those safety-net...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Embrace Partisanship
Our nation has been facing major problems for over four years now and Congress has done next to nothing to address any of them. We continue to experience unacceptable levels of joblessness, the cost of...
View ArticleGeneration X, We’re Calling You Out!
In 2000, Millennials were an upbeat, engaged generation of talented young people who would lead the country into a leaner, greener, better future one instant message at a time. By 2009 we’d somehow...
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Embracing Socialism
God save us from becoming a socialist nation, as the conservative lament goes. Three words come to mind: get over it. We are a socialist nation. We have been for quite some time. So if you are...
View ArticleBy: Bob Greenspan
Defaults, in my estimation would be insignificant. A tiny fraction of the number of loans outstanding. Besides any defaults would be backed by the real estate upon which the loan is made. Not so in the...
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Budget Cutting Goal Should be $1 Trillion or More
Watching Meet the Press this morning I felt vaguely ill as the mendacious Dick Durbin (D-IL) and the reprehensible Lindsay Graham (R-SC) discussed the budget. Durbin was in the ridiculous position of...
View ArticleConservatives Divide and Conquer the Middle Class
Did you ever wonder why Wall Street bankers think they are worth $100 million bonuses? They think they are worth it because they have skewed the concentration of wealth in the United States. They are...
View ArticleTelling It Like It Is: Medicare, Social Security, and the Problems With Both
Over the last week or so, Washington has been set ablaze with controversy over Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan’s latest proposition to save the federal budget for the next fiscal year. Drawing sharp...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Review: Beyond Caring (Books on Books) by Paul Graham
Paul Graham’s 1986 photobook Beyond Caring was made with the same instrument — the Plaubel Makina 6X7 — Martin Parr used for his photobook The Last Resort, originally released the same year and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
History and Consequences
With all of the information that is available, the public remains confused. It may have to do with the sources of their information, but the latest polling data says that 47 percent of Americans say...
View ArticleWe Can’t Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
Americans should be used to the high political drama coming out of Washington. Oh, there are the stories of marital infidelities, disappearing Congressional aides, toe-tapping senators and the like....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Not-So Great Society
Mitt Romney revealed a lot about himself when he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety-net there.” Weeks before he had asserted that those safety-net...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Embrace Partisanship
Our nation has been facing major problems for over four years now and Congress has done next to nothing to address any of them. We continue to experience unacceptable levels of joblessness, the cost of...
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