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    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]

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    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    Article by missy on March 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]

    Category: Bush crime family, Congress, Corporate control, Democrats, Economic justice, Fascism, Fiscal policy, Gov Acctability, Iraq, Labor, Media, Money Party, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans, Tax Policy, War on terror | 2 comments - Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion | Share/Save |


    merit pay ain’t the way

    Article by missy on March 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind.

    That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]

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    Why Isn’t Simon Johnson the Treasury Secretary?

    Article by John on February 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country.  I hope Obama and Congress are listening.  From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here):

    February 13, 2009

    BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.

    The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]

    Category: Congress, Economic justice, Ethics, Fiscal policy, Obama, President Barack H | 3 comments - Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion | Share/Save |


    ratcheting up the pressure

    Article by missy on January 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    I assume these recent speeches by Obama are intended to publicly call out Blue Dogs and Senate Republicans to get along and go along once the Economic Plan is presented. From today’s speech at George Mason University:

    This crisis did not happen solely by some accident of history or normal turn of the business cycle, and we won’t get out of it by simply waiting [...]

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    a pie in the face is the very least i’d like to give john mccain

    Article by missy on October 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    I’d very much like to give him a piece of my mind.

    I was born on Long Island, just a few train stops from Hofstra University. If all you know of Long Island comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald (or Paris Hilton), that strip of expensive real estate may seem like a giant McMansion tract. But when I was born in Garden City in 1965, Long [...]

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    john mcclueless

    Article by missy on September 16th, 2008 at 10:42 am

    I’m lucky. I have health insurance, and my employer pays 100% of the premium. We don’t cover spouses or dependents, but we’re a small company.

    I have used my health insurance much more than the average American: since I joined the company in late 1995, I’ve had a pregnancy, a c-section, a miscarriage that required not one but two D&Cs (that was a fun [...]

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    defining your terms

    Article by missy on August 13th, 2008 at 10:28 am

    From our international banker this morning:

    The U.S. economy may yet slip into recession, but inflation is an even bigger risk given the “exceptionally” stimulative stance of monetary policy, Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker said on Tuesday. Lacker pointed out that when adjusted for inflation, the federal funds rate for overnight lending, currently at 2%, is at its lowest level in post-war history [with [...]

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