Category: US economy

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November 6, 2008

Change is coming …

I’m loathe to be critical of someone who is promising change and who hasn’t even had a chance to sit in the big chair yet, but when Obama promised ‘change’, was he just talking about pocket change, like pennies and nickels? This announcement makes me feel that way.  Appointing another alumnus from Goldman Sachs to the Department of Treasury doesn’t really smell like ‘change’.  It […]

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November 5, 2008

Most Corporations Pay No Income Taxes

Time for a little fundraiser! Original story here . Now that a ‘socialist’ will be running the White House in January, the US could recoup some of the windfall profits that companies like Exxon-Mobil and Wal-Mart have been making off the backs of our hard work and put it into paying off some debts (for starters) and creating a stable middle class. Imagine that.  Do […]

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October 31, 2008

Paulson’s Swindle Revealed

From The Nation, we get this article . By now, some (maybe most) of you are saying, ‘yeah Bill.  We get it.  We’re getting ripped off and this is Georgie’s last stab at the world for making fun of him all these years.  We’re in the middle of the heist of the century.’ At least, I hope you are. Because once you do, then hopefully […]