Suddenly Afghanistan is closer and more dangerous At lunch I bumped into an old bike racing buddy, who tells me over a parting handshake that he is leaving for Afghanistan tomorrow to take a job with a defense contractor. The recession has devastated his small business. “Good money, I hope?” “Oh yeah,” he smiles. “Money’s…
The debt ceiling standoff is political theater to provide cover for cutting assistance to the bottom 90%. WaPo article: Boehner demands ‘trillions’ in spending cuts in exchange for lifting debt ceiling The owners of the Republican Party would never allow their Congress to cause a US default: they have way more to lose than the…
When a Feb. 24 NBC/WSJ poll asked Americans to pick the top ways that they would tackle the U.S. deficit, 81% chose to add a surtax on income over $1 million. I repeat: 81% of Republicans, Democrats, tea partiers and independents said, “Tax the Rich.” Folks, you couldn’t get 81% of Americans to agree that…
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