Month: February 2009

Now For the Hard Part…

Two weeks ago in this space I called for equal opportunity guarantees in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Ensuring equal and expanded opportunity for all, I argued, will be crucial to a broad and lasting economic...

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Stop Flinching at Bipartisanship

Glenn Greenwald goes to great lengths this morning to demonstrate that the American people do not crave bipartisanship. He points out that a recent New York Times poll (.pdf) indicates that the people want (by a 56%-39% margin)...

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What is 17.6% of US Economy?

One sector of the US economy will constitute 2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS this year. That’s a lot a moola (yes, I know its an antiquated slang term, thank you very much) no matter how you look at it. To be precise, it represent...

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The Morals Of A Gnat

     As I watched the rant of CNBC analyst Rick Santelli concerning the proposed housing bailout of the Obama administration I couldn’t help but think is this where we have evolved to as a country? Where our...

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Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit

I don’t know if you watched any coverage of today’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit but it was remarkable. Obama made some opening statements and then the invitees broke up into working groups. There were groups for...

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