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The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!

Why the US is not at financial risk similarly to Greece There’s been a lot of fear-mongering lately regarding the recent financial meltdown in Greece, its subsequent bailout by the EU in general, and the similarities between its situation and the US’s. When people say that the US is “just a few years away” from [...] [...]

Caring for the sick is wrong?

The dangers of increasing upward wealth redistribution in America Michael Eisner’s personal compensation was about $737 Million from 1996 to 2000, more than the annual total of all hourly employees in Orlando, Florida during that time. Meanwhile, under Eisner’s leadership, reports Forbes, Disney’s five-year net income during that same period shrank more than 3% a [...] [...]

Some wealth-redistribution lies

Once again, I think it’s prudent to point out that the concern I have about US politics is not one of a difference of opinion, but one related to untruth. It’s not that I dismiss rational, logical Conservative political opinion out of hand, but that the Right in the US seems to start so [...] [...]

But Ma– I don’t WANNA go to school!

A Blogger commenter I follow, Bomber Girl, is a school teacher. I believe she really does want the best for the kids she teaches, and she really is searching for answers. I don’t believe she has a pre-conceived political agenda, or a political axe to grind of any sort. In short, I [...] [...]

Financial Reform Fact and Fiction

Reform advocate Elizabeth Warren yesterday complained about the Republican “alternative” to the senate’s financial reform bill, which she said failed all four of her reform tests, and meanwhile accused senate GOPers of paying lip-service to supporting American families, while they in fact were supporting big banks. The Dem-sponsored, bipartisan senate bill does accomplish the four things [...] [...]