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Why Cut Now?

It’s become common parlance, something so commonplace that when you argue contra wise you are classified a dummy, that the US needs to cut its Federal spending. No it doesn’t. But let’s go with the mainstream. The problem as I see it is this: when you argue we need to cut spending you need to […]

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Hurricane Relief

Hurricane Sandy relief money was approved by the House today. Why mention it? Because the law was passed so long after the event. No other recent hurricane disaster received such a slow response. Because 180 Republicans voted against it. An almost unprecedented opposition to disaster relief. Because even at the last moment extreme right wingers […]

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Say No To Jack Lew

Someone asked what I thought of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary. The King is dead, long live the King. That about covers it. Lew is a Wall Street guy. Lew is a proponent of the failed banking deregulation. Lew ran one part of Citigroup – a part loaded with toxic assets. Lew wrote budget cutting […]

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