This week, the New York Post became utterly unhinged over Occupy Wall Street, Grover Norquist ricocheted between being "the most powerful man in America" (ask Alan Simpson) and "some random person in America" (ask John Boehner), and Kim Kardashian failed to live happily ever after -- or even happily after 72 days. On the GOP campaign trail, Rick Perry tried to explain going all gooey over a bottle of maple syrup, Herman Cain gave a master's course in how not to handle a sex scandal, and Mitt Romney replaced Lou Gehrig as the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Meanwhile, the Party of No lived down to its name as Senate Republicans obstructed another piece of the president's jobs bill, blocking $60 billion targeted to patching up America's crumbling infrastructure -- earning the undying support of gaping potholes, collapsing bridges, and derailed trains all across the country. Andy Rooney would have had a field day mocking that one.
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if democrats dont hammer and hammer at the republicans for thier destruction of the US economy than they deserve to lose every seat in the US congress..
the problem will the dems is they just dont have the will to fight back against anything the repubs do
Who ordered and paid for the murder of Gus Boulis? There is no statute of limitations on murder!
could he really be Mr. Irrelevant . . Karnack says . . YES!!! . .
The New York Post had best get used to the sights, sounds and smells present at Zuccotti Park, because if (or when) a full on depression hits this country a lot more people will be camped out there...not to mention every other place they can find across the nation.
You guys remember the Great Depression:
http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/timelines.html
I'm hoping we can avoid the obvious, but it seems our leaders are locked in p*ssing contest and our needs are secondary to their wants. [Personal wants over common needs...that sounds familiar?]
Yeah I know, Obama's better than Bush, but according to most of you that isn't saying very much.
Simply put the two-party system is the result of the state-by-state, winner-take-all presidential election system, and apparently is a throwback to the Civil War.
If are our elected representatives are still fighting the freaking Civil War--no doubt they would argue it's a matter of principle--that would explain a lot, wouldn't it?
It would also explain the many references to ‘Robber Barons” I’ve seen lately.
Speaking of which, we now have corporate citizenship, which I guess means corporate owners and officers no longer need their personal civil rights in order to do business?
As far as the whole Republican race is concerned, one wonders why a group of individuals who are
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alleged not to give a sh*t would cave under the public eye, while the incumbent who is alleged to actually give a damn has not cracked?
Makes you wonder if the world of politics cannot be judged by appearances alone?
How about we pay attention to what they say when they’re not spewing rhetoric, making a speech or giving practiced responses? [“Case dismissed on lack of evidence” comes to mind.]
No, given that all three branches of federal politics are even more polarized than OWS & the banking industry, I can’t see any way out of this mess other than a complete purging of the system.
Maybe once the economy does collapse we’ll mercifully admit to ourselves both sides of the isle are corrupt and that truly big business is truly big trouble for democracy.
Right now the mainstay of Americans aren’t just trapped between corruption and criminality—which under normal conditions is hard enough to survive—but we’re also being asked to choose between extreme conservatism and its inevitable backlash, extreme liberalism.
…As if any of those conditions reflect what I hope most of us see for this country’s future. Especially when separated from politics and economics.
And that is the sixty-four dollar question, isn’t it? If we take politics and economics out of the conversation, then it’s just people talking to each other about their lives, their dreams, and their hopes for the future.
"…As if any of those conditions reflect what I hope most of us see for this country’s future. Especially when separated from politics and economics."
I would change "country's" future to "planet's" future.
The world is in dire need of good FDR-like rules and use of sovereign money for the absolute purpose of societal good.
The great 1982 equity and commodity expansion leveraged with greater and greater bad debt and greater and greater asset overvaluation has reach a highly quantitative lower high saturation area.
One of the greatest nonlinear market collapses of all time is at hand.
Equities, commodities, gold, silver, oil will all undergo nonlinear collapse in value.
The macroeconomic debt-money-asset system is self limiting and self organizing and the regular patterns of its time evolving asset valuation curves confer on the system the properties of an exact - a very exact- science.
For the Wilshire 12/30/24 of 24-30/1 of 18-19 days :: x/2.5x/2-2.5x/1.5-1.6x. For the European market (3)7/17/17 days :: y/2.5y/2.5y and (9)/21/4 of 21-22 days :: y/2.5y/2.5y.
1.H.R.368 : Removal Clarification Act of 2011
2. H.R.489 : To clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes.
3. H.R.765 : Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act of 2011
4. H.R.818 : To direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District.
5. H.R.1843 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 489 Army Drive in Barrigada, Guam, as the "John Pangelinan Gerber Post Office Building".
6. H.R.1975 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 281 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, as the "First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office Building".
7. H.R.2062 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 45 Meetinghouse Lane in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, as the "Matthew A. Pucino Post Office".
8. H.R.2149 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4354 Pahoa Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii, as the "Cecil L. Heftel Post Office Building".
9. S.894 : Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2011
Not too impressive.
8. The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011 (H.R. 2021), which would streamline the permit process for American energy production to help lower prices and create tens of thousands of new jobs.
9. The North American-Made Energy Security Act (H.R. 1938), which would require the federal government to make a determination by a date certain on whether or not it will allow the Keystone XL pipeline expansion, which is projected to directly create 20,000 jobs and support the creation of thousands more, to move forward.
10 A Budget for Fiscal Year 2012 (H.Con.Res. 34). With Washington’s failure to control spending hurting job creation in America, the House has passed its budget, while the Senate has not yet considered a budget of its own for 3 years..