Corporate Welfare

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• Swindlers and looters and their allies

  
  The Other Club — Authority: 420
  Ally Bank is probably as well known for paying overmarket interest rates on CDs with no early withdrawal penalties as it is for its commercials featuring cute children who are cruelly deceived by a smarmy adult. The commercials are very good, here is one example. "Even kids know its wrong to hold out on ...
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• Only in America

  
  Bent Corner — Authority: 135
  Thanks to an old Google Alert I had set up at least a year ago, I read today that my former employer, the company that laid me off nearly two months ago because they wanted to “lower the head... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  mothanskin.blog-city.com — Authority: 120
  
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• "Corporate Welfare; The Fed Created Monster"

  
  mothanskin.blog-city.com — Authority: 120
  Tue Nov 10, 10:47 AM ET Job seekers use free computers to search for jobs and work on resumes at the One Stop Career Link center on November 6 in San Francisco, California. US unemployment, now in the double digits, may remain "high" for several years and dampen economy recovery from a brutal recession, a regional ...
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• Health care vote: Thank or spank your Representative

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 549
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h We need to . . . * Thank the 215 Representatives who voted against the cancerous health care bill * Spank the 220 House members who voted for it * Copy our Senators on these messages so they will be reminded of where we stand Do this . . . * Check here to see how your ...
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• The Week in Government Failure

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  Over at Downsizing Government , we focused on failures in the following departments this week: Commerce: corporate welfare in Ohio Defense: cost overruns in the Pentagon’s space programs Energy: central planners gamble with taxpayer money HUD: subsidizing private firms to operate public housing isn’t ...
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• More corporate sponsored, right-wing anti-Semitism...

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 614
  A little while back I wrote a post entitled the rich buy the stupid and fabricate a movement: "Look at the number of idiots money can buy. Yes, the people protesting are actually getting tax... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
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• Qbase? or Qbust? Qbase has left the building.

  
  Esrati — Authority: 134
  The company that forced it’s employees to donate to political campaigns or risk losing their jobs- Qbase, is apparently coming apart at the seams. Major firings this week including CEO Willard Pardue’s executive assistant and the son of the company’s “president” or “CFO” depending on where you look. ...
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• Gore getting rich off global warming

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 603
  Al Gore stands to profit from global warming and taxpayer dollars: Last year Mr Gore’s venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology. The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. The deal ...
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• Robert Higgs on Fox News: The Folly of Obama’s Spending Spree

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 601
  Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Judge Anthony Napolitano on Fox News’ program, “Freedom Watch,” regarding the utter folly of the gigantic federal spending programs first started under George W. Bush and now enormously expanded by Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress. ...
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• Automatic raises create automatic problems

  
  Esrati — Authority: 134
  Just before the election, we start to see the reality of City Hall- while income has been dropping every year, it’s been business as usual. Two raises a year for managers- regardless of the performance of the city. There are no metrics to use, because the city doesn’t believe in accountability. This is where a ...
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• Video - CNNs Gupta: Sugary Drink Tax Needed

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 127
  "Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells CNN American Morning sugary drink tax needed to offset corn subsidies. "
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• Junk food taxes? An idea whose time has come.

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 127
  To me there is nothing that more exemplifies the out of control consumer culture than the popularity of foods that directly negatively impact our health, even in small quantities. And there is nothing that represents that better than soft drinks. I find the word soft to be a misnomer because there is nothing soft ...
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  Black Agenda Report — Authority: 131
  
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• You Are What They Feed You!

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 114
  SF Gray Panthers Newsletter, November, 2009 You Are What They Feed You! The way food is grown, controlled and marketed affects everything from cost to rising numbers of children with diabetes to environmental pollution and the waste of water resources. Lobbyists for agribusiness, an interlocking of chemical ...
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• Gasp! Rep. Grayson Insults Whores Now!

  
  WriteChic Press — Authority: 423
  ht Wonkette He has taken his turn hurting the tender feelings of sensitive Republicans who are just trying to save health insurance companies.  Now that crazy, mavericky, diarrhea-of-the-mouth congressman from Florida is going after the world’s oldest profession.  Whores. Not to be confused with the ...
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• Is Dayton broke? Or not?

  
  Esrati — Authority: 134
  The point of belt tightening seems to be lost on the former City Manager and the City Commission. When you are facing a $20 million hole, you don’t give pay raises- of any sort, pre-negotiated or not. It’s called living within your means- it’s called doing the right thing, it’s called avoiding layoffs later. ...
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• The fall of Qbase?

  
  Esrati — Authority: 134
  Willard Pardue, CEO of Qbase, has been building a house of cards much like Bernie Madoff, the only problem was his deck was filled with jokers. He chose to scam local politicians and development agencies into handing him cash for the promise of “high tech” jobs. The jobs never materialized, and he left a wake of ...
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• Tom Donohue, the Lewis Powell Memo, and the undermining of democracy

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 614
  The Wall Street Journal has devoted an entire article to Tom Donohues - the president of the US Chamber of Commerce - portraying him as a victim of the Obama White House, just like the propaganda... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
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• Congrats to GA- you now have NCR (for now)

  
  Esrati — Authority: 134
  NCR should stand for No Cash Required, what with the hefty ransom the State of Georgia gave them to move World HQ from Dayton to Duluth. Of course, moving is a bit stressful- it makes you take your eye off the ball. The ball was profit- and NCR under CEO Bill Nuti continues to shed value faster than an Irish setter ...
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