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• Robert Reich: Not a fan of Senate health care deal

  
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  Robert Reich: How a Few Private Health Insurers Are on the Way to Controlling Health Care ---The public option is dead, killed by a handful of senators from small states who are mostly bought off by Big Insurance and Big Pharma or intimidated by these industries deep pockets and power to run political ads against ...
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• Evening Post: More Tiger, Nobama, Sanford, Etc.

  
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  One day, the world will tire of devouring the latest, lurid details surrounding the salacious “inter-vaginal masturbation” of golfer Tiger Woods, but that day is not today, friends. Far from it, in fact, as the ongoing implosion of the world’s most (in)famous, highest-paid athlete shows no sign of letting up. ...
  4 days ago

• The Dangers Ahead for Obama’s Jobs Program

  
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  President Obama announced his $150 billion job creation initiative on Tuesday, which includes everything from new spending for highway and bridge construction, to small business tax cuts , to retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. It’s the sort of news that probably would have gotten ...
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• Unemployment Animated

  
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  I stole this video from James Fallows’ blog over at The Atlantic . You can read what he has to say about it here . You can watch how unemployment has grown during The Great Recession. I hope everyone is noting how things are working out in this recession. Especially the young people going through their ...
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• Onamas "Job Initiative" Simply Doesnt Cut It.

  
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  As Robert Reich notes, just because unemployment went down a blip last month doesnt really mean anything outside of the bubble in the Beltway . There arent any jobs being created to offset those that were lost, for one thing. More: The word in Washington is were out of the woods. The rate of unemployment dipped ...
  6 days ago

• 79% of Americans Want an Audit of the Fed, Only 21% are in Favor of Confirming Bernanke, and Only 20% Think Geithner is Doing a Good Job

  
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  79% of Americans Want an Audit of the Fed, Only 21% are in Favor of Confirming Bernanke, and Only 20% Think Geithner is Doing a Good Job 79 percent of the American public is in favor of auditing the Fed , according to a new poll by Rassumussen. Because another 14% are not sure, that leaves only 7% opposed to an ...
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• The real way to create jobs

  
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  Obama yesterday met with union leaders, educators, academics, and business people in order to try and figure out what the Federal Government can do to create jobs. "Job creation ultimately can only come from the private sector," Obama proclaimed yesterday (or something to that effect). I found it almost astonishing to ...
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• Where Have All the Jobs Gone, Long Time Passing?

  
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  The proverbial "pink slip," AKA layoff notice. Good jobs, that is.  Not to be a cassandra, but I have concerns about the structure of the economy.  History has shown that the high standard of living in late-Renaissance Venice wasn’t sustainable [ * ].  While the relatively expensive goods of Venice were often ...
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• What Were Reading...

  
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  Expanding the Panama Canal and other economic news from around the Web.
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• Robert Reich Confirms Permanent Destruction of Jobs in America

  
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  Washingtonsblog.com Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes today: “The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural change in the economy that’s been going on ...
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• We’re Going to Let You Die

  
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  I will actually give you a speech made up entirely–almost at the spur of the moment, of what a candidate for president would say if that candidate did not care about becoming president. . . . “Thank you so much for coming this afternoon. I’m so glad to see you, and I would like to be president. Let me tell ...
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• Do The Banksters Have Food Tasters Too?

  
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  Beware the exploding latte While the Israeli military, the IDF, organizes an innovative approach in establishing a New Media unit to fight Israels enemies on Twitter and Facebook -- I was contacted by one of their agents based in West Palm Beach this morning-- Goldman Sachs executives are getting ready to do battle ...
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• Odds and ends for 11/24

  
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  Memo to college football’s Bowl Championship Series : Hiring Ari Fleischer to improve your image is like hiring Jenna Jameson to be the spokesbabe for abstinence. Just a few questions for the global-warming deniers who claim the recent hacked scientist e-mails prove global warming is a hoax : “Which ...
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• Exactly what are we fighting for, a public option?

  
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  When we first started talking about Healthcare Reform, I mentioned that I really, really supported a single payer (government run) program. If we provide the exact same healthcare services, we could save over $300 billion per year with a single payer (although, I must admit, many people dispute this number). There ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Week Panel: Next Critical Global Threat -- Chinese-Style Authoritarian Capitalism

  
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  Throughout the history of this country playing the role of a global power, the United States has faced down threats of fascism and communism. The country is now in the throes of a war against terrorism. However, on ABCs Nov. 22 "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," a panel consisting of Washington Post ...
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• Must Reads

  
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  Adam Blickstein: Conservatives Terrified of Bringing Terrorists to Justice Robert Reich:  Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make Some Kind of Awful Sense (Palin Version) and Fact-Checking Sarah Palin Is a Waste of Everyones Time, But Fuck It Bob Cesca: ...
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• CNBCs Santelli Rebuts Lou Dobbs Populism in Kudlow Appearance

  
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  Now that former CNN host Lou Dobbs has been freed of his duties with his former network, he has been making the rounds on other networks - Fox News "The OReilly Factor," Comedy Centrals "The Daily Show" and now with his long-time rivals show CNBCs "The Kudlow Report."  One of the issues debated among a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robert Reich nails the gutlessness of both House and Senate bills

  
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  “I’m still not giving up. I want every Senator who’s not in the pocket of the private insurers or Big Pharma to introduce and vote for a “Ted Kennedy Medicare for All” amendment to whatever bill Reid takes to the floor. And if this fails, a “Ted Kennedy Real Public Option for All” amendment. Let every ...
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• The CHARADE of a Public Option

  
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  According to Robert Reich , 70% of Americans want a Public Option for Health Care Reform.  In Canada, 10% of their GDP goes to their health care system and they cover ALL Canadians.  In the U.S., we spend 16% of our GDP and leave out 45 million Americans. Reich states: the compromise that ended up in the House ...
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• Breast Cancer Screening: Government Fires First Volley Of Rationing, Death By Medical Neglect

  
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  Let me begin by saying that the current versions of ObamaCare don’t have a single death panel. It’s more like 111 separate death panels . Some of the names  and acronyms of the dozens and dozens of bureaucracies are undoubtedly different under the new iteration of socialized medicine, but here’s a snapshot ...
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