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• Decline of the City (and) State

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  The problem with the Greeks was ultimately their love of conflict.  If anything could be said of the fall of the city-state generally it would be that more than a hundred years of effectively unending warfare (rainy season, fighting season, rainy season, fighting season, lather, rinse, repeat) finally exhausted the ...
  4 hours ago

• The Insanity of Deficit Spending and the National Debt

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 475
  by MikeDuring my daily ritual of abuse–reading “high-brow” Progressive thought– I came across an article on The Nation by William Greider, titled “In the Shadow of Hoover.” A lengthy essay in which President Obama is painted as standing in the shadow of the man who is fairly, or unfairly, blamed for ...
  2 days ago

• Bankruptcy of the America is now certain

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 452
  Its one of those numbers thats so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And thats not counting any additional deficit... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
  2 days ago

• Blue Dogs are not ficsal conservatives

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 551
  We often hear Blue Dog Democrats referred to as “fiscal conservatives” and we’re told about their concerns about the budget deficits.The guys over at National Taxpayers Union have put together a spreadsheet showing how Blue Dogs or otherwise vulnerable districts have voted on TARP, the auto bailout, the ...
  2 days ago

• Working on Work

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 620
  The LA Times has an article up today about a multibillion-dollar jobs bill in the works in Congress. Senators Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) are working on the bill in the Senate.  It’s not clear from this article who has the ball in the House, but it appears that there’s interest in ...
  2 days ago

• Howard Dean: ObamaCare is a trillion dollar bailout

  
  Reformed Chicks Blabbing — Authority: 135
  Pretty shocking honest assessment by Dean of the bills currently before Congress. Hes right that there isnt any real reform in either of the bills. ( via and Instapundit ) Read this post »
  3 days ago

• Democrats Work On Multibillion-Dollar Jobs Package

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Democrats Work On Multibillion-Dollar Jobs Package Lawmakers say theyre moving fast to get a job-creation bill to Obama by January. Its unclear how much of the effort would be funded with deficit spending. Peter Nicholas November 26, 2009 Reporting from Washington - Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Obama ...
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• What Dubai Says About Capitalism: Not Much

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  You sort of just knew Dubai was going to implode.  Or if you didnt, you sure should have. Bloomberg reports: Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.   The cost of ...
  3 days ago

• Liberals are idiots

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 513
  Why do liberals - claimers of all government is good, proponents of the government must be the first and only solution to all supposed problems - seem to think that the government is some kind of Fortune 500 business with an endless stream of cash? Such thinking is void of logic and common sense. But thats liberal ...
  4 days ago

• Eight Years Later, Still No Appetite to Share the Burden of War Funding

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether Congress intends to pay for the wars its launched, or continue to borrow the money and pile onto federal deficits. Defending America is a number one ...
  4 days ago

• Saturday Night Live Lampoons Obama

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 609
  Saturday Night Live lampoons Barack Obama and his reckless and gargantuan, federal government spending and debt mongering in their recent skit of a joint press conference with Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, “China Wants Its Money Back”:
  5 days ago

• Flashback: The Night The Clocks & Scoreboard Stood Still

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 609
  Six years ago yesterday , the U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial and still-unfunded Medicare prescription-drug bill with an historic and extremely controversial early morning vote. At least three of Missouris Representatives -- Roy Blunt , Jo Ann Emerson and Todd Akin -- played key roles in the ...
  6 days ago

• Democrats on Deficit: Proclaim, Don’t Blame

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Republicans have a potent issue to win over Independents and other swing voters in the 2010 congressional elections – the deficit. The Democrats’ defense against deficit spending charges so far has been “Bush did it first.” That “Bush did it first” blaming is certainly true. Bush’s Democratic ...
  6 days ago

• A Dickens of A Time

  
  RAGGED THOTS — Authority: 417
  In Washington, DC, its sorta the "best of times" for Democrats: On Saturday, the "motion to proceed" on health care reform passed along party lines in the U.S. Senate. Despite varying poll numbers, various twists and turns and hours-to-come of debate and amendments, this decades-long legislative desire for the Left is ...
  6 days ago

• Healthcare Reform Bills: Expensive Ponzi Schemes, says Senators

  
  Good Sense — Authority: 471
  Calling the Senate health care bill a package that Ponzi schemer "Bernie Madoff would really envy," Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said Sunday that the legislation to be debated in December is long on promises but short on accounting. "When they claim a savings ... in the first 10 years, thats because they start ...
  1 week ago

• David Broder’s self-righteous budget hand-wringing

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 440
  All that and more are in the latest column of the man Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just recently derided as the retiree who rites an occasional column. And rightly so, on Reid’s derision. Broder refuses to accept the word of the Congressional Budget office about the bill. Plus, most of the people and groups ...
  1 week ago

• Found A Job Yet?

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 551
  Remember all those jobs promised in 2008? A focal point of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was the promise of job creation through environmental stewardship, illustrating an Obamatopia in which jobs were abundant and plentiful and the environment was unaffected by economic activity. In a Los Angeles Times ...
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: What If They Stop Buying Our Debt?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Submitted by Doug Hornig, Senior Editor of Casey Research I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” said Blanche DuBois, in the final words of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. Well, don’t we all. Many citizens probably still cling to the old saw that public debt doesn’t matter because “we ...
  1 week ago

• YES, We Noticed

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 128
  President Obama: Today I read of your administrations’ plan to re-define September 11 as a National Service Day. Sir, it’s time we had a talk……… During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance was spoken. You, ...
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• Aren’t there supposed to be briefings on these kinds of things?

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 620
  The level of mishap and perhaps malfeasance on the economic policy these days has me polishing off my French, Spanish, and reconnecting with my mother-in-law to see how much Japanese I remember. I’m  even considering putting my CV into Farsi. Perhaps, I should be learning Mandarin.  Anyway, Professor Mark Thoma, ...
  1 week ago

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