Archive for January, 2009

30.01.09 | Comments Off

Inequities of Aging

It’s amazing how politicians can divine solutions to problems they’ve never seen before. They know what will work and what won’t without even reading the legislation. But they must deal with different supernatural powers because their answers tend to be at odds. Unfortunately they usually settle such disputes by taking the worst from each side. [...]

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25.01.09 | Comments Off

They’re Off!

While Obama mops the slop from broken bubbles, business sounds the call to arms for battles that must be won, or the coerced decline in union membership could be reversed by “card check,” profits stored overseas won’t get a tax-free holiday to come home, bankruptcy judges will get power to force lenders to treat mortgages [...]

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Obama wasn’t elected to win favor with Republicans. Our nation’s backbone was business until it went multinational A majority wins. Extra votes just weaken the resulting bill. In politics the ultimate compromise is: do nothing at all.

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09.01.09 | Comments Off

Linguistics Matter

Bush butchered the language more than we suspected. Under his rhetorical reign bi-partisan became positive and ideology became bad, i.e. blind prejudice was superior to a coherent set of beliefs. The biblical equivalent of bi-partisan is “an eye for an eye.” In Obama’s stimulus package it’s “we’ll cut taxes on your friends, and hope they [...]

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08.01.09 | Comments Off

Change Needs Change Already

Blind, prejudiced, unreasoning allegiance is the dictionary definition of “partisan.” We didn’t vote for twice as much of that. We voted to change “free” to “fair” in trade and markets;” to find something besides tax cuts for business as the solution to every problem; to restore respect for our country in the world. Obama’s idea [...]

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06.01.09 | Comments Off

Winning Should Have Consequences

Someone please remind the man that liberals won control of congress. He doesn’t have to woo the right. by giving business tax relief. If Republicans won’t support real stimulation, it still should pass, but by starting with bi-partisan swill Obama just feeds GOP greed.

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