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The USA

FAT CAT JUNKETS

I’m just getting around to reading the The Second McCain-Obama Presidential Debate transcripts from October 7, 2008 and Barack Obama’s words caught my eye: And, in fact, we just found out that AIG, a company that got a bailout, just a week after they got help went on a $400,000 junket. So I went and […]

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Politics

KAPTURING MY ATTENTION

Ohio Democrat, Representative Marcy Kaptur is my newest hero. This rousing address to the House of Representatives from September 17 echoes what Dennis Kucinich has been saying about the bailouts. In it, she gives the annual compensation figures for Freddie Mac’s CEO ($18.3 Million) and Fannie Mae’s CEO ($11.6 Million) and the net worth of […]

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The USA

WAITING FOR THE CRASH

Here’s a great little video exploring the possibility of the U.S. Dollar tanking that was snipped from a documentary recently aired on Dutch National Television: If you think it can’t happen, think again. Just this week, the Federal Reserve rescued the stock market again. Here is how James Howard Kunstler described it in his blog […]