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Jon Kyl and the Paris Hilton Retirement Plan

July 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes

Here’s how you prepare for retirement. You figure out a way to be born into a very wealth family. Your daddy dies and you get his fortune. The Republicans, Neocon Republicans all, in the Senate and the House are hard at work on Paris Hilton’s retirement plan. If daddy should die this year, then all [...]

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Don’t Think “Green Energy;” Think Green Jobs.

June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes

We have a couple of pieces of legislation in that great frozen melting pot called a Senate that deserve your attention and, frankly, the passage of which deserve a march on Washington. The Great Bush-Cheney Energy Deregulation Oil Spill and the lack of meaningful jobs in a sputtering and failing economy dictate that we look [...]

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