By Shoq, on April 9, 2010, at 8:28 am
Bob Cesca blogs the reason, but the chart says it all.
Wingnuts think we spend a lot of money on foreign aid. When you tell them it's peanuts, they accuse you of making up numbers. But then, they get almost everything wrong, all the time, anyway. And whatever they get right, Glenn Beck just
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By Shoq, on April 5, 2010, at 5:26 pm
This is a slug for a new primer I've been meaning to write for months. The first article is just a way to get me motivated.
5 Myths about your taxes (Washington Post)
2. Americans are overtaxed.
In 2007, federal, state and local taxes claimed about $3.8 trillion, or 27 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. That's
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By Shoq, on April 3, 2010, at 12:03 am
Chris Hedges is one of our most important writers because he's not afraid to see that bad people produce bad outcomes, and good people wanting good outcomes have virtually no guarantee of winning in the long run of history. They're just fond of thinking that they might.
There are about 100 excerpts I could post here
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By Shoq, on March 31, 2010, at 4:24 pm
"We can have democracy, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Justice Louis Brandeis
Without actually coming out and saying it, In "A flawed American political model aids China," Harold Meyerson suggests that we may soon be admitting that our current dysfunctionalism may
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By Shoq, on March 26, 2010, at 12:12 am
'The Big Short' By Michael Lewis
Probably The 'Best Piece Of Financial Journalism Ever Written'— Felix Salmon
Even if you have no intention of reading this important book by this brilliant writer, see the video of Michael Lewis appearing on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart below. See it, and then get angry about this shit. Because
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By Shoq, on March 11, 2010, at 6:49 pm
Rob Johnson, from Roosevelt Institute, says the 300 TRILLION dollar derivatives bomb hasn't even begun to detonate yet. Few people have this much knowledge of this complex and dangerous issue as Johnson. He was working for George Soros before the meltdown, and claims they all saw it coming and steered clear of them. True or
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