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Category Archives: Economy
Pawlenty Steals From Jobs So He Can Claim He Turned Down ObamaCare
Ever wonder where your elected official’s heart is? In Minnesota, it’s not with jobs; it’s with political ambitions. Last week, MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) issued an executive order that directs state agencies to opt out of discretionary aspects of the new healthcare reform law. And then he turned around and asked for 260 million dollars from job legislation funded by the stimulus he railed against to pay for Medicaid expenses.
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Posted in 2012 Election, Economy, Featured News, Healthcare, Issues, Recession, Republican Party, Sarah Jones, Sarah Jones
Tagged MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty healthcare stimulus hypocrite, ObamaCare Tim Pawlenty, Palwlenty 260 million from jobs legislation to pay for healthcare costs, Pawlenty puts on show of being fiscal conservative, Tim Pawlenty pork lover
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The Daring Idea of Happiness as GDP
It’s a question of productivity versus happiness as the ultimate judge of the welfare of nations. Yes, this is an argument for a socially just Democracy, or as I like to call it, civilization. Nic Marks must surely be a socialist. At TEDGlobal 2010 he suggested that we would be better off to measure success by happiness rather than productivity. Cue the crazy jihad nut job dance from the Right (plus a Glenn Beck cry fest), but meanwhile, I ask you on this Labor Day, have you ever been to a country where they valued overall contentment of the people over their productivity? Because once you’ve seen it in action, it’s hard to deny the validity of Marks’ inspiration.
A Confused and Clueless Palin Doesn’t Know What a Stimulus Package is
Sarah Palin was on Fox News’ Freedom Watch yesterday with Andrew Napolitano (the “Judge”) to discuss the utter badness of Obama’s stimulus package (not to be confused or repudiated with his “cajones”, people—keep it clean, we leave the vulgar stuff to the Sister Sarah). So Sarah was tossin’ around those buzz words like “feds bribin’ the states” and she was feelin’ pretty good. Sarah loves being the attack dog and it looked like she was in her element…..Until The Judge asked her if she was upset about the Bush stimulus package and TARP. This is where poor Sarah teetered and fell right off her talking points into the great abyss of Things She Doesn’t Understand. Continue reading
Posted in 2008 Election, Economy, Featured News, Fox News, Issues, Media, Posts on Sarah Palin, Recession, Republican Party, Sarah Jones, Sarah Palin, Stimulus Package
Tagged Sarah Palin is ignorant, Sarah Palin on Freedom Watch taling about stimulus package, stimulus "bribes" of federal government
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Palin’s Phantom Pipeline Steals $500 Million from Taxpayers
On August 27, 2008, Palin signed AGIA (Alaska Gasline Inducement Act) into law awarding TransCanada 500 million dollars and a license to build and operate the $26-billion pipeline to transport natural gas from the North Slope. A license. That’s all. The state will issued a license to Canadian energy company, TransCanada, and will pay it up to $500 million as an incentive to someday build this project. If the project isn’t built, the state could be beholden to TransCanada for treble damages. Continue reading
Posted in 2008 Election, 2012 Election, Alternative Energy, Economy, Environment, Featured News, Issues, Posts on Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Sarah Jones, Sarah Jones, Sarah Palin, energy policy, natural gas, oil
Tagged Sarah Palin AGIA, Sarah Palin Bail-Out, Sarah Palin costing US Taxpayer 500 million dollars, Sarah Palin energy, Sarah Palin energy expert, Sarah Palin fact check, Sarah Palin oil and gas expert, Sarah Palin Pipeline, Sarah Palin TransCanada
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The Looming Threat of Republican Destruction of This Economy
As the fall election nears, the buzz is that if the economy doesn’t recover, the Democrats will take a hard hit. Apparently the American people are too ignorant and lazy to remember exactly how we got into this mess in the first place, and will cast their reactionary votes of anger this fall against the “party in power” as if that makes any sense at all; thereby reelecting the clowns who not only are voting no on their own ideas in order to keep this economy a mess and help themselves politically, but also the very clowns who put their clown shoes on the gas pedal of recklessness that got us here. Continue reading
Posted in 2008 Election, 2010 Election, Economy, Featured News, George W. Bush, Issues, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, Recession, Republican Party, Sarah Jones, Sarah Jones, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, US House
Tagged 2008 recession, fall 2010 elections, Republican economic denial, Republican economic idealogy, Republican history on recession
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