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Pulled this from Ace of Spades’ Overnight Open Thread. We’ve giggled about Greece already here, why not do it a little more? Here a sample of policies that led to the crash. After fifteen years of contribution, a person could retire at 110% of his salary. Retirement was possible at the youthful age of fifty. The unmarried [...]  Old Nancy seems to be limping her way ever closer to her goal of 216. She swears she’s got the votes to get this done, and probably by tomorrow afternoon, barring some other delay, we’ll know whether it’s still safe to get sick in this country or not. But with them so close to their goal, we [...]  For the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to watch the people of Greece participate in a near-freefall of their economy and social system. There’s riots and protests and flaming bottles and overturned cars and heads stomped by horses. And while I don’t think they’re nice enough to be doing all of this for [...]  And by fun, I don’t mean, “Ha ha” fun, I mean more like kick you in your crotch, steal your money and burn it in your face fun. Numbers continue to roll in on the effectiveness of our government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. You know, that program that was going to jump-start our crawling economy. As we [...]  Dede actually had the guts to come out and support the Democrats. Steele doesn’t go the distance like Dede, but he’s pretty good at beating up on Republicans. Wait… wait… isn’t Steele the Chairman of the Republican National Committee? What do you mean, he’s beating up on Republicans? He wouldn’t do that, right? Yeah, that’s kind of the [...]  I’m going to add a little more from what Congressman Mike Pence had to say on Fox News Sunday, but I think it’s worth a separate post, as it goes off in a slightly different direction from our last entry on the health care vote. While Pence was telling the Dems to “stop digging,” he made [...]  Thankfully, new polling seems to suggest America agrees, at least a little, with the Gulch about how really miserable this cash for clunkers program is, in spite of some sources hailing it as an ”inarguable success. ” Ostroy at the Huffington Post calls it a “recession-busting program,” which is something we probably need to share with the recession, [...]  Obama’s weekly radio address was used in large part to try to deflect some of the mounting concerns over why, exactly, all this money was spent and we’re seeing exactly zero results. Looking over his radio speech, he seems to want us to think things are cruising along exactly as planned. “As a result of the [...]  Ugly image, I know. But you might as well be prepared. If you’re that new prisoner, and you’re caught in the shower by a group of lifers, all smacking your naked butt and stuff, it’ll be kind of like that. Just picture them to be the Democrats, and one of them to be Steny Hoyer. He’s going [...]  While at an appearance in Green Bay yesterday, President Obama used the opportunity to continue to push for his giant, bloated, government-run health care enslavement program. First off, I know you’re asking, “How do you know it’s giant and bloated? We don’t know anything about it yet!” And those are two very good points. To address the first [...] |
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