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  The Impoverished Ownership Society Bill Clinton declared "the era of Big Government is over." George W. Bush's "ownership society" was meant to put the private sector back in charge of as much of everyday life as possible. The result of anti-regulatory thinking was a ten-year free-for-all among lenders in America.

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  Job One For the GOP: Bankrupt America Remember how health insurance reform was a "government takeover"? Well, this year's GOP talking point is "permanent bailout" or "endless bailout." The words have already been used in a thousand press releases from Republicans eager to make political hay out of voting against advancing financial regulation reform. This, I reiterate, is not about policy. They are speaking to their base, who believe the lie of "supply-side economics."

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  The IRS and Federal Reserve Puppet Show The "audit the Fed" movement is predicated on there being some nefarious background information proving any number of conspiracy theories. Until such auditing takes place, all such theorizing is simply speculative, and entertaining but not informative or helpful.

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  Roots of Militarism in America Because Obama was elected to unify, it is in the political interest of his opposition to divide.

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  2010: Less Than Eight Months of Campaign-Governing The obvious strategy of the Republican Party was to reject all possible appointments, legislation, regulation, etc. Obama saw that coming because of the early Clinton years. Republicans in the minority grind the process to a halt, and in doing so they prove that the current government can't govern, and so they take back majorities. This won't work this year because of the internet. The people are informed enough now that punk tricks like this no longer work.

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  The Hardest Health Care Fact: National Health Expenditure is a Lie Plastic surgery, botox, implants, age-reduction, and expensive medicinal spa treatments, daily massages for healthy CEOs, and other fancy and unnecessary treatments very wealthy people charge as medical care to insanely-overpriced insurance plans they can afford which cost much more than $7,681 a year. Those plans and their concurrent inflated costs are also included in our National Health Expenditure.

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  Surveillance Works, Is Kind-of Scary These are extremely specific details, coming from the law enforcement agency in a country with the Constitutional freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. In order for them to make an arrest, they must have been dogging this lady with wiretaps.

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  NBC For President 3/7/10 Meet The Press was a corporate-backed campaign for more corporate Democrats, less progressive ones.

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  Orrin Hatch: Michael Steel is “a good face for us.” A planned distraction in the works: racist infighting in the Republican Party.

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  Scary Thought Of The Day If corporations are people with a first amendment right, are they also people with a second amendment right?

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  The Real Economy The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and/or an insurance company. ... Historically, the combined industry has been known as the "financial services industry".

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