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POPS“A History lesson….Cry for Me, Argentina” 12.9.2009
Among Irigoyen’s changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Simply put, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country’s operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts. With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government’s payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers’ contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like the United States Social Security and Medicare programs. The death knell for the Argentine economy, however,came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón had a fascist and corporatist upbringing ; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich. This targeted group “swiftly expanded to cover most of the propertied middle classes, who became an enemy to be defeated and humiliated.”
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POPSChina Gobbling Up North American Oil Reserves; Dems Dither Our standard of living requires access to cheap sources of energy. If we can acquire that energy from our friends like Canada all the better. But Obama and the Democrats want us to run our economy on unicorn farts. As Democrats Dither " China Gobbles Up Oil & Gas Reserves In Canada & Gulf of Mexico Jim Hoyt Gateway Pundit December 17, 2009 http://bit.ly/6wlieR
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POPS"No Berlusconi Day" They promptly opened a Facebook group under this header: SALVIAMO L'ITALIA, SALVIAMO LA DEMOCRAZIA. BERLUSCONI DIMETTITI. LET'S SAVE ITALY. LET'S SAVE DEMOCRACY. BERLUSCONI STEP DOWN. Saturday, December 5 was designated “No Berlusconi Day (NBD)”. The campaign spread quickly on the Internet with videos, blogs, and tweets, as well as offline, through word of mouth. In little more than a month over 280,000 people pledged to host a public event on “No Berlusconi Day” via the main Facebook group, with groups formed in many cities in Italy and around the world, including San Francisco and Sacramento (California), Ottawa and Montreal (Canada), Buenos Aires (Argentina), London, Madrid, Vienna, and Istanbul - where local rallies will be held on the same day.
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POPS'Iranian terror network in S. America I'm telling ya'; they're moving in, moving out and gaining some serious control and influence. All the while those in Washington focus on pushing a horrible Health Care Bill on us, throw billions at busted businesses, useless pork programs, foreign aid and down the empty hole called the UN.
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POPSHumor in the Asylum Pavlina R. Tcherneva: Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Direct Job Creation - Lessons from Argentina If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly. The wolves are hungry and Obama may be on the menu....
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POPSCaress me if you can ... (38 pics) There are lions, tigers, cheetahs, bears and others. Cages are accessible to everyone who paid $ 50 and signed the paper saying that if you are eaten, the Zoo is not responsible.
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POPSRonaldo Frontrunner for Top Footie Award, yet again Wiganfootie, do you agree? Here’s a list of the 23 contenders: • Michael Ballack (Germany) • Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) • Iker Casillas (Spain) • Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) • Diego (Brazil) • Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) • Michael Essien (Ghana) • Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) • Steven Gerrard (England) • Thierry Henry (France) • Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden) • Andres Iniesta (Spain) • Kaka (Brazil) • Frank Lampard (England) • Luis Fabiano (Brazil) • Lionel Messi (Argentina) • Carles Puyol (Spain) • Franck Ribery (France) • Wayne Rooney (England) • John Terry (England) • Fernando Torres (Spain) • David Villa (Spain • Xavi (Spain)
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POPSto beaver or not to beaver hmmmm- sometimes a plan just isn't in the thought....but more in the thought of "really" thinking the thing through..............maybe they should call this to bear or not to bear..............
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POPSWorld Atlas List of continents, countries, dependencies, islands, territories, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, mountains, and the highest, lowest, biggest, smallest, tallest, deepest, oldest, youngest, richest, poorest places on the planet here!
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POPSThe Hidden History of Tango ...men practicing together, looking for the best ways to please a woman when they danced with her, preparing for that rare moment when they actually did have a woman in their arms, were the people who created the Tango as a dance. It evolved and became Tango, unique and glorious, under these very special and unusual circumstances.
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POPSOverheard while traveling... An American student talking on her cell phone on the train from Rome’s Termini station to the airport. -In Italy the food is so bad and unhealthy! I mean, I didn’t even see a carrot the whole month I was here. I just really want a salad… And I am craving McDonald’s. Overheard by Janelle
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POPSThe Brainy Bunch by Thomas Sowell based on those beliefs and hatreds. Starting from a position of Germany's military weakness in the early 1930s, Hitler not only built up Germany's war-making potential, he did so in ways that minimized the danger that his potential victims would match his military build-up with their own. He said whatever soothing words they wanted to hear that would spare them the cost of military deterrence and the pain of contemplating another war. He played some of the most highly educated people of his time for fools-- not only foreign political leaders but also members of the intelligentsia. The editor of The Times of London filtered out reports that his own foreign correspondents in Germany sent him about the evils and dangers of the Nazis. In the United States, W.E.B. Du Bois-- with a Ph.D. from Harvard-- said that dictatorship in Germany was "absolutely necessary to get the state in order." In an age when facts seem to carry less weight than the visions of
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POPSRoman Cat Sanctuary Whether the cats rule themselves via Republic or recognize a cat Emperor is, as of yet, undetermined. More on Torre Argentina here.
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