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POPSThe degrading effects of terrorism fears Demands that genuinely inept government officials be held accountable are necessary and wise, but demands that political leaders ensure that we can live in womb-like Absolute Safety are delusional and destructive. Yet this is what the citizenry screams out every time something threatening happens: please, take more of our privacy away; monitor more of our communications; ban more of us from flying; engage in rituals to create the illusion of Strength; imprison more people without charges; take more and more control and power so you can Keep Us Safe.
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POPSGoverment Assistance for Libby Montana The Senate health care bill includes expanding Medicare to those people harmed by exposure to asbestos from the vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana. I, for one, am glad to see the government finally moving to assist these people who have been so devastated by this problem.
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POPSDick Cheney's losing his old black magic It's great to watch people step up to smack Cheney down. Retired Gen. Paul Eaton blasted back today, and I couldn't say it any better: "The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11. "The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. …
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POPSCountdown: Senators Opposed to "Socialized" Health Insurance Voted for "Socialized" Property Insuran
But each of them voted just last year in support of government-run insurance, that insurance however protects property. It is the National Flood Insurance Program created in 1968, because the free market decided it could not make money on that unpredictable risk called flooding. Government-run flood insurance is sold through private insurance companies but it is backed by the government and the government assumes all risk. Unlike the public option which relies on customer premiums, government flood insurance gets a subsidy—also known as a handout—from the government and it is mandatory for some people. So given all the shouting over a public option, who could vote for mandatory taxpayer subsidized, anti- free market socialized flood insurance run by government bureaucrats? Every single politician I just named and most of Congress. Charles Boustany of Louisiana, along with 44 other Republicans, including going bipartisan on September 27th, 2007 to vote yea on the Flood Insurance Refo
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POPSDon't Try to Feed These Birds I don't thinl they'll come to your feeder, but they may peek into your windows. lol I wouldn't count on though, the stupid things only have a 20 sec. fly time. Oh yes, but our generous goverment is giving the creators a couple of mil to develop it just the same.
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POPSDealers still waiting for clunker cash And some idiots want to depend on government for their health care! Want an MRI.... get in line.. maybe in a couple years when we have the paperwork finished.... Want a doctor... here's a newly educated Pakistani. Take him of forget it!.... IDIOTS
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POPSLawrence O'Donnell Exposes GOP Congressman's Hypocrisy On Government Health Care (VIDEO) Again, Culberson refused to give a straight answer and complained about O'Donnell's persistence. O'Donnell replied: "I don't want you to spin your time away here." Culberson later admitted that he would have voted for Social Security in 1935 and "probably" would have voted for Medicare in 1965. An exasperated O'Donnell asked the Congressman: "You know that Medicare is a completely government-run health care system and yet you're saying you would have voted for it." Culberson's response: "Yes"
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POPSSources: Big Banks Petition to Repay TARP Funds That in no way mans that Congress and the Obama administration should defer from re-establishing a healthy regulatory scheme, but guess what, it makes that HUGE deficit not so big any more! Now if Halliburton/Blackwater would do the same.
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POPSTotal Hypocrisy! MoveOn.org Needs to Move On The place for this to end is in the current White House, and it's interesting that the Barack Obama administration is "now open to theoretical torture investigations," precisely when a majority of Americans backs Tea Party protests against Democratic big-goverment taxing and spending policies. MoveOn.org was formed in 1998 as a lobbying group to support President Bill Clinton against GOP investigations into his personal conduct and corruption. The organization "started by passing around a petition asking Congress to 'censure President Clinton and move on', as opposed to impeaching him." Justice, fairness, and human rights are not at issue here. A rank power grab by one of America's greatest domestic enablers of terror is. MoveOn.org needs to move on, for the sake of the country, if not for its own credibility, since it has very little of that worth preseriving.
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POPSGrow your own tobacco! Go to source and be sure to read the comments- Good luck smokers in growing your own tobacco! :) economic beat down I'm pretty much fed up with the sin taxes, as is about everyone else I know. The state I live in past legislature last year, which for the most part, banned smoking anywhere other than the privacy of your own home. I completely understand an individual, going out to eat, preffering not to eat smoke with their dinner, and frankly any smoker that can't go a hour or two without a smoke needs to reel it in a bit, but why in the world can we no longer smoke at work? Our facility had an enclosure for the smokers so the non-smokers were not affected. Why are the smokers paying the taxes for the mpeacees? How about a tax on soda.. bottled water.. candy bars? The way goverment is going with taxes, the buy out, and various "other" things... can you say "communism"... SMOKERS UNITE!!! I'm planting my own tobacco plants this spring! #34 - jp - 03/19/2009 - 20:00
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POPS"Czech Goverment loses no-confidence vote" The Czech Republic's centre-right minority government has lost a vote of confidence in parliament midway through the country's six-month EU presidency. The result came after a group of four rebel MPs voted with the opposition Social Democrats and Communists against the PM, Mirek Topolanek. Together they garnered 101 votes in the 200-seat chamber, the minimum needed. ... BBC
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POPSJPMorgan Chase To Spend Millions on New Jets and Luxury Airport Hangar Mike Dolphin, president of fixed-based operator Avitat Westchester, is fighting the bank's grand plans – because he says JPMorgan's proposed expansion would force his company out of the hangar the bank is eyeing. Westchester County, NY has recommended that the bank – a "high quality corporate citizen" – be awarded the lease to the hangar when it becomes available in April 2010, in part, because of how much money it is dedicating for the "construction of a state of the art "green building." But on March 11, the chairman of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, said he could not understand why corporate America has such a bad image. "When I hear the constant vilification of corporate America I personally don't understand it," Dimon said. Dimon, whose 2008 compensation package, according to SEC documents, was worth more than $19 million in salary, stock and options, declined to speak with ABC News about the proposed plans.
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POPSAdam Smith: On Public Debts or How they Hell Did We Get Into This Mess! The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. These are mortgaged for the interest of the debt contracted in order to carry it on. If, over and above paying the interest of this debt, and defraying the ordinary expense of government, the old revenue, together with the new taxes, produce some surplus revenue, it may perhaps be converted into a sinking fund for paying off the debt. But, in the first place, this sinking fund, even supposing it should be applied to no other purpose, is generally altogether inadequate for paying, in the course of any period during which it can reasonably be expected that peace should continue, the whole debt contracted during the war; and, in the second place, this fund is almost always applied to other purposes. During the most profound peace various events occur which require an extraordinary expense, and government finds it always more convenient to defray this expense by misapplying the
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