Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged adjust, apathy, cloud, debt, depression, disaster, doom, economic, entitlements, fix, government, great, greed, impending, inflation, reckless, repeal, unemployment on 6 September 2010
I don’t want to set off a panic, but we, the People of the United States of America, are in the midst of a second “Great Depression”. Our greed, apathy, and recklessness have caught up with us. As of August of this year, the national unemployment rate was hovering at 22%, inflation around 10%, and [...]
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Posted in Business, Economy, Environment, Politics, tagged deregulate, deregulation, protection, protections, regulation, regulations, remove, repeal, result, results on 30 April 2010
Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate. This has been the battle cry of the Grand Old Party for years. Republicans, with the help of their big business friends and lobbyists, have consistently worked to remove any and all governmental regulations designed to protect our financial system, our environment, consumers, and more. And, since the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, they have succeeded. Each and every time, they’ve done it under the banner of small government and freedom.
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Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged change, costs, innovation, job losses, main street, pride, restoration, unemployment, wall street on 10 November 2009
Wall Street may be recovering from severe economic losses, but Main Street isn’t. What about Main Street? The majority of America is being “left behind” in the economic recovery.
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Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged bailout, bailouts, bush, cheney, depression, economic, Economy, foreclosure, foreclosures, jobs, obama, policies, policy, recession on 27 July 2009
Our textbooks may call this economy a “Recession,” but this feels like a “Depression”. Foreclosures, 10-18% unemployment, and bailouts for the elites that created this situation. That is not a recession, it is a depression.
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Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged 1776, abandon, america, apathy, bailout, bailouts, birthday, congress, dilapidated, dilapidation, disregard, elected, ignore, mislead, neglect, officials, outsourcing, president, representatives on 3 July 2009
The government of the people, by the people, and for the people is neglecting its people. We’ve become a government of the titans, by the titans, and for the titans. When will it end?
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