Posts Tagged ‘super-committee’

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Horse… Portland police back down, rather than engage Occupy Portland protesters

Written on 15 Nov, 2011 at 9:57

We need, as perhaps the late, great Steve Jobs might have said... to think differently, to fight differently. We need to scare them by making them realize that we are their source of power and just as we bestow... (Continue reading)

Public sector shedding 35k jobs a month — Republicans block bill to prevent further losses

Written on 25 Oct, 2011 at 8:03

State budgets have to be suffering from reduced income and sales taxes, don't they? Higher unemployment obviously means fewer people working and those that are still working... are making less money, so it stands to reason that income tax... (Continue reading)

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