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[News] We tend to become arrogant as a nation when economy booms. The lobbyist takes the control and we do not seem to care.

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[carapace - Not your father's america] carapace - Not your father's america » Tuesday August 25, 3009 ...: Likewise, airlines had already been created by the time of the Great Depression, but the uncertain economic times created a boom era for advances in aircraft design. Airlines desperately needed larger aircraft that could be operated safely and economically;

[Atlantic Correspondents] Schmaycation: Summer 2009 Seeing Resurge of Classic American Roadtrip: John Nuncio was laid off from his Wall Street job last Fall, and sought new employment for many luckless months. "Our options were to stay tied down in New York while I pounded away at an obviously futile job hunt, or to use this as an opportunity to explore the far reaches of this wonderful, beautiful country," John explains.

[slacktivist] slacktivist: Hell and the Credit-Card Lobby: What kind of savior is content to ascend to heaven himself while there are people being tortured? If you have the power to open a door in a burning school, you bloody well have the power to help people through it, instead of leaving them to fight their way through the smoke and flames to reach you on their own (and maybe they don't even know you've opened a door for them, because they live in Guatemala in 1200 AD or something)!

[John Redwood] A progressive policy - a hand up not a hand out | John Redwood MP: This boom and bust, of course, is harmful to both growth and welfare. So in order to work to whatever vision a new adminstration may have, it will have to recreate the ability to do so, because it will not be able to restore what we have lost, or rather have had taken away from us by an arrogant and greedy .

[American Liberty Alliance] It's Time for the Recess Rally! « American Liberty Alliance: Hey Gary Grazioso: If “Cash For Clunkers” isn’t working how do you explain the fact that it has burned through $3 billion, saved (at least temporarily) a couple of car companies and 100’s of thousands of jobs and gave A LOT of people new and MORE EFFICIENT(if only slightly) cars therby reducing pollution????

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: It is the crazy fetishization of de-regulation since the Reagan era that got us into this current mess of boom and BIG bust cycles. In particular, the insane drive to push credit onto folks who are in no position responsibly to use and pay for it has been very destructive.

[Mutinyrural] Violence in Bengal, Tagore and His India, Amartya sen and Ruling ...: I had to discuss at length on Buddhist legacy and Hinduization of Bengal , Abolition of Indigenous Aboriginal and Minority communities and Emergence of Brahaminical marxist hegemony in Bengal. Equity and Freedom of Buddhism and nature associated folk and folklore always remained the Base of Nationality and Cuture in Bengal.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] America's Dilemma « Jon Taplin's Blog: Your arrogant twist on libertarian/Randian/capitalism with it’s pseudo Darwinian spins are so typical of the brigade of people who have no idea of community, or civil discourse, or respect for history. The right wing noise machine you pretend to not echo bleeds through your comments in all it’s corporate sponsored think tank talking points and devil take the hindmost indifference to what was good and bad about the past, what is good and bad about the present.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is 4/1 too short for the ...: Plato no they can't keep this up for eight months, and I don't think they will. The really bad economic news may well be coming in October .

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Report: Violence breaks out at Tampa town ...: The SEIU and HCAN had flyers already in the lobby area and in the meeting room and I proceeded to put my 400 copies of flyers I made on top of all of theirs. Kathy Castor proceeded to “lecture” us how we all must have healthcare insurance and that .

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - WH ...: They know how to keep their coalition in "LOCK STEP." Democrats become schizophrenic when it comes to exercising their power, they want stupid "BIPARTISANSHIP." Say all you want about Republicans, they don't care about bipartisanship, they only care about exercising power whether its mandated or not.

[Guy Fawkes' blog] High Pay Attracts Wrong Type of MP - Guy Fawkes' blog: I’m not saying the Tories are much better (although I’d argue they are with the purse strings), but I do believe that we’d be in a far better position to weather the current economic downturn if we hadn’t had Blair and Brown creating a false economic boom financed by borrowing and keeping nothing aside for the inevitable rainy day we’re now experiencing.

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