No Peace and Good Will for the Unemployed?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 3rd, 2010 5:31 am by HL
No Peace and Good Will for the Unemployed?
Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
POOR SCOTT Brown. Once again, he’s stuck dealing with “fluff,’’ otherwise known as the unemployed.Senator Brown and his fellow Republicans are itching to get to the important stuff — extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. But before they play Santa to the rich, they must play Scrooge to the jobless.As Christmas lights twinkle, Republicans want to cut off benefits that are paid from the revenue that workers produce. With carolers crooning about peace and good will, the GOP supports tax cuts that will add to the deficit they…
The EPA’s And Enron’s End-Runs Of Congress
Larry Bell, Forbes
Immediately after chances for carbon cap-and-tax legislation were swept away by a Nov. 2 Republican House cleaning, the Obama administration proceeded with its Plan B. At a time when Congress was recessed for the Thanksgiving holiday and the president was ceremoniously pardoning two white turkeys, the Environmental Protection Agency served up American industries a fowl of far darker feathering–a gobbler of regulatory control.
EPA Head Lisa Jackson Ready to Battle Republicans
Wikileaks is Attacking US National Security
Jed Babbin, RealClearPolitics
Tom Friedman's column in yesterday's New York Times was a fictional rendition of a Chinese Washington embassy cable leaked and published by WikiLeaks, the cybervent for too many of America's secrets. Freidman's fictional cable to Beijing snickered at all those Americans who are too dumb to realize how distraught they should be, having suffered through another corrupt election, still quagmired in Afghanistan, living without high-speed trains or the wisdom to transform their economy from oil to wind and solar power.Friedman's work was just another clichéd…
Why Huge Banks Are a Threat to the U.S.
Thomas Hoenig, New York Times
The world has experienced a severe financial crisis and economic recession. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve took actions that saved businesses and jobs and may very well have saved the economy itself from ruin. Still, the public seems ungrateful, expressing anger at these institutions that saved the day. Why?Americans are angry in part because they sense that the government was as much a cause of the crisis as its cure. They realize that more must be done to address a threat that remains increasingly a part of our economy: financial institutions that are "too big to…
