It’s Really Starting to Feel Like 1932
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 6th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
It’s Really Starting to Feel Like 1932
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
“The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession,” said Robert Reich, former US labour secretary. “All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing.””Home sales are down. Retail sales are down. Factory orders in May suffered their biggest tumble since March of last year. So what are we doing about it? Less than nothing,” he said.California is tightening faster than Greece. State workers have seen a 14pc fall in earnings this year due to forced furloughs. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is cutting pay for 200,000…
Hard Times Bring Out Best in America
Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
In a mean, hard time, when the country is supposed to be backed up again and leaning over the ropes, they still keep coming after us. This time it is with Russian spies, out of another time, like dumb bunglers out of “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” Just with bimbos in the movie this time.We are constantly led to believe that in the very next moment, the whole country could go flying right off the globe and into outer space. We are told, by the people for whom attacking this President is good business and good ratings, that the President is failing and the country…
Vitter Proving to be Difficult Democratic Target
Freedom in Peril Around the World
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post
Liberals and Flag Avoidance Syndrome
Jill Lawrence, Politics Daily
Once again on a patriotic holiday, only two flags flew on my block, and it breaks my heart. What is it about liberals that makes so many so disinclined to embrace patriotic symbols, to show the world that they care?My block is in upper Northwest Washington, D.C., a beating heart of liberal America. On the Fourth of July, as usual, one flag was flown by a couple who had long government careers in defense and science. The other was at my house.