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May.20.2013 Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Even though by now we know most what Neil Barofsky packs into his book, Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, it remains worth reading as an in-depth, consolidated account of how the Bush and Obama administrations pretended to be supporting overwhelmed...	Sep.14.2011 NEW HOBBY RECOMMENDATION: SORT IDIOTS FROM LYING PRICKS Republican strategists figure if we can just lay off enough schoolteachers, firemen, librarians and safety inspectors, the economy will come roaring back. Also, instead of relying on Medicare, seniors should just go out and make their own deals with insurance companies and it...
Jan.30.2010 Forget Capital Gains, How About a Corporate Gains Tax During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, the President called for reducing the capital gains tax on small businesses to the delight of many Republicans in the audience who recognize that this is a baby step toward eliminating the capital gains tax on big business, too. Well, I propose the...	Dec.09.2009 Get up, stand up - "Code Red" rally Dec. 15, 1:00PM ET When emergencies occur… awareness is the key to your safety! The CodeRED system allows safety officials to send recorded messages to the entire community, or a specific area within moments. These messages will inform residents of the situation and give instructions for action. Caption &...
Sep.27.2009 Starbucks and Moving to France Tomorrow the AP will publish an article on my book, Everything But the Coffee. Check it out below or in the reviews section of my Red Room page. But better still, I got an email a few hours ago from someone named Tom Synder. (Could it be the "real" Tom Synder of quirky late...	Jun.08.2009 Maybe We Could Have a Little Stimu-LESS As people continue to lose jobs, albeit at a slower rate than was expected, our President has claimed that the stimulus is already responsible for 150,000 created or saved jobs. He also promised 600,000 more this summer! Wow! Go Mr. President!! Now, lest you think I've lost my mind, remember I am a...
Mar.25.2009 Ebony & Ivory - Obama Deficits & Bush Deficits Together In back-to-back press conferences (held Nov. 24, 2008) by Bush (first) and Obama (second), the men either stated or implied that they were sort of working together to muscle the nation through this tough economic period. Bush said, “I talked to Obama about the decision we made. I told the American...	Mar.04.2009 Obama's Empty Suit Advice To Investing In Stocks Later, while sitting alongside Mr Brown in the Oval Office, Mr Obama said Britain's friendship to the US in Iraq and Afghanistan would not be forgotten. He added: "Great Britain is one of our closest and strongest allies and there is a link and bond there that will not break." The...
Feb.13.2009 Analyst: New Euphemisms Will Stimulate Economy BROOKLYN, N.Y. , Feb 13...The economic crisis is being prolonged by faulty terminology that distorts perceptions, dampens expectations and crushes optimism, an analyst charged today. "Our nomenclature is counter-productive," said Efraim Durg, founder and CEO of NeuroBrands, a marketing...