Tag: economy
member name: Devin Barber
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March 13, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
The 1960’s saw the birth of the Federal Minimum Wage and from then on the fight has been on. The Republicans see it as socialism run amok. Democrats see it as an unfortunately necessary step to try . . .
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February 19, 2009 08:30 PM EST --
It was like a scene from the old movie Network. You know, where the TV news guys says "I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore." Well, I think anyone who saw Santelli's . . .
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February 23, 2009 02:43 PM EST --
One of the components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to assist the States with the ever increasing burden of paying unemployment benefits to the ever increasing ranks of the . . .
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October 22, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
The economy has dominated the news and sparked some intense political debate of late. An issue that has come to the forefront of that debate is regarding how or if Wall Street should be regulated. . . .
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November 02, 2009 02:11 PM EST --
An obscure special congressional election in the 23 rd district of New York State made national news this last week. A traditionally conservative district Republican Dierdre Scozzafava was expected . . .
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March 17, 2009 03:58 PM EDT --
Recently House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank received a letter from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. In that letter Mr. Cuomo had the distasteful duty of informing Congressman . . .
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June 18, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
Apparently the Republicans in Washington have decided to abandon the "just say no" approach and this past week trotted out what they call their proposal to fix the health care crisis. Albeit you'd . . .
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August 10, 2009 01:32 PM EDT --
Lately we’ve been seeing a very disturbing development in American politics. Opponents of the effort to reform health care have adopted the tactic of disrupting and destroying any chance of meaningful . . .
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August 11, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
This morning I witnessed a spectacle that made me feel embarrassed to be an American. Sen. Arlen Specter (D) Pa. was hosting a town hall meeting to discuss health care reform. And instead of a civil . . .
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September 29, 2009 01:21 PM EDT --
Anyone who hasn’t spent the last couple of years on Mars knows how bad a situation our economy is in. And there has been no shortage of discussions about how we got here. Most of the talk is . . .
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October 13, 2009 01:17 PM EDT --
The America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) trade group issued a report over the weekend claiming that the Baucus Bill will cause health care costs to rise faster than if no legislation is passed . . .
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October 28, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
The American people have ponied up an ocean of cash to bail out some of biggest corporations and financial institutions that exist in our country. And what have they done with it? Exactly what you’d . . .
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July 25, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
About ten years ago when I was an associate highway engineer for the Idaho Transportation Department, my cubicle was bordered by two Republican co-workers (which in and of itself was bizarre) and the political . . .
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August 02, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
I’m going to start this article out by stating that I worked in the highway engineering and construction field at the county and state highway department levels for 22 years. So you could say I have . . .
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September 06, 2007 01:50 PM EDT --
How many times have you been watching the evening news about some corporation laying off hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of workers? Usually the reporter goes on about what the corporation . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
One of the most common responses I’ve seen from Republicans any time a Democrat calls for government action is that it amounts to socialism. And there is no mystery as to why they do this. The word . . .
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November 19, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
It would be extremely difficult to find any reasonable political commentator that would disagree that the divide between the Republican and Democratic Parties has never been wider than it is today. And . . .
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January 23, 2008 01:01 PM EST --
While President Bush and the congress ponder just what sort of stimulus package will be best, the Democratic presidential candidates are lining up with their own plans for fixing our faltering economy. . . .
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April 01, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
To be fair I'm sure George W. Bush believes in his mind that his presidency was a successful one and has said that history will one day affirm that he is right. And I'm sure there are more than . . .
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April 09, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
I swore I was finished writing about how bad a president I think Hillary Clinton would make. But the recent onslaught of mis-statements, made up stories and out and out lies could not be ignored. Between . . .
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