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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
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Dept. of Graphic Irony
Yes, Dubya now has, thanks to the Repbulican boot-lickers at Clear Channel, a Saddam-worthy billboard. Look at the bright side- it'll be fun to deface when we're liberated.
Many thanks to Adam for catching this. |
Welcome To The United People's Republic of Americuh!
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Economic "armageddon" coming to a world near you. Mark Frauenfelder: The chief economist at Morgan Stanley is 90% certain that the US economy is headed for disaster.
To finance its current account deficit with the rest of the world, he said, America has to import $2.6 billion in cash. Every working day. Say it with me this time:
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Rolling Back Women's Rights. President Bush and the Republican Congress have used a must-pass spending bill to mount a sneak attack on women's health and freedom. [NYT > Opinion]
Women of America, we're fucked! |
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America says no to the Bush agenda: A few weeks too late. George W. Bush was quick to claim an electoral mandate despite his narrow popular vote win -- and yet this new New York Times poll shows a majority of Americans, of both red and blue persuasions, are lukewarm about his second term agenda. Among other things, a solid 2/3 majority of Americans think dealing with the deficit is a more important priority than cutting taxes further, as Bush plans. But Dick Cheney would tell them that "deficits don't matter" -- and tax cuts for the rich are his "due," his prize for winning re-election, no matter how destructive they might be. Sorry, America, you may not want to destroy our children's future, but Dick Cheney does, and guess what, you get what you paid for! (Even if you didn't pay for it.) [Salon.com]
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Dollar Weakens as Russia Weighs Shifting Its Holdings to Euros. The euro rose to another record high against the dollar today after the Russian central bank said it might increase its euro holdings. By By ERIC PFANNER. [NYT > Business]
We're fucked! |
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"We've become a banana republic". We're not economists, but none of this sounds very good. Faced with growing deficits, ballooning costs of Social Security, and a fixation on reckless tax cuts, Republicans have apparently devised a new have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too scheme that sounds too smoke and mirrors to be sound fiscal policy. According to the Washington Post, "Republican budget writers" think they've found a way to cut the deficit and also borrow billions more dollars to overhaul Social Security -- just don't count the billions of additional debt and move them "off-budget." [Salon.com]
We're fucked! |
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