Author: Stable Genius

I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.

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owsposters: Choose the Best Answer to this Question: Download the poster pack Republican Gomorrah

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Loser liberalism, by implying that all fortunes are created equal, alternately goes too easy on scoundrels and comes down too hard on people who are merely prosperous. Chris Paul is in the one percent, but he’s also a kid from a working class background who’s spent his entire career being structurally underpaid and victimized by… Continue reading Untitled

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a family’s economic situation is a bigger determinative force in a child’s academic performance than any other major demographic factor. For poor kids, that means the intensifying hardships of poverty are now creating massive obstacles to academic progress. What real education reform looks like – Salon.com

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owsposters: 30 Corporations Spent More Lobbying Than in Taxes Download the poster pack

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If the problem is years of “living beyond our means” the solution dictated by cosmic justice is years of laboring in auto plants building cars for South Koreans to drive. If the question is “why are we consuming so much less than we produced” the answer may be “it’s because in the past we consumed… Continue reading Untitled

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When government taxes you, it’s common sense. When government taxes me, it is socialism. Norquist Tells GOP That Raising Taxes On The Middle Class Doesn’t Count As A Tax Increase | ThinkProgress

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Manufacturing activity is contracting across Europe and most of Asia, data showed on Thursday, and a Chinese official declared that the world economy faces a worse situation than in 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed. Factories stall worldwide, U.S. jobless claims rise Of course I expect that the flat-earth economists to declare that this is due… Continue reading Untitled

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a study from Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier finds that defense spending does indeed create jobs under recession conditions but that “$1 billion spent on each of the domestic spending priorities will create substantially more jobs within the U.S. economy than would the same $1 billion spent on the military” with “investments in clean energy,… Continue reading Untitled