The Red White and Blue Pill
House votes to approve back pay for furloughed workers
Congratulations Tea Party, you just gave all those Gubmit workers you hate a paid vacation while denying tax payers of the public services they provide. You increased government cost, didn’t shrink its size one bit and had an unproductive temper tantrum in public.
Remember when Republicans were worried about ‘economic uncertainty’?
Krugman nails it.
Christian TV Host Asks God for ‘Military Takeover’ of Obama’s Presidency
But it’s ok because he isn’t Muslim.
Rick Nolan, Dem Rep, Introduces Bill Blocking Congressional Pay During Government Shutdown
The “No Government – No Pay Act” would stop members from being paid their salaries for as long as a shutdown continues.
Forbes Calls Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein Holier Than Mother Teresa
there are still huge pockets of these Fountainhead junkies who genuinely believe that the Blankfeins of the world are reviled because they’re bankers and they’re rich, and not because they’re the heads of unprosecutable organized crime syndicates who make their money through mass fraud, manipulation and the shameless burgling of public treasure.
The Ayn Rand crowd insists this is jealousy and not well earned revulsion.
When I get government money, I am getting my money back. When you get government money, you are a parasite taking my money.
Pope Francis interview: Forget homosexuality and birth control. He’s a flaming liberal.
Is he betting that the number of liberals who left the church because of its focus on gays and abortion will exceed the number of social conservatives that might leave because of Pope Francis’ focus on social justice issues?
> These numbers should (but probably won’t) finally kill claims that rising inequality is all about the highly educated doing better than those with less training. Only a small fraction of college graduates make it into the charmed circle of the 1 percent. Meanwhile, many, even most, highly educated young people are having a very rough time. They have their degrees, often acquired at the cost of heavy debts, but many remain unemployed or underemployed
The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts
> “They didn’t fit the caricature of the drug addict who can’t stop once he gets a taste,” Dr. Hart said. “When they were given an alternative to crack, they made rational economic decisions.”
At some point we will have to come to terms with the fact that addiction, poverty and violence are related social ills that can only be solved together and only by collective action.
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