Hope and Change! The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today. In 2008, when George W. Bush was president, according to Gallup, 14.9 percent of adult
September 6, 2011
"Paul Krugman and Potemkin jobs"
protein wisdom summarizes: If you build it as a government dig some big holes, they the workers will come fill them in for a reasonable, living wage, and in so doing, become productive citizens who pay taxes and provide the government with the revenue necessary to take care of you in a way you simply aren’t capable of taking care of yourselves.* Media Matters responds: “Hey! You EDITED that unfairly,
Corey Haim’s “Notes from the Afterlife,” 12
Here’s the thing most people don’t think about when they think about eternity: It lasts. A fucking. Eternity. And as much as I don’t want to seem ungrateful for the digs, if all Heaven has to offer is 6 cable channels, every last one of them airing season 9 M*A*S*H re-runs 24/7, please, please, please give me an endless diet of Swanson Salisbury Steak frozen dinners and nighttime visits from
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Obama and Wasserman Schultz, along with a good portion of the mainstream press, may want to keep silent on Hoffa Jr’s taxpayer funded assault on the American taxpayer, but that doesn’t mean Sister Sarah will: To the same degree Americans are concerned about irresponsible, greedy corporate execs who got cushy bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailouts, we should also be concerned about greedy union bosses who are willing to tank our economy
Obama, Wasserman-Schulz refuse to condemn "millionaire" Labor boss' characterization of peaceful, politically-engaged American citizens as "son of a bitches" who need them some taking out.
And why would they? It’s not like TEA Party types are going to vote Democrat in 2012, right? So fuck the bitterclinging hicks right in their god-fearing squeakholes. This is the new fundamentally transformed United States. We do pay for play here, bitches.