O!: “Go to Howard Johnson’s …” Today in Ohio, lost in all the flurry of the news about the jobs numbers, was a speech almost as strange and depressing given by our current president, Barack Obama, as he talked about his own childhood. This way of life and standard of living, he appeared to say, is the American ideal and what people should be prepared to settle for: Nobody expected
July 7, 2012
July 7, 2012
“UN calls for ‘billionaires tax’ to help world’s poor”
The private wealth of individuals should be legally available to those who, while they’re stealing it, agree to mean well: The United Nations on Thursday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries. An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions