EXCERPT: CBPP: 33 States Have Raised Taxes by $32 Billion/Year
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published State Tax Changes in Response to the Recession:
The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the previous 12 months. This 11 percent decline, the steepest on record, resulted from the impact on tax collections of lost jobs, reduced...

EXCERPT: Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack ObamaBy Chris HedgesMarch 01, 2010 "Truthdig" - - We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.
Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush. He promised us that the transfer of $12.8 trillion in taxpayer money to Wall...

EXCERPT: America’s warfare state.
Liquidating the Empire
By Patrick J. BuchananFebruary 23, 2010 "Creators" - - A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab, and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down.To those who grew up in a “GM family,” where buying a Chrysler was like converting to Islam, what happened to GM was deeply saddening. Yet the amputations had to be done – or GM would die.And the same may be about to happen to the American Imperium.Its...

EXCERPT: Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, "Why did this have to happen?" The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn't enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with...

EXCERPT: The Future's so Bright, I've Got to Wear LeadBy David Glenn CoxFebruary 18, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The third Bush/McCain term courses on like a runaway, coal-fired steam train. Mr. Obama, CEO of Gopasskiss, Incorporated, formally known as the United States of America, will offer up $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build two new nuclear power plants in Georgia.This was the centerpiece in John McCain’s energy strategy. McCain wanted to build 45 new nuclear plants. McCain...

EXCERPT: Senate Passes AIPAC's Iran Sanctions Bill in Five MinutesBy MJ RosenbergSenior Fellow Media Matters Action NetworkFebruary 09, 2010 "Huffington Post" -- Anyone who has followed the Senate's handling of health care reform can't help but be impressed (or depressed) by the glacial pace at which things move in that place. In fact, it appears that Senate sloth contributed mightily to the failure of reform (by comparison, the House is a model of streamlined efficiency)
But the Senate can...

EXCERPT: U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the JobTuesday, May 12, 2009By Edwin Mora
U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the JobTuesday, May 12, 2009By Edwin Mora
(CNSNews.com) -- The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), apart of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),will pay $2.6 million in U.S.tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
This...

EXCERPT: Big Government's Cronies The real reason politicians like complicated tax and regulatory schemes John Stossel | February 4, 2010 Many window-making companies struggle because of the recession's effect on home building. But one little window company, Serious Materials, is "booming," says Fortune. "On a roll," according to Inc. magazine, which put Serious' CEO on its cover, with a story titled: "How to Build a Great Company."
The...

EXCERPT: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels
Here is the the...

EXCERPT: On his Christian Broadcasting Network show yesterday, Rev. Pat Robertson said that the nation of Haiti has been devastated by a large earthquake because its people "made a pact with the devil."
Apparently they DID make a pact with the Devil....
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