The simple believeth every word:but the prudent man looketh well to his going

CNN - Clinton vetoes GOP budget - Dec 7, 1995

Seeded on Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:09 PM EDT (CNN)

The veto was expected. Republicans and the White House were already negotiating another plan designed by the Clinton administration to balance the budget within the seven-year time frame.

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Tea Party and Republican Party Critics Still Wrong on What is Driving Deficits in Coming Years

Seeded on Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:28 AM EDT ( Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Whoever won the presidency in 2008 was going to face a grim fiscal situation, a fact already well known as the presidential campaign got underway.

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Taxes: What people forget about Reagan - Sep. 8, 2010

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 6:26 PM EDT (CNN)

All told, the tax increases Reagan approved ended up canceling out much of the reduction in tax revenue that resulted from his 1981 legislation.

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Fact Checking the Republicans' Pledge to America

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:03 PM EDT (Fox Business | Business News & Stock Quotes - Saving & Investing)

But FactCheck.org says: "It's true that the economy lost nearly 8.4 million jobs from the peak of employment in December, 2007 to the bottom of the job slump in December of last year. More than half (4.4 million) were lost before Obama took office.

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Manchin hits back at Republicans with new ad

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 3:52 PM EDT (CNN)

Manchin's opponent, Republican John Raese, aired a video that showed three West Virginia voters saying Manchin should stay "right here in West Virginia." But, they weren't West Virginia voters, and they weren't even in West Virginia.

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SNL makes its own Christine ODonnell ad CNN Political Ticker -

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 3:42 PM EDT (CNN)

Isn't that what the people of Delaware deserve? A candidate who promises first and foremost that she's not a witch? That's the kind of candidate Delaware hasn't had since 1692.

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Â» Average Net Worth of an American Family

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:13 PM EDT (bargaineering.com)

Here are a few of the more interesting ones (2007 median data, 2007 dollars): Current work status of head: * Working for someone else: $350,100 * Self-employed: $1,961,300 * Retired: $543,100 * Other not working: $124,100 Race or ethnicity of respondent:

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Traces of the Trade Black/White Inequality and the Home Foreclosure Crisis

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:03 PM EDT (tracesofthetrade.org)

The American middle and working classes are maintaining their lifestyle on a foundation of quicksand (debt they cannot afford).

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Its Not Black People on Welfare: 30% of Taxes Goes to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid - BV on Money

Seeded on Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:57 PM EDT (bvonmoney.com)

That said, with all of this talk about taxes and tax cuts, how many people even know how much they pay in taxes annually, or where all that money is actually going? Ask most people how tax monies are spent, and you'll inevitably hear terms like "welfare," "public housing," "food …

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Foreign ownership of U.S. corporations - SourceWatch

Seeded on Sat Oct 9, 2010 10:14 PM EDT ()

According to the website Economy in Crisis, "Foreign ownership refers to ownership of assets of a particular industry by foreign controlled domestic U.S.

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The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush | Politics | Vanity Fair

Seeded on Sat Oct 9, 2010 9:59 PM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)

When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties.

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Beck: Fire department had to let Tennessee house burn down or else you would have had ObamaCare

Seeded on Sat Oct 9, 2010 9:41 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

I wonder if this family realized that their house burning down had something to do with the health care debate in America.

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Candidate's Debt Leaves GOP Feeling Burned - WSJ.com

Seeded on Fri Oct 8, 2010 10:43 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Another official, state GOP committee member Mike Carter, resigned his post several weeks ago and said last week he would not back his party's candidate. Mr. Carter said he found Mr. Deal's large debts "certainly show he was not fiscally sound with his own money.

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New poll: An unpopular Palin

Seeded on Fri Oct 8, 2010 7:30 PM EDT (CNN)

Although she hasn't ruled out a run for the White House in 2012, 64 percent of those polled do not think she would be an effective president, with eight percent of Democrats and 39 percent of Republicans saying she would make a good president.

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CNN Poll: Was Bush better president than Obama?

Seeded on Fri Oct 8, 2010 1:20 PM EDT (CNN)

But that doesn't mean that Americans regret their decision to put Obama in the White House in 2008. By a 50 to 42 percent margin, the public says that Obama has done a better job than Sen. John McCain would have done if he had won.

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Alaska Tea Party Candidate Miller Acknowledges both he and his wife recieved government benefits - FoxNews.com

Seeded on Thu Oct 7, 2010 11:56 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Miller says he hasn't received government assistance "for years," but wasn't more specific.

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Give the Bush policies one last chance to do what they didn't do the first time------ Create Jobs

Seeded on Wed Oct 6, 2010 12:41 AM EDT (Political Animal)

Republicans will win, Rove concludes, if they just tell voters we should go back to the policies we already know don't work. Bush failed miserably, but if we just give his painful failures one more try, everything will work out fine.

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As Bush comes to Washington, US economy heads towards recession

Seeded on Wed Oct 6, 2010 12:29 AM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)

The economic slowdown underscores the deceptive character of the campaigns of Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore, who both concealed from the American people the extent of the looming economic crisis.

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Mr. Biden, the Stimulus Program Has Only Postponed the Day of Reckoning - FoxNews.com

Seeded on Tue Oct 5, 2010 10:26 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

In fairness, layoffs at the state and local level have been a drag on the economy, and the impact would have been worse but for the stimulus payouts. However, the crushing weight of pension and health obligations on state governments needs to be lightened.

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Tea Party vs Republican Party SSDD

Seeded on Tue Oct 5, 2010 4:48 PM EDT (CNN)

Fact: Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement are largely Republican partisans. More than 3-in-4 (76 percent) identify with or lean towards the Republican Party.

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California Supreme Court upholds furlough order for state workers - CNN.com

Seeded on Mon Oct 4, 2010 6:08 PM EDT (CNN)

Schwarzenegger ordered the furloughs in 2008 in an effort to help the cash-strapped state. The order required state workers to take two unpaid days off per month. The number of days was bumped up to three in 2009 as revenues continued to plummet.

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In House and Senate, Midterm Election Still in Play - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun Oct 3, 2010 9:24 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Our candidates are remaining viable long after the Republicans have counted them out," said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Voters are taking a very close look at the Republican challengers."

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GOP raids Social Security for tax breaks to millionaires - The Mercury

Seeded on Sun Oct 3, 2010 8:17 PM EDT ()

Where were the Republicans? They are now complaining about the debt of the last 30 years when Reagan and the Bushes put us 12 trillion in debt. At least this time the money is being spent here not all overseas.

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The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

Seeded on Sat Oct 2, 2010 9:12 PM EDT (Obama Postpones Trip for Health Care Vote)

We can't afford to keep locking people up and making work for the criminal justice system.

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Distribution of Household Income by Race during 2006 Infoplease.com

Seeded on Sat Oct 2, 2010 7:37 PM EDT (infoplease.com)

In 2006 there were 94,705 white families living in poverty, in comparison to 14.354 African American families and 12.973 Hispanic families. Also the statistics point out that 50% of whites earn less than $25,000 per year.

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