Archive for ‘The Economy’

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There Can Be No Doubt That Mitt Romney is a Member of the Dangerous John Birch Society

on November 5th, 2012 at 4:03 pm

While Mitt Romney wants you to believe he’s a moderate, he’s actually the most extreme candidate for president since Barry Goldwater in 1964. While members of the John Birch Society hide their membership because it would instantly disqualify them from office, they can’t hide their positions, and if their positions align perfectly with the extremist […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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President Obama Provides Comfort and Leadership to a Nation Under Seige

on November 1st, 2012 at 5:40 pm

President Obama was in New Jersey this week comforting those unfortunate people who had to endure Hurricane Sandy. This is not the first time Mr. Obama has responded to a nation in crisis. When confronted with an economy spitting away 800,000 jobs a month, with a stock market careening downward, President Obama provided leadership that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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The Sham of Republican Conservatism

on October 17th, 2012 at 2:11 pm

It took me a while, but I finally figured it out. I have to give Republicans credit, over the years they’ve developed such a complicated shell game that I genuinely thought they had some depth and principle. What I’ve discovered is that they only stand for one thing; rich people getting and keeping as much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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“Numbers Guy” Paul Ryan Fails to Do the Math

on October 13th, 2012 at 12:14 pm

The biggest surprise of the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan wasn’t how much Vice-President Biden dominated on foreign policy, but rather, how inept Paul Ryan was at economic policy. He had no facts, his numbers didn’t add up, and he seemed to be running away from the Romney/Ryan budget, almost conceding the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Four Year Anniversary of Bush’s Bank Bailout

on October 3rd, 2012 at 11:05 am

Mitt Romney’s biggest contributors are from the big banks, Goldmann Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and Citigroup. He is a forceful advocate of deregulating the banks and letting the markets run wild, so it’s interesting that Mitt Romney supported the $700 billion bank bailout that George W. Bush signed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mitt Romney Adopts Reed Smoot’s Depression-Era Trade Policies

on September 26th, 2012 at 2:30 am

Mitt Romney is hoping his tough talk on China policy will win him votes — but few of his big business donors or fellow Republicans support what he’s saying or believe he’d follow through if elected… there’s fear that Romney’s threat — if actually carried out — could damage the U.S. economy. The Chinese could […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Joe Scarborough Jumps Off the Romney Boat

on September 16th, 2012 at 9:14 am

  Host of Morning Joe, influential conservative Joe Scarborough seems to have thrown in the towel on Mitt Romney; “…If we want to win the battle of ideas in the long term, we should be willing to face the fact that Mitt Romney is likely to lose — and should, given that he’s neither a true […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Four Years Ago Lehman Brothers Went Bankrupt

on September 15th, 2012 at 5:41 pm

15 September 2008 US investment bank Lehman Brothers goes bankrupt after the US government refuses to bail it out. Merrill Lynch is bought by Bank of America after revealing it also is facing huge losses. Insurance firm AIG, which issued credit guarantees for subprime mortgages, is rescued the next day with an $85bn loan from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Four Years Ago the World’s Economy Started to Collapse

on September 9th, 2012 at 8:40 pm

After years of deregulation, lax oversight by the Bush administration, and failed Republican economic policies, the bill started to come due on September 7th, 2008. That’s the date when George W. Bush took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. US President George Bush says mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have been taken over […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mitt Romney’s Special Relationship With British Bankers

on July 27th, 2012 at 1:55 am

Initially, I thought that Mitt Romney was going to London to watch his wife’s horse compete in the Olympic dressage event, but then Mr. Romney said that he wasn’t even going to watch her, that he had very little interest in her competition, and that he didn’t even know when it was going to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Friends of Romney Ratcheting Up the Pressure

on June 22nd, 2012 at 12:54 am

The four scenarios that Mitt Romney’s friends might pursue to put him into the White House appear to be taking shape. Probably just a coincidence. A survey of chief executives shows fewer large U.S. companies plan to hire or boost spending in the next six months… Read more at CBS News Israel has responded to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Top 12 Economic Slogans For 2012

on June 14th, 2012 at 2:44 am

Romney Depressionomics: Follow him and see how bad things can get President Obama pulled us out of recession, Romney will drag us back in Hoover…Bush…Romney Outsource jobs, gut health care, slash wages: Romneynomics Who needs teachers, firefighters, and cops when you can have Mitt Romney? Job 1 for Mitt Romney? Eliminate jobs Corporations are people […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Romney would be “calamitous” for the country and the world

on June 5th, 2012 at 12:39 am

That’s according to former President Bill Clinton. Calamitous. Clinton went on to say that, ” the politics is wrong on the Republican side, the economics are crazy.” Why would President Clinton be moved to make such forceful statements? If you’ve been following events around the world you know that the economies in Europe are in free fall, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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How Mitt Romney’s Friends Might Try and Put Him Into Office in November

on June 4th, 2012 at 3:19 am

Scenarios: Hedge funds short the market causing sheer panic on Wall Street, 401K’s plummet, unemployment skyrockets. Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu have a very close relationship. If Israel attacks Iran then global economy tanks, gas prices go through the roof, tremendous global instability ensues, terrorism would be rampant. Corporations refuse to use their trillions in cash to invest in American […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Rick Perry Endorses Mitt “The Vulture” Romney

on May 23rd, 2012 at 2:26 am

Texas Governor Rick Perry once compared Mitt Romney to a vulture for the way he made his fortune,characterizing him as feeding off the carcasses of struggling businesses. “I happen to think that companies like Bain Capital could have come in and helped these companies if they truly were venture capitalists, but they’re not — they’re […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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