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So, we were watching the debate and paused it to discuss something Sarah Palin was saying. When I paused our Tivo, this was the frame it stopped on. I liked it so much I decided I needed a screenshot and would use it to illustrate how she was talking out of both sides of her mouth tonight. Every time she was asked about what she recommended for solving the economic crisis, she said two things: (1) we need to regulate Wall Street, followed by (2) government doesn’t do anything right and we need less regulation.
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(Regardless of political persuasion, you’ll probably find this funny! Poor Rocky….)
September 19th, 2008
ryan
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This post comes from fellow Sociologist, Dave Purcell, at Kent State. I liked it so much I asked him if I could repost it here. So, with his permission:
I don’t claim to be an expert on government spending, so please correct me if I am interpreting the budget numbers below in the wrong way. But from my home office on this sunny Friday morning, here’s how I see it:
- Proposed bailout of insurance giant AIG by the US government: $85 billion.
- Total spending per major agency in 2008, according to the US Office of Management and Budget (in billions):
- Education: $57.2
- Health & Human Services: $71.9
- Housing & Urban Development: $37.4
- Energy: $23.9
- Transportation: $15.5
- Environmental Protection Agency: $7.5
- Agriculture: $21.8
President Bush is proposing to spend 1.5 times more on bailing out a poorly-run insurance company than we do on education. No CEO Left Behind.
Think about how conservatives like to moan about welfare spending. Proposed total spending for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program in 2009? $236 million. The AIG bailout would be 360 times more than that. So TANF fosters a culture of dependency and helplessness, but corporate bailouts apparently just help out some fellas who’ve had some bad luck.
Seriously unbelievable.
September 17th, 2008
ryan
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I don’t know that this is a Democratic or Republican problem (probably just a politics problem), but this story from the New York Times illustrates how our government has become a piggy bank to corporations. Big corporations make bad decisions and now Americans are footing the bill. They rob the people once by giving them crappy loans at ridiculous rates then they rob from taxpayers to pay back the companies after they lose money on their loans. Welcome to the United Corporations of America!
September 14th, 2008
ryan
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So, I posted a video recently with Obama and Biden being grilled by a reporter on 60 Minutes. In the interest of balancing the debate, here are two videos from an interview of Sarah Palin by Charlie Gibson.:
Part 1
Part 2
Watch them and then watch the Obama/Biden video and think about who you want running this country.
FYI, I put up an Obama for President yard sign last night!
Oh, and here’s a bit more partisan video of McCain (nods to Steve and Hellmut for pointing these out to me).
