OBAMA: You know, if -- frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely. I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
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(Bastiat)**"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place.
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“Castro is very selfless and moral, one of the world’s wisest men” (Oliver Stone).
Who Was the "And remember what my dearly departed little poodle admitted: “If the Missiles had remained, we would have shot them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York city.” (Che Guevara to Sam Russel of the London Daily Worker in November 1962.) Che?
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(Beatnews) Have you been missing your favorite artist from your local radio station lately? An artists' coalition says something fishy is in the air, or on the air.
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Venezuelans got Oil but no Food
Who is really surprised, soon the ration cards will come…..Viva Chavez
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan construction worker Gustavo Arteaga has no trouble finding jobs in this OPEC nation’s booming economy, but on a recent Monday morning he skipped work as part of a more complicated search — for milk.
The 37-year-old father-of-two has for months s
crambled to find basic products like cooking oil, beef and milk, despite leftist President Hugo Chavez’s social program that promises to provide low-cost groceries to the majority poor.
“It takes a miracle to find milk,” said Arteaga, who spent two hours in line outside a store in the poor Caracas neighborhood of Eucaliptus. “Don’t you see I’m here slaving away to see if I can get even one or two of those (containers)?”
Venezuelan consumers are increasingly facing periodic shortages of basic food products as the economy shows signs of overheating amid record revenues from an oil boom.
The shortages have increased skepticism of Chavez’s economic policies and provided a political backdrop to campaigning this month for a referendum on a new constitution that he says is needed to make Venezuela a socialist state.
Businesses say price controls on staple foods are so low they discourage investment and force stores to sell at a loss.
The government says the problem is caused by growing demand by poor citizens who benefit from social programs, exaggerated media hype and food hoarding by unscrupulous businesses.
Supermarket shelves remain stocked with aged whiskey and imported wine, but for up to 25 percent of staple food products this year supplies have been irregular, according to public opinion and economic research group Datanalisis.
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Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn't marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?
Doctor opposition to health care overhaul proposals is broad and deep, revealing concerns not just about soaring costs, declining care, possible rationing and a lack of limits on malpractice suits, but also about government competence and motives, detailed responses to a new IBD/TIPP Poll show. As reported Wednesday, 65% of the 1,376 practicing physicians who responded to a mailed questionnaire over the last two weeks said they opposed health care plans that have emerged from the administration and Congress. Just 33% supported them.
Maureen Dowd's Descent into Fury** she has become increasingly angry and increasingly shrill. The old gray mare ain't what she used to be.
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
Mark describes the various aspects of socialism and how it all eventually leads up to tyranny and totalitarianism. Mark describes, “statists,” and how the liberals are increasingly moving towards socialism. Redistributing wealth is not a positive for the common good.
