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• Who has most debt? Answer may surprise you

  Wed Aug 17, 2011
  • Geez. So you say taking stuff away from the poor and giving it to the rich will cure all our ills? For ten years, the most well off among us have paid the lowest effective taxes in the last 50 years.

• Here's who won't be paying federal income taxes this year

  Mon Aug 15, 2011
  • It is impossible for someone to get rich entirely based on their own merit; we all stand on the shoulders of of our fathers and countrymen.

• Debt talk damage has already been done

  Tue Jul 26, 2011
  • It takes a really classy patriotic American to call our President names and hope he fails. He is so much smarter than than the wizard of the Bush clan, George, Jr.  But set that aside.

• McConnell proposes giving Obama debt ceiling power

  Tue Jul 12, 2011
  •  Sheesh!  The big plan can't be to just take stuff away from poor people and give it to rich people--can it?  The wealthy are paying the lowest taxes they have in over a century.  This screaming is unseemly, at the least. 

• Obama to Congress on debt talks: 'Get it done'

  Wed Jun 29, 2011
  • Do you folks recall that after WWII this country had 50% more debt as a percent of GDP than it does today---and we still financed the Marshal Plan and built the Interstate Highway System and paid for the Korean War?  The Republican's big plan has to be more than to take stuff away from poor …

• Obama pitches plan to promote high-tech innovation

  Sat Jun 25, 2011
  • I think if we just threw all the name-callers and labelers off of here, we could have a meaningful conversation. Just being pissed off is of little value in finding a way forward.

• Obama pitches plan to promote high-tech innovation

  Sat Jun 25, 2011
  • I think if we just threw all the name-callers and labelers off of here, we could have a meaningful conversation.  Just being pissed off is of little value in finding a way forward.

• US doesn't make cut for happiest nations list

  Sun Jun 5, 2011
  • So this is BS.  Why do the folks at 24/7 Wallstreet think it is OK for them to arbitrarily plug in their own special debt-to-GDP ratio into the middle of this study?  Who are these guys?  I am tired of people who try to be slick by pulling stuff out of thin air.  …

• Libyans ask: Where are Misrata's missing?

  Wed May 25, 2011
  • Geez!  Most thoughtful readers don't believe a word of anything anybody says in these situations.  After all, the first casualty of war is truth, right?  This is no mystery to the rest of us; we are waiting for the facts to "shake out."  So the fact that you are being taken in by …

• Obama jolt unlikely to spark Mideast peace talks

  Sat May 21, 2011
  • What a bunch of big mouth know nothings!  It is just as immoral for the Israelis to push the Palestinians into the Jordan as it would be for the Palestians to push the Israelis into the sea.  Anything else is rationalization.  I support Israel, just not "greater Israel".