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Sunday, March 27th, 2011NAFTA is a major contributor to our current economic problems. It came into effect in January 1994, allowing our corporations to move themselves to foreign countries like Mexico and exploit cheap labor. Millions of jobs have left the country. The corporations are paying the Mexican workers dirt and then reselling the products they produce back [...]
Europe’s Economy Is Collapsing
Saturday, November 27th, 2010Europe’s economy is collapsing. There’s been too much spending and too much borrowing. We’re next in line if we can’t get our budgets balanced. The debt crisis in Europe escalated sharply Friday as investors dumped Spanish and Portuguese bonds in panicked selling, substantially heightening the prospect that one or both countries may need to join [...]
Quantitative Easing Explained
Friday, November 12th, 2010This is terrible…
Monday, October 25th, 2010One out of every 34 Americans who earned wages in 2008 earned absolutely nothing — not one cent — in 2009. The stunning figure was released earlier this month by the Social Security Administration, but apparently went unreported until it appeared today on Tax.com in a column by Pulitzer Prize-winning tax reporter David Cay Johnston. [...]
Poverty And Religious Devotion Are Closely Tied Together
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010Just the other day I replied to a comment Joshua left me, and I said, To a large extent, I think people are religious because they fear death and find themselves in situations in which they feel themselves powerless to overcome. They also live such boring and empty lives, the thought that their life and [...]
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