ALL WE GOTTA DO IS …

The American people are concerned about the economy, job creation, and the unsustainable debt obligations incurred in the last 6 months. As job losses continue to mount, families’ worried about losing their health-care, paying their mortgage, and sending their children to college, continue to intensify.

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Playing a catastrophic game of chicken

As of this morning, (February 10, 2009) this is the kind of America we live in.

We live in an America in which the Republican party is willing to allow the country to go down the drain for its own short-term political gain. Here is the potentially catastrophic game of chicken the Republicans are playing: They want to force enough compromises in the stimulus bill — which is already not bold enough – to make it too weak to succeed. Then, having negotiated these compromises, they won’t even vote for it — which will allow them to run against the “collapsed Democratic economy” in 2010. and try and regain the White House in 2012.

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Anger bubbles over at Amtrak as passengers stranded 24-hours

What happened at Chicago’s Union Station Christmas Day was a near riot with an angry mob of 600 passengers looking for a customer service representative to rip apart. No wonder customers found doors locked, and customers service representatives hiding. As one Amtrak employee told an irate customer, “There’s a lesson to be learned in all this and you need to figure out what that lesson is.” There is a lesson to be learned in this alright and it is Amtrak that needs to learn it by government stepping in and putting the thieving corporate scumbags out of business.

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Secretary Of State? Oh no … Mrs. Bill

The Secretary Of State position the last thirty-years has become the whipping boy, the doormat, to flawed administration policies and shifting world demographics, economics, and balance of power.

In Ben Franklins day, Secretary of State was an honored and revered position,

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