From the daily archives: Friday, May 25, 2012

Right-Wing Claims About Spending Under Obama Are Completely Wrong – And That’s a Problem

By Sandi Behrns On May 25, 2012  

Talk to anyone on the Republican side of the aisle this election cycle, and you will hear one thing over and over (and over, and over….) Namely, you’ll hear how “out-of-control” spending is killing the country’s economy and that it’s all Obama’s fault. This plays into the two great dreams of the Republican Party: 1) [...]

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Private School Scholarships: Money Laundering for the Masses

By Tom Sullivan On May 25, 2012  

Welcome to the United States of Scam-erica. Or Griftopia, as Matt Taibbi calls it in his book on the Wall Street meltdown. “There are really two Americas,” Taibbi writes. For the grifter class, government is “a tool for making  money,” while “in everybody-else land, the government is something to be avoided.”

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