akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2008 | president, barack obama, obama, nafta
Blam. That didn't take long.
Quoted: In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA.
- akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2008 | money, bush, president, taxes, treasury, economy
40% of Americans have a negative tax rate and the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of the taxes. And it's only getting more severe do to the broadening income gap.
Quoted: Did Bush cut taxes for the rich? Yes. But he cut taxes for the poor even more. If we look at the measure that really matters - the change in effective tax rates - the bottom 50% got a much bigger tax cut than the top 1%. Did the dollar value of Bush's tax cuts go mostly to the wealthy? Absolutely. It could hardly be otherwise. Since the well-off pay the overwhelming majority of taxes, any tax cut with a prayer of influencing the economy would have to go mostly to them.
Quoted: The real issues here are clear. One is having a shrinking minority of citizens pay most of Washington's bills. Social cohesion falls apart. The majority who pay nothing resent those with higher incomes; the minority who pay heavily resent those who don't pay.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2008 | iraq, president, neocons, ron paul
Politics, woo
Quoted: The first issue is our out-of-control foreign policy. America is embroiled in shooting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We spend more on our military than nearly the rest of the world combined. We have troops stationed in over a hundred foreign countries. Manic interventionism has stretched our military to the breaking point, and has ruined our nation’s reputation.
Quoted: The second issue is our impending economic implosion. Our government, which has shed the last vestiges of constitutional restraint, has made a myriad of promises that it cannot keep. Our outstanding obligations to fund social security, government health care programs, and everything else under the sun are rapidly bankrupting our nation. To maintain these Ponzi schemes, the Fed is debasing our currency and igniting an ugly bout of hyperinflation.
- akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 16 2008 | war, iraq, president, economics, white house
Excellent article on the cost of Iraq
Quoted: The future historian would note that for the past century America has been one of largest military powers on the planet. This naturally involved a budgetary commitment. For some of the past century, the American military was quite small. But on average American military spending was about twice the share of GDP that it now is, about 5%. Moreover, with Iraq consuming between 15% and 20% of that figure, the future historian would likely view the entire affair as relatively minor in purely budgetary terms. That is hard for us to comprehend while living through it, but it is the way the numbers break.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | president, wolfowitz, neocons, asshats
argh
Quoted: Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he's in line to return to public service.
ShareViewed: 5 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2007 | president, victoria woodhull, history
I never learned about this in school
Quoted: On the eve of Hillary Clinton's landmark run for the Presidency, now would be a good time to remember Victoria Woodhull, the first woman ever to run for President.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | politics, president, political quiz
Pretty slick political quiz - it lets you weight the issues you deem to be the most important, which in my opinion increases its accuracy by a lot. Unsuprisingly, my #1 was Ron Paul at 72%, probably because I heavily weighted 'Trade and Economics' and 'Taxes and Budget'
ShareViewed: 18 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 23 2007 | politics, facebook, president, satire
Mmmmm 21st century satire
Quoted: Rudy Giuliani is wondering how he can fit 9/11 into a speech about agriculture policy.
ShareViewed: 19 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - May 22 2007 | president, arkansas, Jimmy Carter
What a pussy. It has been the worst in history! Not really a suprise though, it is Carter
Quoted: Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday his remarks were "careless or misinterpreted" when he said the Bush administration has been the "worst in history" for its impact around the world.
- akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - May 11 2007 | united states, president, iraq, vote
Never heard of this guy, I guess he did pretty well in the debates
Quoted: In 1988, Paul won the nomination of the Libertarian Party for the U.S. Presidency. He placed third in the popular vote (with 431,750 votes - 0.47%),
Quoted: He is the only 2008 Republican presidential candidate to have voted against the Iraq War.
ShareViewed: 2 Times
- laurel - Jun 23 2008
You must be Matthew's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I need to start using the word unilateral more.
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