Budgetary matters
We have before the Congress a budget proposed by President Obama that makes few people happy. There is general consensus that we should cut spending. There is no such consensus about raising taxes. The Republicans want to preserve tax cuts for the rich. Some in the Democratic Party are willing to preserve those tax cuts.
So, like people everywhere who try to balance their checkbooks, let us see what we could do to right these matters.
1. Cut…
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"I’m mad as hell. And I’m not going to take it anymore!"
-Newsman Howard Beale, "Network," 1976
In Paddy Chayevsky’s 1976 movie "Network," news anchor Howard Beale breaks down on the air, calls for his viewer audience to get up, toss open a window, and yell, "I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore." join him in an expression of general anger with society, the world,…
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