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Tax credits to buy new cars didn't stimulate the economy; tax credits to buy new homes didn't help either. The payroll tax cuts failed to spur employment and the President's jobs bill which was 98 percent tax cuts hasn't stimulated employment either. Neither has calling on corporate America to help, "And finally, we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Winston Churchill

A generation of American children has never known a time of peace, they have never known a time of tranquility or security in their lives. They have grown up with lay offs and computers, cell phones, video games and store closings. One million school aged children are homeless on any given night in America while even the fortunate among them now question the wisdom of going to college in a negative growth society.

It is a tipping point and it is crossing the Rubicon as the unsustainable model of predatory capitalism and globalism are running headlong into financial reality. The rich and the powerful have decided that rather than pay taxes or legislate from a position of patriotism and fairness, they will instead sacrifice the weakest the poorest and the neediest and take this country into the jaws of disaster. They will walk the sacrificial lambs down the road to oblivion soothed with the warm words of fantasy, calming and soothing. "Payrolls Rise, Jobless Rate Falls, Concerns Ease"

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take "good", for instance. If you have a word like "good", what need is there for a word like "bad"? "Ungood" will do just as well -- better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of "good", what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like "excellent" and "splendid" and all the rest of them? "Plusgood" covers the meaning, or "doubleplusgood" if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already. but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words -- in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?"
George Orwell

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I who am I? Born at the pinnacle of American prosperity to parents raised during the last great depression. I was the youngest child of the youngest children born almost between the generations and that in fact clouds and obscures who it is that (more...)
 

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