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No One is "Entitled" to Anything, but that's not the point ...
A great article I read in Newsweek, You Say You Want a Revolution,, compares the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street in that both extremes are shouting their disenfranchisement with government and demanding a reckoning. I disagree that Tea Partyists have any kind of workable answer but, yes, even I can realize that two such divergent groups have ( Read more... ) -
US Drops to 49th in the world for life expectancy; #s are really crappy for white Americans too
by John Aravosis (DC) on 10/11/2010 04:10:00 PM
Were number 49!
There's a myth that all these "bad" US numbers for life expectancy and such are really the result of America being a "diverse culture" - meaning, "it's all those minorities who aren't doing so well, while we white folks must be riding pretty darn high in the ( Read more... ) -
This recession's unemployment methods have been different:
Despite the truly horrible rises in unemployment over the past twelve months of the current recession, now at levels exceeding those accumulated during "average" post war slumps, and likely with many more months, perhaps even years, of job cutting to go, the U3 headline unemployment number would be far, far worse, if not for employers extending a ( Read more... )