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mahablog.com - 3/31/2009
GM Engine Overhaul
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Never fear for Rick Wagoner. He’s walking away from GM with a $23 million pension . It’s the rank-and-file GM worker who is more likely to suffer. Stupid Alert: David Brooks today argues that ...
Stupid, Greedy, and/or Delusional
mahablog.com - 4/3/2009
Stupid, Greedy, and/or Delusional
— mahablog.com — Yesterday the House and Senate passed budget bills with no Republican votes whatsoever. Yet even without the... GOP the bill passed the House with the biggest majority for a budget in 12 years. Carl Hulse writes for the New York Times , Democrats said the two budgets, which will have to be ... (more) Stupid, Greedy, and/or Delusional

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Punish The Monkey
driftglass.blogspot.com - 4/6/2009
Punish The Monkey
— driftglass.blogspot.com — And let the organ grinder go. In his Friday column about “What happened to the global economy?”... , David Fucking Brooks spends 800 words trying to parse out whether the collapse of the world financial markets was caused by greedy fuckers who got ... (more) Punish The Monkey

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