davidwarrenonline.com - 5/30/2009
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The figure of $1.4 million, for the amount of the taxpayers' money that will be spent on saving each job at General Motors and Chrysler, has now appeared in the media. I have no idea whether it is accurate; more fundamentally, no idea how anyone could arrive at a plausible final reckoning, at ...
news.yahoo.com - 6/2/2009
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 6/3/2009
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org —
Just like last year, it seems that the
federal Highway Trust Fund is going broke : The...
federal Highway Trust Fund will run out of cash this summer, marking the second year in a row that gasoline tax revenues have failed to meet prior projections ...
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Highway Trust Fund Going Broke…Again
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'One of the proofs that Canadians are indeed rather stupid, is that we will stand for this sort of thing'
All —
David Warren
writes:
...people who themselves face penury in old age, will agree to have their pockets picked to cover $70-an-hour
auto-workers. And then actually vote at the next election for the politicians who robbed them.
Weds. morning links
Maggie's Farm —
... the tractor:
How deeply will the O grovel? Related: Romney roasts the O's posture of apology
How GM lost its way. Ingrassia Related: Brooks on The Quagmire Ahead
The Dems are the Party of Hate. Driscoll
I survived two years of Teach for America. Sex in the stairwells
How Brit hospitals try to keep their stats good
David Warren: We Canadians are stupid
Massive estimates of death are in vogue ...
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