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Daily Archive for November 16th, 2012

First They Came for the 1%

Here is AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka: In his speech Thursday, Trumka declares that it’s “time to protect” those very programs while raising taxes for the “richest 2 percent.” In any event, I don’t see what Social Security and Medicare have to do with union work issues? What does taxing the rich have to do with […]

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At the time of this writing (a week prior to publication) the total death toll from Sandy is 110. I have always found these figures hard to comprehend, because taken literally one would think that the deaths are caused by people being swept up in 110mph winds, but that is not typically what happens. We […]

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