Posts Tagged ‘dollar’
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Confidence Game
Posted on May 10, 2011
Politics is essentially a game of confidence. You vote for a candidate because you have confidence that that candidate can get the job done. Or you vote for a candidate...
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Labor Strikes Back
Posted on April 22, 2011
Boeing decided to move one of its manufacturing plants to South Carolina. They have already hired a thousand new workers. The new plant is close to completion. The planes were...
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Medicare Commission
Posted on April 20, 2011
I love that commercial where a bunch of small business executives are sitting around the table trying to find budget cuts, when the CEO says, “we aren’t leaving until we...
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Shutdown Politics
Posted on April 8, 2011
I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang...
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Act Like a Grown-Up
Posted on April 6, 2011
Yesterday, President Obama said that Congressional leaders should act like “grown-ups.” Good advice. I wish he would follow it. According to the dictionary definition, a grown-up is a “a fully...
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