The national debt as public utility

While Maven is spiffing up her new digs, she’s been emailing links to interesting articles. Her latest is to this Truthout article about our national debt and deficit.  Cheney was right, national deficits don’t matter. Neither does national debt if it is incurred properly. Keep in mind that the government is not like a family [...]

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Same story here

Just substitute NV for PA PA voter: I just want you to balance the budget by leaving my taxes alone and cutting that guy’s services over there. Do it, or I’ll vote for someone else.

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What I Fear vs What I Hope

What I fear will happen: Yes, yes, however the process shakes out to replace putative senator Dean Heller in CD2, the larger Angle’s role, the better the chance for some Republican-lite Nevada-style Democrat to win that seat. What I would like to see: Mainstream Republicanism is now defined by the vote to kill Medicare. Greg [...]

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“They don’t get it. We don’t care.”

“They don’t get it. We don’t care,” Assemblyman Mark Sherwood, R-Henderson, This sums up the Republican Party. In Nevada and nationwide. They would rather gut public education, starve poor people, let polluters poison our water and air, cut our wages, slash our jobs, outsource the rest of them, and wipe out any regulatory agency looking [...]

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Hey you 20 and 30-somethings!

Yeah, you!  I’m talking to those of you who’ve swallowed the lie that you “will never see a dime of Social Security” and are sitting on your hands instead of doing everything you can to protect it. You need to take a second and listen up. When your next door neighbor or your co-worker or [...]

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Head in the sand

Oh, it’s not that I’m not reading, and sighing . . . But I just needed a break. So this weekend we dumped e-waste at the parking lot that used to be the Parklane Mall and ate tacos at the Latino Democratic Coalition Taco Fiesta. Then I did laundry and planted the garden and cooked dinner and [...]

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Reno e-Waste Collection Event this Saturday

It’s spring, and that means spring cleaning. Lightening the load. Cleaning out closets. Easy to say, not so easy to make happen. You see, I’m married to a computer & electronics geek. Believe me, it definitely has it’s upside. He tends the network and makes sure we are always up-to-date on all things computer and [...]

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Not buying it

He’s worried about the Ethics Committee? Puhleeze. What a bunch of horseshit. Methinks the GOP got a good look at some polling numbers for Dean Heller after his “I wanna kill Medicare” vote  and thought they’d give him a leg up.

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Seriously?

Who ARE these people? Aha.

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If you give him your money and your vote, why shouldn’t he laugh at you?

They PAID to protest him. A lot. Jeebus on a Triscuit. NPR’s Ari Shapiro reports that “a few minutes into Mr. Obama’s comments, a woman stood up and said, ‘We wrote a song for you, Mr. President.’ Then the table began to sing.” Their lyrics, which one member of the group gave to reporters, refer to [...]

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