Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.
There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
For decades the G. O. P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
There is always the other side, always.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.
I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid. ” “You act stupid. ” “Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid. ” “It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.