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    Economists say income gap hurts U.S. economy (2)

    This thread was split automatically after 1000 replies and this thread has been automatically created. The old thread automatically closed is here: "Economists say income gap hurts U.S. economy"
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    Hobby Lobby...what do you make of this?

    Here is the Hobby Lobby statement outlining their principles: We're Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I've always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And...
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    Looks like Obamacare will hit the 7 million mark

    ...or at least come close. ...and with this:"If getting health coverage for the uninsured is the primary goal of Obamacare, then New York and Kentucky seem to be doing more than their fair share of that work. In Kentucky, 75 percent of the nearly 65,000 people who enrolled in private...
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    Paul Ryan: Free Lunch Means Poor Families Don't Care For Their Kids

    He (Ryan) then told a story of a “young boy from a very poor family” who received free lunches at school “from a government program.” “He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan insisted. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.” “He wanted one, he said, because he...
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    Business Insider; "WHY THE ECONOMY SUCKS"

    "Because American Companies And Their Owners Are Greedier Now Than At Any Time In History"1) Corporate profit margins just hit another all-time high. Companies are making more per dollar of sales than they ever have before. (Some people are still blaming economic weakness on "too much...
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    Dictator for a day: How would you make Government better?

    You have now been vaulted to Dictator of these United States of America, Kim Jong-un on steroids; as Dictator what would you do to make this Government work better? What would be the expected gains; what would be the possible draw backs?
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    The new Republican minority outreach program...

    ...Ohio style. "56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population." So, now today: "Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Tuesday he is cutting early voting on Sundays and weekday evenings, dealing...
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    And the GOP wonders why people think they are racist

    This is from the Gov Scott Walker investigation where Journalist finally got access to the secret emails that flowed through a secret email system set up by the Walker admin. It is from his former Cheif of Staff and circulated around this staff. I would paste it, but is just to vile. It is...
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    Assuming Hillary runs....

    ....and yes, if she does she will win...but if she runs can Bill hold some kind of cabinet capacity?
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    Republican Insiders to Tea Party: You're Not Helping Us

    "For Democrats, the tea party is the gift that keeps on giving. For Republicans, the group is something akin to a flesh-eating virus that threatens to chomp away at the GOP. The civil war between establishment and tea-party Republicans intensified this week when House Speaker John Boehner...
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    Oklahoma Republican’s bill would block same-sex marriage by stopping ALL marriages

    "OKLAHOMA CITY -State lawmakers are considering throwing out marriage in Oklahoma. The idea stems from a bill filed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Edmond). Turner says it's an attempt to keep same-sex marriage illegal in Oklahoma while satisfying the U.S. Constitution. Critics are calling it a political...
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    Republican Party to vote for repeal of U.S. anti-tax dodging law

    ...must be their new economic recovery plan. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party is expected to approve a resolution this week, calling for repeal of an Obama administration law that is designed to crack down on offshore tax dodging. In what would be the party's first appeal to scrap...
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    A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News

    "Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual...
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    THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: "Compromise: Not a 4-Letter"

    "FORMER SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON likes to say that if you can’t learn to compromise on issues without compromising yourself, you should not be in Congress, be in business or get married. It is amazing how many people violate that rule, but especially in Congress and especially among the Tea...
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    Economists say income gap hurts U.S. economy

    ...in other related news, 12pm is still noon. "WASHINGTON —The growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn't bad just for individuals. It's hurting the U.S. economy. So say a majority of more than three dozen economists surveyed last week by The Associated Press. Their...
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    Jesus didn't worship the Father

    ...that is the position of some Christians I have had discussions with. Is that the prevailing view in Chrisitanity? Because I see in the NT it is quite apparent he did. I am not quite sure why the position is taken? Anyone?
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    US sells last shares in GM, exits historic rescue

    ...so much for, how did the GOP put it, "...the road to Government socialism."The US Treasury sold its last shares in General Motors on Monday, ending the dramatic rescue of the auto giant at the height of the financial crisis five years ago. The Treasury took a loss of more that $10 billion...
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    Reading the Bible

    L. Michael White on the Apocalypse of John: """Because of intricate and unusual symbolic language, the Book of Revelation is hard for modern people to read. They are not used to this kind of literature. Not so for people in the ancient world who would have been more accustomed to the complex...
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    The Unprecedented—and Contemptible—Attempts to Sabotage Obamacare

    According to resident scholar, Norm Ornstein, at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. (yes, that conservative think tank).I am not the only one who has written about House and Senate Republicans' monomaniacal focus on sabotaging the implementation of...