When it comes to Social Security (and a lot of other issues), one can trust Obama as far as he can be picked up and thrown.
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The Bank of America has shed or will shed some 30,000 positions, while Obama is trotting around the country trying to sell the public on his Republican-style "job creation" initiative which will do NOTHING to create demand.
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Michael Lind discusses the decline of American foreign policy. The ruinous economic policies of offshoring jobs to other countries to make items for AMERICAN consumption and the tendency of this country to be involved in ever more expensive and fruitless wars are key to America's decline.
The decline in nation-states is most worrying because it appears countries will be merely tools of the international capitalists and their neoliberal minions.
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Nevada's Brian Sandoval continues to make an ass of himself.
It makes one almost nostalgic for former governor Gibbons.
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