Archive for the ‘Bad Decisions’ Category
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Debt and Taxes
Posted on June 27, 2011
Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes. These days, the same could probably be said for debt and...
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Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina
Posted on June 24, 2011
Eric Cantor pulled out of the Vice President’s debt talks the other day, convinced that the Democrats were leading him down a politically unsustainable path. Republicans don’t think revenues are...
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The Real Scandal
Posted on June 17, 2011
I heard Congressman Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on television this morning talking about the real scandal. His point was that the real scandal wasn’t...
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Weiner’s Decline and Fall
Posted on June 14, 2011
I actually thought he would survive. When I first heard the allegations against Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), I assumed he would stick it out and stay in Congress. After all, this...
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Short Term, Long Term
Posted on June 8, 2011
In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse. In the short term, it...
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