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Year: 2011

Let’s Look at the bad Guys

Posted on August 17, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

In an earlier blog we spoke a lot about Barak Obama and whether or not he was the right guy for the job. Now, with the Republican candidates starting to line up to try and take Obama’s job we’re going to take

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Posted in Politics Tagged Bachmann, Huntzman, Perry

Save the Children!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The number of children living in poverty in the United Sates has increased by four million since 2000 The number of homeless children increased 41% between 2007 & 2009 In 2009 an average of 15.6 million children received food stamps monthly, an

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Posted in Politics Tagged infrastructure, Mile Pence, Teabaggers

Who Pays the Piper

Posted on August 7, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

America has seen two generations of great billionaires. The first was exemplified by Andrew Carnegie and the robber barons of the post civil war era. They were avaricious, imperious and dictatorial but they created a great industrial machine on which the dominance

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Posted in Social Commentary Tagged Jamie Dimon, Stephen Schwartzman, The Blackstone Group

Bits & Pieces #14

Posted on August 4, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

I keep hearing people say that TARP and the Stimulus were failures. Only if you’re a Republican or someone too dumb to understand what actually happened with them. TARP was probably one of the best ideas the Bush administration ever came up

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Posted in Politics

Are We That Bad Off?

Posted on July 31, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The Democrats and Republicans are gong at each other tooth and nail, battling over raising the debt limit and using that fight to advance their agendas. The Democrats want to create employment and maintain as many of our social services as possible.

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Posted in Politics Tagged Budget Deficit, debt ceiling

The End of the Game

Posted on July 28, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The game is almost over. The politicians have now wasted months agonizing over the debt ceiling, a period of time during which, a bleeding nation has gone into intensive care without the attention of the doctors. Nothing has been done about the

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Posted in Politics

Vote for the Country – or Vote Against It.

Posted on July 24, 2011July 24, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

If you aren’t disgusted by the gyrations of our government over the debt ceiling then you aren’t paying attention. A bunch of Tea Party and ultra conservative members of the house, are holding the rest of the United States Government hostage in

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Posted in Politics Tagged debt ceiling, deficit

Wither the Middle East?

Posted on July 21, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

I’ve tried to stay away from this because to cover it in anything smaller than a book seems to give most of it short shrift but then I got to feeling that I’ve avoided it too long so here’s the Curmudgeon’s take

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Posted in Politics Tagged oil

Bits & Pieces #13

Posted on July 17, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Take way the Republican’s desire to live in 1776 and there are a number of things that can be done by them, with the cooperation of the Democrats to put this country back on its feet and make this country the world

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Posted in Politics Tagged Chris Hughs, David Frum, Fareed Zakaria

The Government is Sick

Posted on July 15, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The question was; “Are you better off now than when Obama took office?”  44% said no while 34% said yes. This seems like a reasonable total considering the current situation but it’s the wrong question or at least it’s only the question

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Posted in Politics Tagged Debt Limit, deficit, McConnell, Tea Party

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