The Bush employment paradox

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 8:55 AM PST

2006/11/03 · 08:55

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released yet another confusing employment report. The payroll survey of employers showed job growth of 92,000 jobs last month. That figure can be considered tepid at best (economists expected 123,000). Yet the household survey showed the unemployment rate went down. How can that be? Read More

The truth about the deficit.

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Wednesday October 11, 2006 · 9:26 AM PDT

2006/10/11 · 09:26

Well, Bush is on the tube right now, lying as usual. He claimed that we have cut the budget deficit in half, 3 years ahead of schedule. Of course, from a logical standpoint, that is a pretty meaningless statement, and certainly nothing to celebrate. Regardless, it is pretty simple to cut the budget deficit in half, when you simply move a bunch of spending "off-budget". Moreover, a large part of that debt reduction, has come from increased borrowing from the social security trust fund. Read More

Your Iraqi reconstruction dollars at work

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Friday July 15, 2005 · 11:24 AM PDT

2005/07/15 · 11:24

In a recent article published by IWPR, the Iraqi Transportation Minister admits that Transport Ministry officials have stolen everything from bed sheets to buses and sold them on the black market. They have paid out tens of millions in US dollars to cronies for train station waiting rooms that were never built. According to the article, the ministry even spent $300 million for an aircraft that was worth less than a quarter of that amount, with officials suspected of pocketing the difference ($225 million).
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Did Robert Novak Instigate Daley's Attack on Durbin?

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Monday July 04, 2005 · 9:52 AM PDT

2005/07/04 · 09:52

Yesterday, Senator Richard Durbin, the senior Senator from Illinois, appeared on a local PBS show, where he implied that it was Robert Novak who actually provoked Chicago Mayor Richard Daley into publicly making disparaging comments about Durbin's infamous Guantanamo statement. Read More

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