Conservatives are forever saying that we must cut taxes on the rich in order to spur investment and create jobs. Despite the obvious recent history that should be evidence enough of the fallacy of that theory, they persist. So I’m going to take another approach. I’m going to use a 24 month period of time …
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“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” ~ Benjamin Franklin – At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. It’s a good thing that America’s founding fathers like Dr. Franklin understood that in order to survive, then thrive, the citizens of the new nation had to depend …
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For those of us that haven’t already voted, we have a clear and fundamental choice to make on November 2, 2010 when we step into the voting booth. Do we want a country that turns it’s back on the elderly, disabled, sick, poor, unemployed and our Veterans? Do we want a country where the top …
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