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No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: Patty Murray, Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Fiscal Cliff
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Farming: Enough fiddling around
Contrary to rumor, Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. He couldn’t have; fiddles did not exist in first century Rome. Far more likely, however, is that Nero lit the fire that burned nearly one-third of the city in 64 AD because he wanted to...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Government Debt, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Credit and Debt
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Larry Wellborn: Scaling back on postal services
The Postal Service has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. The Postal Service has lost billions of dollars while losing market share to electronic forms of communication. But this is not entirely the fault of the Post Office or the...Tags: Prices, Mail Order Industry, Consumers, Employees, Consumer Confidence
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Rawlings-Blake's budget includes new taxes, raises
Baltimore residents would have to pay more to grab a cab. They would be hit with an additional fee in their water bills. And they would have 300 fewer firefighters on the payroll. But they also would have lower property taxes, better recreation centers...
Tags: Government, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Advertising, Employees, Pension and Welfare
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Fed stands by stimulus, sees stronger US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve isn't yet convinced that the U.S. economy's growth can accelerate without the Fed's drive to keep borrowing costs at record lows. It wants to see sustained improvement. That was the message Fed officials...
Tags: Employment, Cyprus, Prices, Ben Bernanke, Washington, DC
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The 1% aren't like the rest of us
Over the last two years, President Obama and Congress have put the country on track to reduce projected federal budget deficits by nearly $4 trillion. Yet when that process began, in early 2011, only about 12% of Americans in Gallup polls cited federal...
Tags: Government, Government Debt, Social Sciences, National Government, Vanderbilt University
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Lawmakers pessimistic about budget deal
South Bend TribuneThough not set to take effect until Friday, the automatic cuts to defense and domestic spending known as the sequester, negotiated back in 2011 as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, already are having an effect on the economy and national security,...Tags: Employment, Defense, Children's Health, Joe Donnelly, John Boehner
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LIVE VERDICTS: Bell council members guilty of corruption
L.A. NOWBell corruption trial verdicts: Here is live coverage of the Bell corruption trial verdicts. The Times will update the verdicts as they are read:... -
Our biggest problem is not deficits
"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Barack Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly....
Tags: Government, Productivity, National Government, Paul Ryan, Republican Party
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Obama's economic policies will destroy the country
Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...Tags: Harry Reid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Ryan
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Sequestration question
Question: I hear a lot of talk about cutting the federal deficit and something called sequestration. What is sequestration? Answer: Sequester means to isolate somebody. For example, sometimes a judge will order that a jury be sequestered so they're...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Christianity, Politics, Government Debt, Religion and Belief
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Applications for US jobless aid reach 5-year low
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment aid last week, reducing the average number of weekly applications last month to a five-year low. The drop shows that fewer layoffs are strengthening the job market. The Labor Department said...
Tags: Employment, Washington, DC, Services and Shopping, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs
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