New Measures Needed to Help Workers SOURCE: AP/Kathy Willens John Kasyanenko, right, of Express Employment Professionals gives his business card to a woman seeking work at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com in New York on November 12, 2008. Last month, businesses slashed 533,000 jobs, the largest monthly loss in 34 years. By David Madland [...]
Archive for December 5th, 2008
5 Dec
Bail Out Car Buyers?
by Daniel J. Ikenson Cato Daily Commentary A bailout for Detroit would be unfair to taxpayers as well as to the firms in the industry that don’t receive subsidies, and it would distort market signals and incentivize inefficient, unproductive activities at a time when the economy can least afford it. Beyond those principled objections, there [...]
5 Dec
Bush Economy Continues Tanking
Center for American Progress New Measures Needed to Help Workers SOURCE: AP/Kathy Willens John Kasyanenko, right, of Express Employment Professionals gives his business card to a woman seeking work at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com in New York on November 12, 2008. Last month, businesses slashed 533,000 jobs, the largest monthly loss in 34 [...]
5 Dec
AARP’S STEALTH FEES OFTEN STING SENIORS WITH COSTLIER INSURANCE
By Gary Cohn and Darrell Preston Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Arthur Laupus joined AARP because he thought the nonprofit senior-citizen-advocacy group would make his retirement years easier. He signed up for an auto insurance policy endorsed by AARP, believing the advertising that said he would save money. He didn’t. When Laupus, 71, compared his car [...]
5 Dec
You Mean We Can Talk Back?
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, December 4, 2008 Sometimes, the change is enough to make your head spin. This is one of those moments. Here’s the status quo: A president who has overt contempt for public opinion, who shields himself from opposing views and whose idea of White House Web site interactivity is [...]
5 Dec
Oogedy-Boogedy in the Bloxicon
By Kathleen Parker Friday, December 5, 2008; 12:00 AM When it comes to irresistible words, “oogedy-boogedy” has few peers. In the several days since I first used the term in a column describing the Republican Party’s “religious” problem, oogedy-boogedy seems to have entered the bloxicon. (New word invented right here, meaning: the blogosphere’s lexicon.) Google [...]
5 Dec
In Mumbai This Time
By Michael Gerson Friday, December 5, 2008 The Washington Post The attacks have come like the steady rhythm of a clock — 171 dead in Mumbai. Tick. Fifty-two dead in the London bombings. Tock. One hundred ninety-one dead in the Madrid train attacks. Tick. Two hundred two in Bali, and 2,973 in New York, Virginia [...]
5 Dec
Regret-Me-Not
By Eugene Robinson Friday, December 5, 2008 The Washington Post Remember that long-ago news conference when George W. Bush couldn’t think of any mistakes he had made? Unbelievably, he still can’t. When ABC’s Charles Gibson, interviewing Bush at Camp David, asked the president what one “do-over” he’d like to have, this was Bush’s reply: “I [...]
5 Dec
Team of Heavyweights
By Henry A. Kissinger Friday, December 5, 2008 The Washington Post President-elect Barack Obama has appointed an extraordinary team for national security policy. On its face, it violates certain maxims of conventional wisdom: that appointing to the Cabinet individuals with an autonomous constituency, and who therefore are difficult to fire, circumscribes presidential control; that appointing [...]
5 Dec
Michael Moore: Save the Auto Industry and Kick Its CEOs to the Curb
By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. Posted December 5, 2008. These auto execs don’t deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet. I drive an American car. It’s a Chrysler. That’s not an endorsement. It’s more like a cry for pity. And [...]
5 Dec
Bill Gates Urges Obama to Increase Spending
Bill Gates delivers remarks during a visit to George Washington University today. (Bill O’leary – The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 4, 2008; Page A17 The world’s richest technology entrepreneur — and leading philanthropist — came to Washington yesterday with a simple message for President-elect Barack Obama: Increase [...]
