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Jerks 2010: That’s all We Need

By alindsey3 on Monday, January 4th, 2010 | 2 Comments

“When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt. Republicans scoff at the “Jobs for Main Street Act” title that House Democrats put on [...]

No Joke, We’re broke

By alindsey3 on Friday, December 18th, 2009 | 10 Comments

by Art Lindsey III President Obama declared Wednesday night on ABC News that without healthcare reform the federal government would go bankrupt. “If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee: the people who are watching tonight, your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you. Potentially they’re going [...]

After “Teaching the GOP a lesson” in ’06, America is stuck Paying the Tuition

By alindsey3 on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | 11 Comments

So, here we are on the verge of a national health care system. It’s the subject that has dominated the news cycle and been at the heart of nearly every political debate in America since Barack Obama decided to make it the centerpiece of his 2008 presidential campaign. We’ve been preoccupied with the indications of [...]

Pfizer: Keeping your, er, “spirits” up

By Right Girl on Friday, May 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

This economy is hard. People are getting laid off every day. But pharmaceutical giant Pfizer wants to help raise your spirits. Ahem. Pfizer will provide more than 70 prescription drugs, from Lipitor to Viagra, at no cost to unemployed, uninsured Americans. People who lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been on Pfizer drugs for [...]

Analogy

By Right Girl on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | 7 Comments

I haven’t completely worked out the details on this yet, but hear me out: You get sick, maybe a throat infection. Nothing overly serious, but terribly, terribly uncomfortable. Your life is miserable. So you go running to the doctor who prescribes strong antibiotics. You take the antibiotics, the throat infection goes away. Yay. But there [...]