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RS policies help fuel tax refund fraud, officials say
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/us/tax-refund-scam/index.html
A sad article indeed. The sums involved are HUGE and all of it a direct withdrawal from our (taxpayer) pockets. This is on par with medicare/medicaid fraud: billions of dollars. …
Senate mulls an express lane for IPOs
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/20/smallbusiness/ipo-bill/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
As if it wasn’t already easy enough for the oligarchy to rip off ordinary people, now we have legislation that will turn the clock all the way back to before the ’29 …
Another of those difficult-to-believe-we-are-that-collectively-stupid things…
Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-hidden-bailout-helping-wall-street-collect-your-rent-20120319
This sums it up:
…As one hedge fund analyst put it to me this morning: “Help inflate the bubble, create a foreclosure crisis, buy homes
Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/forget-the-money-follow-the-sacredness/
An interesting bit of a theme working out here, purely by accident…
OK, read the following and pick if you are Type A or Type 1…
Type A:
…“Once upon a time, the
These articles have a common tie (at least to me) so rather than post on each one I thought I would post them together. The first shows that our government culture has the potential to yank its head out of …
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
It is a long article, so for some of …
Outsourcing conservatism
Arizona’s new contraception law shows how the private sphere often leads the way for reactionary policies
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/15/outsourcing_conservatism/singleton/
What can’t be accomplished from within the government gets done anyway. Using the Constitution to shield un-Constitutional activities, picking and choosing …
Scott Turow on why we should fear Amazon
The feds might sue Apple and publishers over pricing. But a top author suggests the e-retailer’s playing monopoly
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/13/scott_turow_on_why_we_should_fear_amazon/singleton/
No upside comes without a downside, there are always losers to go with …
J.P. Morgan Chase’s Ugly Family Secrets Revealed
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/j-p-morgan-chases-ugly-family-secrets-revealed-20120313
If you have blood pressure problems you might not want to read the article above. It does, however, clearly outline the disparity in our so-called justice system where the oligarchy is totally …
Russia’s Pravada lambastes the US media for ignoring the ‘obvious’:
Arizona sheriff finds Obama presidential qualifications forged
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/07-03-2012/120708-arizona_sheriff_obama-0/
Quite an amazing intro for the Sheriff:
……Arpaio’s credentials include serving in the United States Army from 1950 to 1953, service as