To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Observercast

Taxpayers And Housing Need A Divorce

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BY FROMA HARROP Even though Las Vegas is full of never-sold and foreclosed-upon houses, a rumble of new home building has begun there. Similar trends are seen in other housing meltdown meccas: Phoenix, Florida and inland California. Awesome. Vegas has almost 10,000 empty new houses, and thousands of older ones go into foreclosure every month. […]

The Sun Belt Scam Culture

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BY FROMA HARROP Oh, it’s another sun-blessed, balmy day in Palm Beach County. Were it not for the foreclosures, collapse in tourism and Madoff scandal, all would seem perfect. Did I mention retailing? Dior on Worth Avenue vanished the day after Christmas. The Macy’s at the Palm Beach Mall closed several weeks later. Some distress […]

The Kochs And The Guv Stir Up A Hornet’s Nest

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Thank you, Scott Walker! And you, too, Charles and David Koch! Thanks for being so ham-handed in pushing your self-serving, virulently anti-union agenda on the schoolteachers, health care workers, park rangers and other public employees of Wisconsin. The Birchite billionaire Koch brothers and Walker, their gubernatorial hatchet man in the Badger State, […]

Koch Brothers Demand More Government Intervention And Taxes

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Hypothetical conundrums can provide some valuable learning experiences for students of corporate management and ethics, so let’s study one. Suppose you’re a corporate chieftain who’s an adamant acolyte of Ayn Randian, free-enterprise fundamentalism, despising government regulation, compulsory taxation and government intervention in the purity of the holy marketplace. But – whoopsie daisy […]

The Money Primary

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Will she or won’t she? She will. And by the time she does, she will have raised more money than any primary contender in history. Just a guess. In theory, under the new rules, the fact that Hillary Clinton has locked up 99% of the big Democratic money [OK, maybe just a […]