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The Sun Belt Scam Culture

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - February 5, 2009 0

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 is of the national sort: drained stock portfolios, seized-up credit markets, fear itself. And any place so dependent on real […]

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Ending Culture Of Excess

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - February 5, 2009 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Bankers have never been much loved, but gollies, this Wall Street bunch seems hell-bent on being loathed. As a consequence of their avaricious grab for outrageous personal enrichment during the past decade, these arrogant titans of financial gimmickry have caused a vast economic collapse that is presently costing million of Americans their homes, jobs, pensions and dreams – while also bringing down the banks themselves. As you would expect, the Wall Streeters […]

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Stimulus Skeptics Wrong – Again

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - February 5, 2009 0

BY JOE CONASON Mythology is overshadowing history in the debate over President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the depressed economy. Excessive airtime is devoted to the prejudices of cable hosts and radio personalities who regurgitate ideas they barely understand [and who haven’t entertained an original thought since the Reagan era]. Urgent action that could prevent enormous suffering is delayed by all the same old agendas that have dominated Washington for the past three decades. So […]

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Trusting Tom Daschle?

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - February 3, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP Where did Tom Daschle get the idea that he didn’t have to pay his taxes? The question sets off wild mood swings about the man President Obama has picked to remake the American health-care system – his apology notwithstanding. On one hand, the former senator from South Dakota brims with smarts on reforming health care. On the other, his failure to pay at least $128,000 in back taxes and eagerness to make […]

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Stop Those Checks

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 30, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH This is the Republicans’ big contribution to our economic recovery: They want to make sure that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes using tax identification numbers don’t get a cent of their tax money back in the refunds enacted by Congress. Oh, yes, and they want rich people to get tax refunds. Anything else to contribute? Republicans, rejecting all pretense of putting country before party, much less trying to participate in the solution […]

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