A good program, but I don't think Germany has the level of crime/corruption/scams that the US does, and it has a government that can do a lot more than write checks, start wars and argue over nonsense and hot button issues.
Germany also doesn't have the Republican Party. If health care reform is Hitler-like socialism, its anyone's guess what paying people to shorten their work week would be to the party of Limbaugh.
]]>The Bush administration either exacerbated or initiated these problems while at the same time either outsourcing and exploiting the government or shutting it down on the assumption that some sort of magic (or perhaps god) would provide effective governance, even as they stole the government blind.
Bob Gates is at the Pentagon not Bill.
Obama is governing a country where half or more of the population think Bush protected us (notwithstanding 9/11, and 2 unfinished wars) and where irresponsible self-aggrandizing scam artists like Palin, Limbaugh and Liz Cheney are considered fountains of wisdom and great national leaders. It will clearly be an uphill slog to move this nation forward.
]]>This is a man who some at TPM still believe was a wise choice for President both in 2000, and 2004, and 2008 if he was allowed to run.
]]>(1) the education/k-12 school tuition voucher
(2) the family health care voucher
(3) the medicare/medicaid voucher
Bush assured the families of war veterans that he wouldn't sell out "their loved ones for the sake of pure politics."
]]>Do you have wimpoid tissue for brains Vlazio?
]]>This government takeover of the Internet will stifle innovation, in turn slowing our economic turnaround and further depressing an already anemic job market.
...as if keeping the internet the way it is, is a takeover, and as if Mr. "Our economy is fundamentally strong' beer heiress marrying John McCain knows jackshit about the economy.
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