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Steve King To Conservatives: 'Implode' IRS Offices | TPM LiveWire - 0 views

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Steve King suggestion IRS implosion

shared by Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • King's comments weren't recorded, but a staffer for Media Matters, who heard the comments, provided TPMmuckraker with an account. The staffer, who requested anonymity because she's not a communications specialist, said that King, an extreme right-winger with a reputation for eyebrow-raising rhetoric, appeared as a surprise guest speaker on an immigration panel at the conservative conference. During his closing remarks, King veered into a complaint about high taxes, and said he could "empathize" with the man who flew a plane into an IRS building last week. During the question and answer session, the Media Matters staffer asked King to clarify his comment, reminding him of his sworn duty to protect the American people from all sworn enemies, foreign and domestic. In response, said the staffer, King gave a long and convoluted answer about having been personally audited by the IRS, and ended by saying he intended to hold a fundraiser to help people "implode" their local IRS office.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10
     
    Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could "empathize" with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin, and encouraged his listeners to "implode" other IRS offices, according to a witness.
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The Myth of 'American Exceptionalism' Implodes | CommonDreams.org - 0 views

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The Myth of 'American Exceptionalism' Implodes | CommonDreams.org

shared by thinkahol * on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 20 Jan 11
     
    One aspect of "American exceptionalism" was always economic. US workers, so the story went, enjoyed a rising level of real wages that afforded their families a rising standard of living. Ever harder work paid off in rising consumption. The rich got richer faster than the middle and poor, but almost no one got poorer. Nearly all citizens felt "middle class". A profitable US capitalism kept running ahead of labor supply. So, it kept raising wages to attract waves of immigration and to retain employees, across the 19th century until the 1970s.
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Robert Scheer: One Betrayal Too Many - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig - 0 views

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Robert Scheer: One Betrayal Too Many - Scheer's Columns Truthdig

shared by thinkahol * on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 17 Sep 11
     
    It's getting too late to give President Barack Obama a pass on the economy. Sure, he inherited an enormous mess from George W., who whistled "Dixie" while the banking system imploded. But it's time for Democrats to admit that their guy bears considerable responsibility for not turning things around. 
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HOLY BAILOUT - Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of Ameri... - 0 views

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HOLY BAILOUT - Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank America's Derivatives Trades Home The Daily Bail

shared by thinkahol * on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 19 Oct 11
     
    This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning.  Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC. What this means for you is that when Europe finally implodes and banks fail, U.S. taxpayers will hold the bag for trillions in CDS insurance contracts sold by Bank of America and JP Morgan.  Even worse, the total exposure is unknown because Wall Street successfully lobbied during Dodd-Frank passage so that no central exchange would exist keeping track of net derivative exposure.
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