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Mourning in America
The Weekly Standard ^ | 6-27-11 | MATTHEW CONTINETTI

Posted on 06/20/2011 8:32:40 AM PDT by radioone

Trying to stay upbeat? Avoid the business section. Unemployment stands at 9.1 percent. Growth is narcoleptic. The housing market hasn’t hit bottom. Fears of a Greek default are roiling markets. The deficit is running more than a trillion dollars for the third year in a row and won’t be shrinking anytime soon. A U.S. fiscal crisis may be only a few years (or months) away. President Obama, meanwhile, seems to think our problems would be solved if only we banned ATMs and built solar-powered bullet trains. His “propellerheads”—Geithner, Bernanke, Sperling, et al.—are spinning to the ground. Alert the authorities: Stop these men before they stimulate again.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bernanke; economy; geithner; obama

1 posted on 06/20/2011 8:32:42 AM PDT by radioone
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Yet the NYSE is up about 50 points this morning. It defies logic


2 posted on 06/20/2011 8:36:22 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: radioone

Free money (0% interest from the feds) is being invested.


3 posted on 06/20/2011 9:11:54 AM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: radioone

4 posted on 06/20/2011 12:53:40 PM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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