Wednesday, July 27, 2011

NY Times multimillionaire Tom Friedman compares Tea Party to Hezbollah, he offers no plan to raise US GDP from 1.3, just tax dwindling middle class

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Tom, even a NY Times/CBS News poll says most agree with Tea Party-even democrats!
4/21/11, "The opposition by Tea Party supporters to raising the level of debt the nation can legally carry was shared by nearly two-thirds of poll respondents,
Friedman, being rich, completely ignores taxes already added to the dwindling middle class and hysterically demands to flog the exhausted horses. "Every 50-cent jump in the cost of gasoline takes $70 billion out of the U.S. economy over the course of a year."... Friedman harkens to his adored Communist Chinese style "public-private partnerships" that Obama has done his best to emulate. Making it even more impossible for small business to survive. Only half the country pays federal income tax but that number will decrease as more of the middle class is excluded from the work force. Abandoned and foreclosed homes will increase in number. Friedman viciously attacks the middle class at their lowest point in 70 years and possibly ever. The "Terrorist" Tea Party he cites happens to be middle class people who have become wise to "public-private" rackets Friedman, Immelt and others favor and which are forcing Americans into poverty and misery.

7/26/11, "Can’t We Do This Right?" Tom Friedman, NY Times columnist

"Alas, that is the Tea Party. It is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations. If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission."...

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4/28/11,
US GDP 1.8. Goldman Sachs predicts 1.5 for second quarter 2011.

7/16/11, "Panic at the White House? Gloomy Goldman Sachs sees high unemployment, possible recession," Reuters, J.Pethokoukis

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Tom Friedman is rich, doesn't know and doesn't care about what happens to people who live modestly and count every penny:

"Every 50-cent jump in the cost of gasoline takes $70 billion out of the U.S. economy over the course of a year."... ====================

9/8/09, "Our One-Party Democracy," Tom Friedman, NY Times columnist

"One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to
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9/22/09, GE Chairman Immelt: "The interaction between government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key partner […] I think this environment presents an
  • opportunity of a lifetime."...
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Tom, do you call Jerry Della Femina a Hezbollah terrorist too? He was a happy democrat but sold everything he had as soon as he realized Obama would be president:

4/20/11, "Jerry’s Ink: Della Femina Restaurant Is Sold," LongIslandPress.com

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7/23/11, "Republicans, Zealots and Our Security," Nicholas Kristof, NY Times Op-Ed Columnist

NY Times columnist compares GOP to Al Qaeda.

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4/21/11, "Nation’s Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows," NY Times, J. Rutenberg, M. T. Brenan

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4/13/11, "More Americans leaving the workforce," USA Today, Dennis Cauchon

"The share of the population that is working fell to its lowest level last year since women started entering the workforce in large numbers three decades ago, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Only 45.4% of Americans had jobs in 2010, the lowest rate since 1983 and down from a peak of 49.3% in 2000. Last year, just 66.8% of men had jobs,
  • the lowest on record.

The bad economy, an aging population and a plateau in women working are contributing to changes that pose serious challenges for

  • financing the nation’s social programs."...
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4/7/10, "Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax," AP

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5/26/11, "Report: Sales of foreclosed homes fell in 1Q," AP

"For bank-owned properties alone, that amounts to a 2-year supply."...(para. 11)

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