[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Wrong Kind of Box Fan
- [There, I Fixed It - Epic Kludge Photos]
[Woooow. Wow. -L]
- Lands of Ice and Ire – NYTimes.com
- [Paul Krugman]
…while the IMF is demanding that Ireland cut minimum wages and reduce unemployment benefits, its mission to Iceland praised the “focus on preserving Iceland’s valued Nordic social welfare model.”
What’s going on here? In a nutshell, Ireland has been orthodox and responsible — guaranteeing all debts, engaging in savage austerity to try to pay for the cost of those guarantees, and, of course, staying on the euro. Iceland has been heterodox: capital controls, large devaluation, and a lot of debt restructuring …
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- Poll: Republicans Want Anti-HCR GOPers To Just Say No To Gov’t Health Care | TPMDC
- Overall, the poll shows the electorate is not interested in paying for health care benefits for politicians who opposed government-funded health care on the campaign trail. Just 33% said anti- health care politicians should take their government benefits, while 53% said they should burn their government care cards.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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