Politics
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As accusation and counter-accusation fly around during the election season few places–excepting the recent, tragic embassy attacks–garner any more attention than taxes. Should we raise taxes on the rich and cut taxes on the middle class? What about that phantom 50% who, supposedly, do not pay any taxes at all? Should we extend the Bush tax cuts?? The Democratic Party wants to raise taxes on the “wealthiest Americans,”...
Last week Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announced a positive outlook for yet another round of quantitative easing (commonly abbreviated QE3 since it is the third round). According to a report from Rueters, The euro slipped against the dollar on Monday but was still close to a near four-month high hit on Friday when disappointing U.S. jobs data fanned speculation the Federal Reserve may launch more monetary stimulus...
In an August 31, 2012 piece entitled, “Are Entitlements Corrupting Us? Yes, American Character Is at Stake,” Wall Street Journal essayist Nicholas Eberstadt charges the greatest contributors to the burgeoning entitlement crash in the American economy are the ones who rail against it the most and loudest: Republicans. We are heading in a direction which is uncharted in our history of governance. He writes, A half-century of unfettered...
I have known Jay Sanders since he was in elementary school, I would guess. He has grown into a thoughtful and faithful pastor, with a great wife and two cool kids. If you do not read his blog, Pastoral Ramblings, every day it is to your disadvantage. Jay is always insightful, biblically sound, and usually hilarious. It is linked in his bio below. I knew Jay had supported...
Beth Duren Lancaster has been interested in political conversation since a very early age. At the tender age of 15 or 16 she took a writer to task in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution for dissing young people for perceived disinterest in the political system. Her letter to the editor was published. I think we still have it in a scrapbook somewhere. I think she gets her interest in politics...
