Category Archives: Rich

Five More Years

August 17, 2012 – 12:43 pm

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been beleaguered by calls for the candidate to release his tax returns for the last ten years, especially from Senator Harry Reid, who has claimed the Romney paid no taxes for most of the last decade. The ex-governor of Massachusetts has given out his 2010 information, which shows that he […]

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Socialism Not Allowed In The USA

July 3, 2012 – 10:40 pm
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Abject Poverty

June 25, 2012 – 3:46 am

The Industrial revolution bestowed great wealth on capitalists in the United Kingdom, but the accumulation of wealth resulted in up to one third of the British labor force living in abject poverty. Enfranchised voters reacted to this gulf between rich and poor by voting in large numbers for the Labor Party in 1906 and the […]

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The Fall of the Mighty

June 20, 2012 – 10:20 pm

Thais and farangs living in Thailand are accustomed to the sight of police blocking a major thoroughfare or highway for the passage of a royal personage. Every intersections are sealed by police for the speeding cavalcade of luxury vehicles and security escorts. No one complains about this noble right of passage. Big people do what […]

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Enough Is Enough

May 8, 2012 – 1:11 pm

After a series of election Leftist parties of France, Greece, and Italy have swept austerity junkies from office. Pro-growth promises trumped hardline economics threatening the German government’s demands for budget cuts in order to repay bank loans from before the crisis. PM Merkel has called a continuation of cost-cutting, while the newly elected leader of […]

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