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Month: December 2011

  • Administrivia – RR hacked

    George Rebane Recently RR has been getting more and more spam comments from surreptitious merchants and other low-lifes.  I understand this often happens when a blog starts generating good numbers.  It takes some doing every morning to clean them out.  I'm not sure what to do about it but I have pulled the switch on…

  • Pay Gaps and System D

    George Rebane Frankly, it’s a bit eerie how the events long predicted on RR are ticking off as recently having happened, or about to happen.  Here I want to focus on the infamous pay gap of the American worker, and an economic activity that is hard to track, but globally significant. Income comes in two…

  • Bob Crabb Nails Christmas

    [This cartoon by Nevada County’s irreverent interpreter of all things human and RR regular, RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, appears in its usual slot on the Tuesday opinion page in the 13dec11 Union (here).  I just had to filch it for readers who might otherwise have missed this precise pique through the heart of the perennial political…

  • The Systemic Train Wreck of the American Middle Class

    George Rebane “The truth is that we don’t know how to fix the US labor market – we are in uncharted territory,” says Peter Orszag, Mr Obama’s former budget director, now a vice-chairman of Citi. “It would help to spend more on retraining and on infrastructure and to have a more rational immigration system. But…

  • ‘Tis the politically directed shopping season

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me the following information about which retailers support which political parties in the country.  You wouldn’t want to shop in the wrong place now would you?  Brought to you in the spirit of the season as a dispute-free and modest public service. With the holidays upon us, we might wish…

  • Ruminations – 11dec2011

    George Rebane People are asking whether Obama has become irrelevant.  My answer is an emphatic NO.  As long as he is in office, President Obama will remain a loose cannon impacting the fate of our country with his jaundiced ideology of an America destined to disappear into the woodwork of a new global order.  I…

  • On the wrong side of the tipping point

    George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my regular Union column that appears in the 10dec11 edition of the newspaper’s print edition and here in its online edition.] Our leadership has committed to take the country down the Hugo Chavez path.  Last week Venezuela’s portly leader shouted “Socialism, socialism, and more socialism!” as the…

  • Taxing the 1%

    George Rebane We wake up every morning to National Progressive Radio.  Listening to NPR is one of the many outlets we monitor so as to avoid the echo chamber effect of having others just adding to our confirmation bias (q.v.).  In the last couple of weeks NPR seems to have turned the heat on the…

  • US ‘Budget’ 2010

    ‘You’re doing poorly because some other people are doing well.’Class warfare litmus message George Rebane The following slides were sent to me by an RR reader who is also one of my Washington correspondents.  The title’s semi-quotes draw attention to the fact that during 0bama’s term there has been no budget passed in the normal…

  • Kakistocracy Rising (updated 10dec2011)

    “Fathom the stupidity of a Government that will require every citizen to prove they are insured……but not prove they are a citizen” George Rebane Today we are reminded again that there are legally sane people out there among and even ruling us who believe that doing the same stupid thing which caused their problems in…

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