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This being Pun Salad, we need to link to a USA Today story
headlined: "Girl Scout cookie sales crumbling"
Compounding the felony, the lead paragraph:
Sales are a little thin for mint and other Girl Scout cookies so far this year.
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The Cato@Liberty
blog has been on a roll recently, albeit a roll that might incite
you to either anger or depression. Over the past day or two,
you could have read about:
- The sleight-of-hand
used by state spending advocates to demonstrate a "crisis" that will
probably be resolved by (guess what?) tax hikes.
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An analysis of the health care part of the stimulus
package, showing that about $200 billion will either be wasteful on a
cost-benefit basis, or discourage job creation and depress wages.
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A selection
of horror stories showing how the Housing and Urban Development
department has wasted your money in the past. And since the stimulus
package drops even more money on them, the horror is dead certain
to continue.
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A report
that New York City wants to spend $45 million to retrain laid-off …
Who would you guess? People living paycheck-to-paycheck? Janitorial staff? Fast-food workers? Cashiers at big-box stores?
Nope. Wall Street financiers.
And much more. Cato@Liberty is a great blog.
- The sleight-of-hand
used by state spending advocates to demonstrate a "crisis" that will
probably be resolved by (guess what?) tax hikes.
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But I haven't seen Cato report on this: Obama
Stimulus Saves Microsoft Billionaire Hundreds Of Millions.
Billionaire Paul Allen is a Microsoft cofounder, the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the owner of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers.
I'm not a fan of populist class-warfare resentment, but … sheesh.And, thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed this week, he's also about to be as much as a billion dollars richer.
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There really may be a website for everything. Because
today I saw Headset Hotties.
Feb
20
2009
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