Analysis
Plumbers vote their paycheck
October 24, 2008“Joe the Plumber” has become a crutch John McCain and Sarah Palin are leaning on, heavily, to keep their limping campaign from keeling over. They quote him constantly as a sharp critic of Barack Obama’s plan...
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Flushing out the worker-wannabes
October 23, 2008Why are the plumbers in the photo on this page wearing carpenter tool belts? And why are they wielding shiny new $9.99 Home Depot toilet plungers instead of wrenches? True, Halloween is costume time, but it’s...
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Letters – October 18, 2008
October 18, 2008Crash of 2008 The news has been comparing this economic crisis to the Great Depression of 1929. Many neighbors and friends have been talking about the upcoming holidays and how we weren’t going to be able...
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Landslide: necessary and possible
October 18, 2008When tyrants tremble in their fear And hear their death knell ringing When friends rejoice both far and near How can I keep from singing! — from a Quaker hymn Yes, the neoconservatives are reading the...
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EDITORIAL: Marx was right
October 18, 2008It was only yesterday that “free market” ideologues were dancing on Karl Marx’s grave with scornful shouts that “greed is good” and “TINA” — “there is no alternative” to capitalism. These fat men guffawed contemptuously at...
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