In These Times

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• • 17 Mar 05
  • 3:48 pm

  The attack on Social Security reminds me of a baseball game between the All Stars and a farm league team made up of widows, orphans, disabled veterans, and the chronically ill. When the All Stars have run the score and get bored, they start beating the farm league players with baseball bats. The crowd goes wild! Okay, maybe the All Stars aren't as mean as that, but why is no one taking into account that cheap oil has funded the stock market gains of the past 70 years, and it is extremely unlikely to do so in the next 70? Don't …

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• • 09 Mar 05
  • 5:37 pm

  My family stopped watching television in 2000, and the best part about that is no commercials! (We don't eat fast food, either, and my kids have never been in a Wal-Mart.) My friends tell me that even public television has commercials now, and I know that public radio does. We get plenty of news from the internet, and we get to choose the slant. I still think that censorship is way wrong, and by the time we realize what the corporations have done to us, it will be too late.

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