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ucfacde Donating Member (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 01:07 PM
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Who Thought up, How To Screw America out of every Dime Possible, Think Tanks Abound
Who Thought up, How To Screw America out of every Dime Possible, Think Tanks Abound

January 1986

At least twenty-five other noteworthy public-policy groups have been formed or dramatically expanded through the decade; nearly all are anti-liberal. They include the Cato, Manhattan, Lehrman, Hudson, Shavano, Pacific, Sequoia, and Competitive Enterprise institutes; the committees on the Present Danger, for the Survival of a Free Congress, and for the Free World; the institutes for Foreign Policy Analysis for Contemporary Studies, and for humane Studies: the centers for Study of Public Choice, or the Study of American Business, and for Judicial Studies; the Political Economy Research Center; the Reason Foundation; the Washington, American, Capital, and Mountain States legal foundations; the Ethics and Public policy Center; the National Center for Policy Analysis; the National Institute for Public Policy; and the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy.


Together with Washington commentators and regulators, liberal consultants were condemned during the 1970s by conservative intellectuals as representing a "new class" of overeducated spongers who performed no productive labor but merely issued edicts regarding the labor of others, while living comfortably off the surplus. With each passing year, warnings about the new class went, the proportion of talkers to doers would increase, and the prestige of talking rather than doing would grow, until U.S. society became so top heavy that paralysis set in.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/polibig/eastidea.htm

When Money/Profit/Greed and Power are the only thing that makes the man, the man and his ego have no mercy.
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quidam56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 03:04 PM
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As a former health care giver, I am shocked and saddened to see what has become of health care in America. $ 1. 4 million is being spent per day in DC by the health care lobbyists so your elected representative is getting taken care of and has quality health care we pay for and can't afford ourselves for our families, I know what is deemed, defended and supported in Tennessee and Virginia as quality health care and clearly profit care comes ahead of patient care. http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=62 MRSA ( methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureas ) is infesting our communities because filthy, uncaring hospitals and emergency rooms are breeding them and spreading them into our schools, homes, restaurants. How many more Americans' will be diseased or die while 74 % of Americans' are begging for health care reform ? More people died in America last year from MRSA complications than AIDS. When MRSA and a flu bug start mixing, it won't be pretty and we are being infected by the very health care system we depend on and trust to keep us safe and healthy.

Wise County is being bombed, blasted and bulldozed right into 3rd world America and board of supervisor's member Bob Adkins is singing "Happy Trails To You" and calls the new coal fired power plant in VA City, VA his "Golden Cow" . http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138
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