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50 billion MORE stimulus-that-is-not-stimulus dollars to create jobs most of us do not do, or are not qualified to be hired for. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BUjon-mmSFQbPPPouzODC1I31s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BUjon-mmSFQbPPPouzODC1I31s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BUjon-mmSFQbPPPouzODC1I31s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BUjon-mmSFQbPPPouzODC1I31s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~4/SPPzgXle4cA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.hickpolitics.com/intemperate-observations/in-the-matter-of-tin-eared-tone-deafness/feed 0 http://www.hickpolitics.com/intemperate-observations/in-the-matter-of-tin-eared-tone-deafness http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~3/nMVvMHMkDk0/which-direction-is-that-mr-president http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/which-direction-is-that-mr-president#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:53:54 +0000 haystack http://www.hickpolitics.com/?p=3296 These small businesses will be greeted with a mountain of paperwork, a bureaucracy few can afford the time needed to deftly navigate, and a set of rules for how they will be allowed to define and manage their workforces that even fewer still can afford (financially) to actually comply with. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lUbYkwAf0JVwgUU-URvwOAXvLNc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lUbYkwAf0JVwgUU-URvwOAXvLNc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lUbYkwAf0JVwgUU-URvwOAXvLNc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lUbYkwAf0JVwgUU-URvwOAXvLNc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~4/nMVvMHMkDk0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/which-direction-is-that-mr-president/feed 0 http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/which-direction-is-that-mr-president http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~3/V1x_tN5juFE/naacp-forms-its-own-lynch-mob http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/naacp-forms-its-own-lynch-mob#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:59:02 +0000 haystack http://www.hickpolitics.com/?p=3294 Does anyone really believe that acts of racism (real or contrived) on the part of individual members of the Tea Party movement will, if found and made public on yet another new weblog, have any effect on the conditions of life amongst African Americans in this country? <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-ubw-uDsdHAwRespvLsJPV1sqzM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-ubw-uDsdHAwRespvLsJPV1sqzM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-ubw-uDsdHAwRespvLsJPV1sqzM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-ubw-uDsdHAwRespvLsJPV1sqzM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~4/V1x_tN5juFE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/naacp-forms-its-own-lynch-mob/feed 0 http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/naacp-forms-its-own-lynch-mob http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~3/mxkEi-HRq3g/these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:56:03 +0000 haystack http://www.hickpolitics.com/?p=3292 Government has grown too large, and its tentacles reach too deep into our personal lives and our livelihoods. It spends American treasure on wasteful initiatives at a TRILLIONS of dollars rate faster than its revenues can keep pace with. These, just like Paine's, truly are the times that try men's souls. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YyvTGimaIgFJstGRcYjr0iXpvkI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YyvTGimaIgFJstGRcYjr0iXpvkI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YyvTGimaIgFJstGRcYjr0iXpvkI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YyvTGimaIgFJstGRcYjr0iXpvkI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/hickpolitics/LMiq/~4/mxkEi-HRq3g" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls/feed 0 http://www.hickpolitics.com/in-focus/these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls