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| Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
FEBRUARY 5, 2008 -- LPR Question of the Day … What happens when economic predators (including of course the credit card companies) throttle the people? Answer: The stock market plunges. JANUARY 24, 2008 -- LPR Wonders … … how long it will take for an economist to discover
that predatory (the term is borrowed from Theodore
Roosevelt) free enterprise lowers the purchasing power
for the many to the aggrandizement of the few and,
therefore, leads to recessions -- or worse? JANUARY 23, 2008 -- Memo to Barack Obama … When Senator Clinton chided you, at the January 21
debate, for not supporting a 30% cap on credit card
interest, you might have replied that if she voted
for a 30% cap, it must mean that she approves 30%
interest -- and for you, that kind of interest is
still usury and amounts to predatory free enterprise
that is turning our economy into a "vast wasteland." LPR continues to wonder: is there no candidate for president who stands with the people, as Federalist No. 57 counsels our leaders?
JANUARY 19, 2008 -- Memo to GE's Jeff Immelt … LPR recently received a dunning call from GE. The message did not identify the caller; it just gave a number to call. LPR senses something is wrong when GE leaves messages without identifying itself. By the way, please note that this writer has not made dunning calls to GE about the performance of the company's stock, a performance that is speeding this writer's fall from middle class. JANUARY 19, 2008 -- As the Holiday season fades …
JANUARY 19, 2008 -- Observation Goes Two Ways …
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JANUARY 11, 2008 -- Grilling is not the job of a congressman … Warner Wolf, on the Don Imus program, January 7, urged congressman to "grill" baseball players on use of steroids. Mr. Wolf indicated that grilling witnesses was the job of a congressional committee. Seems to LPR that "grilling" is the stuff of a trial attorney cross-examining a witness. LPR had thought that the purpose of congressional committees is legislation. LPR wouldn't even defend congressional grilling of credit card executives, although legislation putting teeth back in anti-usury laws would, LPR, believes, serve the common good. JANUARY 11, 2008 -- Brief Suggestion to Disappointed Presidential Candidates … You could always join the rest of us at the grass roots working to maintain government of, by and for the people. JANUARY 11, 2008 -- Request for Clarification … Rush Limbaugh, the day after the New Hampshire primary, played actuality tape of some of Senator Clinton's remarks the day before her New Hampshire win. LPR caught this comment from the senator, as played by Limbaugh: "I see what's happening. We have to reverse it." |
JANUARY 4, 2008 -- A New Year's Wish from LPR … May we all say, on January 1, 2009, "I am better off today than I was a year ago." JANUARY 4, 2008 -- An LPR Exhortation … LPR proposes formation of the Committee to Affirm the Populist Revival in America -- CAPRA. The purpose of this committee is to spread the word of our populist heritage, as summed up by James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 57. CAPRA could encourage formation of George Bailey clubs to combat the aggrandizing spirit harmful to the common good afflicting what Lou Dobbs, among others, calls "the forgotten middle class." LPR clicksters, don't be "inert" For the sake of our liberty, read Federalist No. 57 and tell others about it.
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