This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life…Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture of the autumn of 2008 [...]

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Thanks, Rachel…This is great

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Here’s my contribution to today’s tax day festivities: an effort to get you to think about federal taxes a little bit differently than usual. Normally, when we talk about taxes, we end up talking about percentages of people: the top 1% pay a certain amount, the bottom third pay a different amount, etc. [...]

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David Brooks spends a good deal of time laying the grounds for a non-blame blame for this economic meltdown. While saying,  “Banks got too big to manage. Instruments got too complex to understand.
Too many people were good at math but ignorant of history.” He still maintains that it wasn’t the greed of the players but [...]

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Thursday, April 02, 2009
This week, I will vote against the massive $3.6 trillion budget proposed by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress, and Texans deserve to understand why. I believe this budget taxes too much, spends too much and borrows too much. This budget will delay economic recovery in Texas and across the nation, [...]

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