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...Obama's stump speech still has all the soaring themes that got him this far, but with some practical advice: cheering supporters should not get complacent. "We can't afford to slow down or sit back or let up for one second," he says. With a massive turnout crucial to his calculus of the big victory that his strategists now believe to be tantalizingly close, Obama is delivering a tutorial on election mechanics at nearly every stop, exhorting people to get to the polls and vote - even if it means, as it has in early voting in Ohio, that they...
...first things Obama does is to ask for a show of hands of people who have already voted. He then asks these supporters to take note of those in the crowd who still need to vote and to get them to the polls. "We can't afford to slow down, sit back or let up for one day, one minute, or one second in these last few days," Obama says, as he did to a crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday. "Not now. Not when so much is at stake...
...will pay those taxes? Obama's plan to target the highest earners has merit, given that almost all income gains in recent years have gone to the top 1%. But because the rich can afford good tax lawyers, there are diminishing returns to increasing their tax rates. Returning to the pre-2001 top rate of 39.6% (from 35% now) would surely bring in more money, but going much higher might not. Also, the bulk of the recent gains at the top of the income spectrum has come from huge paychecks in the financial sector--paychecks that are almost sure...
...Faced with America’s collapsing economy, our unsustainable addiction to foreign oil, our inefficient and inequitable health care system, our forgotten war in Afghanistan and our mistaken war in Iraq, and our declining moral standing in the international community, we cannot afford to throw our hands up and offer the excuse that government cannot solve the problems it helped create...
...whether socioeconomic or emotional. But because CityStep’s foray into the public schools depends on a teacher’s willingness to allocate class time for the extracurricular activity, CityStep does not cater to the needs of underprivileged students who attend schools that cannot afford to participate in the program...