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...bottom lines" - rants that ran along the bottom of the page like stock tickers. His haiku-esque May 26, 1991 message: "Federal debt soaring, national economy shrinking, soon the twain shall meet." In 1980, before technology could support a debt clock, he mailed handwritten holiday cards to dozens of congressmen that read: "Happy New Year. Your share of the national debt is $35,000." When technology finally caught up with his vision of a fiscal odometer, Durst's clock included a smaller counter that tracked each American family's share, which in 1989 added up to $49,466. At last...
...black community of the kind of entitlement to the presidency felt by some Hillary Clinton supporters. Many of them expressed shock at the sort of sexism that greeted her. But very few black people were shocked that Michelle Obama was called a "baby mama" or that GOP Congressmen seem to have a penchant for referring to Obama as "boy" and "uppity...
...Taking all these factors together - and to the extreme - some people (Congressmen included) have suggested that companies might even be at risk of not being able to pay workers. So far, there's little, if any, evidence of that. Automatic Data Processing, which handles paychecks for 400,000 small businesses, dips into its clients' bank accounts to pay their employees. There has been a slight uptick in the number of times there haven't been ready funds, but at this point, that pattern isn't any different from what ADP has observed in previous economic slowdowns...
...book has a message of unity. Can we emerge out of this Presidential campaign as a united public? I certainly hope so. Looking at Washington right now, you see a lot of Senators and congressmen who I think want to do the right thing, but feel themselves under serious pressure in a highly political moment...
...comparison, wrangling a few politically terrified congressmen should have been child's play. The bill tracks the basics of what he asked for over a week ago. He gets $700 billion, albeit in pieces over time, and he gets to decide exactly how he wants to purge the market of the bad loans that are paralyzing the financial system...