People still like to shop, and that’s what they know,” Mr. Tamirat said later. “But nothing that is being sold here is made in America, nothing is going to your local economy.
That’s insane!” said an aggravated Luz Anthony, 24, mother of a 3-year-old daughter and a 15-month-old boy. “We have enough guns on the street.
So would you support going after Walker? Trumka doesn’t hesitate. “Would I support going after Lucifer? Of course — the guy’s been a bad governor, he tried to use a contrived deficit to take people out.
The consumer society is in fact the most efficient mechanism ever devised for the creation and distribution of unhappiness.
—Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
(Source: The Atlantic)
The problem with the talking point is all of the information it leaves out. The Washington Post ran a good “Reality Check” item the other day, noting that while the wealthiest of the wealthy pay 38% of income taxes, they’ve also seen their incomes soar in recent decades, while everyone else’s incomes have been stagnant.
Earlier in the week, the attorney for Mrs. Arroyo’s husband, Ferdinand Topacio, said in a television interview that he was so confident in his clients that he would have one of his testicles removed if the Arroyos went overseas and did not return to face charges.
—Really? Why even say that?
(Source: The New York Times)


