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How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke
I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Trade Agreements, Social Security, Bill Clinton, Lyndon B. Johnson
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The presidential power trap
As Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in for the second time as president of the United States, he faces the stark reality that little of what he hopes to accomplish in a second term will likely come to pass. Mr. Obama occupies an office that many assume...
Tags: Barack Obama, Trade Agreements, Ronald Reagan, Democratic Party, Bill Clinton
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Obama, Romney miss the elephant in the room
The unemployment rate has been stuck above 8 percent for months. President Barack Obama continues to blame the moribund economy on President George W. Bush while claiming that he has created 4.5 million jobs. Republican challenger Mitt Romney announces...
Tags: Sony Corp., India, Consumers, Barack Obama, International Trade
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Greens come to city to pick presidential nominee
Hundreds of Green Party members arrived Thursday in Baltimore to pick a candidate for president, even as the party has been forced to scramble for a spot on Maryland's ballot this fall. The national convention, which is taking place at the University...
Tags: Political Candidates, Barack Obama, Trade Agreements, U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Party
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The myth of free trade
Maryland politicians are dismayed by the latest closing of the Sparrows Point steel mill and the loss of its remaining jobs, but on a broader national scale the die was cast in the 1970s, when extreme hubris in the U.S. steel and fabricating industries...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Barack Obama, Warren Buffett, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Heavy Engineering
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Obama's cynicism for me, not for thee
"My rival in this race," Barack Obama announced early in 2007, "is not other candidates. It's cynicism."
It's now clear that what he meant by this was other people's cynicism -- not his own.
As you may recall, President Obama came into office a very...Tags: Philosophy, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter, Bill Daley
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