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DITTO! Independents Have Problems With President’s 2011 Budget (VIDEO)

February 17, 2011

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) went on the PBS News Hour yesterday to voice  concerns about President Obama’s 2011 Budget.  The type and timing of the proposed budget cuts are worrisome during this time of high unemployment and especially given recent statistics of the middle class slipping into poverty quarter-by-fiscal quarter. Click Photo Here To View [...]

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Let’s Hope These 4 Things Don’t Happen

January 14, 2010

By Rick Newman Posted: January 13, 2010 In the cast of corporate characters, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are A-list villains, thanks to the central role they played in the 2008 financial meltdown. The two mortgage-finance firms failed as spectacularly as AIG, the poster child for finance-gone-wrong, with the combined Fannie-Freddie rescue totaling about $111 [...]

Tagged as: AIG, Baby Boomers Retirement, bailout, Economy Precarious, Fannie May, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Foreclosures, Obama, Recession and Recovery, Social Security, Stocks, Tea Party, U.S. Debt

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