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I keep having to rework this as events move quickly. I make no promise something big hasn’t happened since I posted, even if not much time has passed. Particularly, Tripoli fell to Libyan rebels while I was working on it, and changes things.
The world held its breath while the first ever default of the federal government came closer, but the world didn’t stop. There were noteworthy if not important stories happening. I’m sure there’s more, after all, I must have missed some too, but here are some I didn’t miss:
Headlines need to be brief, so let’s rephrase: if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling, President Obama has three options, each of which comes with a reasonable case that it’s unconstitutional. Obama can:
Since its inception in the 1930s, Social Security has provided millions of Americans with safety and insurance in the case of unemployment, injury, and old age. Compromising 20.8% of our government budget and spending more than $700 billion per year, it is our nation’s single largest transfer program. Continue Reading
Remember the Y2K bug? Ha ha, how funny that we all took it seriously, thinking planes would fall out of the sky and utilities would fail and computers in businesses and governments would stop grinding. How ridiculous we were to believe that back then!!!
Duluth has a well-deserved reputation for its contentious mayoral races. But this year is different. For the first time in its history, Duluth will have an uncontested mayoral election.
In this article about the US House Republicans finally starting to get that defaulting on the debt is bad thing, there was this paragraph that explains a lot how we got to the brink of default, and thereby a lot about the modern Republican Party:
A little while back, I wrote a piece on the debt ceiling dilemma. In it, I reported how I felt that the Republican position on the matter is akin to playing a dangerous game with the economy. Continue Reading
