Once the most powerful manufacturing base the world had ever seen, and supplier of many millions of U.S. jobs, outside of military industrial complex manufacturing at taxpayer expense, much of the U.S.'s manufacturing base has been shipped overseas over the last 30 years. Even U.S. nameplate cars are often "world cars."
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Dear reader, these insightful words, written by my friend Mary Ellen, are shared with you today because they offer from a wife and mother's perspective what so many women want but seldom receive from their husbands, the father of their children. She wanted me to expand on that but she said it so well, I'd like to offer the rest of her comments to you.
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The U.S. government just announced a month of robust hiring, a drop in the unemployment rate to 8.3% and that the economic "recovery" is gaining momentum. It is nonsense being pumped out in an election year as the economy continues to deteriorate.
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The U.S. Congress is spending money at record rates, with deficits to match, as it borrows like crazy under the premise it will cut spending at a future time by an undetermined amount. It doesn't even need to raise taxes to pay for all these things. Anne and I love this approach and have decided to run our home the same way.
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According to a secret U.S. military report, the Taliban are steadily taking control of Afghanistan. While this is unacceptable to the U.S. government, it would however accept Republican control and the Republicans and the Taliban have some major issues in common:
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It would be logical because America continues to pump in staggering sums of money into Iraq, patrols it at will with drones and thousands of "contractors," is actively involved in its political system and even houses its government officials in America's Green Zone, a tightly guarded city within a city in the heart of Baghdad. In fact the U.S. often ignores Iraq's sovereignty as it does whatever it pleases there.
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Yesterday, as a funeral procession passed through a busy intersection, a suicide bomber triggered an explosion that killed 32 men, women and children and injured 65 more. Among those who were killed was a woman, no-one special to the world, just a street vendor selling fish from a cart, to make money to help feed her family in a disastrous economy. If she was a wife and mother, her husband and children, like other members of her family were devastated. How does one tell a child her mother is dead? How does one tell a mother her daughter is dead?
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Dear Reader, My friend and webmaster Jon Barnes raised some compelling questions that caused me to revise an earlier version of "Why I Believe In A Better Tomorrow." The following is my reply to him, which I hope you will find useful.
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