Export Disaster.. Oil Lobby Secrets.. U.S. Back In Recession?

March 7, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 'You Would Have Needed To Die' When a Canadian tried to cancel his cellphone contract after his legs were crushed in a freak accident and he lost steady income, he was told "You would have needed to die" to be let off the hook. Continue reading... Canada's Export Disaster, In One Chart What The Oil Lobby Doesn't Want You To Know About The Keystone Report Is The U.S. Back In Recession? Number Of Rich Canadians Set To Soar: Report Timmies Turns Away Man Having Asthma Attack CBC Slams Sun News' 'Outrageous' Sexual Harassment Claims Number Of Rich Canadians Set To Soar: Report Tory Bill May Be Prelude To U.S.-Led Copyright Crackdown Slaughter's End? DEAN BAKER The Sequester Is President Obama's Fault Now the sequester is throwing more people out of work and denying hundreds of thousands of people benefits they need. Yes, this is stupid policy and the Republicans deserve a huge amount of blame in this picture. But it was President Obama who decided to play deficit reduction games rather than be truthful about the state of the economy. Continue reading... DIANE FRANCIS Alberta's Real Economic Advantage Albertans are unique because they don't occupy a parallel universe, living on other peoples' money. They live in the real world and the province's current fiscal deficit has sparked intelligent conversation. Continue reading... DAN RATHER The German Jobs Machine Is it time to re-examine our country's "college for all mentality"? In his State of the Union address two weeks ago, President Obama suggested it was, by invoking Germany's education and employment system as a model. Continue reading... CARL TAKEI Private Prison Company Doctors Its Own Wikipedia Page and Fabricates Facts to Fight Bad Publicity If we can't trust GEO to tell the truth, then we shouldn't entrust the lives of prisoners or correctional officers to them - let alone reward them generously with taxpayer money. But that is exactly what we do, to the tune of $1.6 billion each year. Continue reading... BOB CESCA The Sequestration Fight Is Based on Lies and Stupidity There are two sides to the deficit idiocy. Firstly, the completely inexcusable conflation of the deficit and the debt, and, secondly, the total failure to acknowledge actual deficit reduction. As a result, deficit hysteria is based on nearly unprecedented stupidity and deliberate deception. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.