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Who Do You Love?

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...  But go ahead, who - between these two eccentric guys - looks the best? "He" #1  "He" #2 #1  Did these things: He created the Environmental Protection Agency He created  the Occupation Safety and Health  Administration.  He signed into law the Clean Air Act He signed the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.  He dramatically expanded the federal food stamp  program. He advocated for universal health-care coverage,  with subsidies for  low-income Americans. (Oh, and he totally screwed up with Watergate.) #2 Promised these things in the campaign He was FOR Raising taxes on the rich.  He was FOR investing in infrastructure on a massive scale.  He promised to Protect Social Security and Medicare from any cuts. His campaign even discussed breaking up the biggest banks.  You know what He #2 has actually done (much of it undoing what #1 did )- and doing NONE of these things he promised.)

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

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Create These Jobs, Oh Government o'Mine I hear from the right (a lot), "The government create jobs? Riiight." Like that is impossible . Well how about fixing some pure government stuff, like this: As Sewers Fill, Waste Poisons Waterways Yuck! This N.Y. Times headline spun me around a few times. Let's face it, sewer systems are mosdef government thangs. So fix them! Expand them! Hire a bunch of people ("create jobs"), buy lots of concrete and steel (American, of course, creating jobs), buy mucho equipment (from American manufacturers, creating jobs), and get underway right away, PLEASE. How many jobs would be created? I'm guessing tens of thousands, but I am but a blogger, bud, so I really don't know. However, this paragraph from the Times article makes it sound reasonable: "In the last three years alone, more than 9,400 of the nation’s 25,000 sewage systems — including those in major cities — have reported violating the law by dump