Beyond Stimulus: It's the Revenue, Stupid

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 · 6:21 PM PST

2009/02/10 · 18:21

Hi DailyKos friends, I'd like to share my latest op-ed, up on Common Dreams today. Hope you can take a look and share with others. For more of my recent work, visit www.christopherdcook.com.

"Here in the sun-bedecked Golden State, a fiscal storm is roiling. We're about two weeks away from running out of money and handing out potentially unredeemable IOU's in lieu of tax refunds and, possibly, paychecks. California is almost flat broke...

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 12:22 PM PDT

2008/04/18 · 12:22

Congress passes its share of boondoggles, but there’s a real doozy on the docket April 18. If the nearly $300 billion Farm Bill passes in its current form, the American public will pay billions of dollars to large-scale farmers and food corporations for the following end results...

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Monday February 25, 2008 · 3:13 PM PST

2008/02/25 · 15:13

In today's Los Angeles Times:

Meat roulette

As the latest recall shows, food safety has taken a back seat to industry profits.

By Christopher D. Cook
February 25, 2008
Nauseating as it was, last week's record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled "downer" cattle to our nation's children and others should come as little surprise. Although egregious to the point of obscenity, this latest meat scandal fits a pattern of regulatory anemia -- the byproduct of a decades-long bipartisan assault on "big government" -- that has opened the floodgates to all sorts of contamination shenanigans. The deregulated chickens, cows and pigs have come home to roost...

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Tuesday February 05, 2008 · 8:37 AM PST

2008/02/05 · 08:37

By Christopher D. Cook

First let me say what this posting is not: it’s neither some desperate idealistic lunge at lost hope, nor is it sour grapes. Ironically, my stubbornly lingering support for Senator John Edwards is oddly pragmatic: it’s the only way I can think to register support for progressive ideas in the Super Tuesday sweepstakes, thus presenting a principled obstacle to messrs Obama and Clinton. Sound funky? Read on...

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