The Commies Are Coming

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Monday September 07, 2009 · 10:44 PM PDT

2009/09/07 · 22:44

THE COMMIES ARE COMING
by Joe Shea
American Reporter Correspondent

BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 8, 2009 -- When I was a kid growing up in the rock-ribbed Republican stronghold of Orange County, N.Y., we would have had a name for people who started a movement to get kids not to listen to a Presidential address in their schoolrooms: "Communists."

Back then we believed in democracy and the idea that parties and presidents came and went, but we were all Americans under one and only one President of the United States. We believed that people who preached constitutional and federal dissent - as opposed to mere, healthy political dissent - were divisive, evil and dangerous.

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Sunday January 04, 2009 · 12:58 AM PST

2009/01/04 · 00:58

AN UNJUST WAR MAY YET YIELD PEACE
by Joe Shea
American Reporter Correspondent
Bradenton, Fla.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 3, 2:22PM ET -- Israeli troops in the past hour have finally launched its long-awaited invasion of the 220-square mile Gaza Strip, following seven days of intense bombardment that killed at least 430 Palestinians, destroyed thousands of offices, apartments, businesses and homes and left the ordinary people of Gaza and its tens of thousands of refugees shaking with fear.

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 1:34 PM PDT

2008/10/03 · 13:34

WHAT YOU REALLY LOST TODAY
by Joe Shea

BRADENTON, Fla., Oct. 3, 2008 (3:55PM EDT) -- Like a bad joke, the Dow swung up close to 300 points today as lawmakers voted at 1 PM on the bill to bail out Wall Street banks and brokers, and then fell 450 from that point as traders began the clamor for more at the close.

It's like I told you on Sept. 25: "I hate to tell you this, but as soon as the bailout bill is passed, after a day or perhaps two of market euphoria and 500-point gains, the market will start to fall again and market leaders will resume their chant, "More! More! We need more!"

I thought they would wait a day or two; so sue me.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 3:57 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 03:57

DON'T PAY YOUR BILLS - CONGRESS WILL
by Joe Shea

BRADENTON, Fla., Oct. 2, 2008 -- With $700 billion dollars - about $2,400 for every man woman and child in America - Congress has just about paid back American and foreign banks for every bad loan they've ever made. All those credit card debts people didn't feel like paying will son be paid for by taxpayer money, courtesy of Congress. So why not let them pay our bills, too?

Tell me why millions of people who took loans and didn't pay them back should have them purchased and paid for by the government, while my loans, which burden me enormously and are driving me towards bankruptcy, should not also be purchased by the Federal Reserve or the U.S. Treasury?

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 3:26 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 03:26

HOW TO PASS OUT A BAILOUT BILL
by Joe Shea

BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 30, 2008 -- Will wonders never cease? I never thought the right-wing Republicans of the House of Representatives would join arms with the progressive Democrats that populate this newspaper and put the kibosh on President George W. Bush's greedy, unrealistic and anti-American $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street.
We hear the arguments about the impending ctastrophe, and we even admit that a few catastrophes are more than likely going forward without the plan. But our "fundamentally strong" economy can weather such hits, can't it, Sen. McCain?
And that's true: What the doomsday chorus forgets is the capacity of financial institutions to perpetuate themselves even under the dire circumstances of a short-term credit freeze.

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