Dogtor Tess

There’s been plenty of things to blame on the flood of Chinese goods into the U.S. over the past decade or two, but you really don’t hear about the many benefits those products provide to our economic growth. So in the spirit of international relations, and the fact that China is now our financial overlord , I bring you: Chinese exports that stimulate certain industries (health care and mortuary for instance). (Taken from news reports.) Carcinogen in Chinese Liquors Lead in Chinese

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On Track: Amtrak will receive $1.3 billion from the stimulus package, Joe Biden announced today. ABC News Lions, Tigers, and Bears: On March 21, Miami Metrozoo will take in your exotic pet–no questions asked. Zoo officials hope that Non-native Pet Amnesty Day will reduce the number of exotic species released into the wild. Miami Herald Easy, Breezy? A proposal to build a large offshore wind farm near Cape Cod received approval to combine state and local building permits, a victor

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Once you understand how we got into the perilous economic situation we now enjoy you can start to look for ways to get out of it. But to find real solutions you have to approach the situation rationally and not in a desperate panic. Thus far the reaction of Congress and both the Bush administration in passing the TARP bill and the Obama administration in passing the stimulus package, has been one of irrational panic, throwing money at the problem without thinking about the consequences of th

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday ridiculed “volcano monitoring” funds in the stimulus package when he delivered the Republican response to President Obama’s speech to Congress.

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