Congressional Bailout Package

Why Not a "Bailout" That Restructures Health Care to Benefit All?

Michele Swenson | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Crisis, Framing Issues, Comprehensive Health Care Reform, Single-Payer Health Care, Financial Crisis, Medicare for All, "Free-Market" Health Care, Health Care Crisis, Prescription Drug Reform, Medicare Advantage Plans, Wall Street Crash, Barack Obama Health Care Policy, Barack Obama Health Care, Congressional Bailout Package, Subprime Mortgages, Congressional Bailout, Business News
Michele Swenson

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

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Questions in a Time of Crisis

Tony Campolo | Posted 10.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Living Beyond One's Means, Foriegn Oil, National Debt, Indulgent Lifestyles, Wall Street Crash, Alternative Energy, Economic Crisis, Foriegn Oil Dependency, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Alternative Energy Investment, War in Iraq, Congressional Bailout Package, Bailout Bill, Denmark, Business News
Tony Campolo

It is popular these days to blame our economic troubles on the greed of corporate CEO's. Yet we have to face up to the reality that we are ourselves major culprits in this financial fiasco.

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Declaring War on the Meltdown/Part 2: Taking on Debt For Infrastructure

Alan Fein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Politics, Obama, Mccain, Economic Crisis, Economy, Financial Meltdown, Meltdown, Infrastructure, Federal Deficit, Bailout, Barack Obama, National Infrastructure, Federal Debt, Financial Crisis, Congressional Bailout Package, 2008 Presidential Election, Business News
Alan Fein

In bad times like these, the government has to spend money to build things that we desperately need: roads, bridges, schools, courthouses, sanitation systems and a new energy infrastructure.

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