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David Goldman writes at CNN:
The economy shed 533,000 jobs in November, according to a government report Friday - bringing the year's total job losses to 1.9 million.
What is less obvious here is what the real picture is for American workers.
Sarah Michalak, [Send her mail] is the Associate Provost and University Librarian at the University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has just banned Christmas trees from the libraries at her university, after she found that it was the last university to still have Christmas.
The Treasury Department, you know, the guys with the deep circles under their eyes and recycling bins full of empty Red Bull cans, has come up with yet another plan to save the world by giving away other people's money: subsidizing new mortgages. The idea is that if you buy a house now, the government will chip in so that your 30 year fixed mortgage will only be 4.5%.
Hat Tip, one of our VDARE.com readers for drawing my attention to a fine Anti-Southern Poverty Law Center column by baltimoresun.com's columnist Ron Smith: The truth about 'hate crimes' and the racial justice racket December 3 2008
Offer free plane and bus transportation back home to every illegal immigrant in the U.S. Being unemployed in Mexico is a lot cheaper for all concerned than being unemployed in the U.S.
Do it right now. We could call it the:
I'll Be Home for Christmas plan
The government should set up booths at Greyhound stations. All an illegal immigrant has to do is walk in with his luggage, get fingerprinted and photographed, sign a legally binding document that he won't be coming back and will go to jail if he does, and he'll be on his way home on the next bus.
New Nobelist Paul Krugman blogs for the NYT today:
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12/04/08 - An Illinois Reader Wants University Athletic Scholarships for Americans Only!
From: Henry Houston (e-mail
him)