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48
Dan Molinski and John Lyons, «China’s $20 Billion Bolsters Chavez», Wall Street Journal, Apr. 18, 2010.
49
John Pomfret, «More Political Ads Portray China as Benefiting from Weak U.S. Economy», Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2010.
50
Peter Whoriskey, «As Cheaper Chinese Tires Roll In, Obama Faces an Early Trade Test», Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2009.
51
Larry Elder, «The Soft Bigotry of President Bush», Jewish World Review, July 4, 2002.
52
Ibid.
53
Ibid.
54
Betty Liu and Matthew Leising, «U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says», bloomberg.com, Dec. 31, 2009.
55
John Weicher, «Closing the Gap: The Quiet Success of the Bush Administration’s Push for Minority Homeownership», Weekly Standard, Oct. 11, 2006.
56
Karen Kwiatkowski, «An American Tale», lewrockwell.com, Dec. 16, 2003.
57
«The Coming Debt Panic», Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2009.
58
David M. Walker, Rosenthal Lecture, Institute of Medicine, Nov. 9, 2009, pgpf.org; Dennis Cauchon, «U.S. Owes $62 Trillion», USA Today, June 7, 2011.
59
Ben Pershing, «Democrats Clear Spending Bill in Senate», Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2009.
60
Patrick J. Buchanan, «Fat City», townhall.com, Dec. 15, 2009.
61
Pershing, «Democrats Clear Spending Bill».
62
Jeff Zeleny, «Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy», New York Times, Nov. 9, 2008.
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«FY10 Omnibus Disclosed Earmark Numbers», Taxpayers for Common Sense, Dec. 10, 2009, taxpayer.net.
64
Andrew G. Biggs and Jason Richwine, «Those Underpaid Government Workers», American Spectator, September 2010, 14.
65
Ibid.
66
Dennis Cauchon, «For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries», USA Today, Dec. 11, 2009.
67
Ibid.
68
Dennis Cauchon, «More Fed Workers Pay Tops $150 K: Number Doubled Under Obama», USA Today, Nov. 10, 2010.
69
Lena H. Sun, «D.C. Area Tops in Well-being Survey», Washington Post, Nov. 10, 2010.
70
Dennis Cauchon, «Federal Pay Tops Private Workers: Compensation Gap Doubled in Decade», USA Today, Aug. 10, 2010.
71
Dennis Cauchon, «Obama’s Pay Freeze for Federal Workers Only Limits Raises», USA Today, Dec. 1, 2010.
72
Garet Garrett, The People’s Pottage (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1958), 1.
73
Andy Soltis, «Tax Refugees Staging Escape from New York», New York Post, Oct. 27, 2009.
74
Kenneth Lovett, «New Yorkers Under 30 Plan to Flee City; Cite High Taxes, Few Jobs as Reasons», nydailynews.com, May 13, 2011.
75
Gerald Prante, «Summary of Latest Federal Income Tax Data», Tax Foundation, July 30, 2009, taxfoundation.org.
76
«Policy Basics: The Earned Income Tax Credit», Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 4, 2009, cbpp.org.
77
Edwin S. Rubenstein, «The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration: A Study in Fraud, Abuse and Liberal Activism», Social Contract, Spring 2009, 3.
78
Stephen Ohlemacher, «Nearly Half of U.S. Households Escape Fed Income Tax», Associated Press, April 7, 2010, finance.yahoo.com.
79
John D. McKinnon, «High-Earning Households Pay Growing Share of Taxes», wsj.com, May 3, 2011.
80
Barack Obama, Reclaiming the American Dream Speech, Bettendorf [IA], Nov. 7, 2007, «Barack Obama and Joe Biden: Making College Affordable for Everyone», barackobama.com.
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Lawrence W. Reed, «A Subtle Destroyer», Mackinac Center for Public Policy, April 8, 2005, mackinac.org.
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«Food Stamp Rolls Continue to Rise», Wall Street Journal, Dec. 8, 2010.
83
Anemona Hartocollis, «New York Asks to Bar Use of Food Stamps to Buy Sodas», New York Times, Oct. 6, 2010.
84
Christine Armario and Dorie Turner, «Nearly 1 in 4 Fails Military Entrance Exam», Washington Examiner, Dec. 22, 2010.
85
John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (London: Macmillan, 1919), 220.
86
«Cheap Cigarettes from Cigarettes Below Cost», cigarettes-below-cost.com.
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Thomas E. Woods, Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2009), 1.
88
Lawrence W. Reed, «The Greatest Spending Administration in All of History», Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Jan. 1, 1998, mackinac.org.
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Paul Krugman, «Franklin Delano Obama», New York Times, Nov. 10, 2008.
90
Woods, Meltdown, 103.
91
Robert