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Comment You think that's bad -check the Unemployment sites (Score 1) 238

by Metroid72 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @05:50PM (#26052095) Attached to: USPS Server Meltdown

The California EDD (Employment Development bureau that handles unemployment) www.edd.ca.gov signup website and their phone systems are literally non-responsive.

Maybe more people are filing for unemployment than trying to get their stuff shipped.

Submission + - Nixon's gift to American Politics (economist.com)

Submitted by Metroid72 on Monday September 22, 2008 @11:23AM

Metroid72 writes: The Economist's Lexington opinion column explores how the legacy of Richard Nixon is alive and well in the Republican political machine, an excerpt:
"Nixon's great contribution to Republican politics was to master the politics of cultural resentment. Before him, populism belonged as much to the left as the right. William Jennings Bryan railed against the eastern elites who wanted to crucify common folk on a "cross of gold". Franklin Roosevelt dismissed Republicans as "economic royalists". Nixon's genius was to discover that the politics of culture could trump the politics of economics--and that populism could become a tool of the right."

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