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Mar 9, 2010 In the afterglow of the Oscars, a lot of America is still thinking Hollywood. In a movie, you've got to have villains, bad guys. And in the movie "Health Care Reform," there's no question who's being cast as the bad guys by President Obama.

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Mar 9, 2010 It was one year ago today that Wall Street bottomed out and began heading up. The economy, meanwhile, has been seeing slow but steady improvement - with one stubborn, but very important, exception: jobs.

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Mar 9, 2010 Taxes and tax breaks have often been used to encourage certain kinds of activities and discourage others. Now, it's suggested that an 18% tax on pizza and sugared soft drinks would help fight America's obesity problem, especially childhood obesity.

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Mar 9, 2010 Whatever, in their wisdom, the Members of Congress do pass in the way of health care reform legislation - if indeed, they're able to stop beating each other about the head and shoulders, and pass anything at all - they can do so assured that whatever it does for us - or to us - will not apply to them.

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Mar 3, 2010 Postmaster General Jack Potter says the U.S. Postal Service is going to lose seven billion dollars this year, unless it can cut costs now. And he had an interesting explanation for the problem the post office faces.

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Eagle & Chicken

A man once found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest
of a barnyard hen. The eagle hatched and grew up with the rest
of a brood of chicks and though he didn't look at all the same.
He scratched the earth for worms and bugs and played the chicken's games.

The eagle clucked and cackled, he made a chicken's sound;
He thrashed his wings, but only flew some two feet off the ground.
That's high as chickens fly, the eagle had been told.
The years passed and one day when the eagle was quite old.

He saw something magnificent flying very high
And making great majestic circles up there in the sky.
He'd never seen the likes of it. "What's that?" he asked in awe,
While he watched in wonder at the grace and power he saw.

"Why that's an eagle," someone said, "He belongs up there, it's clear.
Just as we, since we are chickens, belong earthbound down here."
The old eagle just accepted that, most everybody does.
And he lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.

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