Sunday, July 06, 2008 | 10:32 a.m.

The Plague of Potomac Fever

by David Sirota

If any publication was going to document the sickness known as Potomac Fever, it was going to be the Washington Post.

Last month, the newspaper penned a front-page dispatch headlined "Housing Accord Puts Builders First; Strapped Homeowners Offered Little Aid." It described congressional leaders agreeing to "provide billions of dollars in tax rebates to the slumping home-building industry while offering little to homeowners threatened with foreclosure." The bill prop ...

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Posted by: michael nola
Comment: #1
Fri May 2, 2008 11:18 PM

As long as the average American sits around stuffing his face with fast food and his mind with crap TV and refuses to educate himself about the forces that are raping this country and most importantly, taking political action, nothing will change. How much longer will the masses remain passive?

Posted by: jim
Comment: #2
Fri May 2, 2008 9:09 AM

I call it Reaganomics, do anything do anyone for a buck. We see it in housing gas and now food, I wonder what is next.

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