Best tomato year since the Reagan administration
 

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It's the sort of
thing that smelly old men find amusing to do to children.

Hey, Stinky, like some free-market Kool Aid?

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f.../12/bush200712

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
The next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy
of George W. Bush: the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz,
sees a generation-long struggle to recoup.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz December 2007


When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush
administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq
war, the shame of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil
liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make
front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt
beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page.

I can hear an irritated counterthrust already. The president has not
driven the United States into a recession during his almost seven years
in office. Unemployment stands at a respectable 4.6 percent. Well, fine.
But the other side of the ledger groans with distress: a tax code that
has become hideously biased in favor of the rich; a national debt that
will probably have grown 70 percent by the time this president leaves
Washington; a swelling cascade of mortgage defaults; a record near-$850
billion trade deficit; oil prices that are higher than they have ever
been; and a dollar so weak that for an American to buy a cup of coffee
in London or Paris--or even the Yukon--becomes a venture in high finance.

And it gets worse. After almost seven years of this president, the
United States is less prepared than ever to face the future. We have not
been educating enough engineers and scientists, people with the skills
we will need to compete with China and India. We have not been investing
in the kinds of basic research that made us the technological powerhouse
of the late 20th century. And although the president now understands--or
so he says--that we must begin to wean ourselves from oil and coal, we
have on his watch become more deeply dependent on both.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html

Best tomato year since the Reagan administration
 

"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
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This has been the best year that I've had for tomatoes since the 1980s,
it's more than made up for last year's disaster.

Lucky you! I had the complete opposite...wonderful production last year
(bringing in about 200 tomatoes each week), versus three or four small
tomatoes a week this year!
--S.