Alex Park

Alex Park
Location
Buffalo, New York, USA
Birthday
October 20
Bio
Novelist, have lived in NYC, and New England. Books are Running From the Paranoids, 2004 & Count of Chaos, 2007, Elephant Park, 2011. Trained as historian

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MAY 9, 2011 4:04PM

Red Light Cameras

Red Light Cameras

 

Two years ago I spoke about this at a common council meeting. It is unfortunate that this sad adventure in raising revenue is at hand again, one that finds drivers guilty anonymously, profits the manufacturers of the cameras, and actually increases the chance of rear collision… Read full post »

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APRIL 25, 2011 2:51PM

Obama's Speech

Obama’s Speech

 

            I think Obama was right on target by saying the truly wealthy need to start paying more, because the institutions of this government allowed them to become wealthy in the first place. Bill Gate’s, the/… Read full post »

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APRIL 10, 2011 2:30PM

It's Really About the Money

Now let me see, during the Bush years the Republicans spent money like drunken sailors, privatized much of the military, outsourced to their friends like Halliburton, and then had the temerity to grant tax breaks to the least deserving during a war. This is unheard of in our history. Now that Ob… Read full post »
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MARCH 2, 2011 5:25PM

Republicans Blaming the Victims

            Wouldn’t it be ironic that if the Middle Eastern countries we hadn’t invaded gradually became more democratic, or at least got rid of their dictatorships?

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JANUARY 11, 2011 1:33PM

A Solution to Albany's Deficit

           

            Assuming the state deficit is almost ten billion dollars and the New York bankers and hedge fund managers who are largely responsible for this economic mess will rewa/… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 2, 2010 4:28PM

On Politics

On Politics  One British writer, Toby Young, who wound up being a pariah after being at Vanity Fair [He wrote How to Lose Friends & Alienate People], on the basis of a year at Harvard how disappointed America was with all its political correctness. He found Americans more interested in… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 18, 2010 3:22PM

Middleclass Voting Against Their Own Interests

 

It seems Americans are returning to voting against their own interests. I can fully understand wealthy people voting Republican, but then they are whining about increases in their tax rates equal to the Clinton Era, which created more jobs than all 20 years of Republican Administrations combi… Read full post »

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AUGUST 9, 2010 5:23PM

Albany's Deficit Idiocy

      I see that in the new state budget Albany finally passed last week, the fifty million dollar tax on hedge fund managers was dropped. Why? It makes no sense. Who was paid off? When NY State is putting the middle class through the wringer, why give these wealthy people a… Read full post »

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AUGUST 9, 2010 5:23PM

Albany's Deficit Idiocy

      I see that in the new state budget Albany finally passed last week, the fifty million dollar tax on hedge fund managers was dropped. Why? It makes no sense. Who was paid off? When NY State is putting the middle class through the wringer, why give these wealthy people a… Read full post »

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AUGUST 7, 2010 11:27PM

Welcome back, Mr. Joad

  It is a disgrace that it took until recently to extend unemployment benefits (UI). For many weeks now, all Republican senators plus Ben Nelson of (D.) Nebraska have obstructed the president’s attempt to pass an extension of unemployment benefits under the false lie “That we ca… Read full post »
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