"As the law requires, the candidate has no contact with Restore Our Future, the "super Pac" with the rather elegantly oxymoronic name funded most notably by John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire who famously shorted the US subprime mortgage market. Romney doesn't need to contact them. He hits the stump, flashing his smile with frontrunner repose, while the super-PAC restores the future with nonstop attack ads that don't even bear his name."
I agree with you that it is a good article - Der Spiegel has good writers. I know that most people rarely go to the link - I am like that myself unless it really interests me.
"The presidential contenders can hardly afford to challenge the Murdoch powerhouse. Many of the Republican candidates have worked as commentators for Fox in the past, and if they hope to do the same in the future, they have to play Fox's game. But in doing so, they are also disqualifying themselves for the country's highest office."
"He slammed Britain for allowing payday loan companies to open in this country, offering such astronomical interest rates while they have been regulated out of other countries."
The fact that most are American Companies has been removed from the article as an update.
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Thanks for the heads up Darks. I don’t think I knew Judith Anne but I have been checking her posts and it is really sad that she likely to be taken from us at this season of the year.
Thank you ladies - last year, in Spain, as the birthday boy I had to buy dinner for 18 as is the custom there.
This year I am older and smarter. I fled to a grest country where the opposite is true I can dine on gourmet food, fine wines with coffee and cognac to follow without a care in the world.
"But he also talked nonsense. In the name of smaller government he was insisting on higher taxes. Even his Republican colleagues in the Senate would not buy it; the Democrats wouldn't wear it; the country couldn't afford it. He marched them up to the top of the hill, where they were shot at by their own troops, and then he marched them down again. Oops."
"Certain professions are favoured by the Australian government, including health workers and engineers. Applications for skilled visas can take months to complete and are no guarantee of work once you arrive, unless you have been sponsored by an employer."