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Bailout Dear?Editor The economic "trickle down" theory of the Bush administration is nothing new to the American scene. We saw it during the period of "Coolidge Prosperity" as administered under Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon from 1924 to 1928, which walked us directly and blindly into the Great Depression. We saw it again in the ‘80s, when "Reaganomics" and a mushrooming deficit brought a slash in many social programs created in the 1960s to assist and help the poor. Further, many regulatory agencies dating to FDR and the New Deal, including the FSLIC, FDIC and SEC, were either weakened, abolished altogether, or had their budgets cut so that the whole savings and loan "junk bonds" crisis and insider trading that ensued gave us an economy with 10.8% unemployment, a quadrupled national debt, and record foreclosures and bank failures. When Carter left office in 1980 the U.S. had a $2 billion foreign trade surplus.
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HOBY seminar
Dear Editor
We would like to thank the Martins Ferry Rotary Club for their sponsorship of our daughter, Alonna Ackerman.
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Stepping up
Dear Editor,
Saturday evening, Sept. 20, a Benefit Cruise In was held on Zane Highway in Martins Ferry. This was to benefit a very ill child’s family financially in trouble.
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Gun Rights
Dear Editor,
At a recent rally in Steubenville, presidential candidate Sen.
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Vote for McCain
Dear Editor:
With the constant coverage of the presidential campaign for over a year, I will be glad when this election is over.
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Campaign
Dear Editor,
If you are concerned about voting for Barack Obama because he is a man of color, you need to recondition your thinking.
John McCain has 13 cars and four plus houses.
Barnesville vs Beallsville VB
maggie n the witch
maggs and the witch
maggs and her cousin
Whistle send off
Campaign Stop
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Shadyside Football