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The crash in Republican economics

Not even George W. Bush or Alan Greenspan can sugarcoat America's financial meltdown. Will the next president seize the chance to rethink how we run our economy?

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  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:22 PM

    Big problems need a big switch

    If we just turned the power off in America for 8 hrs a day it would solve the greenhouse gas problem and all the other problems as well. Just go dark 1/3rd of the time. For that 33% you're living happily in the bucolic 19th Century. And ban all motorized travel during that time as well.

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