Playing state against state, city against city
The great corporate jobs-for-subsidies con-job
Also in this issue
- Free-enterprise socialism
- The wrath of leviticus
- Bush's evangelical suprise
- Chevy's revolting revolution
- United stiffs retirees and tapayers
- Hold the mail
What the hell's happening here? Why is my bank in the tank? And my house and job? And my retirement money? Even my state's teetering on the brink of broke! Who did this to us? Fair questions, but we're not getting honest answers. 
Hold the mail
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