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The Year 2050 According to the American Public
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Mark Cuban ‘Transforming’ Mavericks With New Player: Optimus Prime
Team owner Mark Cuban has become the first member of the Dallas Mavericks to appear in a post-NBA championship national commercial. The TV spot is a lead-in to the upcoming film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
The commercial goes even farther with its promotional tie-in by also featuring ESPN sportscaster Jay Harris. But as revealed toward the end of the 30-second spot, the main player is Optimus Prime.
Following the Mavericks 2010-11 NBA championship series win over the Miami Heat, Cuban was among those cited by analysts as being in an optimum position to transform the crown into endorsement perks.
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Votes that pushed us into the red
In the debate over the nation’s rising debt, rhetoric trumps reality. In January 2001, the U.S. budget was balanced for the first time in decades and the Congressional Budget Office was forecasting surpluses totaling $5.6 trillion by 2011. A decade later, the national debt is larger, as a percentage of the economy, than at any time in U.S. history except for the period shortly after World War II.
75 percent of the members currently serving in Congress voted for at least one — and in most cases more than one — of three policies that contributed to fully one-third of the $12.7 trillion swing from projected surpluses to real debt:
- President George W. Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts
- Funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- President Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill
Details via The Washington Post
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