New Orleans The days turn into months, the months turn into years, but time inadequate still to erase the full-on craziness in the land. I know after 38 years with ACORN I’m not just months shy of three years since I resigned. ACORN itself threw in the towel and declared bankruptcy almost 5 months ago …
Month: March 2011
Bank’s Hustling AGs and Consumers on Second Mortgages
New Orleans Way back in the New York Times business section in sort of a snarky article by a ProPublica report (a nonprofit NYT outsourcer) a dangerous curtain was raised on the supposedly tough negotiations between the state attorneys general and the big banks about mortgage loan modifications. Seems on an okey-doke, wink-and-a-nod, the deal …
Mounting Casualties of Total War on Poor and Low Wage Workers
New Orleans In wars, if we are able and willing to endure the pain and sorrow, we can read the casualty count, virtually on a daily basis of dead and injured. As the war drags on, as we now see in Iraq and Afghanistan, the item gets smaller and moves to the back of the …