New Orleans Victor Bussie had two careers as president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO for over 40 years with half at the zenith of the body’s power and influence in the state and the other half on its downward cycle. First elected in 1956 for a long time Vic was known with labor as the only …
Month: September 2011
Bank of America’s Countrywide Ghoul Strikes Again
New Orleans Reports from Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times are raising the specter of Bank of America filing for bankruptcy for its Countrywide mortgage unit detonating the “nuclear” option to save the parent company and run from the toxic mortgage load bought in 2008. I wonder if this doesn’t finally give another explanation …
Victory! H&R Block Finally Kills RALS!
New Orleans Early this week H&R Block finally threw in the towel and announced that they would totally discontinue RALs for this coming tax season on 2011 returns. After seven (7) years we can finally count coup on a total victory that once preyed on lower income and desperate families for close to half-a-billion dollars …