New Orleans In an excellent piece the Times looked at the gross profiteering on the major to-big-to-fail bailout banks like Wells Fargo, Chase, and Citibank and their unseemly and immoral role in fleecing the hapless lower income customers of payday loans through their bank draft procedures. By hitting accounts repeatedly, even when already recognizing overdrafts, …
Month: February 2013
Venal Politics of Ambition, Ideology, and Contributions Crippling Louisiana Healthcare
New Orleans What often goes unsaid when the right pontificates and proselytizes about the wondrous benefits of privatization or public-private so-called “partnerships,” is the how much this is all simply a rationalization for personal ambition and the need to raise huge campaign contributions to fuel that fire. We see this now, painfully and almost daily, …
Awful Politics of Deportations Might Require Presidential Pardons
New Orleans It would be nice to believe that we are finally coming to the endgame on the long battle to win real immigration reform and a path to citizenship for millions. Personally, I’m not convinced we are going to be all that happy with how this sausage is made, but still we have to …