WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Heerlen This is going to be interesting. From the looks of the early pronouncements from the new imperial government about potential appointments, it appears there are actually two criteria for President-elect Trump’s choices. The first is absolute fealty. The second is a commitment to work to undermine the department of the government that they will …
New Orleans The corruption indictment on a bunch of nasty counts of bribes, influence peddling, and campaign finagling didn’t come as a surprise to read in the Times. For daily readers, it seemed like one shoe after another was dropping around him and had been doing so for a good part of his …
Marble Falls One of the saddest things about contemporary capitalism is that there are constant scams designed to rip-off consumers. The United States has whole agencies that are designed to protect consumers and oversee such shenanigans, like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and that’s a good thing. …