New Orleans Here’s a shocker. The one piece of the stimulus package that everyone seems to agree is working is Obama bump in the food stamp program. Furthermore, the success is such that there is real discussion now in Congress about giving the program another bump. Now we’re talking about citizen wealth meaning real income …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Learning the Suburbs
Silver Springs An interesting byproduct of providing some support on capacity building to organizations in the DC/Baltimore areas has involved my being sent to re-education camp to learn more about the vast, sprawling suburbs that dominate this area of the country. For the life of me I have to learn how to distinguish one row …
Banks Piling On
New Orleans There just seems to be no shame among most of the nation’s big banking institutions. Despite their recklessness and greed that frog marched us into a semi-great depression, they continue to aggressively resist all movement to reform their ways and now are fleecing us more heartily than ever before with charges that fairly …