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".
Marble Falls The big, bad budget bill squeaking through the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives committee process makes a big thing out of work requirements as a means to transfer benefits from the poor to the rich by blocking access to Medicaid, food stamps, and other vestiges of what’s left of the US …
Pearl River The Democrats have been getting a bad rap since the election about their inability to stop the 100-plus day assault on the US government and the majority of the American people. This is paradoxical since in politics the minority never has as much power as the majority, when it comes to political …