San Juan It is a weird feeling to walk through demonstrators and pickets to get inside the SEIU quadrennial convention being held these days in Puerto Rico. Chanting people in yellow shirts, fliers being thrust into your hands, and general chaos and confusion as your badge and ID are double checked by …
Category: Personal Writings
Tax the Rich
San Juan Here’s an interesting survey that you don’t see every day. A lot of people in a lot of countries believe that the rich should be taxed more. A new Financial Times/Harris Poll of 8,748 adults in eight countries found that more than half of respondents in all countries believed the wealthy should be …
Thinking About Ted Kennedy
New Orleans Dewey Armstrong, an early ACORN veteran, whose trail I had lost for more than 20 years, suddenly appeared in “in-box” recently with word of his good health, thoughts about helping in post-Katrina world in the New Orleans, and other things big and small. Dewey had been the first head organizer in our expansion …