Loading ...What does it mean to be poor?
Friday, August 31st, 2007It certainly meant something different when LBJ embarked on his Great Society program intended to lift many out of poverty. When LBJ talked about poverty he talked about people living in houses with dirt floors and without electricity and heat.
This is not the case anymore, yet we still consider millions to be poor. […]
Unsustainable government…
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007From Robert Samuelson’s article, When Silence Isn’t Golden:
Consider the outlook. From 2005 to 2030, the 65-and-over population will nearly double to 71 million; its share of the population will rise to 20 percent from 12 percent. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—programs that serve older people—already exceed 40 percent of the $2.7 trillion federal budget. By […]
CNN interview: Blumenthal makes my job easier…
Monday, July 30th, 2007In regards to Blumentha’s chicken hawk argument, I pointed out that his argument functioned on the premise that one cannot politically support a public policy which one does not directly participate and claimed that what makes an argument as to whether a public policy is bad is not whether or not those who support it […]
CRNC Convention: An anti-war blogger’s perspective
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007The short video was produced by, and featured, Max Blumenthal, a blogger for the Huffington Post. The video, titled Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour says it all, namely that Blumenthal’s motive was to sneak into the CRNC convention to attempt to embarrass College Republicans by exposing their unwillingness to fight […]
