Solving New York State’s Fiscal Crisis
The Governor is going to propose once again reducing the expenses of education and cutting medicaid spending. It seems that the engine that ran the State, Wall Street, is no longer paying what it once did. Since we long ago got rid of manufacturing in New York, we now have nothing to replace [...]
Should we reinstate the Draft?
A few nights ago Bill Moyers suggested in his verbal essay at the end of his program, “Bill Moyers Journal,” that the real way to bring sanity to foreign war policy would be to reinstate the draft. That way, he reasoned, the general population of the United States would have a genuine interest in whether [...]
Have we lost our way?
Frank Rich, who went to Harvard, writes today in “Goldman Can You Spare a Dime” of the greed and money culture of Wall Street that has produced an air of entitlement in the major players in the Obama Administration. It was of course those same players who were part of the Wall Street [...]
Yeah…economy…still not so good
Bob Herbert in the NYTimes today:
“For those concerned with the economic viability of the American family going forward, the plight of young workers, especially young men, is particularly frightening. The percentage of young American men who are actually working is the lowest it has been in the 61 years of record-keeping, according to the Center [...]
Have we become everything we hate?
The Justice Department is likely to conduct an investigation into whether any American personel were involved in torturing terrorism suspects. The government, however, will not prosecute any individuals who adhered to the guidelines of the lawyers in the Justice Department regarding torture. Moreover, the Justice Department will not prosecute the lawyers who rendered those legal [...]
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