Inflation at its highest rate in last 17 years.
I read Dean Bakers columns over at CEPR. He helps me to understand how all the ups and downs of prices for goods and services that are fucking us all in the ass six ways from Sunday.
Making millions and billions off the working poor.
They are known as Predatory Lenders. You see their ads; payday loans, buy a car with no or bad credit, subprime credit cards with well over 20% interest rates and finally the home loan corporations.
The Postville Legacy: Do You Want Lies With That Hot Dog?
My dear blog friend Border Explorer has been diligent and passionate in her series about the Postville Raid. Called “the biggest immigration raid in American history,” this raid has also opened the largest meat packing scandal since Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle,
OK, Let’s Talk about Law and Order
Neocons who scream against “illegal aliens” are all for Law and Order. One counter-protestor’s sign in Postville IA on July 27 read “What would Jesus Do? Obey the Law.” Leaving aside her failure to grasp the Christian Scripture, we can accept her emphasis on obedience as characteristic of the right wing.
What does GM stand for/Economy Falling
As the US economic house of cards falls- here is another case in point of a failed economy, and a failed ability to manipulate car owners into buying gas hog vehicles.
Paulson announces Treasury will shore up Frannie and Freddie
After saying they wouldn’t be taking this step late last week, Paulson announced today, on a Sunday no less, that the Treasury will be taking steps to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Errores en Espanol
McCain’s new radio ad, in Spanish, aims to show Florida would benefit from the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which he supports.
The Cost of War in Iraq
I thought I would take a look at the local cost of the War in Iraq. The National Priorities Project has a page where you can get the costs as it pertains to your locality. Taxpayers in California’s Congressional District 36 (Harman) will pay $1.3 billion for total Iraq war spending approved to date.
The disappearing Middle Class or Class Warfare?
Moyers examines a hard working family in Los Angeles, and how they must hold two and sometimes three jobs to just make ends meet. Workers productivity increased 76% but wages have only increased less than 2% in the last 30 years.
About Getting Stimulated
Okay,So everybody is waiting for the Stimulus Checks.And yet some people have theirs, and yes some people have spent their money already.The funny thing is that most people I know are spending the Stimulus check on unpaid Bills, or other even groceries. I don’t really know anyone spending it on Something Extravagant.
