St Louis Post Dispatch
Oblivious to children’s hunger.
06/16/2009
State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She’s for it.
“Hunger can be a positive motivator,” she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter.
More precisely, Ms. Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids.
They are an excuse “to create an expansion […]
This has been so for many years.
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Good luck to the money grubbers.
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Image: (Rich skinflint) via productioninmage gatetheatre.ie; (camel) via en.wikipedia.org;(Let them eat Tasteekake box) tasteekake.com; (eye of the needle) mni.us;
Constance Coldspring
has sent this piece which shows the results of 8 more years of
Compassionate Conservatism.
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20-year life gap separates city’s poorest, wealthy
By Annie Linskey | annie.linskey@baltsun.com
October 16, 2008
In West Baltimore’s impoverished Hollins Market neighborhood, where the average life expectancy is about 63 years, residents shared beers and cigarettes on their front steps at midday yesterday […]
118 years after
Jacob Riis’ HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
&
42 years after
Michael Harrington’s THE OTHER AMERICA.
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This is the true obscenity of unrestrained greed
with its consorts of arrogance and stupidity.
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ABC NEWS
April 22, 2008
Life Expectancy Slips in Poor Parts of America
New Study Shows Drop in Life Expectancy in Deep South, Parts of Midwest, Texas […]
FEMA trailers toxic, tests show
Facing Relocation
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Alex Brandon / Associated Press
Jim “Hawk” Herring, with his dog Koko, lives in a FEMA trailer in the Lakeview area of New Orleans. With recent government tests confirming high levels of formaldehyde in the temporary residences, U.S. health officials are urging that hurricane victims be relocated as soon as possible.
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Unhealthy […]
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SOCIAL INSECURITY
High-Interest Lenders
Tap Elderly, Disabled
By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS
February 12, 2008; Page A1
DOTHAN, Ala. — One recent morning, dozens of elderly and disabled people, some propped on walkers and canes, gathered at Small Loans Inc. Many had borrowed money from Small Loans and turned over their Social Security benefits to pay back […]
Welcome to Richistan, USA
The American Dream of riches for all is turning into a nightmare of inequality. But a backlash is brewing, reports Paul Harris in New York
Paul Harris in New York
Sunday July 22, 2007
Observer
On the surface, Mark Cain works for a time-share company. Members pay a one-off sum to join and an annual fee. […]
Hundreds arrested in Danish riots
Activists clashed with police for a second night in Copenhagen
The street protests
Danish police have arrested almost 600 people in Copenhagen, in three days of violent protests over the eviction of squatters from a youth centre.
Some 2,000 people attended a peaceful demonstration on Saturday, but police are braced for more clashes overnight.
The […]
”He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death”
–Thomas Paine at the grand opening of a Packard automobile dealership in Muncie, Indiana, 1952
The arrogance of asking billions of dollars for war and further tax cuts for the very wealthy […]
Paul Begala may be right. These guys would rather climb a tree to lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
Bush’s levee budget upsets Vitter
He says it undermines pledge of protection
Friday, February 02, 2007
By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing […]