The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
There seem to be two concepts that drive the Republican agenda, balanced budget and smaller government. A first glance neither seems particularly outrageous but upon further inspection, as applied by the far right and driven by the Teabaggers, both lose a great
There seem to be two concepts that drive the Republican agenda, balanced budget and smaller government. A first glance neither seems particularly outrageous but upon further inspection, as applied by the far right and driven by the Teabaggers, both lose a great
The Democrats and the Republicans continue to bang heads and the President keeps trying to get in his licks whenever he can but that’s all to be expected. What isn’t to be expected, what runs counter to all our beliefs and expectations
More and more lately we are hearing the far right, ranting about how they are never going to sit still for the coming invasion of Sharia law. Really? Who asked them to? I mean does anyone really think that Sharia law is
In an earlier blog we spoke a lot about Barak Obama and whether or not he was the right guy for the job. Now, with the Republican candidates starting to line up to try and take Obama’s job we’re going to take
The number of children living in poverty in the United Sates has increased by four million since 2000 The number of homeless children increased 41% between 2007 & 2009 In 2009 an average of 15.6 million children received food stamps monthly, an
I keep hearing people say that TARP and the Stimulus were failures. Only if you’re a Republican or someone too dumb to understand what actually happened with them. TARP was probably one of the best ideas the Bush administration ever came up
The Democrats and Republicans are gong at each other tooth and nail, battling over raising the debt limit and using that fight to advance their agendas. The Democrats want to create employment and maintain as many of our social services as possible.
The game is almost over. The politicians have now wasted months agonizing over the debt ceiling, a period of time during which, a bleeding nation has gone into intensive care without the attention of the doctors. Nothing has been done about the
If you aren’t disgusted by the gyrations of our government over the debt ceiling then you aren’t paying attention. A bunch of Tea Party and ultra conservative members of the house, are holding the rest of the United States Government hostage in