The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
It’s fascinating that in a time when our country is led by a man completely without character, General Stanley McChrystal, the man who led our special forces in the Afghan war, has written a book specifically about character. Even more interesting is
There are two basic elements to the coalition, which voted Trump into office in November; First is the blue-collar base, the out of work middle-aged white guys that have been lied to by Republican politicians since the 1980s. They can now
There is only one way to drag this country up out of the economic mire into which it has allowed itself to sink. First we have to tax the hell out of the rich. They are the ones who have the
So, after being dumb enough to vote a bunch of Tea Party hacks into the House over two elections, after finding that all the GOP promises did nothing but crash the economy under Bush and after discovering that a Republican congress
One of the biggest failures of the Obama administration has been its inability to create a much needed infrastructure bill. It never happened because a Republican congress wouldn’t let anything happen that might look good in the Obama legacy. Should that
The battle going on in North Dakota over another unnecessary pipeline has finally heated up to the point where real human damage has been done and much more serious retaliation is eminent. The latest about to join the pipeline demonstrators are a
The single most important aspect of the post election will be jobs. Putting all of America back to work at a living wage is the basic key to having the country work. Think about how things were after WWII. There is
Trump coming out with his economic policies this week brought to the fore the debates about our foreign trade policies such as NAFTA and the current TPP. Everybody who can stand upright and eat a popsicle has his or her own
As we stand on the brink of another autumn, it appears fair to say that everyone in this country has an opinion of Big Pharma. Everyone regards it either as the provider of the medicine that fights off disease or as
This week, Jim Hines a Democratic congressman from CT. interrupted a moment of silence aimed at honoring the victims of the Orlando massacre and set out on a 15 hour filibuster trying to wake up the congress and have them actually do