I went to Change.gov and gave my recommendation for what the Obama administration can do in the short term: pay people to stay in foreclosed homes. In exchange, they have to maintain their houses. This plan accomplishes two things: it keeps people from becoming homeless; gives people, especially the unemployed, extra income; and it keeps [...]
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My suggestion for the Obama administration: pay people to stay in foreclosed houses
Posted: 19 January 2009 in Current eventsTags: financial crisis, obama
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Obama victory hysteria: is everything really possible in America?
Posted: 5 November 2008 in Current eventsTags: obama
I’ve been reading columnists like Thomas Friedman gush over the Obama victory and it is coming close to hysteria. Friedman says in the NY Times: “Let every child and every citizen and every new immigrant know that from this day forward everything really is possible in America.” Everything is possible? I disagree. Here’s what the [...]
Today is a very happy day for those who voted for Barack Obama (including me). Check out the photos of ecstatic people around the world. But also read about what happened behind the scenes at the Obama and McCain campaigns: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html
Panic in GOP land: blacks are voting!
Posted: 31 October 2008 in Current eventsTags: elections, mccain, obama
Ah yes, there’s nothing like the upcoming elections to bring racists out of the closet. Check out this article about an email from the GOP in Florida to supporters which said: “This is their chance to get a black president and they seem to care little the he is at minimum a socialist and probably [...]
Brits burn effigy of Palin on bonfire
Posted: 31 October 2008 in Current eventsTags: elections, obama, palin
“The Republican Governor of Alaska has been made into a giant effigy, with a tiny Barack Obama sitting behind her in a tin hat peppered with bullet holes with ‘O’Blimey’ written across it. The pit bull with lipstick will be loaded with explosives and torched at the site of the Battle of Hastings in East [...]
