Dave Pollard writes a really interesting article on The Bankrupting of the American Middle Class. My favorite point:
"The costs that have risen most are mortgage, health insurance, car, preschool, after-school care and college. Spending on basics like food, clothing and furniture have actually dropped 20% for the average family with children in the past generation. 'Excessive consumerism' is a total myth."
A friend is currently working on a free bookmobile project in Uganda. Why such a remote place? I couldn't form a single mental image in my mind of Uganda. Now I have a lot of them, & I don't even know what to do with them except ask you to read a bit: Uganda.
A lobbyist, on his way home from work in Washington, D.C., came to a deadhalt in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this seems worse than usual."
He noticed a police officer walking between the lines of stopped cars, so he rolled down his window and asked, "Officer what's the hold-up?"
The officer replied, "The President is depressed, so he stopped his motorcade and is threatening to douse himself in gasoline and set himself on fire. He says no one believes his stories about why we went to war in Iraq, or the connection between Saddam and al-Qa`ida, or that his tax cuts will help anyone except his wealthy friends; the press called him on the lie about Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger, and now Campbell Brown is threatening to sue him for a sexual innuendo he made at a recent press conference. So we're taking up a collection for him."
The lobbyist asks, "How much have you got so far?"
The officer replies, "About 14 gallons, but a lot of folks are still siphoning."