Republicans propose to cut food stamp spending by 5%

Food Stamp Cuts Would Deny Benefits To At Least 4 Million: CBPP

Maybe someone will listen to an imaginary cat?

PINKY SHOW : How to Repair the World (WeForest video guest narrated by Pinky)

ENN: “Green Economics”: Turning Mainstream Thinking on Its Head

Here is a great piece on how econmics must take the environment into the equation if we want to survive.

The best quote: "The economy exists inside the ecosystem."

ENN: “Green Economics”: Turning Mainstream Thinking on Its Head

On Poverty, Maybe We're All Wrong - washingtonpost.com

Tis a very good artical on poverty.

Steven Pearlstein - On Poverty, Maybe We're All Wrong - washingtonpost.com

Fear and Loathing in Middle America

I never could understand why the poor in America consistently vote against their interests. It only happens in America.

AlterNet: Fear and Loathing in Middle America

What if Libby Was Black or Mentally Retarded?

Bush refused to commute the sentence of a poor, black, mentally handicapped man with the an IQ of 60 that functioned at the level of a 7 year old. That's Bush's justice.

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: What if Libby Was Black or Mentally Retarded?: "The president's decision had everything to do with: 1) a likely deal between the vice president and Libby's attorneys in which Libby promised to keep the scuttlebutt away from Vice President Cheney in exchange for the VPOTUS promising to see what he could do about the sentence; and 2) Scooter Libby isn't poor, black or retarded."

Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime

Non-corporate crime would also decrease if large segments of society weren't held in abject poverty. Quality of life would improve for all of society if poverty were eliminated.

AlterNet: Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime

FBI: Violent crime still increasing

I believe that the increase in violent crime is caused by the increase in the desperation of our countries poor brought on by the party of "family values".

FBI: Violent crime still increasing - Yahoo! News

Adios, World Bank

The poor won't miss you.

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Adios, World Bank:

"Nadia Martinez: The World Bank continues in its downward spiraling crisis of legitimacy, at least in Latin America. "