I saw an interesting article on Wal-Mart today (It was on Yahoo, so you probably saw it too). The article discusses how the company was losing customers to competitors because the stores are understaffed. Empty shelves and long lines at check outs were reasons given. One of the sources cited was Bloomberg news not exactly a bastion of left wing ... Read More »
This week the Supreme Court is hearing two cases on gay marriage, the first involving a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, and the section involving proposition 8 in California. If the justices have even read the constitution their decision should be easy. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution reads in part “No State shall make or enforce any ... Read More »
I have had a cold the past few days; sinus problems run in my family so two or three times a year I got a nasty cold. Every time I get a cold I am reminded of one of the most egregious violations into the lives of private citizens that no one talks about. This is the nightmare that the ... Read More »
Recently RNC Chair Reince Priebus recently release the socalled autopsy of the 2012 elections. The autopsy focused mostly focused on technical issues like ground organization, messaging, and did have some discussion of outreach to new voters. The mere fact that they called this an autopsy is in and of itself hysterical. The main recommendations were to limit the number of ... Read More »
At last week’s CPAC conference there was a panel discussion called “Trump the Race Card.” Okay so they weren’t so much reaching out as trying to find a way around minority voters. The basic message of the panel was to deflect charges of racism by pointing out that Democrats supported slavery. This would be like Democrats trying to reach out ... Read More »
Paul Ryan unveiled his new budget the other day, and it included, once again, his Medicare plan. If you by some chance don’t know this plan eliminates Medicare for people born after 1959 and replaces it with a so called voucher to buy private insurance. Here’s my take on this plan. Republicans talk about how much better this plan is ... Read More »
Paul Ryan introduced his budget for the year 2014 today. It is thing of wonder. It leaves you wondering what kind of morons elected this asshole. I lived in Wisconsin and have been to Pleasant Prairie so I know. The Ryan Budget is a long document and contains more bullshit than a sale barn (again I live in Wisconsin) so ... Read More »
Last week I posted articles addressing the rising cost of college, the burden of college debt, and the decreasing value of a college education. How do we deal with this problem? The problem of student loan debt has begun to pose a threat to our financial stability, and the decreasing wages of graduate combined with this debt threaten to annihilate ... Read More »
We have already looked at the rapidly growing cost of a college education. The average cost in 2011 was $18, 497 a year. So what does four years of your life and almost $75,000 dollars get you. Not a hell of a lot it turns out. We are of course coming out of recession, and unemployment is high. According to the ... Read More »
The cost of a college education has been skyrocketing of the past few years. It has made college increasingly unaffordable for the poor, and has buried middle class graduates in mountain of debt. How bad is it? Well, let us take a look at the rising cost of college and the increasing burden of debt. According to the national center ... Read More »
