For Decades - ever since the reforms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration - conservatives have been howling into the wind, trying to drum up opposition to Social Security, using every ploy in the book to destroy legislation that has benefited - and continues to benefit - millions upon millions of our elderly citizens.
They will use [...]
Social Security Safe Despite Scare Tactics
Health Care Reform - Shame on America
The efforts at health care reform now working its way through the hallowed halls of our government is something that should deeply anger all Americans, left and right, Democrat or Republican or Independent. Nothing that comes from these current efforts will ever solve the agony and suffering of tens of millions of Americans who are [...]
Obama and War: America’s Dead-end Vision
To President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech, we have a mixed and strange response coming out of the country. From a Peace Prize recipient, we are so used to a lofty vision, a vision of achievable peace, that Obama’s words about the necessity of war to achieve peaceful ends falls like a dull thud upon [...]