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The Lineup: Week of October 11-17, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package.
Washington at Work–for the Wealthy
Most federal asset-building programs, the study explains, deliver their benefits through the tax code, an approach that almost guarantees that the wealthy will score, by far, the biggest benefits.
Four Hundred Thousand Reasons to Vote
Alan Simpson, the co-chair of President Obama’s task force on deficit reduction, insulted those who depend on Social Security–many of them older women, children, and people with disabilities–by referring to the program as “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” Earlier, Simpson described the millions who depend on Social Security benefits as “lesser people.”
Rattling Democracy in Latin America
In late September, tear gas and the smoke from burning tires filled the air as Ecuador’s president was held hostage in a police hospital.
The Faces of Government
I had dinner the other night with one of those villains, a “faceless bureaucrat” working as a wildlife biologist for the Department of the Interior in northern Florida. A college friend of my wife, she had spent many years in research on endangered species, and now has moved into an administrative position where she supervises the research of other wildlife scientists.
Confronting the Reality of Climate Change
It got so hot in downtown Los Angeles the other day that the thermometer broke. The National Weather Service’s device hit 113 degrees at about noon (the highest temp ever recorded in LA), then just quit. Climate change hawks were quick to seize on this as evidence that global warming is revving up and we ought to do something about it before it’s too late.
Save the Billionaires’ Tax Loophole
Look out. They’re angry. Foaming-at-the-mouth angry. And they’re lashing out, saying they won’t take it anymore. As one of their leaders angrily cried, “It’s a war.” Indeed–they’re on the move to take their country back.
Save the Billionaires
Trim NASA Down to Size
President Barack Obama is surely on the right track in scratching our return to the moon and in dropping the Space Shuttle program.
The Lineup: Week of October 4-10, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which includes an op-ed by Marge Baker and a column by Donald Kaul regarding the tea party’s GOP candidates this election season.
