Martin Luther King Would Have Loved the Teabaggers, Not Called Them Racists
Friday 02 October 2009
by: Mike Elk, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
A few weeks ago, I attended the teabagger protests in DC. The thing I noticed the most about the folks there was that, for the most part, they were friendly, nice, hardworking people. Sure, there were some crazies; sure, there were some racists. For the most part, though, they looked like the type of folks I grew up with in the labor movement, coming to DC to enjoy a protest and spend the rest of the weekend taking in some monuments and museums. These weren't rich suburbanites; the teabaggers I saw were mainly poor people, whose trip to DC were probably the only the vacation they would be able to afford this year. (Full Story)
Crap-A-Mortgage-Scheme !
Firms Are Getting Billions, but Homeowners Still in Trouble
by: Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers
Washington - The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of the very companies that judges or regulators have cited in recent years for abusive mortgage practices. (Full Story)
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