It’s hell today, here in the Northeast. Heavy snow since Sunday evening has closed schools, delayed flights, shut down roads, caused power outages and created a big mess across the Northeast. Picture taken today at 10:15 ET (20:45 IST) Here’s an excerpt from the NYT: Schools were closed from Virginia to Maine, and government offices […]
Wonderful News. At last an American President who understands the tragedy of unaffordable healthcare Folks, high healthcare costs is resulting in a bankruptcy every 30 seconds in America. A few minutes back in his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama said: [T]he cost of our health care has weighed down […]
We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations were gutted […]
Wonderful. Wonderful. Our President Barack Obama today said that top executives at companies receiving financial assistance from the tax-payers cannot be paid more than $500,000 per annum. A long overdue reform, if you ask us. Obama Screws Greedy Execs Folks, it’s the greedy and incompetent executives of Wall Street that have brought the country to […]
Tis a bad day today if you happen to be an American worker. Over 70,000 American jobs vanished today. A consequenceof the current economic crisis brought about by unalloyed greed (even as senior executives spent $1.2 million on renovating their offices, executives at loss making firms get hefty bonuses as in Merrill Lynch…beyond disgusting). Here’s […]
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. Forty-four Americans have now […]