prescribing Misoprostol tablets australia I expressed some dissatisfaction, in my last post, with the ANC’s “revolutionary” rhetoric about keeping alive the “spirit of ’76” while neglecting the tasks which actually could make people’s lives better: and here is a good time to offer some more general assessments of what I have seen so far in South Africa. Far and […]
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Twenty-One Years After Apartheid.
20-Jul-15The more time passes…
19-Nov-11… the more astonishingly inappropriate it seems that this is the place I went to school: The conflagration began after Princeton student Whitney Blodgett started to yell at the marchers as they passed by the bar. “We’re the 1 percent!” Blodgett yelled at them, laughing and making a thumbs up sign. “Get a job!” his […]
“More unequal than Zimbabwe.”
01-Nov-11A piece on Bridgeport, Fairfield, and Darien, in Connecticut, home to more than a million people, where the income inequality index would make it the twelfth most unequal country in the world – worse than Zimbabwe, worse than Russia, worse than Mexico, worse than Rwanda or Madagascar. As a New Yorker you grow up with […]
A decent piece – it gets better as you go along – on the growing inequality in America that has made politicians rich paid servants of the rich. And indirectly a rebuke of Obama, who has no obvious relevance to this problem at all. Between 1979 and 2006, middle-class Americans saw their annual incomes after […]
88% of the Wealth, 86% of the Taxes.
22-Nov-11buy pfizer Lyrica online This is painfully obvious, but I see and hear the Republican talking points in many places in our society about how high a percentage of the taxes the rich have to pay. The car mechanic in my town has a sign about how unfair it is that the top 20% pay more than 80% of […]