Terri Whitehouse March 13th, 2008
Sen. Mitch McConnell, 2008:
I doubt that couples with children who make $63,000 a year think that they’re rich.
Why, it seems like only yesterday that Sen. Mitch McConnell and his BFF, Pres. George W. Bush were arguing that such families were rich!
Of course, we all know that when it comes to giving a flying you-know-what about the middle class, Sen. Mitch McConnell gets a big fat F. For all the huffing and puffing he does, for all the scraps he tosses our way every once in a while, ultimately, Sen. Mitch McConnell has failed this state.
Does anyone really believe we are better off with this man as our senator? I don’t know about ya’ll, but this gal has had just about enough. DITCH MITCH!
- Children , Ditch Mitch , Economy , Families , Health Care , Jobs , Kentucky , Middle Class , Mitch McConnell , Obstructionism , Pork Spending
Terri Whitehouse March 10th, 2008
Law Student Jill Filipovic has two excellent posts up on Feministe this week, which follow up on that 1 in 99 statistic that was recently reported.
In “America Behind Bars”, Filipovic discusses the economic and social impact of the incarceration rate:
And entire communities depend on prisons for their economic stability. They have disproportionate political power — prison inmates count as residents, meaning that the areas are allocated greater resources that the inmates don’t benefit from and they’re counted in the population of Congressional districts. And inmates, of course, can’t vote — and in many states, they can’t vote once they get out, either.
Piggybacking on that post in “Judicial nominees, prison exploitation and discriminatory country clubs”, Filipovic takes a closer look at the prison-industrial complex and those who profit from it:
…like the private military contractors that the Bush administration pays to do our dirty work in Iraq, private prison employees were long not subject to the same laws that federal and state prison employees are…
- Blogging , Coporate Greed , DOJ , Daddy State , Disenfranchisement , Economy , General Knowledge , Jobs , Money-Grubbing , Outsourcing , Prisons , Racism , Rural America
Jim Pence January 31st, 2008
