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  • Ecuador’s Increase In Social Spending Has Lifted Many Out Of Poverty
    6 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ecuador’s social spending for the past four years, since President Rafael Correa took office, has almost tripled compared to the amount spent by his predecessors. In relation, "Prensa Latina" reports: "Since President Correa took office four years ago, 15.851 billion USD has been invested in public works, 2.9 times more than during the three previous governments combined". [1] An important aspect of President Correa’s policies has been a noticeable and ongoing reduction in poverty. In (…)

  • On Charles Ponzi Day We Celebrate Another All Time Record In Food Stamp Usage
    4 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bernanke’s plan to recreate Libya in our own back yard is continuing to work magnificently.
    It is no surprise that on Charles Ponzi day, the update to food stamp usage indicates that in December those receiving an average of $134 per month has just hit 44.1 million people.
    These lucky people will soon be able to buy an inflation adjusted 2.3 crumbs of notional bread with this generous handout from the Chairsatan.
    In other words, America is now the land of the free, home of the brave, (…)

  • Brave Cincinnatus
    1 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The summer heat is fading and it brings a welcome relief but also a worrisome fear that the winter cold is right behind it. Each season brings with it a different set of problems each inverse of the other but still mainly the same. The changing season is making me angry because it marks the passage of time and I am still here. I’m still living in this nasty fetid little room hiding out like Anne Frank and dreaming of a job in concentration camp America.
    While I was at (…)

  • Collapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure
    19 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Collapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure 15 million unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities
    by Christine Vestal
    Global Research, July 14, 2010 Stateline - 2010-07-08
    More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving food stamps, more than at any time in the program’s almost 50-year history. Evidence of rising economic hardship is ample. (…)

  • Eighteen Million, Out in the Road
    30 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    How cold and callous can we become? When, as a society and as a nation, we can undergo a massive earthquake under our very feet and before our very eyes, how can we just ignore its victims?
    RealtyTrac, the California-based authority on property trends and valuations, projects 4.5 million home foreclosures before the end of this year. That’s 4.5 million homes, and with four people to a household that is eighteen million people. Eighteen million men, women and children (…)

  • Cooking in a Coffee Pot
    15 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cooking in a Coffee Pot and Other Useful Tips for the Homeless By David Glenn Cox
    I write this for the millions who, like myself, are holed up in basements, garages, empty houses, fields, culverts and what have you. Guilty of being Americans and homeless, trying to make it through just one more day in the land of Fuck You and the home of the slave. I am at the top of the homeless pyramid; I still have internet access and a toilet.
    The one thing to remember about the homeless is that (…)

  • Dispatches From the Front
    17 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    It is a curiosity, these things which hide from us and call out to us, like someone who knows us all too well. While we move swiftly their call makes us pick up our pace even more and pretend not to hear them at all. America is a nation afraid of itself, afraid to slow down out of fear of what we will see. It is a nation in love with its own image, afraid that the truth will show us to be more than just a liar.
    Teabags, fleabags, bailouts, shootouts, shout outs, rain (…)

  • Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
    27 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
    Global Research, March 26, 2009 Reuters SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Emergency shelters brimming with homeless people in California’s capital are quietly turning away more than 200 women and children a night in a sign of the deteriorating U.S. economy.
    The displaced individuals on waiting lists at St. John’s Shelter and other facilities often turn instead to relatives or friends for temporary living quarters, perhaps moving into a spare room, (…)

  • Too Poor for Bankruptcy
    7 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    We, as a country, seem to have little problem saving the wealthy from the clutches of poverty. We’ll bail out banks and insurance companies, mortgage funds. The formerly big three automakers will meet with the new administration this week to arrange a further multi-billion-dollar bailout.
    How can we say no? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent on these industries. So I guess we must help them, but our society is so far out of economic whack. Most all of our (…)

  • Fighting in Kashmir gives rise to orphanages
    28 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Between 60,000 and 100,000 children in this state of 5.5 million people are thought to be orphans – including fatherless children with mothers too poor to care for them.
    By Mian Ridge | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
    from the October 22, 2008 edition
    Srinagar, Kashmir occupied
    Gazi Abdullah, a gentle, articulate 11-year-old considers himself fortunate. He describes a life filled with friends, games of cricket, and top scores in math.
    But it hasn’t always been so. (…)