- Have a Christmas Impact (0) December 9, 2010 Deb
Want to make an impact with your Christmas spending this year? Skip the national chains and buy local goods. Whether you're planning to spend $10 or $10,000, your Christmas dollars can help make next year a better year for your entire community ...
- An All-American Christmas (0) December 21, 2010 Deb If you're buying Christmas gifts this year, make the dollars you spend count where it really counts -- your local economy. Every penny you spend in a locally-owned business helps revitalize the place that matters the most to you -- your hometown, your nei...
- Not just spreading the wealth (0) July 28, 2009 Deb The Robin Hood Foundation is an organization headed up by a group of some of the United States' wealthiest families and individuals. The Foundation's mission is to make this world a better place through charitable giving and donations. In many ways, the R...
- So Cynical! (0) July 26, 2009 Deb Cynicism is dangerous. It stands in the way of our progress as a country. We don't have to be naive. We don't have to be fools drinking the Koolaid. We just have to step back and let a little reality in - and we might find that just like the sunshine, it brightens up the whole world.
- How Do You Fix the Economy without ? (1) March 10, 2009 Deb Here's what I don't understand about all the people who are screaming that Obama is trying to do too much at once, that he's "using" the economic crisis to push through a major ideological change. Which part of health care, education, science, infrastruct...
- Applying a Conservative Filter (0) March 5, 2009 Deb Can we talk about the things that most "liberals" don't understand? Here's the thing. I keep listening to the cable news and the so-called mainstream media and - okay, listening isn't quite the right word. My living room is the scene of some pretty loud a...
- You've Got to Be Kidding, Mika (0) February 2, 2009 Deb Mika's response to the statement that the Obama team considers "welfare programs" like increased food stamps, extended unemployment benefits and increased aid to states for Medicaid to be stimulative: a startled laugh and "You've got to be kidding!"
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- Morning Coffee and Stella D'Oro Strike (0) January 24, 2009 Deb This is what happens when making money for the few becomes more important than providing a product that makes a living for the many. Coffee and Stella D'Oro - A Bittersweet Story...
- Hey, Wingnut! (0) February 4, 2009 Deb I'm sitting here listening to the tide turning and shaking my head in disgust - not at our President, but at the total ridiculousness of the mainstream and cable news media. We're hearing all over the place how the president's approval ratings are taking ...
- Drinking Pistachio Koolaid (0) January 28, 2009 Deb So a search for Dunkin Donuts coffee references on the web led me to a blog post that posited an old conservative talking point: building the economy from the bottom up doesn't work. To quote Political Pistachio:
Provide money to the poorest, I suppose, ...
- I love it when the experts agree... (0) January 8, 2009 Deb ...with me. Will Straw wrote yesterday at Americanprogress.org that the things that will most stimulate the economy are measures that are aimed at those most in need among us. He specifically cites increasing money available for unemployment benefits and ...
- The Most-quoted Misniformation of the Past Year (0) January 8, 2009 Deb There are some things I hear repeated day after day that just drive me nuts. These little nuggets of "everybody knows it's true" misinformation form the building blocks of really really huge lies that are getting sold to us as THE TRUTH. They get repeated...
