Silenced Majority Portal: Bush Depression

New Normal: Couple Steals Food For Wedding Reception

Police: Pa. newlyweds shoplifted reception food - US news - msnbc.com

Busted! They stole more than $1000 in merchandise. They loaded everything they needed for their wedding reception into a shopping cart and left without paying.

Slugbug on August 25, 2011 in Bush Depression, Economic Policy, Political Humor/Life/Fun | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Rep. Maxine Waters - The Tea Party Can Go Straight to Hell!

Rep. Maxine Waters: ‘The tea party can go straight to hell’ | The Ticket - Yahoo! News - Right on!!

"I'm not afraid of anybody," Waters said at a weekend community meeting in Inglewood, California. "This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the tea party can go straight to hell."

Slugbug on August 22, 2011 in Bush Depression, Education/Healthcare/Environment, Wingnut Alert | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

US Has Same Percentage of Poor as China Now

Not Trickling Down: The Percentage Of Americans In Poverty Now Equals China

We are supposed to be the wealthiest country on the planet, and we do have some of the most wealthy people, but also a huge amount of poverty-stricken people. Yet we have 31 million children living in poverty which is approximately one in five of all children. One in three (36%) African-American children live in poverty and 31% of Latino children live in poverty.

As the article says, "In twenty years, there will be more than just minority children living in poverty because Republicans have set in motion a deeper income inequality than exists in America today."

China is known for having a large number of peasants, but we now match them. Their middle class is increasing while ours is decreasing, and their growth rate is around 10% per year while ours is standing still or receding.

As I read this morning (supposedly a joke), America's economy is so bad that Angelina Jolie is thinking of adopting an American child.

Slugbug on August 19, 2011 in Bush Depression, Travel | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

People go into the yards of vacant homes, such as foreclosures, and harvest fruit they find, then eat it or give it to food banks. As one harvester said,

“I don’t think of it as stealing. These things were planted by a person who was going to harvest them. That person no longer has the ability to. It’s not like the bank people who sit in their offices are going to come out here and pick figs.”

Slugbug on August 15, 2011 in Bush Depression, Education/Healthcare/Environment, Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)