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Every discussion of Social Security should begin by recognizing that Social Security is a system of social insurance. It places government in one of its noblest roles: Provision of a bedrock guarantee to all members of society that you do not need to fear the financial consequences of growing old or disabled, for society will…
The collapse of community surfaced with a vengeance in Detroit, Michigan recently when the snow started falling on January 2, 1999. Twenty one inches of snow fell over the next two weeks and city officials still had not plowed the residential streets. That is not an oversight. It is a policy of many years standing.…
Few politicians have shrunken as fast, while rising in power, as Vice-President, Al Gore. In terms of standing up for what he believes, Gore is a shadow of his former self as Representative and Senator from Tennessee, though he never came close to the political courage of his father, also a Senator. Gore, senior, for…
“Nickel and diming” the consumer is now a big, booming business in the financial arenas of corporate greed and fraud. Bank charges, currently numbering over two hundred varieties, bring in nearly $20 billion a year to the banks. First Union even charges its customers 50 cents for a deposit slip and $2 for each call…
Last month on the Jay Leno Show, Hulk Hogan thought he would make some news, but he did not. Too bad the media missed his presentation because he seemed very serious about what he was saying. Hogan “announced” his official retirement from professional wrestling, adding that his children were well taken care of by the…
My home state of Connecticut has been known as “The Constitution State.” This month, Republican Governor John Rowland and Democrats Kevin Sullivan, President of the State Senate, and Tom Ritter, the Speaker of the House, shattered that moniker by ramming through a special session of the legislator a massive taxpayer subsidy to lure the New…
It has been said that virtue is its own reward. Tell that to Mark Green whose record of public service and a clean, vigorous, primary campaign for the Democratic party’s Senatorial candidacy against Senator Al D’Amato earlier this year, resulted in his coming in third. Having worked with Mark Green for nearly thirty years —…
The many pillars of a working democracy, coming out of the civic culture, are rarely publicized these days. The people who constitute these pillars keep going, believing that there can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. One would think that the rapid expansion of television and radio spaces would find room for these civic…
If Dan Rather referred to a woman appearing on his evening news show as “that girl,” there would be more than a few objections and not just from women’s rights organizations. I wonder how many objections went sent to the CBS network for a segment of Howard Stern’s televised show on Saturday night, November 14,…
Toledo, Ohio — Chrysler Corporation, having just merged with the German auto giant to become DaimlerChrysler, is teaching this city about some state of the art corporate socialism. Last year, Chrysler announced that it would expand the existing Jeep plant if the City government would subsidize this project with local tax dollars and a 100%…