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Month: November, 2011

Out of touch politicians

9 November, 2011 (14:32) | politics, social responsibility | By: Brigid

According to <a href=http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140627334/millionaires-in-congress-weigh-new-tax-on-wealthy>an NPR article,</a> about 1% of the population of the USA are millionaires while almost half of Congress–46%– are millionaires. They obviously aren’t representing the actual people who make up the USA. This is, perhaps, explained why in a time of brutal economic downturn and lack of jobs the people running the [...]

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Can we revisit the mythical bootstraps college student thing?

2 November, 2011 (16:10) | life, politics, social responsibility | By: Brigid

Buster Blonde of Persephone Magazine did a really great take down of the mythical college bootstraps studenthere. I want to drive it a bit further into the ground. In case you can’t see the image or read the hand written text, it says: I am a college senior about to graduate completely debt free. I [...]

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