Posts tagged with 'Kristin_Linder'

On FDR

POSTED BY , JULY 24 2007 11:07 AM | PERMALINK

Amity Shlaes wrote a piece in the LATimes today calling for more politicians like FDR.

During that first euphoric legislative period, Roosevelt managed to rescue the banking system from disaster, assist bankrupted farmers, rewrite the economics of agriculture and the rules for flailing businesses, bring back beer — you name it. Contemporary leaders can't even act on pressing issues such as agriculture and immigration, not to mention Social Security.

Shlaes argues Roosevelt not only had the...
If the Water Didn't Kill Ya, the Formaldehyde Could

POSTED BY , JULY 23 2007 11:37 AM | PERMALINK

“How many times can the federal government let down the victims of the hurricanes that ravaged the Gulf Coast two years ago?”

That is the question posed by an editorial in the Sunday NYTimes. Everyone is perhaps too aware of the answer. The Gulf Coast is housing 66,000 Katrina victims in FEMA’s huge trailer parks, ironically meant to protect people who lost everything to 175mph winds. The trailers’ inadequacies in the realm of security were just dwarfed by the contents of their walls and...