Sunday links.
Do you remember when Tommy Thompson was governor of Wisconsin and made his name by ending welfare in that state just to the north? In a story in the NYT this morning, they report that 40% of Milwaukee’s children are on food stamps.
Speaking of states to the north. Can I bring myself to actually watch the Bears and the Vikings today?
Oh, crap. I just missed Bill and Melinda Gates and Rick Warren on Meet the Press (ironic tone). I guess I’ll just have to go back to the NY Times crossword puzzle.
There’s more shady dealings involving alleged suicide victim and CPS President Michael Scott. This one is about Scott charging his trip with the Mayor to Copenhagen for the Olympic bid to the cash starved Chicago schools.
Speaking of shady dealings. Here’s more smelly charter school news courtesy of blogger Kenneth Libby.
Sending 30,000 or more American soldiers to die for the Karzai government is a waste of valuable American lives, which at the present rate will exceed 1,000 in two years of bloody battles under President Obama. Spending one million dollars per American soldier will mean a waste of one trillion dollars on this war by the end of the President’s term of eight years.
These costs in human lives and tax dollars are simply unsustainable.
The president is tragically jeopardizing his domestic agenda by this expenditure of tax dollars without any tax increases. Like President Johnson before him, President Obama is squandering any hope for his progressive domestic agenda by this tragic escalation of the war. Tom Hayden
