By Linda Anselmi on Dec 28, 2010 in Current Affairs, Stimulus Plan, Unemployment/Jobs | View Comments
With the New Year only days away, you can smell the change is in the air. Or, is that just more PR? All natural, but the process Let the change begin with snack foods. Well maybe not. Apparently we consumers are ‘howling’ for natural. Or at least the absence of artificial – as in additives, [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 22, 2010 in Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs | View Comments
With all due respect Mr. President, your recent remarks in Lisbon seem woefully inadequate at defining the problems or express the emotions of the American traveling public over the TSA’s Enhanced Pat-Down (EPD) and Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) procedures. “One of the most frustrating aspects of this fight against terrorism is that it has created [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 19, 2010 in Civil Liberties, Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped up * In case you haven’t had the “pleasure” of flying lately, here is a little taste of what you might expect at the airport … And as shocking as this video is, the push back is only now starting to build. Fortunately there are still some true government representatives willing to take action.
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 2, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The presidential election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was particularly rough. And during the Great Depression, the American people were particularly discouraged and angered by their elected officials. As Will Rogers complained: There ought to be one day — just one — where there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers (1879-1935)
By Linda Anselmi on Oct 31, 2010 in Current Affairs, Environment, Linda Anselmi | View Comments
BEWARE, Just when you thought it was safe to watch TV free of BP’s ads …
By Linda Anselmi on Oct 28, 2010 in Health Care | View Comments
While most Main Street Americans have yet to get a glimpse of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) in action, states and private employers are already discovering it harbors more than a few challenges for our already complicated and expensive employer sponsored health insurance based healthcare. As the video below (created by Gary [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Oct 26, 2010 in Banks, Current Affairs | View Comments
Process matters — if results matter. Our government designed HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) with three fatal flaws (features?) for homeowners: Bank were not required to participate. Banks were paid fees for homeowners entering into the modification process, without ever having to actually achieve permanent modifications. Bankruptcy judges were not empowered to modify the mortgage [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Sep 25, 2010 in Current Affairs, Nonfiction | View Comments
* bumped up * Dear Eleanor, I recently had the opportunity to reread You Learn by Living and was surprised by its relevance for todays political environment. You wrote it in the late 1950′s near the end of your life and dedicated it to your grandchildren. I read it for the first time, in the early [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Sep 13, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
/ Bumped Up / Oh, the irony. At a time when bad and government have become synonymous, not just in word but in deeds. At a time when complaints about government taxes have become as Main Street as apple pie. What does it say to us, the American people, when federal employees don’t want to [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Sep 6, 2010 in Economy, Housing & Housing Crisis, President Barack Obama | View Comments
Happy Labor Day, Mr. President! Now can I give you some Main Street advice? Get yourself some new advisors. Maybe some earthbound ones. Because, after listening to your speech on the economy from the White House Rose Garden last Friday, I, along with most of Main Street America, got the distinct impression you live on [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 27, 2010 in Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Elizabeth Warren | View Comments
Last month President Obama signed into law the Financial Regulatory Reform bill that left us Surrendering to the Worst. But one of the very few positives of that bill was the formation of a consumer financial protection bureau to oversee some of the worst lending practices that contributed to the housing bubble and collapse. The consumer protection bureau [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 25, 2010 in EPA, Environment | View Comments
/ Bumped up / Don’t you just love presents? Especially ones that keep on giving? Well, here’s a big one from BP. Given with LOVE, I’m sure. And it’s a gift that will keep on giving for many years to come. If you think you might just miss out on feeling all that BP love [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 17, 2010 in Economy, Environment | View Comments
Family vacations have become something of a challenge these days. Choices have to be made. These are new economic times and difficult working times. A new job means vacation days that haven’t been earned yet. A second job can present work conflicts with the already scheduled vacation at the first job. And with job cuts [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 2, 2010 in Environment | View Comments
BP announced on Friday that it is time to scale back clean up and focus on restoration. The Fed on Thursday expanded its open fishery areas. States are touting reopened beaches and fisheries. Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University points to “Mother Nature’s work” in breaking down the patchy oil. And it is true, looking [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Jul 30, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
If you thought what happened in the Gulf Oil Spill was an isolated incident or the worst that could happen, you might want to think again. What would happen if an oil leak/spill hit your community? Would the response be faster? The spill contained quicker? Or clean up handled better? Would the oil threaten your [...]
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