Education should be treated as a societal investment in itself. We ought to use our tax dollars to fully subsidize the cost of tuition for anyone who wants to go to college. As they say, give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him [...]
Some of you may have missed it, but Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the guest on the Colbert Report the other night. The Senator spoke on issues near and dear to us Impatient Sufferers, particularly education and health care. Watch the video and think about what we could achieve if we elected more congressmen [...]
With a recession looming, the opportunities for investment are not what they were. With the financial sector dominating the US economy, when the credit market starts to dry up the economy quickly has soured. The recent string of foreclosures has dramatically dried up the credit market. Lenders are nervous about lending their money to a [...]
For years now I’ve been reading Philip Baruth’s commentary on the local (and national) political scene over at Vermont Daily Briefing. Few people write as well or as entertainingly and I highly recommend him to anyone who isn’t already a reader. Even if you don’t have roots in Vermont, like I do, you’ll find he [...]