Originally published in The Guardian A computer crashed in Connecticut last week, so welfare recipients couldn’t buy food. How often does this happen? I don’t know; it didn’t make the news, and I learned of it only by chance. Near my house there’s a discount food store that sells things like old canned goods set […]
Government Spending
Who Do You Call To Get A Better Job?
originally published in the Bristol Press, Middletown Press and New Britain Herald The other night I tried selling my soul to Satan in exchange for a secure, fulfilling job offering a decent salary and opportunities for advancement (yes, America, that is what it takes nowadays). Unfortunately, the growing world economic crisis has even hurt the […]
Stimulate Me
originally published in the New Britain Herald and Bristol Press You know those history-book photos of 1920s German housewives shoveling banknotes into their stoves? The captions explain that runaway inflation in the Weimar Republic made burning money cheaper than buying coal. This will never happen to the American dollar, because anyone who tries burning it […]