Not My Mother’s Blog

The Robin Hood Foundation is an organization headed up by a group of some of the United States’ wealthiest families and individuals. The Foundation’s mission is to make this world a better place through charitable giving and donations. In many ways, the Robin Hood Foundation represents the best and highest ideals to which a charitable [...]

Cynicism is dangerous. It stands in the way of our progress as a country. We don’t have to be naive. We don’t have to be fools drinking the Koolaid. We just have to step back and let a little reality in – and we might find that just like the sunshine, it brightens up the whole world.

Here’s what I don’t understand about all the people who are screaming that Obama is trying to do too much at once, that he’s “using” the economic crisis to push through a major ideological change. Which part of health care, education, science, infrastructure and defense do they think is NOT part of the economy?

Can we talk about the things that most “liberals” don’t understand? Here’s the thing. I keep listening to the cable news and the so-called mainstream media and – okay, listening isn’t quite the right word. My living room is the scene of some pretty loud and vocal one-way debates that consist of me yelling at [...]

I’m sitting here listening to the tide turning and shaking my head in disgust – not at our President, but at the total ridiculousness of the mainstream and cable news media. We’re hearing all over the place how the president’s approval ratings are taking a huge hit, the whole country is disappointed, the president is [...]

Mika’s response to the statement that the Obama team considers “welfare programs” like increased food stamps, extended unemployment benefits and increased aid to states for Medicaid to be stimulative: a startled laugh and “You’ve got to be kidding!”
Well, no, sweetheart, we’re not kidding. And I seriously long for your father to give you one of [...]

So a search for Dunkin Donuts coffee references on the web led me to a blog post that posited an old conservative talking point: building the economy from the bottom up doesn’t work. To quote Political Pistachio:
Provide money to the poorest, I suppose, so that they can spend the money, and then as they buy [...]

This is what happens when making money for the few becomes more important than providing a product that makes a living for the many. Coffee and Stella D’Oro – A Bittersweet Story

…with me. Will Straw wrote yesterday at Americanprogress.org that the things that will most stimulate the economy are measures that are aimed at those most in need among us. He specifically cites increasing money available for unemployment benefits and food stamps as examples, both examples that I’ve used repeatedly for effective ways to keep the [...]

There are some things I hear repeated day after day that just drive me nuts. These little nuggets of “everybody knows it’s true” misinformation form the building blocks of really really huge lies that are getting sold to us as THE TRUTH. They get repeated so often that people simply accept them as fact and [...]