A. stopped over yesterday, as she had conferences in the evening. Talked to sister Betty and a few others. Dr. Hottie called and will come in this morning for his usual monthly call. There'll be just the four of us for Easter, but will get some kind of ham and have a spring meal with devilled eggs, potato salad, and so on. A. will bring dessert.
Wider: Here's yet another mind-boggling piece from "A Tiny Revolution," quoting the original essay by Dean Baker in USA Today:
"In effect, the cutters are proposing that the government default on the bonds held by the Social Security trust fund: U.S. government bonds that were purchased with money raised through the designated Social Security tax.
It is truly incredible, and unbelievably galling, that anyone in a position of responsibility would suggest defaulting on the government bonds held by the Social Security trust fund at the precise moment that the government is honoring trillions of dollars of bonds issued by private banks.
While the government has no legal or moral obligations to pay off the banks' debts to wealthy investors (who presumably understood the risks they were taking), the Social Security bonds carry the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
It is understandable that people are angry. We have a government and an elite that never stop looking for ways to take money from ordinary workers and redistribute it upward to the richest people in the country."
Beyond belief! But come to think of it, I guess no nefarious scheme by our overlords is beyond belief.
And Even Wider: There's a remarkably well-written--and chilling--piece about drone warfare on Anti-War.Com; a must read:
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2009/04/07/filling-the-skies-with-assassins/