REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
April 21, 2013
'The probability that a poor child in America will become a poor adult is higher now than it was 30 years ago, and higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom, which has a long history of class rigidity.
'Almost 1 out of 4 of the nation's children is in now in poverty, but you wouldn't know that in Washington, where our representatives are now busily cutting safety nets children depend on, or in many state capitals that continue to slash budgets for education and social services.'
Economist Robert Reich
blog
April 17, 2013
Toon of the Day
Eastwood's birthday
David Horsey - Los Angeles Times
MONDAY
Quote of the Day
'The UK and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.'
Bill Gross, head of Pimco, the
world's largest bond fund
fundweb
April 22, 2013
Toon of the Day
Hangup
Tom Toles - Washington Post
TUESDAY
Quote of the Day
'The people at the bottom rungs of our society know austerity doesn't work. They've known that for years. After all, it is the people relying on public services like schools who see the direct impact of austerity in their day-to-day lives.
'However, it seems as though at least some societal elites are finally waking up to the fact that budget cuts don't work during recession.'
Allison Kilkenny
Common Dreams
April 22, 2013
Toon of the Day
Separation of Powers
Tome Toles - Washington Post
WEDNESDAY
Quote of the Day
'On Tuesday, a group of 168 mostly low-ranking conservative lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo, which honors Japan's war dead, including several who were executed as war criminals after World War II. It was the largest mass visit by Parliament in recent memory. The Japanese news media said that Mr. Abe [Prime Minister Shinzo] didn't visit the shrine, instead sending a ritual offering, but his deputy prime minister and two other ministers made a pilgrimage there over the weekend. He has a record of defending Japan's conduct during World War II.'
Editorial
New York Times
April 24, 2013
Toon of the Day
Platform
Jim Morin - Miami Herald
THURSDAY
Quote of the Day
'This terrible tragedy highlights the urgency of putting a stop to the race to the bottom in supplying cheap means of production to international brands, a race in which hundreds of workers have lost their lives. Global clothing brands and retailers have a responsibility for their full production chains. Now it is time for them, suppliers and the Bangladeshi government to sit down with IndustriAll and its affiliates to agree on a safety programme that will ensure this will never happen again.'
Jyrki Raina, IndustriAll Global Union
General Secretary on the industrial
accident in Bangladesh wherein more
than 170 garment workers died and
hundreds more were injured following
the collapse of an eight-story building
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
April 25, 2013
Toon of the Day
Government Stooges
Jen Sorenson
FRIDAY
Quote of the Day
'The weak first quarter GDP numbers should be the final nail in the coffin of the analysts who had been singing about an acceleration in growth based on the February jobs report and some other positive reports from the same time period. The 1.5 percent growth of final demand for the quarter is likely to be close to GDP growth for the rest of 2013, assuming that the sequester cuts are not reversed. At this rate of growth, it is likely that the unemployment rate will go up rather than down through the rest of 2013.'
Economist Dean Baker
Center for Economic and
Policy Research
April 26, 2013
Toon of the Day
Our People
Tony Auth
SATURDAY
Quote of the Day
' Then lawmakers scurried out of town, taking a week’s vacation while ignoring the low-income victims of the mandatory budget cuts, who have few representatives in Washington to protest their lost aid for housing, nutrition and education. Though they are suffering actual pain, not just inconvenience, no one rushed to give them a break from the sequester, and it is clear that no one will.
'Catering to the needs of people with money, such as business travelers, is the kind of thing the country has come to expect in recent years from Congressional Republicans. But Democrats share full responsibility for this moment of cowardice. The Senate version of the bill passed by unanimous consent. That means not a single Democrat opposed bailing out travelers while poor kids are getting kicked out of Head Start or nutrition programs.'
Editorial on bill to avert furloughs
to air traffic controllers, which were
mandated by Congress’s own
sequester
New York Times
April 27, 2013
Toon of the Day
Sky Message
Clay Bennett - Chattanooga Times Free Press
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