Two notes on the House stimulus package:
1. Paul Krugman links to the work the Tax Policy Center has done on the package, which shows that the poorer 60 percent of the population stands to benefit very little from the House plan — far less than the richer 40 percent.
2. David Sirota finds the pork buried in the plan.
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I’d like to believe that he had an impact on this year’s campaign but, as much as I like Dennis Kucinich and agree with him on most of the substantive issues, I just can’t. From my perspective, and from talking to people about the campaign and the issues, I can only view the Kucinich campaign as a missed opportunity to keep progressive issues — in particular, a complete sea change in our foreign policy and universal, single-payer healthcare — on the table.
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Suburban Newspaper Association announced its editorial awards today. Yours truly pulled down two for column writing — a second place for column writing for columns on global warming, Route 1 and Gene Glazer and a first for opinion writing for colums on the state budget, the state’s gas tax and the privatization of public spaces.
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Paul Krugman thinks the compromise stimulus plan announced today will have little real impact on our growing economic woes.
This plan leaves recession-fighting entirely up to the Fed. And as I’ve pointed out before on this blog, the Fed may not have enough ammunition.
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I had to post. The state Assembly is considering a bill that would declare the tomato New Jersey’s state vegetable. I know all you nay-sayers out there will pooh-pooh the bill, saying that tomatoes are fruit and all. But, as the bill points out
The tomato, while technically a “fruit,” is legally considered to be a vegetable in an 1893 United States Supreme Court decision, and is in the same botanical family as the potato, pepper, and eggplant
And, to keep this as local as possible,
In 1847 Harrison W. Crosby of Jamesburg, New Jersey, was the first person in the nation to can tomatoes commercially, making Jersey tomatoes available across the nation
So, all hail the Jersey tomato.
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Hank Kalet 