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Marcellus Andrews commenting on New Orleans, a comment worth many blog posts!
Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans is a symbol of our greatest collective sin. Our society ties the right to survival, even down to surviving a natural disaster, to the size of one’s wallet. In the old New Orleans, people with money lived on high ground, while poor people lived way below sea-level.

When the flood waters came, poor people drowned. They didn’t have enough money to leave town.

Katrina claimed so many because the people of Louisiana and the good ole US of A pretended that safety is a private good instead of a public good.

In this country, safety is just one more thing for sale …

Israel  

time out for behaving badly
a few UN sanctions
3 useless soldiers who’ll probably never fight a war but managed to start one

Hamas

paycheck
paycheck
and more paychecks

Hezbollah

attention
some falafels
if all else fail, guys who care to aim before firing off missiles

And has been $5.15 for the over 10 years now. If one were to work 40 hours a week and 52 weeks a year, they would earn $10,712.

According to the US Census Bureau, an household with more that one individual (say two for the heck of it), and if one of them were earnings minimum wage and supporting the other, they are below poverty right away. How good is minimum wage if in spite of working hard for 40 hours per week every week of the year and still are not able to sustain?

Proponents of wage increase (read democrats) believe that raising the minimum wage would help the poor, while detractors (read republicans) of this legislation believe that raising the wage would in fact result in many being laid-off, making it worse for the poor. If both parties are (partly) correct with respect to their assessments, Americas poor stands to suffer the unintentional consequence of capitalism, while some benefit, others lose.