Now, let’s line up all the horses from coast to coast… According to the Hooved Animal Humane Society (national headquarters in northwest suburban Woodstock), September is “Hooves Across America” month, an occasion for promoting local “ride-a-thons” that will benefit the organization’s rescue operations.
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Twelve units of scattered-site public housing in Edgewater? Fine with us, says the 48th Ward Progressive Network. “The Edgewater Community Council [which opposes the housing] talks about Edgewater’s ‘share’ of scattered-site housing. Edgewater has 2% of the City’s population. 2% of scattered-site units would be only 22 units; but 2% of all CHA units would be 850 units. When Edgewater has 850 units of CHA housing, we can talk about the fair share.”
“The national economy depends not only on systematic price-fixing and noncompetitive bidding but also on the guarantee of government intervention,” writes Lewis Lapham in Harper’s (September 1990). “The federal treasury at the moment supplies 45 percent of the nation’s income. Nearly three in every ten Americans live in a household receiving direct payments from the government….The government subsidizes the growing of the nation’s crops as well as the building of the nation’s houses and the maintenance of the nation’s roads. The television networks receive from the FCC the license that grants them (free of charge and without any risk) the use of the broadcasting frequencies. The commercial banks borrow money from the federal government at an interest rate two or three points below the rate they charge their best customers….The theory of the free market works at the margins of the economy–among cabdrivers and the owners of pizza parlors, for small businessmen who make the mistake of borrowing $20,000 instead of $20 million –but the central pillars of American enterprise rest firmly on the foundation stones of state subsidy.” Are you listening, Poland?
