Mar 14

Mar 14 3/10/2023

…So, all the press on your $6.8 trillion government spending plan, $31.4 trillion debt, etc., is not my favorite topic, but it is inescapable. I’m grateful that you have some brilliant Black women working on this with you. It’s too bad that Cecilia Rouse is returning to Princeton sometime soon. Luckily, Shalanda Young remains….

Mar 9

Mar 9 3/9/2023

RCA

…tell folks about Fiscal Ship, a new game developed by the Brookings Institution & the Serious Games Initiative. Players choose the changes they want in federal policy & see how the changes affect the bottom line….

Mar 8

Mar 8 3/8/2023

RCA

…Poor financial literacy may bring us all down as most Americans also do not understand that Social Security is unsustainable in a country of baby-boomers. When you are 92, Social Security’s main trust fund will run out of $$ because we’ll have too many elderly folk getting benefits & not enough younger folk paying into the system. …

Mar 6

Mar 6 3/6/2023

RCA

…please help the Rohingya refugees who have just been burned out of their homes in Balukhali camp in Cox Bazar. Their shelters were minimal, but to lose that shred of privacy & security must be devastating….

Mar 4

Mar 4 3/4/2023

RCA

…$125 Million? Can you find that in the budget somewhere to help the Rohingya living in Bangladesh refugee camps? The UN needs $ so folks can eat….

Mar 3

Mar 3 3/3/2023

RCA

…I hope that Paris Davis enjoys his moment in the spotlight when you award him with the Medal of Honor today. … greatly appreciated his observation, "America can heal you, if you allow America and give it the time to do so, it will do it in spades."…

Mar 2 3/2/2023

RCA

…Take teak, for example. I just read about how folks who build decks for yachts are advertising themselves as “socially responsible” when they are importing Burmese teak….they are pretending that their teak purchases are NOT benefitting the junta. This self-deception harms us all…

Mar 1

Mar 1 3/1/2023

RCA

…I hope that Julie Su’s nomination to become your Sec of Labor goes well. Her pro-union stance may be a bit radical but hopefully the GOP will be impressed with her 2001 MacArther genius grant…

Feb 28

Feb 28 2/28/2023

RCA

…Kamaria Braye, reporting on WAVY, Channel 10, speculates that you are visiting VA Beach today to announce your candidacy. Apparently, the beach resort community is purple. My sister lives there, but don’t expect her to attend your event….

Feb 27

Feb 27 2/27/2023

RCA

…Please thank the folks at the USCIRF for including Kachin Christian leader Reverend Hkalam Samson on their list of folks being detained for their religious beliefs….

Feb 26

Feb 26 2/26/2023

RCA

..My read of Roger Cohen is that he believes war is inevitable, that there are good guys & bad guys & military spending is the answer. I have had enough of that mentality & am sorry that the NYT put his article at the top of their webpage….

Feb 25

Feb 25 2/25/2023

RCA

…I’m sure she told you about her warm reception by Ambassador Meg Whitman in Nairobi. She may NOT have told you about her brilliant speech….

Feb 24

Feb 24 2/24/2023

RCA

…“With a mass boycott of public schools entering its 3rd year, the parallel government is scrambling to fine-tune alternatives to junta-run education, while lower-income families find it increasingly difficult to stay away.” Please see what you can do to ameliorate this situation….

Feb 23

Feb 23 2/23/2023

RCA

…That got me worried about the media in our country. Mehdi Hasan says the American right has become a “cancel culture brigade” who ban books, prevent the teaching of history & purge the GOP of moderates….

Feb 22 2/22/2023

RCA

…Whoever thought that a quick trip to Kyiv would cause such a stir? Yesterday’s news was full of dramatic accounts of how your snuck into a war zone on a purple train….