Tomorrow Emily Kephart and I are heading to Colombia as part of Shalom House’s participation in a learning delegation led by Witness for Peace. Back in the fall, the U.S. government signed an agreement with the Colombia government for the Pentagon to lease 7 military bases in Colombia. After 10 years of funding Plan Colombia [...]
The following poster is a visual representation of the 2010 Federal budget. Every entity that receives over 200 million dollars annually is represented with a circle on the poster. The size of the circle corresponds to how big a piece of the federal pie it consumes. A fascinating resource.
Imagine an economy that ran under these principles:
1) “The World as created by God is abundant, with enough for everyone — provided that human communities restrain their appetites and live within limits;”
2) “Disparities in wealth and power are not ‘natural’ but the result of human sin, and must be mitigated within the community of [...]
The United States Government is planning to send out rebate checks in the hope that American citizens will immediately spend the money to stimulate the economy, thus avoiding a recession. Thanks for the gift Federal Government, but you are missing the point! We do not need to take out a big loan from a foreign [...]