Two Quotes for the Day

From the progressive webzine Common Dreams:

Tales of the recession (by Abby Zimet): After Princess, as her father calls her, got laid off, she applied for hundreds of jobs, to no avail. Then she turned, not altogether unhappily, to the streets.

"Don't tell daddy this, but he's really the reason I'm doing this," she says. "We could almost squeak by on my unemployment and his Social Security, but Medicare don't pay all his medications anymore. I can't let him die because I couldn't afford his...