Comments on: FDL Book Salon: Time Change For Chat With Muhammad Yunus

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:10:28 +0000

This is one for the candidates to watch Clintom, Edwards and Obama too.
The direction the economy is headed…309 point Dow drop today alone…housing 16 year low, and the people that were left out long ago means we need some really good ideas to help the poor in America too.
Thank you and go Muhammad Yanus and KUDOS to FDL for all the great threads.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:58:32 +0000

Question:

Bill Gates’ ‘wealth’ alone, equals what percentage of the combined ‘wealth’ of the ‘bottom’ 40% of the American population?

Kudos for the ‘correct’ answer.

By: newspaperbrat

newspaperbrat — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:06:44 +0000

LOL! The other day I took a short cut through Del Monte Forest – my current bumpersticker reads: George Bush Deserves Another Term: Prison. A white haired man in an SUV came up behind me and started flashing his lights and tooting his horn. I pulled into a parking lot & he followed and kind of sorta blocked me in. There were nearby golfers watching but I was a bit unnerved. The old gent walked to my car & simply wanted to know where he could get the same bumpersticker. Whew!

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:00:42 +0000

Christy, thank you for the ‘heads up’! This is one I don’t want to miss.

By: surfer

surfer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:42:14 +0000

Try this one:

http://www.kiva.org/app.php

By: Gnome de Plume

Gnome de Plume — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:07:47 +0000

The whole point of microlending is to get it to the people who it will benefit the most. In 97% of the cases those borrowers are women who successfully use the money to get ahead in whatever field of “expertise” they have. For some that means being able to buy a sewing machine, for others it is seeds and a plow. Most of the products are sold on the “open market” and the profits go right to the intended recipients of the plan – the children of those women. They get food and may even be able to attend school. This is how to begin the end of poverty.

By: Richmond

Richmond — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:06:01 +0000

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By: Richmond

Richmond — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:04:13 +0000

These small loans are a really critical focal point, and it is being coupled in some areas of the world issues of cultural preservation. Does anyone know if there are related websites?

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:01:24 +0000

I once visited a friend in Tucson. He not only lives in a gated community, but he also has metal shades and covers on all his doors and windows which operate on his garage remote. In his defense, he’s an avid amateur archaelogist who had purchsed a collection of legal (or so he told me) artifacts over the years. When I got up earlier than him the next morning, I did not know how to open the metal covers. Really freaked me out. Never communicated with him thereafter. Don’t understand why people want to live that way.

By: PhysioProf

PhysioProf — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:59:24 +0000

Anyone thnk of a counterexample?

The walls that line the automobile transverse roadways in Central Park do a really good job of keeping the cars in.