Our New Anahuac

Welfare is one of those topics that I have thought a great deal about this year. At least over the past couple of years, there seems to be some growing resentment, even from those who pay little or no taxes about those who collect welfare. In fact, I wrote a much briefer post about this [...]

A question was posed as to whether welfare recipients should have to get drug tested since many government employees must get tested. Here is my response. In my opinion, the discussion turned into people complaining about how welfare recipients scam the system and drive around in better cars and buy better food than non-welfare recipients: [...]

Continuing from Part I So on Thursday of last week, almost spontaneously, Lisa Azios brought about a dozen women to my office to go across to the street and protest in front of the Food Stamp Office.  Despite record, extreme heat, many of them stayed out the entire hour.  The next day, Lisa scheduled a meeting [...]

So que the middle of last week or so, I was contacted by a long-time friend, Lisa Azios. She is a woman with the biggest heart in the world, but don’t ever be on the other side of the table from her because she can tear you a new one. I learned this over the [...]