On my way back from visiting nurse work I have WRNI, Rhode Island Public Radio playing. There’s a show about how foreclosure and unemployment affect school children.

It’s a powerful argument for regulating a financial market that will create destruction in real communities when profit is to be made on Wall Street.

Why we don’t consider it unpatriotic when financiers bet against the American public I don’t understand. It has never been a level playing field.

URI just found six murals painted by the WPA when doing renovations funded by the stimulus money. Is this a blast from the past? Stay tuned.