Urban Cartography

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/bailout-costs-vs-big-historical-events/

courtesy of current infographic kings & queens, Good magazine

Orange County, California: where foreclosures aren't selling

How the AIG Bailout Pissed Off Just About Every Person in America

breakdown of the average student budget at Westwood College

burning fuel: car vs. human, from Good magazine

update 04.15 - a journalist friend spent much of the morning filming and photographing "tea party" protests for various news outlets. he's yet to see a single non-white person at any of them. here in sacramento there was a small one at the capitol - mostly rich or otherwise upper-middle-class white folks from the suburbs who don't usually deign to mix with the working folks downtown. it was almost comical.

Slightly off-topic, but why are the current "tea party" protests so often organized by and appealing to conservative voters? isn't it their own call for deregulation that caused the problem? and wouldn't not addressing it result in more jobs being outsourced and a bigger rush of low-paid immigrants coming in to the us? and finally ... hasn't the constant coddling of big business - since the late 1940s - been the signature, the hallmark, of the Republican party, with conservative politicians responsible for almost 250x more earmarks to big banking, insurance & manufacturing than Democrats (in 50 years, that amounts to about 98 trillion, according to the OMB)?

I think the bailouts are a mistake, too, but not for made-up Socialist scare tactics, but rather because it's yet more public dollars going to the already rich - even more of this continuing ingrained right-wing bullshit brainwashing we've had that it's the job of the working to prop up the billionaires of the country and the world.