by: Jim Hightower, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed


America's corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they're doing all they can to create millions more of them.
They're knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high tech, reducing full-time work to part-time, downsizing our workplaces, busting unions, cutting health care coverage and canceling pensions -- while also lobbying in Washington to privatize Social Security,

Paul Krugman
: The Great DepressionReaders' Comments
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The president in question is Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the year is 1938. Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at the state of America circa 1938 — instructive because the nature of the recovery that followed refutes the arguments dominating today’s public debate, discouraging because it’s hard to see anything like the miracle of the 1940s happening again.

By Tim GrahamSome depth charts aren't worth the paper they're printed on. As a season unfolds, injuries and position battles seldom are reflected accurately.

But I do think there is value to looking at the first roster breakdown of the preseason and the regular season.

With that in mind, I wanted to share the depth charts the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins distributed to the media Monday. They open the season against each other Sunday in Ralph Wilson Stadium.