You Can’t Go Home Again: Foreclosing the American Dream
First of all, it’s not the fault of “the market”. Blaming the market for the estimated 1.7 million foreclosures this year means that no one is responsible and everyone is off the hook. But market fluctuations are not the weather, nor are they “Acts of God”, to use the favorite expression of the insurance industry. Markets are constructed by real human beings. Markets have rules written by real human beings. Markets have referees and judges who are real human beings. Markets have participants who are real human beings.
Can Barack Obama become the Abraham Lincoln of the 21st Century?
A lot of people are comparing Barack Obama to Franklin Roosevelt and wondering if Obama can pull off a new New Deal in the face of our catastrophic financial crisis. It’s a good question and one that needs to be asked. But I’m going to ask another question. I wonder if Barack Obama could become the 21st century Abraham Lincoln.
So I’m patriotic? What’s it to Ya?
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I was raised to love this country by parents who struggled through the Great Depression and World War II. My mom once saved up 17 cents to buy her mother a coal bucket as a Christmas gift. My dad came from a family of Scottish immigrants. He went to war and visited some of the worst hellholes in Europe as the Fighting Thunderbirds of the 45th infantry went up the boot of Italy to Anzio and later to southern France and into Germany. After the war he took a job with the Veteran’s Administration to help the GI’s move on to better lives than the ones they had in miserable muddy foxholes.
The Republican Hardcore Loves a Good Liar
An old buddy of mine used to say,” The hardcore Republican vote is 5% the super-rich and 95% the super-stupid.” I used to believe that, but I don’t believe that anymore. I believe it’s 5% the super-rich and 95% the super-evil. If you need a definition of super-evil, try here.
Please note that I am not talking about the deluded and the ignorant Republican voters. The deluded can be helped to see clearly and the ignorant can be educated. I am talking about the hardcore GOP base, the people who come to McCain/Palin events and turn them into rallies reminiscent of the ones at Nuremburg in the dark days before World War II.
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