I Still Believe In Hope - Mostly

One Function Of The Income Gap Is That The People At The Top Of The Heap Have A Hard Time Even Seeing Those At The Bottom. They Practically Need A Telescope. The Pharaohs Of Ancient Egypt Probably Didn't Was A Lot Of Time Thinking About The People Who Build Their Pyramids, Either.

So Keep Fighting For Freedom And Justice, Beloveds.

The Recent Death Of Gene Mccarthy Reminded Me Of A Lesson I Spent A Long, Long Time Unlearning, So Now I Have To Re-learn It. It's About Political Courage And Heroes, And When A Country Is Desperate For Leadership. There Are Times When Regular Politics Will Not Do, And This Is One Of Those Times.

Economist Frederick Thayer Has Studied The History Of Our Balanced-budget Crusades And Has Come Up With Some Depressing Statistics. We Have Had Six Major Depressions In Our History (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 And 1929); All Six Of Them Followed Sustained Periods Of Reducing The National Debt. We Have Had Almost Chronic Deficits Since The 1930s, And There Has Been No Depression Since Then - The Longest Crash-free Period In Our History.

It Is Possible To Read The History Of This Country As One Long Struggle To Extend The Liberties Established In Our Constitution To Everyone In America.