The United States Is A Safe Harbor.

I Think Re-engineering Or Restructuring Or Downsizing Or Rightsizing Or Whatever You Want To Call It, It's Basically Firing, Has Gone Way Too Far. Employees, As I've Talked To Them Across The Country, Feel That They Are Not Respected, They Are Not Valued, They Are Worried About Their Jobs. They Simply Feel That The Company Is No Longer Loyal To Them. Why Should They Be Loyal To The Company, They Ask Me. Why Should I Go The Extra Mile? Why Should I Care?

The Federal Budget Deficit Isn't The Nation's Major Economic Problem And Deficit Reduction Shouldn't Be Our Major Goal. Our Problem Is Lack Of Good Jobs And Sufficient Growth, And Our Goal Must Be To Revive Both.

Bill Clinton Was A Great Politician. Bill Clinton Loved A Fight. He Was Willing To Fight. But He Also Wanted To Be Loved. He Wanted To Be Admired.

I Think It's Hard To Have A Brand Portal And An Economy Of Trustworthiness In One Of Them That Sloshes Over Into Another. But Saying That There Will Be Only A Limited Number Of These Giant Brand Portals Doesn't Mean A Limited Number Of Companies; It Doesn't Mean That Everybody's Going To Be Working For These Companies. Quite The Opposite. Most Of Us Will Be Working Through Much Smaller Entities That Simply Use These Portals As Vehicles For Getting And Identifying Customers.

Most Americans Stopped Looking At What Was Happening Through A Variety Of Coping Mechanisms - Starting With Women Entering Paid Work And Then Everyone Working Longer Hours And Using Their Homes For Raising Equity And Generating More Money Through Debt. The Typical Household Basically Staved Off The Day Of Reckoning.