What The Des Moines Register Said -

I Think Katrina Is One More Indication Of How Inefficient And Corrupt This Administration Is, And Indicates The Absolute Lack Of Seriousness That [george W.] Bush Has In Making The Government Respond To The Needs Of The People. They Are So Separated From The Lives Of Normal, Low-income People That It Never Occurred To Them That If You're Poor And Have No Money, No Car, That You Can't Leave.

The American People Want To Know That When They Borrow A Book From The Library Or Buy A Book, The Government Won't Be Looking Over Their Shoulder. Everybody Wants To Fight Terrorism, But We Have To Do It In Away That Protects American Freedom.

Social Security Is The Most Successful Government Program In Our Nation's History. We Are Not Going To Cut Social Security! We Are Going To Expand Social Security!

What Democratic Socialism Is About Is Saying That It Is Immoral And Wrong That The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent In This Country Own Almost 90 Percent - Almost - Own Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. That It Is Wrong, Today, In A Rigged Economy, That 57 Percent Of All New Income Is Going To The Top 1 Percent. That When You Look Around The World, You See Every Other Major Country Providing Health Care To All People As A Right, Except The United States.

I Believe What Martin Luther King Jr. Believed. You Remember What The Title Of The March On Washington Was? "jobs And Freedom." What King Understood Is That You Have To Deal With The Economic Issues As Well As The Political Issues And The Civil Rights Issues.