Face It, The System Is Rigged, And

Trends In Circulation And Advertising - The Rise Of The Internet, Which Has Made The Daily Newspaper Look Slow And Unresponsive; The Advent Of Craigslist, Which Is Wiping Out Classified Advertising-have Created A Palpable Sense Of Doom.

Much Of What Tea Party Candidates Claimed About The World And The Global Economy During The 2010 Elections Would Have Earned Their Adherents A Well-deserved F In Any Freshman Economics (or Earth Science) Class.

There Are More People At Obama's Table Offering Ideas Than There Were Five Years Ago, But When It Came To Facing Up To The Republicans' Threat To Force A Double-dip Recession If They Didn't Get Their Millionaires' Tax Cut, They Still Amounted To Nothing. And Therein Lies Our Fundamental Problem.

Whether One Agrees Or Disagrees With The Tactics Of The Occupy Wall Street Movement, It's Easy To Understand The Inspiration For Its Anger As Well As Its Impatience.

Over One In Five American Children Is Living In Poverty, And The Number Is Rising.