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Education Is Not The Only Answer And It's Certainly Not The Immediate Solution. At Best, It's A Necessary, But Not Sufficient Response To Widening Inequality.

We Can't Know In Advance What History Is Going To Say, But I Would Be Utterly Amazed And Surprised If This Entire Adventure, This Entire Iraqi Invasion From The Beginning Of Its Inception, Were Not Judged To Be An Utter Failure And A Terrible, Terrible Thing For The World.

We Can't Have Extraordinary Dynamism, Innovation, And Change In The Economy And Expect To Have Predictability And Stability In Our Personal Lives. It's Not As If There Are These Big, Giant Institutions Existing Between Us And The Economy. In Fact, These Institutions Have Become Tissue-thin. There Is No Mediation Anymore. We Are The Economy; The Economy Is Us.

A Funny Thing Happened To The First Amendment On Its Way To The Public Forum. According To The Supreme Court, Money Is Now Speech And Corporations Are Now People. But When Real People Without Money Assemble To Express Their Dissatisfaction With The Political Consequences Of This, They’re Treated As Public Nuisances And Evicted.

The Dirty Little Secret Is That Both Houses Of Congress Are Irrelevant. ... America's Domestic Policy Is Now Being Run By Alan Greenspan And The Federal Reserve, And America's Foreign Policy Is Now Being Run By The International Monetary Fund [imf]. ...when The President Decides To Go To War, He No Longer Needs A Declaration Of War From Congress.