Sign those checks, get people to work. Public works, massive government action.
Check this video out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsz_MgrBDk... This is the kind of ACTION this country needs now!
Harry Hopkins is the sort of man we need now. No one knows about him, but his influence on the past 70 years or so of this country is HUGE.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1610.htm... Harry Hopkins as head of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1599.htm... put people like Studs Terkel and Orson Wells to work.
http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html... 'Even artists have to eat,' to paraphrase Hopkins.
FDR's first inaugural:
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
As FDR said, admitting the failure of his first term to weed out privilige:
"We find our population suffering from the old inequalities, little changed by our past sporadic remedies. In spite of our effort and in spite of our talk, we have not weeded out the overprivileged and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged....We have...a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear the conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well. In building toward this end we do not destroy ambition, nor do we seek to divide our wealth into equal shares on stated occasions. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and his a proper security, a reasonable leisure, and a decent living throughout life is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power."
But as he admited in 1936:
"Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."
Imagine such sentiments from either Hillary or Obama.
Listen to FDR's words and his actions and compare the the weak-tea being offered as "change" in a time now as critical as what the American people faced more than 70 years ago.
We're in deep doo doo and we need real leadership. Learn your history and reflect. Obama ain't very inspiring when you compare his snappy come back to Hillary's attacks to the sheer audacity of the New Deal years and what they accomplished.
Unless, Obama or Hillary is prepared to really upset the applecart and take this nation in a whole other, radical, direction then what's the point? Things have gone way beyond sound bites and poll numbers.
The American people desperatley want a leader and, sadly, none of the above is capable.
FDR:
"The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership."
Where is it? Where is this generation's rendesvous with destiny? (it's not Obama)
