My Concern Is Not That There Are

We Are Not At War (except With Our Own Demons).

All Of The Incessant Debate About Development Assistance, And Whether The Rich Are Doing Enough To Help The Poor, Actually Concerns Less Than 1% Of Rich World Income. The Effort Required Of The Rich Is Indeed So Slight That To Do Less Is To Announce Brazenly To A Large Part Of The World: 'you Count For Nothing.' We Should Not Be Surprised, Then, If In Later Years The Rich Reap The Whirlwind Of That Heartless Response.

Obama Is Already Setting A New Historic Course By Reorienting The Economy From Private Consumption To Public Investments... Rightwing Pundits Bemoan The Evident Intention Of Obama And Team To 'tell Us What Kind Of Car To Drive'. Yet That Is Exactly What They Intend To Do...and Rightly So. Free-market Ideology Is An Anachronism In An Era Of Climate Change.

The Truth Of Good Economic Doctoring Is To Know The General Principles, And To Really Know The Specifics. To Understand The Context, And Also, To Understand That An Economy May Need Some Tender Loving Care, Not Just The So-called Hard Truths, If It's Going To Get By.

It's The American Leadership That Has Not Played The Role It Should Be Playing And That Leaders In Other Countries Have Been Playing.