We Know What Things Cost But Have

My History Writing Was Based On What I Saw In Strange, Exotic Places Rather Than Just Reading Books.

Contrast 1968, When The Ceo Of General Motors Took Home, In Pay And Benefits, About Sixty-six Times The Amount Paid To A Typical Gm Worker. Today The Ceo Of Wal-mart Earns Nine Hundred Times The Wages Of His Average Employee. Indeed, The Wealth Of The Wal-mart Founder's Family In 2005 Was Estimated At About The Same ($90 Billion) As That Of The Bottom 40% Of The Us Population: 120 Million People.

All Modern U.s. Presidents Are Perforce Politicians, Prisoners Of Their Past Pronouncements, Their Party, Their Constituency, And Their Colleagues.

How Should We Begin To Make Amends For Raising A Generation Obsessed With The Pursuit Of Material Wealth And Indifferent To So Much Else?

Today, Neither Left Nor Right Can Find Their Footing.