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David,
I could not agree with you more about how bad of job President Bush did in his speech tonight. I wrote about this even before he spoke. read my idea about how we could use Katrina in Reinventing America’s Economy and tell me what you think.

With Katrina having destroyed over 200,000 homes and countless businesses in The Gulf Region and our government estimating spending over$150 Billion dollars, what is the best way for all of Americans to take advantage of this opportunity? Of course we could rebuild the area using 20th Century know-how and methods of operations which will see the value of the dollar drop, higher taxes, and slow economic growth. Or we could push the Leaders of America to look at “The Big Picture” and actually spur an economic growth that would lead to a sustainable environment & economy.

By our government forcing contractors to erect buildings that can withstand a category 5 hurricane by using American made “Green Products” in our rebuilding effort, the boost given to this sector of manufacturing would create jobs, provide a huge reduction in the environment impact, and show off what Americans can do to protect the environment in which we live. Additionally, our government’s image would be greatly increased around the world by demonstrating to other nations that we care about our planet. Considering that our image is as low as it has been years, this policy makes common sense and would pay for itself in a few years if done smart.

Water Purification and Waste Treatment units for homes and small commercial complexes would reduce the cost to Cities and States, thus lowering the taxes for our citizens ad the need to build bigger water treatments plants would be reduced. Off-Gird Power units would allow a safer deliver of energy while reducing the cost per KW as the need to build bigger units that burn fossil fuel is eliminated. Building material and products would become cheaper as the increase of Supply is enlarged to meet the Demand. And the list goes on and on. Just web search “Green Designs and Products” and enjoy thousands of sites that proves my point.

Yet, the biggest impact on the economy that the so called Marshall Plan being pushed around is the investment opportunity that it holds for the average citizen if our Elected Officials would use “The Powers of Congress” in the manner outlined by The Founding Fathers of America. Given the chose between paying higher taxes or investing in U.S. Treasury Notes and Local and State Bonds which would add sufficient enough funds into the National Savings Account, I would believe that most would chose to invest. Additionally, by Congress creating such a “National Improvement Note” our government could raise the necessary funds to address the Economic and Social Programs that will be needed to ensure the Future of America.

However, does The President and Congress even know that they have the ability to do just that? Probably not sadly enough and that is a shame. For as I have spoke extensively about this idea on Watchblog.com, I’m surprised at how so many educated citizens do not understand what our economy would be like if Every American was permitted to set aside only $.50/hr of their Payroll Taxes to purchase $1,040.00/yr of U.S. Federal Reserve “Special Treasury Note.” Nevertheless, by creating and managing a National Improvement program our Treasury would grow by approximately $320 Million dollars a week and over a 40 year time span make Every American economically viable and financially independent. Yet, I can only dream that someday our Elected Officials will become aware of what The Founding Fathers of America did some 229 years ago as they solved by Law the Riddle of a Righteous Nation.

Henry, I agree. The President has a plan. It is a plan half-baked and uninspired and without wisdom of historical precedents, successes and failures. Whether the Predident and his speech writers are that unimaginative and dim, or whether plummeting polls are driving their rush to a plan that may kill our ability to meet our future’s economic challenges which are growing monthly, is hard to say.

Hopefully, voters will see the failures of the 3 major tests thrown at Republicans since 2000 and take appropriate action. 9/11, the war on terrorism and Iraq, and now Katrina, are such dismal failures by our federal government, it is becoming harder and harder to justify the belief that America has a future of growth, prosperity, and security.

David,
Your right and the colg hard fact of it is that without Senator Edwards the Democrats don’t have a clue on how to fix the problems facing our Nation. Yet, I know it can be done so the $64 dollar question is which third party can be found to take advantage of the situtation caused by President Bush failing his base? Any idea on a candidate because Mickey Mouse could run and get elected given the past five years. All he/she has to do is hold the Common Ground that makes us all truely Americans.

Henry, that 3rd Party does not exist, yet. Nader was the closest have come, but, he was the worst spokesperson for the cause of fiscal discipline, social and consumer justice, and the walk softly but carry a big stick foreign policy. Nader’s platform was the right one, but, he was absolutely the wrong candidate to sell the platform.

The Green Party has no economic and fiscal sense. The Libertarian Party has no social or consumer justice sense. And all the others are hardly worth mentioning today. I don’t know, a messiah may come forth, but, I won’t be betting any money on it.

You know that we are screwed on this. We are going to get a Gulf Marshall Plan, just what we don’t need. We are going to rebuild. We are going to bring the people back to the undersea world. In the meantime, we are going to house them in Palestinian like refugee camps.

There will be no significant resistance. Bush will be able to get anything he wants. The Dems will demand he spend more, no matter what and he will try to spend faster than they can criticize. The government will grow bigger. The very part of society that failed us the most – government – will get an even bigger role. I will be optimistic again tomorrow.

jack, it is the Republicans who will demand we spend more in order to restore their incumbency potential in 2006. Democrats are irrelevant to what will take place. Where have you been for 5 years?

Jack,
We’ll just make you President than you’ll be happy.

David,
I do agree with you about the platform which Nader ran on to a degree. However, instead of taking a passive role, we need a candidate that has the courage to stand up to the special interest and tell them to back off. To many of them want to exploit each other and are willing to exchange their principles for what or whoever will give in to their demands.

Don’t get me wrong, special interest groups are great at giving up information and organizing events, but they get in the way of their own interests to much of the time. The Pro-Life organization is a good example of this. Where we once said that death was when a person stopped breathing than moved it up to when the heart stopped beating. Today, with the increase of medical knowledge that point is now when the brain activity is gone.

Instead of focusing all their energy on overturning Roe vs. Wade, they could do better for their cause by pushing for more medical research on how to prevent unwanted pregnacies and extending life. Because by expanding how we detremine death, we actually come closer to answering when life begins medically.

No, if every America needed a person who had the credentials to run for President it is now. That’s why I wish Senator Edwards would either get the Democrats to commit to his ideas and challange the Republican Party or form his own political party.

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I too disagreed with the president on several points.

New Orleans was a great city in many ways and should be honored in our memories (as a sort of Atlantis) but on reflection I think it should be allowed to die a natural death. Those who lived there are now settling into their lives elswhere. The businesses have relocated.

Geographically, it WAS important, a port city which provided many economic (not to mention cultural benefits).

But congratulations go to our leftist friends. The raving partisan (and wildly inaccurate attacks) on the administration’s response to Katrina have had their effect. Now Bush’s approval ratings will rise as he hands out aid to victims rebuild a place where no sane person would want to live. Enjoy your victory.

David:

You say that “There are ways to resurrect the Gulf Coast without throwing our economic and tax futures away at the same time.”

I’d be interested in hearing what your ways are. It appears you like neither President Bush’s plan nor the Democrats’ plan. Perhaps there are bits and pieces of each plan that you do like, but I’d like to better understand what YOUR plan would look like, and how you would do it in an efficient manner. Thanks

Sanger,
It is not a victory when all he did was throw money at the problem. America has the ability to jump start our economy in leading the world on how to rebuild an area the size of England “Totally Green.”

By using advance technology, not only can we build homes that are self sufficient, but rebuild our infrastructure in a manner that lowers our local government need to raise taxes. Check out some of the ideas and solutions that our society has available which can build a sustainable economy and clean environment. Talk about an economic boom and an investment opportunity.

No, President Bush will lead a rebuilding effort that unless the locals demand a “Green Solution” will be built out of 20th Century material. You said lets move forward before, now that the opportunity is here will The Right support building part of our country so that it will serve as an inspriration for the rest of the world?

sanger, are you seriously suggesting that Bush is bending to the left out of deference to their opinion? Now that would be the greatest turnaround of character since Jeckyll and Hyde.

The fact is, the Republican Party leadership talks conservative to get votes, talks liberal to get votes, goes to war in the name of peace, drives America into unrecoverable debt in the name of smaller government which keeps getting bigger.

Look, the war on terrorism to date has cost us under 200 billion. 9/11 cost us less than 50 billion. Katrina will cost us 200 billion. Total, under 450 billion. National debt since 2000 has grown by more than 2 thousand billion. The GOP simply has nothing close to the kind of leadership capable of acting in accordance with their vote getting rhetoric.

And the GOP won’t stop. Power is what the GOP is all about and damn near nothing else. Certainly not homeland security. Our borders are as porous as on 9/10/2001 and that, like Katrina, is a disaster waiting to happen. The world is becoming ever more competitive while our debt and trade policies continue to drive our economic future ever further from the competitive bargaining table. Foreign investors are moving money out of the US at a time when the GOP is creating debt at an unaparalleled rate. Education, so desperately needing to be made America’s top priority is rapidly dropping to the GOP’s lowest priority except for pledges of alleigance and prayer which do nothing for the brain power our nation is going to need to compete in a global economy as well as providing the work force we will need.

The only successful major initiative the GOP accomplished is expanding American corporations into international corporations which do more business overseas and pay less back to America in good paying jobs and taxes than ever before.

The GOP is the problem; and their underlying philosophy that if the government takes care of corporations everything else will take care of itself is what is killing our prosperity as a nation of workers, killing our economic options and burying them under mountains of debt, and killing our our own American people in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico.

jbod, I am working on an article that will answer your question. Bits and pieces of each, yes, and more.

David,
You never did say what you thought of my ideas. To far out of The Box?

There will never be a viable third party. Ross Perot succeeded only because he threw his own vast fortune into it. Anyone else is wasting their time. You are simply allowing the Republicans an easy win by spouting this nonsense. Its not an accident that the RNC financed Nader last time. Democrats/Liberals are far more likely to fragment than Conservatives. You people are just ensuring the continued devastation by BushCo.

Aldous, you are just wrong! And so fundamentally so. You would have us vote against our beliefs and ideals in the name of pragmatic choice between the lesser of two evils. If everyone did that, there would be no America in the first place. There would be no Civil Rights Act, there would be no Women’s suffrage.

You are just plain fundamentally wrong on this one.

Henry, good ideas. Except for the treasury notes. Without a fiscally responsible Congress and President, treasury notes are becoming a very bad long term risk. Investing in America on any level in the long term is a big risk as long as immaturity like this reigns over our fiscal management.

Throwing money at high visibility hardship is what most people prefer to do. Some prefer to do it through donations to charities or churches, while others prefer to pay the government to do it through their taxes. Of course the latter approach just means that everyone gets to pay instead of just those feel that it’s the right thing to do on an individual basis. We voluntary payers in effect agree to pay twice.

I’ve been to New Orleans a few times on business, but can’t imagine going there on vacation. Except for some in my extended family who (for whatever reason) have decided to live there, I can’t think of anything I’d want to return for.

But if we’re going to spend all this money, I’d prefer to see Underseaworld rebuilt somewhere around Montreal. That way we could avoid the near certainty of another cat-5 storm undoing everything we’re about to do, our good friends up north would be pleased to accept our investment, and their new residents could proudly cling to their French cultural heritage.

Owl Creek, yes, it is not like we aren’t already shipping truckloads of American worker tax dollars overseas to dictators like Musharraf, and Kim Yung Il of N. Korea. Why not send a 100 billion to Canada. At least they are a democracy even if they are far more successfully socialist around the edges.

While I’m now an independent (recovering democrat), I think we aren’t going to see a major shift in the political landscape. The Republican message is too well funded, articulated and communicated to suffer major losses in 2006 and 2008. They may lose the white house, but I don’t see congress turning over. Why? The democrats are the picture of ineptitude. The old guard (Kennedy, Byrd, etc.) are caricatures of their formers selves and are basically ignored and irrelevant. The newer versions (Feinstein, Reid, Schumer, etc.) are without a vision and the most recent (Obama, Feingold, Clinton, etc) have’t been on the scene long enough to give us a real sense of who they would be as a national leader. Some would disagree with Hillary, but I have no idea what kind of president she would be. The only thing I know for sure is that she would be a lightening rod for the Republicans to rally around to defeat.

So the dems are effectively impotent relative to national leadership.

I think it will take a moderate or progressive (I can’t say Liberal any more right?) Republican with a vision that looks remarkably democratic to move the countries discussions closer to what we can do together. The backlash of George W. Bush has left a country more divisive and argumentative than ever before. Say what you want about Clinton’s extra curricular activities, but he got more done with a hostile congress than Bush has been able to accomplish with majorities in both houses. Clinton co’opted relatively moderate Republican values and made them his own. That was his genius. George Bush has risen and fallen on the basis of his pitch of competent, sound leadership. I’ve yet to see his genius. The best I can say about him is that he was competent in the reaction to 9/11 and the period of time we were responding to Osama. His competence gave way to Hubris with Iraq. Now, the largest test of his presidency has arrived. He may have a chance of redeeming his legacy with the response to Katrina, but based on the performance to date and the speech last night, one has to wonder what the Republican machine is thinking about 2008. I do not see him recovering and his legacy will be as tainted as Clinton’s.

It’s my hope that we can see someone like Susan Collins of Maine or Lincoln Chafee from Rhode Island begin to emerge as a voice of reasoned, progressive republicanism that focuses on the politics that will provide an opportunity for the countries convergence rather than divergence. I’m interested in hearing everyone’s opinion of what Bush’s chance for political recovery might be.

David,
If buying Treasure Notes is high risk for Americans, what message does that send to the rest of the world? How much higher will that make interest rates go if that is the case? President Bush and the Republican Party better hope that isn’t the case because that would make him a worst President than Jimmy Carter. Tripling the gas price and double digit interest rates in a span of less than 8 years though would spell an end to Trickle Down economics.

No, you and me had this same conversation over Treasury Notes before the 2004 Presidentail election and given the chose between Americans holding our national debt vs. China and Saudia Arabia, I still say Americans would be better. However, I do understand your concerns.

That is why IMO we need to give a huge bost to the new “Green Technology” instead of 20th century building material. The quicker we can flip our economy to produce these products, the better our economy will be. Image is everything and the fact that America has taken a backseat in the effort to deal with global warming, our commitment to rebuild the area “Totally Gren” would go a long way in increasing the worth of our Treasury Notes. It is also a stand that neither the Democrats or Republicans have never considered. They want to sell America to oversea countries not to use the sell of these notes to end poverty.

By the way do you know of any buildings in the effected area that was rebuilt or retro-fitted to withstand a Category 5 after the building codes were changed in the 90’s or did that only effect the east coast?

David
I shake my head every time I read one of your posts on the President.

Have you ever written ,in your capacity as an “indepentant” writer for Watchblog one positive word on him or his administration?

Last night’s speech was terrific…and most of America (except for the few like you who will annilihate him no matter what he says)…think so.

CNN had an announcer on after the speach interviewing a group of black evacuees in Houston.Despite his best effort to pry from their lips a condemnation of the speech…just the opposite occurred…they thanked him and said it gave them hope…..

Most papers that I have read this morning….Wall Street Journal…Financial Times….Washington Post….and most wire services…Reuters especially..cast the speech in generally positve terms….

Not that the Feds are blameless…a child knows that is not true…however as the story unfolds the City and State will take their share of the blame.

I am encouraged on his proposal to get the military more involved from the inception on future disasters….they are really the only organization on the planet that has the efficiency to respond to a disater of this magnitude.

Here is the bottom line,David…..I really think your comments belong on the left column…all of them….you have nothing in common with an “independant” point of view….which is ok…my view of an “independant” differs from yours…it should consist of an amalgul of thought…both left,right,and middle..which offers a true alternative to the current two party system….I just don’t see you there….yet…

David
As further proof,Ted Turner’s CNN overnight poll just came out……37% said too ambitious,34% said just right and 29% said not enough….

And that’s from the liberal CNN……

Sicilian Eagle,
While those figures were made on emotions and like/dislike of the President, I would like to see that same poll taken in about a week or two when The Whitehouse announces it plans to inflate itself (our economy) out of the problem of paying for this plan. Do you think that it will than favor the Republican Party. Gold today just hit a 17 year high.

David R. Remer wrote: While the President focuses on remedying his poll numbers and Katrina?s devastation, it was obvious the far greater threat to America, total debt, is not even on his radar scope.

No kiddin’ !
Just throw a few hundred billion dollar$ at it ?
No problem. We can have that all printed up fer ya’ll by Monday.
Yep, look out. All that money won’t ever make it to the right destination (as usual). More graft and corruption. Yeah…corporations are lining up for their fat share of pork-barrel.

What is on that radar scope, but being mysteriously ignored, is something worse than any natural disaster, and irresponsible and unaccountable government appears to be doing just about everything it can to bring it about, while voters also mysteriously ignore and tolerate all of it.

Yes, the Democrats are going to reclaim the House, Senate, and Executive Branch in the coming elections. But, don’t get your hopes up, because they’re just takin’ turns at being irresponsible and unaccountable (which is why the debt grows every year for the last 45 years). And even if the slow spending (like Clinton did), the debt will grow and grow. The debt problem is already out of control. The $8 trillion National Debt is already too big to deal with. It represents $50 trillion in interest alone over that next 127 years, and that’s only if the federal government not only (1) stops borrowing (or printing) $1 billion dollar$ per day to pay the daily interest , but also, (2) some how (which doesn’t seem likely at all), starts to pay back $1 billion per day to stop the debt from growing larger each day. That ain’t gonna ever happen. What’s going to happen is that government will start printing more money to shrink the National Debt. Of course, that will create inflation.

However, there’s just one big problem with that that approach…you’re savings and pensions are also worth less too (or, more accurately, worthless). Before long, you’ll need a truck load of U.$. currency to buy a cup of coffee. This will mostly likely occur because the spending, borrowing, and printing more money will continue, like it has for the last 20+ years, with the National Debt growing ever larger, every year. That’s why a house worth $25K in 1975 is now worth $94K today. That’s why a car that cost $4K in 1970 now costs $21K today (that represents a total of 405% inflation). That’s why people make risky investments to make their money make money, instead of watching it grow less and less valuable. That’s why $100K in retirement savings in 1990 (not invested and earning interest) would now only be worth $67K in 2005 (that represents 33.2% inflation over only 15 years). It’s so ridiculous, we’ve come to accept an annual inflation of 3% or so, but where can you safely receive 5% or more (which is needed since you have to pay taxes on those earnings), without actually going backwards ? Inflation is economically destabilizing, and despite government knowing this, irresponsible government continues to do it. It’s voodoo economics. Government not only receives huge amounts of income via taxation, but it prints vast amounts of extra money too. Government, could conceivably, do this indefinitely, if it is careful to not let the debt grow too large, which requires a daily interest payment larger than incoming revenues. That’s the situation today. It’s getting difficult to borrow $1 billion per day to pay $1 billion per day in interest alone. Therefore, the solution is to print more money. Just do the math, and look at inflation, and history, and make your own predictions. Massive debt and the problems it creates can grow exponentially. You’d have to be wearin’ rose colored glasses to see a rosy outcome from so many decades of fiscal and moral bankruptcy.

inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/InflationCalculator.asp
westegg.com/inflation/
home.comcast.net/~d.a.n/NationalDebt.xls

sic eagle, I guess you simply overlook the volumes I have written here in favor of fiscal responsibility when you say you can’t see why my writing belongs in the center the column.

To each their own biases - yours however is obvious, anything negative toward GOD Bush has to be from a Democrat or Dem should be. Laughable, since a firestorm is about to hit Bush, and all of it from true conservatives amongst his own Congressional Republicans.

The fact of the matter is, we need to pay for this now, or we will really hit the wall later. And yes, we need to rebuild New Orleans. It’s a strategic port, and has been so for the last three hundred years. It’s value is more than just as a residence for it’s population.

Let go of the tax cuts, my red column friends. Every dollar we spend in deficit is more expensive than a dollar we spend out of revenue. Besides, if the money you give up is for Katrina, it will pour back into our economy, through the pockets of those who will rebuild the cities and communities. It’s better than paying the money to the Chinese, when the time comes.

David
Believe me…there is plenty that I criticize the President about…the terrible PR job that was done at the inception of the war being the biggest…and yes,I host mostly concervative views on Tax and War,but most of my other politics I am moderate…however I think that we should lighten up here at least a little.

The true conservatives (far right element) is as off base as the far left liberal…divisive…would rather stick a finger in the eye than engage in dialogue…

America is on the right course….we as politicial parties are not…..

Finishing watching every second of the Roberts hearing,I shake my head at Biden,Kennedy and the like..years ago,judicial temperment, lack of corruption and moral terpitude were the sole factors for consideration….to the Bench…guys like Stevens,Douglas,Frankfurter…hardly has to answer a single question.

What is particuliary disappointing is that the ABA endorssed Roberts….probably an organization that tilts to the left as any….any that wasn’t sufficient.

Under your logic,any practicing Catholic that follows the teaching of the Church should be voted down as their view does not square with Roe.For that matter if one was Islamic or Protestant the same would be the case.

I feel a comittment to the rule of law should be the dispositive factor..something that Roberts advocated….

Be serious…Roberts testified for 2 and 1/2 days with zero notes in front of him….showing an unbelievable grasp of case law and principles…meanwhile Kennedy et al,had lowly staffers prepare partisian questions that served onlt to embarrass the questioner….

Let go of the tax cuts, my red column friends

NOOooooo. Pleaaaasszzze don’t ask for tax increases.
Instead, ask for a fair tax system (i.e. flat income tax and no deductions or loop holes: home.comcast.net/~d.a.n/TaxSystemReform.htm ).
And, ask for fiscal responsibility and accountability.
But, never ask for tax increases, because government will just spend, borrow, and print more money; and there are so many loop holes and room for abuse, it really won’t make the tax system any more fair. It’s futile to meddle with the tax system further, without first reforming it to make it as fair as possible, because Congress will simply just vote for some more loop holes and deductions, to avoid paying taxes.

Sic Eagle, Hitler was a brilliant orator as well, often not requiring notes to read from. So, your point is?

I wrote that if Roberts is true to his words in the confirmation hearings, I think he should be confirmed. I have never favored confirmation based on single issue litmus testing.

David R Remer,

Great post I like how Bush bash but don’t regurgitate someone elses words
What is this free land thing you were talking about? Can you give a little more insight? What the rationale behind that is, ect.

chad, check out the transcript of Bush’s speech. Or listen to the political talk shows, it’s being discussed because the President introduced the idea in his speech, a lottery land grant program in which federal land is given free to those who will commit to build upon it. It is not a new idea, it was very popular in the westward expansion of this country in the early and mid 19th century.

However, the President was a fool to announce such a program before doing impact studies, engineering feasibility studies, and cost/benefit analysis for tax payers of such a policy implementation in response to Katrina. But, then, that is exactly the way he headed straight into Iraq, without long term planning, without cost/benefit analysis, and without impact studies on American image and leadership in the world. And here he goes again.

David great article, and Henry, terrific replies! Between the two of you, I’ve really nothing further to add here.

David,

I don’t mean to bother you but, who owns this land he’s giving away?

Chad, the federal government. These would be protected wetlands, BLM land, or other land held in the public trust owned by all American citizens for the preservation of remnants of the natural bounty and majesty that once was America.

Thanks, Adrienne. I blogged it as he was speaking and touched it up when he was done. This was only my second real time blogging effort. The pressure… ugh!

david r remer,

Wow i had no idea. This is quite a step he’s taking here. Thank you for the insight and i’m reading the transcipts as I type.

Has anyone else seen how quickly the media is trying to split hairs on the plan that the President laid out? Although I have may concerns over which every plan is finalized, IMO the media has aleady lost site of the “Big Picture.”

If we had the opportunity to totally assist England in rebuilding her Nation into a model for the 21st Century, how would we go about it? This is the scope of what America needs to look at. 90,000 square miles of roads, schools, and countless other buildins and systems need major repair and/or replacement. So given the fact that our endeavors today will be not for us, but our Children’s Children exactly which is the best way to procede? Lets here some good ideas from the Left and Right!

David
Terrible analogy of Hitler to Roberts.
You know the point I was trying to make.
Pretty disgraceful comment from an intelligent guy.
You don’t belong on the left column..you belong on the hyper-left.

Dear David & Aldous,

I like to think that I totally appreciate the frustrations that minor-party supporters feel. I don’t really share them, but that’s not important.

I do think that one of the major blunders that minor-party supporters make is to attribute 2-party dominance to the power and corruption of the Democratic & Republican parties. I’d encourage you to explore the structural explanation - Duverger’s Law.

It’s not corruption that causes a 2-party system, it’s our electoral system itself.

sic eagle, thank you. That kind of response assures me I have done my job well.

David,

“The symbolism of a blue collar worker showing up ready for work, was unmistakable. But, like a blue collar worker who shows up for work a week late, he should be fired.”

Bravo, well said and hilarious.

“The President announced a shocking line of reasoning when he explained racism causes poverty and the federal government will open the treasury to end this discrimination and poverty that Katrina embarrassingly exposed on TV to the entire world.”

I wasn’t aware that we could end racism with money. Why didn’t Martin Luther King jr. just throw a little coin around Alabama and Mississippi?
This administration is a made for T.V. embarassment.

I love how his speech was so scripted. It was not from the heart.

Great entry David

Thanks, Mike T.