 Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. |
| Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. |
| In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job. |
| In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like. |
| The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. |
| A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? |
| The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. |
| The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. |
| Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. |
| The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. |
| Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. |
| As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. |
| The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. |
| If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value. |
| Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. |
| Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. |
| The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. |
| The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. |
| In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. |
| Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. |
