On The Republican Playing Field,

Our Moral Authority Is As Important, If Not More Important, Than Our Troop Strength Or Our High-tech Weapons. We Are Rapidly Losing That Moral Authority, Not Only In The Arab World But All Over The World.

We Already Have An Annual Wealth Tax On Homes, The Major Asset Of The Middle Class. It's Called The Property Tax. Why Not A Small Annual Tax On The Value Of Stocks And Bonds, The Major Assets Of The Wealthy?

I Don't Think That Our Problem, Our Jobs Problem, Is Fundamentally A Problem Of Trade. I Think It Has Much More To Do With The Fact That We Have Not Sufficiently Educated Our Population. We Have Not Got Out Of This Great Recession With Adequate Stimulus And Adequate Fiscal And Monetary Policies Over All.

There Are Party Leaders, Big Corporation, Wall Street. There Are Very Wealthy Individuals Who Kind Of Represent Where The Democratic Party, The Official Democratic Party Was And To Some Extent Still Is.

In The Life Of A Nation, Few Ideas Are More Dangerous Than Good Solutions To The Wrong Problems.