Socialism For Rich Bankers And

I'm Quite Optimistic When It Comes To The Capacity Of Our People To Have An Honest Discussion About What's Really Going On. What Do You Think John Mccain's Candidacy Was About? And The Early Days Of Bill Bradley's Candidacy? People Are Hungry For A Genuine, No-spin Set Of Ideas And Truths. They Want Their Leaders To Tell It Like It Is. There Is A Great Demand For This. Politicians Continually Underestimate The Ability Of The American Public To Understand What's Happening To Them And What The Real Choices Are.

The Intellectual Equipment Needed For The Job Of The Future Is An Ability To Define Problems, Quickly Assimilate Relevant Data, Conceptualize And Reorganize The Information, Make Deductive And Inductive Leaps With It, Ask Hard Questions About It, Discuss Findings With Colleagues, Work Collaboratively To Find Solutions And Then Convince Others.

I Mean, You Hear The Word 'globalization' Over And Over And Over Again. Globalization, Globalization, Globalization. Rarely Has A Word Gone So Directly From Obscurity To Meaninglessness Without Any Intervening Period Of Coherence.

Higher Education Isn't Just A Personal Investment. It's A Public Good That Pays Off In A More Competitive Workforce And Better-informed And Engaged Citizens. Every Year, We Spend Nearly $100 Billion On Corporate Welfare, And More Than $500 Billion On Defense Spending. Surely Ensuring The Next Generation Can Compete In The Global Economy Is At Least As Important As Subsidies For Big Business And Military Adventures Around The Globe. In Fact, I Think We Can And Must Go Further - Not Just Making Public Higher Education Tuition-free, But Reinventing Education In America As We Know It.

Today, For Good Or Ill, People Are Thinking About Many Social Problems From The Standpoint Of Their Own Kitchen Tables. I Think The Way To Begin A Conversation With People About What's Going On Is To Address Their Daily Experiences, And What Their Fears And Frustrations, As Well As Their Exhilarations, Are.