6th, or 7th home.
Lord knows they need to stay ahead of the ghosts of Christmas past.

Cheney and PNAC were modeling their world order on the British Empire. This failed strategy led us to more than the misadventures in Iraq but to an acceleration of globalism. The British empire was not a happy time for the average British worker. A lot of British industry went overseas.

However, can't blame it all on Cheney. Bill Clinton played a part.

Obama is trapped in this mess.

Instead of bringing the slave to the work, you just bring the work to the slave.

There's so much to think about, and the important thing is to keep thinking. Not let them drown your thoughts out with their pre-packaged holiday plans.

I'm reminded of a clip I saw of an interviewer doing a quick q & a of some students after Bernie Sanders' speech at Liberty University, where a (just one! others were much more positive!) student said that he agreed 100% with what Sanders said about what needs to be done, but dismissed Sanders by saying that he thinks it (social movement for the betterment of people) all ought to be done through individual charity and by churches. Not through democratic government. The conclusion I came to after listening to the student was that the student preferred that all morality should be happenstance, whimsical, individual, and that there aren't universal standards that people in democratic alliance can and should achieve.

My own view is the exact opposite of that.
I think individuals are too lazy to be "ethical" on any consistent basis.
Although charity is a virtue, for sure, it can't be depended on to solve any existing wide ranging social problem.
To suppose otherwise is to contribute to those problems.

your views. I also remember the LU student you mention, I expected pushback but his reasoning did not reflect my upbringing in the Episcopal Church and I am thankful for it.

I live in rural Louisiana and can attest to what Mr. Theroux would have seen and his article articulated my views with much more clarity than I ever could.

Great article!

I imagine it's a problem nation wide - people in small towns with no jobs, people in cities with low paying jobs.

What impressed me was the writers thoroughness and passion shining through in the article, he actually practices journalism as it used to be done.
Props to Mr. Theroux for caring and a job well done.

It puked all over it like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly and slurped up the gooey mess left behind all for itself. It is the same in our communities, in manufacturing, as it is with the commons. They are destroying it all for short term gains for themselves with no eye towards tomorrow.

The fact that people know this, and continue to funnel money into them, only shows the lack of respect they have for anything, or anyone, but themselves.