The New Economic Reality

One of the great cultural advantages of life is the public debate. Humanity engages in these spirited struggles with as much enjoyment and enthusiasm as a football game. The debate has become the subject of movies. Civil Rights leaders are often made of the stuff. People lock horns with each other. Sometimes, as in the Lincoln –Douglas debate, as a prelude to war . So on February 23, 2011 the Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) invited the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Community Legal Services and the Tea Party to a debate at the University of Pennsylvania’s campus. Representing the NAACP was Jerome Mondesire, President of the Philadelphia NAACP. Representing the Tea Party was a little old woman whose name for some reason I failed to remember. She insisted that her organization was not a wicked one. In fact she challenged the audience to the fact that most wanted limited government which was the goal of the Tea Party. There was only one...

It’s a new word for some. Many remember it as a positive thought. Those of us who are old enough to remember the sweet days of socialist thinking before Ronald Reagan was elected as President of the United States. Since, not every reader is a member of the gray haired set. I’ll try to define it for you. Unionism was a person’s right to organize him or herself into a collective bargaining unit. The purpose was to insure that working people were paid a decent wage. To the young folks this may seem a startling statement. The man must be a radical nut , most are thinking in the back of your heads. Believe me Walmart and the Tea Party are not correct in their economic analysis of the world. Human beings are entitled to a decent wage. It is not inflationary. It is not dangerous to the national economy or its security. Humanity can live in decent affordable housing and have a living wage without the world going bust. Many in Tunisia and Egypt and Wisconsin would agree with me. Working in th...

He has been a dedicated revolutionary. He has been on the forefront of the liberation struggle. I am concerned about the press . I and concerned about the the attempts of the Western press to attack his administration. If the media would be more balanced perhaps the violence would subside. My concern is whether the protesters are interested in building and continuing a socialist state. If they are I believe they should be listened to. If not they should not. I am not interested in the fate of the oil companies . I am interested in the fate and well being of the working class. Muammar al Qaddafi is not liked in the western media but he did manage, with the aid of Libyan people to overthrow a corrupt monarchy and establish a socialist state. It is a nation up until the recent events that had one of the highest standards of living in Africa. It also had the lowest poverty and infant morality rates in Africa. The problem , if there is one, is that the wealth of the oil resources is not d...