Barack Obama - Politics 101 - Politics is the art of the possible...

Politics is the art of the possible."   The American people would be wise to keep that quote in the forefront of their thoughts as  Tuesday's election approaches.

Unless you have been living in a bunker somewhere - you know that America's major mid-term elections are coming up and that it is thought that the President's party will take quite a thrashing because of our high unemployment rate.

Jon Stewart "Gives Up" and so do I - this is what a robber baroneconomy means...

How did we go from the Great Society to Social Darwinism in four decades?

As a  child of the 60s  who went to college in the 1980s - the world I now find myself in seems almost surreal.  When I compare the egalitarian time into which I was born to what we have today - I'm forced to ask the burning question: What the !#%$  happened to our country?  Those of you old enough to remember know what I am talking about...I'm talking about the country that declared war on poverty and cancer while putting a man on the moon. The country that embraced the "Great Society" offering everyone a hand-up, not a hand-out.  The country that rewarded innovation as opposed to stifling it in order to maintain the status quo for special interests.  The country where education was held in high regard and not derided as "book learning."  The country that challenged our best and brightest to pursue high degrees rather than deriding them as elitist.  Diverse thoughts flourished and higher education was available to all who worked for it and were smart enough to take advantage of it.  Being born into the era of the Great Society - I never in a million years contemplated our fall into social Darwinian chaos where big money rules and the rest of us are played for fools.