It Seems To Me That Politicians Ought

Today, Many People Take For Granted The Notion That People Whose Lives Are Going To Be Very Heavily Affected By Public Policies Should Have A Say In How They Are Formulated And Carried Out.

In The West Everybody Recognizes The Need For A Private Sector, Pretty Much, Even The One Socialist Group Understands This Now, And So There Tends To Be Debate About How Much Public Sector Intervention You Think Is Needed For A Variety Of Reasons, And There Are Very Important Differences On Party Lines That Should Be Fought Out.

There Is An Irony That The Most Active Anti-gay Groups Are Al-qaeda And The American Right Wing.

I Can Tell You About Health Care And Also About The Financial Reform Bill. The Barack Obama, The President Personally And His Administration Officials At His Direction Were Very Much Involved.

Trying To Avert Foreclosures, Once You Can't Just Force The Banks To Do It As A Condition Of Getting Aid, Means That You Have To Put Some Public Money Into It Or You Have To Do Other Things That Are Politically Unpopular. From The Macroeconomic Standpoint There Is Overwhelming Need To Help People Reduce What They Owe So That We Don't Get The Foreclosures And We Don't Get People Kicked Out Of Their Homes. On The Other Hand, There Is Great Resistance Politically To Helping People, Not All Of Whom Would Be Worth Recipients Of The Help.