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Well, Many Of Us Believe That Excessive Media Concentration Is A Subject That Ought To Be Addressed, And It Is, Of Course, The Intention Of The Majority Party Not To Allow That To Be Discussed.

The Left And The Right Live In Parallel Universes. The Right Listens To Talk Radio, The Left's On The Internet And They Just Reinforce One Another. They Have No Sense Of Reality. I Have Now One Ambition: To Retire Before It Becomes Essential To Tweet.

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.

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.

The Best Antidote To Prejudice Is Reality.