[Vision2020] Bob Herbert's last NYT column

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Here's an excerpt:


"Arthur Miller, echoing the poet Archibald MacLeish, liked to say that 
the essence of America was its promises. That was a long time ago. 
Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction 
to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic 
decline. Young people today are staring at a future in which they will 
be less well off than their elders, a reversal of fortune that should 
send a shudder through everyone. 


The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful 
country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the 
horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its 
people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely."
Link to the whole column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/opinion/26herbert.html?_r=3&hp
Sunil


  
      
 		 	   		  
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