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Week of March 29, 2009 - April 4, 2009

"The Good Times Aint Comin' Back"


Michael Winship of "Bill Moyers Journal" quotes from William Greider's new book "Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of our Country":  "That's No Angry Mob, It's a Movement"
As for President Obama, "I understand his political dilemma. And I sympathize with it. But he's trying to govern by convincing people that we will be able to get the old good times back. And my view is that the good times ain't comin' back.
Greider has been a great investigative reporter for over 40 years at publications like The Washington Post and Rolling Stone.  He wrote the definite book on the Federal Reserve "The Secrets of the Temple".   In other word, he knows what he's talking about.

The good times aren't coming back and that may be a good thing if "good times" mean being almost run over by a Hummer on my way across the parking lot of Mall of Murica to buy another fashion handbag.

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