Posted on 04/29/2009 9:18:23 PM PDT by stolinsky
The problem didn’t begin when the stock and real-estate markets crashed. The problem didn’t begin when confidence men ripped off their clients’ life savings. The problem didn’t begin when the ship of state actually started to sink.
No, the problem began years earlier, when the officers − the “elite” − abandoned the ship spiritually, emotionally and intellectually, though not physically. Their bodies stayed at their posts on the bridge. But their hearts were far away, in some imaginary place where perfect justice and perfect equality were doled out by…you guessed it, them.
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