THIS IS the biggest stickup in American history.
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First we were told that in order to save the nation, we had to bail out irresponsible banks and decrepit car companies, and to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. Last week, we were told that the federal government would be shut down without $38.5 billion in cuts that will slash labor, education, transportation, and health programs, as well as State Department diplomacy. Those cuts are only the beginning as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican, wants $6 trillion in cuts over the next decade, plus $4 trillion in tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.
The words are by Derrick Jackson, in his Tuesday morning Boston Globe column, titled Surprise, surprise: rich get richer.
Jackson is a treasure, a superb writer who should be better known. I would have written about this column earlier, but I wanted to remember the firing on Fort Sumter, and use that as a basis of a broader reflection.
You should read the Jackson.
Let me offer a bit more and a few words of my own.
