By Ed Schultz
The heart category, the place the greatness of this state is rooted, is less than siege via an more and more unethical procedure, controlled by way of fiscal vampires who're sucking the lifeblood out of the yank family members and ripping the center out of democracy itself. giant money-and the politicians who're swayed via it-play either events opposed to one another, utilizing this fake conflict to distract such a lot people from the true warfare, that's a conflict opposed to the yank family.
This is it, parents . . . the instant of fact. this can be the instant historians will glance again upon and both say it was once the instant this nice send of country corrected its path, or the instant it sailed thoroughly clear of its democratic ideals.
To be triumphant, we need to succeed in again and rediscover our greatness. development won't come as speedy as we, in our impatience and impertinence, call for. but when we're sufferer and protracted, it's going to come.
All great things in lifestyles require a heavy elevate, so roll up your sleeves. we aren't performed yet.
--from Killer Politics
According to a 2008 Pew document, greater than half all american citizens self-identify as center class--but the particular variety of americans with middle-class earning is declining. the center category goes away. As expanding numbers of usa citizens are confronted with hindrances to schooling, future health care, jobs, and fairness, the center category as a monetary bracket is being changed via the center classification as little greater than a frame of mind. The richest americans are transforming into exponentially wealthier, whereas the remainder of us fight to endure the monetary and emotional burdens of an more and more damaged system.
In Killer Politics, Ed Schultz pulls the wool again from our eyes, exhibits us what the nation of the center classification relatively is, and provides us the instruments we have to struggle again.
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They are true champions for America. I grew up aware of the civil rights movement and experienced the changes it brought about when I was bused to the slums of Norfolk, to a black school of eighteen hundred students. And that changed my life. While I was a minority there, no one made me feel like one. ” By the time I was a senior in 1972, I was the starting quarterback and a team captain. My friends and teammates were black, but the only color that counted was the color of our jerseys. We trusted and loved one another like brothers.
They poured salt into the wound by calling me during the eighth round to tell me that they wouldn’t be drafting me and that no one else would be either, but they did want to sign me as a free agent. It was business, I realized later. Nothing personal. But I was young and my pride was hurt, so I told them to kiss off. How many people get the chance to sign with the Green Bay Packers even as a free agent? Yeah, I probably made a mistake. Pride goeth before a fall. No shit-eth! I was devastated, but that was just one of the hard knocks and setbacks anyone experiences in life.
DREAMING BIG: THE SHOW GOES NATIONAL After I spoke to the Democratic Caucus in the fall of 2003, I received encouragement from my North Dakota senators, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, as well as from Tom Daschle (D-SD), Harry Reid (D-NV), Deb Stabenow (D-MI), and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) to go ahead and fight back on the airwaves myself—with my own progressive radio program. And I had pretty much decided to do it. ” “Well, you could be a guest on the show…” And true to her word, she was. She’s a great lady and a tremendous secretary of state.