This time the American people rose up in large numbers at the grassroots level and shoved it right back at the corporate executives, at the media, at the politicians. The rebellion against HMOs. The rebellion against giant sports-stadium scams. That is running roughshod over the economic future of the workaday majority. It runs roughshod over our democratic political system, over our environment.
Most pollution is in working-class and poor neighborhoods.
It runs roughshod over our educational system. Roughshod over our culture. The move in the White House and Congress to open up the quotas for foreign nationals to come in and take the high-tech software, computer and engineering jobs is a stunning revelation of the global economy to a lot of folks who thought they were immune. Detroit is important for a couple of reasons. One, all of our proud older cities are especially hard hit in the economy.