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Whether you are in favor of President Obama’s economic direction or not, you have to be impressed by the moderate Republican Senators who have come forward and made the commitment to working together with the Democrats to put the best possible package forward. It is not as many Republicans as I would like to see, but I was never under the impression there would be a huge number of them willing to do this. It is encouraging to see that there are some out there who find taking action and moving forward more important then sulking and licking wounds. I think that no matter where you sit on the spectrum, Right or Left,it is clear that something has to be done.

Over the past 100 years, numerous people claiming to have the academic credentials to speak with convincing authority, mostly American citizens, have written literature advancing the notion that democratic socialism does not, cannot, and will not practically work in human society. Most of these people, pundits educated in the United States, were weaned on the abundant fruit of corporate capitalism and the doctrine of pragmatism advanced primarily through the philosophic efforts of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Chauncy Wright, Nicholas St. John Green, and Oliver Wendell Holmes in the latter-part of the 19th Century and the early part of the 20th Century.