I gotta get this book!

Winning Back America

Inequality

Democrats used to be the party of "big ideas" that could really change the world. Now they're afraid to make waves. Meanwhile it is the Republicans that come up with the major initiatives... sadly, initiatives to help the rich get richer. I found a great article at http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9503 that has some really great "big ideas" in it:

Does it matter that America keeps getting economically more unequal? The process has been going on for more than two decades...
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It's not as if there are no remedies. A few months ago, Ray Boshara of the New America Foundation and Washington University professor Michael Sherraden proposed the creation of a $6,000 investment fund for every child born in the United States; with the right portfolio it would yield 7 percent annually, eventually paying for higher education or a first home or a start-up business. Unlike the minimum-income schemes of the early '70s (it was Richard Nixon who proposed to give low-income people, working or not, cash payments of up to about $650 a month in today's dollars), the American Stakeholder Account would redistribute opportunity, not just money. It would give poorer families access to what they most acutely lack—lifelong assets.

The coming presidential campaign could at least provide this public service: to start talking about these issues!