I remember seeing that ad (for something) many years ago where Calvin Coolidge said

The business of America is business.

whilst omitting the rest. I thought, "I see where we are going here." at the time. Ideology and the concurrent theft raining down from above, dogma from Rush.

Well now here we are, in the death knells of the Reagan Revolution. Before him, for a brief time, we did get along. OK, we were quirky and weird in every era, but we were once upon a time not pitted against each other for a slowly shrinking pool of opportunity.

In my youth, I was able to have my wife raise my children until the youngest went to school, for five years. A blessing - not cheap when yuppies were running around doing the double income thing. But it wasn't so common, it was a new phenomenon at the time.

Now its the norm. It is the only way to survive today. The problem as I see it - of course it is always the distribution of wealth - but there is a lot of dough out there and it can make massive changes very quickly in your circumstances. I see that unfettered capital as a monster, yes. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

People will do things as long as that behavior is rewarded. It is really as simple as that.

But fracking is the stupidest idea on the planet, and if I were in that board room, I would have had that guy with that idea fired on the spot.

But instead they all nodded thoughtfully when presented with the idea.

And here we are, our children, our American children - two 20-something kids saddled with $60k debt if they have college degrees, driving forklift for too many hours if they don't.. killing themselves to maintain the American Dream.

We owe them more than that, they are our children.