This Is Our 'Capricorn One' Moment

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/mark-ames/33985/this-is-our-capricorn-one-moment

This article was first published in Vice.

If President Obama's SOTU address left you feeling vaguely suicidal but you're not sure why, a quick comparison to the previous Great Depression president's SOTU address might clear it up and help you to your logical conclusion. Here is an excerpt from FDR's 1935 State of the Union speech:

Let us for a moment strip from our simple purpose the confusion that results from a multiplicity of detail and from millions of written and spoken words.

We find our population suffering from old inequalities, little changed by past sporadic remedies. In spite of our efforts and in spite of our talk we have not weeded out the overpriviledged and we have not effectively lifted up the underpriviledged. Both of these manifestations of injustice have retarded happiness. No wise man has any intention of destroying what is known as the “profit motive”, because by the profit motive we mean the right by work to earn a decent livelihood for ourselves and our families.

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[The Straight Story]

1. kick for reference to capricorn one :) (nt)

[WillyT]

2. Recc'd It Once, But...

The OPPT seems to be on the prowl.

:shrug:

:kick:

:hi:

[WillyT]

3. And A Kick !!!

:kick: