Quote of the Day -- Possibly Depressing Presidential Version

Quote of the day/week/month/time.

“Countries don’t really recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists of any political bent, left or right — not by Peróns or Castros or Putins or Francos or Lenins,” the New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik warned in 2016.

I so pray that's not true.

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Link to original article:

Donald Trump’s Strongman Act, and Its Limits

Poverty and being poor transcends time

But people in the United States, since Reagan was President, seem to have forgotten that.

A quote from the esteemed Dr. Samuel Johnson:

"Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer."


Apparently, we'll get a chance to remember all this, in a short time to come, what with the financial meltdown taking place lately.