I don't normally like posts that just quote other people, but here I am
doing that.

The following is by Bill Moyers, it's how he closed this week's show.

It moved me greatly.



"As Washington obsessed all week over the fate of one nominee to the
cabinet, and as we watched hearings about the failure of watchdog agencies
going to sleep on the job, we heard almost nothing of the people across the
country suffocating in the wreckage of their lives. Some of us born in the
Depression still remember the song made famous by the Carter Family singers,
called the "Worried Man Blues".

"I went across that river and I lay down to sleep. When I woke up there were
shackles on my feet."

The day my father was fired from his job at Manly's Appliance Store, he came
walking home as if he had shackles on his feet. I still remember the look on
his face. He wasn't yet 50, but had suddenly turned old, the way a lot of
people look today who are losing their jobs. Their stomachs are knotted with
fear as the life they had come to expect is fading fast. Not because of
their own failures but because our political and financial elites rigged the
economy for their own advantage.

John F. Kennedy famously said, "Life is unfair," and so it is. But it
wouldn't feel as unfair if the shackles wound up instead on the well-heeled
feet of Wall Street and Washington's elect. That's the change we need, the
change we can really believe in. "





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