Americans Away From Home

Bob Herbert thinks we do. He's asking if the U.S. is so whacked out we need therapy.

Might be.

The President wants to give the U.S. a health care system, to bring it in line with almost every other country in the world. People who know we need help obstruct it in every way possible.

The President wants to tell school children how important school is, to work hard and do well. Parents complain that it's socialism.

Republicans offer no new ideas, while the party has no one or no thing to rally around except for the talk radio entertainers who do rants endlessly.

Fox News is permitted to be ultra-partisan while bragging they present news that is fair; the FCC, charged to protect equality and fairness, is limp.

Our duty to support the President? It was, when Bush was President and Republicans said so. Now, they tolerate comparing the President to Hitler, and do nothing.

Extreme unemployment (15 million; black unemployment over 15%); wars we are not sure why we're fighting; and oh yes, the deficit (please see the deficit counter in the right column of this page, climbing without end even as you read this).

Houston, do we have a problem? (Bob Herbert's column here).

Carole