Mary Pitt: "Just tell us what you really think"

THE BOOMERS ARE COMIN'
AND NONE TOO SOON!

With this week's PBS broadcast of the "Retirement Revolution" (click the link to watch the show) a virtual tidal wave is shaping up "with time on our side." The first part of the show, demonstrates some very important historical lessons that most have forgotten about where Social Security came from and what being poor meant for a generation that is largely dead now. I encourage readers who might have missed this program to check it out.

Now Mary Pitt, a fellow Kansan and a woman who has always offered great columns to the Flyer calls out, "just tell us what you really think" to our presidential candidates. Great struggles lie ahead for all of us, great tasks cry out to be done in the very near future and more wars for empire must be stopped, if only to repair, re conceive and regroup the damaged goods America has become after so much "free market" looting. [Excerpt] "As we watch and listen to the candidates for President, we find ourselves befuddled by what they say from week to week. ..." Read more.