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"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity." -- Jim Hightower
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Many folks have asked for sources for all those numbers in last month's Lowdown, on the economy. You can find most of the citations are the Sources section here. One number we got wrong is the net worth of the wealthiest 1% of Americans: it's not $816 billion--more like $19 trillion!