Comments on: About Anthony W. Orlando http://www.anthonyworlando.com A blog by Anthony W. Orlando and friends Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Panckeri http://www.anthonyworlando.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10459 Dave Panckeri Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:00:02 +0000 http://www.anthonyworlando.com/?page_id=2#comment-10459 Enjoyed your Q2 column immensely ! Just finished reading Paul Krugman's "Return of Depression Economics", which makes much the same arguments that you do about the future of America and what is wrong with the present America. It is an economic fact that the past 30 years in the US have seen a slow but accelerating plutocracy of the rich and a descent of even formerly upper middle class workers into the below average middle class, with millions of homes lost, cars lost, credit lines lost, and futures of children lost. How can the US be the last, best hope of freedom when 2 per cent of America controls 73,000 pages of IRS tqax code, over 50 per cent of US wealth, and most of Congress ? How can we be a world leader in anything with our kids in 20th place and below in math and reading compared to China and others? How can we lead the world in anything with life expectancies and medical care efficiency somewhere below 20th and falling ranking in the world? I feel badly for my young daughters who will grow up in an America which is not any better and probably worse in terms of equal opportunity than the kids in South Korea and Japan? We will have lots of "service" jobs but few family-sustaining jobs. We will have the rich continuing to write not only the tax laws, but also the social safety net legislation as they are doing now. We will see the most powerless of our citizens (I am talking 150,000,000 people here) ground to dust, with most of them not even realizing it. I really do fear for this society, with our only hope being the demographic probability that the peoples of the minority now become the majority and foreswear greed and promote justice. There is always the "banality of evil" factor, but I look forward to our first Latino President and first Oriental Speaker of the House. God bless America, because until we break the control of the rich, no chance we will ever rise above Wal-Mart worker levels of income. Enjoyed your Q2 column immensely ! Just finished reading Paul Krugman’s “Return of Depression Economics”, which makes much the same arguments that you do about the future of America and what is wrong with the present America. It is an economic fact that the past 30 years in the US have seen a slow but accelerating plutocracy of the rich and a descent of even formerly upper middle class workers into the below average middle class, with millions of homes lost, cars lost, credit lines lost, and futures of children lost. How can the US be the last, best hope of freedom when 2 per cent of America controls 73,000 pages of IRS tqax code, over 50 per cent of US wealth, and most of Congress ? How can we be a world leader in anything with our kids in 20th place and below in math and reading compared to China and others? How can we lead the world in anything with life expectancies and medical care efficiency somewhere below 20th and falling ranking in the world?

I feel badly for my young daughters who will grow up in an America which is not any better and probably worse in terms of equal opportunity than the kids in South Korea and Japan? We will have lots of “service” jobs but few family-sustaining jobs. We will have the rich continuing to write not only the tax laws, but also the social safety net legislation as they are doing now. We will see the most powerless of our citizens (I am talking 150,000,000 people here) ground to dust, with most of them not even realizing it. I really do fear for this society, with our only hope being the demographic probability that the peoples of the minority now become the majority and foreswear greed and promote justice. There is always the “banality of evil” factor, but I look forward to our first Latino President and first Oriental Speaker of the House. God bless America, because until we break the control of the rich, no chance we will ever rise above Wal-Mart worker levels of income.

]]> By: kemper mahon http://www.anthonyworlando.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-7228 kemper mahon Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:57:33 +0000 http://www.anthonyworlando.com/?page_id=2#comment-7228 Don't know how I stumbled on your site but I am an old lady from /weatherly who read and enjoyed every article that Anthony wrote for the (sub) Standard Speaker of Hazleton. I was so disappointed when his articles ended. Then I moved to Oh and here I am finding Anthony again! I think fate played a part and that in some other life( if you believe in that sort of thing) I must have been his grandmother.!! Glad to see you again and now there are so many more youngins I can follow. Hope life brings all of you love, joy and happiness. kemper Don’t know how I stumbled on your site but I am an old lady from /weatherly who read and enjoyed every article that Anthony wrote for the (sub) Standard Speaker of Hazleton. I was so disappointed when his articles ended. Then I moved to Oh and here I am finding Anthony again! I think fate played a part and that in some other life( if you believe in that sort of thing) I must have been his grandmother.!! Glad to see you again and now there are so many more youngins I can follow. Hope life brings all of you love, joy and happiness.

kemper

]]> By: P. C. Damico, DDS http://www.anthonyworlando.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-166 P. C. Damico, DDS Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:12:03 +0000 http://www.anthonyworlando.com/?page_id=2#comment-166 Good luck Anthony. Look forward to your bright future. Good luck Anthony. Look forward to your bright future.

]]> By: Johammer http://www.anthonyworlando.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Johammer Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:57:16 +0000 http://www.anthonyworlando.com/?page_id=2#comment-16 Thank you. Thank you.

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