WaPo: Thanks to my parents, I grew up with an idea of FDR's New Deal as a golden age of American togetherness. You'd travel across the bridges that ribbed the country and look for the date they were constructed, and it always seemed to be in the 1930s. The defining images were of a country down on its luck, but always pulling together.
That's what I hope Obama will teach our kids in this new year: Talking not of rescue, but of shared sacrifice; reminding us that bills come due, and have to be paid; ending the bizarre period of national denial that is Bailout America.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
A Year of Shared Sacrifice?
Maybe. If all goes well.
