The news on the financial front is becoming bleaker day by day. I have begun re-reading Louis “Studs” Terkel. His survival guides from the not-so-distant-past for our use today- Working and Hard Times. Studs just died a couple of week ago. I think he was 96 years old. He was a very, very smart person. He knew that all the keys to the kingdom were already in our pocket. Or at least in the pocket of some old guy sitting next to us on the bus. All we have to do is ask the old guy to hand them to us—get him to tell his story. If we are about to have a melt-down, I would think some reflections on the melt-downs of the past would be a little helpful, don’t you think? Get to those old buggers with the experience before they all kick off and leave us here alone to face the music!
Similarly, if we need to have a universal health care program, why are we trying to reinvent the wheel. Find the best health care program in the world and copy it (with minor adjustments, of course be cause this is the
Let’s get smart. Let’s steal!!
"I steal"
Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund (a.k.a. Paul Muni)
b. September 22, 1895
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