Two new videos, presenting an interesting juxtaposition of reactions to the current financial crisis, from the American News Project:
Free Marketeers Rally on Capitol Hill
On October 10th, 2008, a day when the Washington Post asked if we face the "end of American capitalism," hundreds rallied at the U.S. Capitol to support free markets and deregulation. The Bush administration may be considering nationalizing banks, but members Americans for Prosperity, the group that organized the rally, cheered the slogan, "Free markets work every time, all the time."
Fallout on Main Street: Mailman Speaks His Mind
Patrick Carroll has been a mailman for 23 years and works in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. He spoke with the American News Project and McClatchy Newspapers about how the nation's financial crisis has impacted both his own life and the people he encounters everyday.