Joe the Plumber and other fans of great fortune don't have much problem with this huge accumulation of wealth at America's economic summit. What about the rest of us? Should we be concerned?

Give Rick Perry credit for his honesty. He just articulated out loud what is the accepted dogma of the modern Tea Party-owned Republican party, completely dedicated to protecting the wealthy and corporations on the backs of the (rapidly shrinking) middle class.

One of the favorite arguments from the right is that inequality is really awful, but it's out of our hands. Not really.

There is no debt or deficit crisis. There are just foolish statements being made about the debt-deficit "crisis".

A vote for the GOP in November will be a vote for the richest one percent of the country at the expense of the rest of us. And it will be a vote for the kind of fear that we, as a country, would eventually come to regret.

Beginning with the Reagan administration, and reaching its fullest realization under George W. Bush, conservatives have systematically been acting to redistribute wealth from the middle class upward.

While Republicans are free to oppose Obama's solutions to the financial mess if they think they have better ideas, merely advocating the old failed policies should not be tolerated.

The American economic sacred cow is that laissez faire wealth is tantamount to a divine right of kings, and any attempt to touch it is economic heresy.

f John McCain or Sarah Palin had written Milton Friedman's obit in 2006, would they have vilified the Nobel laureate economist widely regaled as the father of modern conservatism as some kind of anti-capitalist?