The United States of Dystopia

We Need a New New Deal, Green or Otherwise

Public Domain Illustration of Labor Day, 1882, in New York — Before it was a National Holiday

Our current economic plight as a nation brings to mind a long on line conversation I had with a Republican friend over 20 years ago. It began because he was in a state of high dudgeon over “some guy making over $20 an hour for putting wheels on new cars as they float slowly on an assembly line that is up high so he won’t get a backache. And then he gets raises just for…