Hawk's View
from this side of Frog Pond Holler
In short, progressives should look at this speech separating out the necessary budget details from the moral vision they all need to be expressing on every issue. In addition, all progressives need to start thinking and talking in terms of systems. The nature of systems is central to understanding what is going wrong in ecosystems, financial systems, social systems, educational systems and even in particular systemic enterprises like deep-water drilling, frakking, nuclear energy, food production, and so on.
