Thrashertm
09-18-2010, 03:44 PM
Jesse Jackson made some remarkably sound points in his 1988 address to the Democratic National Convention. In some of these excerpts, he sounds like the good Dr.
"I just want to take common sense to high places. We're spending one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year defending Europe and Japan forty-three years after the war is over. We have more troops in Europe tonight than we had seven years ago. Yet the threat of war is ever more remote."
...
I just want to take common sense to high places. If we can bail out Europe and Japan; if we can bail out Continental Bank and Chrysler - and Mr. Iacocca make eight thousand dollars an hour - we can bail out the family farmer.
[applause]
I just want to make common sense. It does not make sense to close down six hundred and fifty thousand family farms in this country while importing food from abroad subsidized by the U.S. government. Let's make sense.
[applause]
It does not make sense to be escorting all our tankers up and down the Persian Gulf paying two-fifty for every one dollar worth of oil we bring out, while oil wells are capped in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. I just want to make sense.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/jjackson.html
"I just want to take common sense to high places. We're spending one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year defending Europe and Japan forty-three years after the war is over. We have more troops in Europe tonight than we had seven years ago. Yet the threat of war is ever more remote."
...
I just want to take common sense to high places. If we can bail out Europe and Japan; if we can bail out Continental Bank and Chrysler - and Mr. Iacocca make eight thousand dollars an hour - we can bail out the family farmer.
[applause]
I just want to make common sense. It does not make sense to close down six hundred and fifty thousand family farms in this country while importing food from abroad subsidized by the U.S. government. Let's make sense.
[applause]
It does not make sense to be escorting all our tankers up and down the Persian Gulf paying two-fifty for every one dollar worth of oil we bring out, while oil wells are capped in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. I just want to make sense.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/jjackson.html