I've followed you for some time, and I like the more reflective tone you've taken in these last few articles.

Not to take anything away from the more polemic ones, I think (feel?) that you're dead on in most of what you say, but often your articles leave really no sense of a way out of this nightmare.

This one, particularly, gives hope. Hope is something America desperately needs if we're to fix the other problems.

There are many possible solutions, but I think you nailed it: It begins with accepting that we are not "capital", or more correctly, Chattel, and that there are far more valuable things and intangibles to life than money.

Money should be a benchmark of success, not a goal in itself. Or more horribly in America, THE goal.