“If you don’t know multiple people who are suffering, then you must be living in a very rarefied environment,” he said in a brief address to the Netroots Nation conference. “You must be maybe a member of the [Walden] clan or something.”
“None of this has to be happening. We didn’t have a plague of locusts, we were not hit by a tsunami, there wasn’t some act of God that created this terrible situation. It was acts of man.” … “Solving this depression is not fundamentally an economic problem, it’s a political problem.” ~ Paul Krugman, mostly
