Tuesday's Minneapolis Star Tribune features dueling columns on the President's proposed jobs plan. Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under Clinton, ("Government is the Spender of Last Resort") never met government spending he didn't like. Far more interesting are are the thoughts of Joe Selvaggio, who supports "grass-roots capitalism." Selvaggio is a former priest, union organizer, and serial founder of non-profits.
What he describes sounds a lot like the evolving economy being described by Walter Russell Mead. As for Mr. Selvaggio, when a former organizer for Cesar Chavez quotes Adam Smith and says, "Stop looking for the government to take care of you, unless you really can't take care of yourself," then perhaps we have a philosophy (Rebuilding from the Bottom Up) that can unite left and right.
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