Alternately titled “Why events an ocean away matter to you.” We watched while countries ‘over there’ and far away were told to make sacrifices to keep their economies afloat. It didn’t work. Against all sanity and reason, we – faced with the same problems, are told that it is not the fat cat bankers who need to be reined in, it is we- who must snip away our safety nets, tighten our belts, stiffen our lips, and tug mightily on those bootstraps!
