WSJ man out on the ledge

Silly man, is there so much panic and anxiety in your world that an American presidential candidate can actually cause you to fall over yourselves on your way to...what, locking up your cash under your bed? Good grief already with the doomsday, "he's going to take all my money and give it some crack ho'" craziness. Just how bad was it for you under Clinton after all? The sackcloth, the ashes, the hysteria as if the O-man were some kind of Lord of the Rings evil wizard who could, with a wave, vaporize the basic capitalistic infrastructure around here, psychic and otherwise. News flash, my man, Social Security is a really great program that keeps a lot of seniors out of the pet food aisles. Universal health care would actually save a lot of misery, maybe lives, and put a lot more cash in the working man's wallet - to save, invest and buy the kind of crap that keeps the American economy strong. Alternative energy might actually be the new dot.com revolution that can re-energize our economy. Doing right by folks, and investing in the future should not scare you so much. Hey, is that your backbone I saw laying by the side of the road a few miles back?