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...life in politics began in a Democratic Party whose focus was almost entirely on the economy. The economic agenda I want to see is one that says: Let's not argue about trade. Let's educate, innovate and have good-paying jobs in our own country...
...Democratic Congress is perceived by the public to have accomplished almost nothing. What do you say to this? Kyle Victor Stich, CHICAGO...
Last January Bill Gates gave a groundbreaking speech on "creative capitalism" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here's what we heard: one of the greatest capitalists in the history of the world suggesting that capitalism wasn't working all that well for almost half the people on the planet. He was in effect proposing a third way--the notion that profit and social responsibility were not mutually exclusive...
...followed the Friedman philosophy more than his own. Gates founded Microsoft and ran it with legendary single-mindedness for three decades. There was not a lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor. Now, having squeezed every drop out of capitalism, he is going to devote almost all his time and fortune to improving the state of the world. Even the skeptics tend to agree that the results of that redirected single-mindedness could be awesome...
...Paul O'Neill, the former CEO of aluminum maker Alcoa, battled with the White House over deficit spending (he wanted less of it) and lost. His successor, John Snow, former CEO of railroad giant CSX, toed the Administration's low-tax, anti-regulation line so faithfully as to be almost invisible...