Bob Herbert’s Admit We Have a Problem, on the ever more dismal American economy:
“This year, more people will end up bankrupt than will suffer a heart attack. More adults will file for bankruptcy than will be diagnosed with cancer. More people will file for bankruptcy than will graduate from college. And, in an era when traditionalists decry the demise of the institution of marriage, Americans will file more petitions for bankruptcy than for divorce.” (Elizabeth Warren, co-author of “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke,” 2003)
William Rivers Pitt, The Writing on the Latrine Walls, on The Project for the New American Century, a right-wing think tank whose membership includes Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz and which published a manifesto in the year 2000 about the eventual invasion of Iraq:
“Indeed,” it is written on page 14 of ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses,’ “the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”
Again, the publication date: 2000.