[Peace-discuss] Rejection of the known truth

[C. G. Estabrook]

A line from today's NYT op-ed on Hubert Humphrey (who?) shows how far the 
Democrats have fallen:

"In 1976 [Humphrey] joined Representative Augustus Hawkins, a Democrat from the 
Watts section of Los Angeles, to introduce a bill requiring the government, 
especially the Federal Reserve, to keep unemployment below 3 percent — and if 
that failed, to provide emergency government jobs to the unemployed. It sounds 
heretical now. But [the NYT] endorsed it then, while 70 percent of Americans 
believed the government should offer jobs to everyone who wanted one."

As of course they still do.