Sacrifice: A Sense of Joy About It
 
During this past week’s presidential debate, Tom Brokaw read a question that he had received from an online audience member.  Fiorra from Chicago asked, “What sacrifices will you ask every American to make to help restore the American dream and to get out of the economic morass that we're now in?" John McCain said we’d have to cut some pork barrel spending and Barak Obama talked about programs to help us winterizing our homes to make them more fuel efficient and a plan to double the size of the Peace Corps.  It was clear that neither candidate wanted to talk much about sacrifice and each retreated to the safety of stump speech lines as soon as he could. Continue Reading »