Vision: 5 Economic Ills That Demand We Go Beyond What We Think Is Possible

By Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post
Posted on February 28, 2011, Printed on March 1, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150073/

My friend, the late Mike Harrington, used to describe his politics as "on the left wing of the possible." It's a fine aspiration. But if anything, economic problems have become more politically intractable since Mike died in 1989.

Scanning the various economic ills afflicting our Republic and its citizens, it's evident that nearly all of the solutions lie beyond what is currently deemed thinkable in mainstream politics -- beyond the left edge of the possible.