Putting People First

"We have to put people before profits."

                                                                          -- Oakland, California mayor Libby Schaaf

"Putting people first."   This was one of the campaign slogans of Bill Clinton in the 1992 race for the Presidency.  Once in office, President Clinton found out just what kind of obstacle he was up against:   this was simply not how it was done in America, and he was told this by the powerful Wall Street interests who could back up any threat to pull the rug on the American people.

But here we are twenty-eight years later, and the same idea is being put forth by an American mayor of an important city.  I believe history will look back on this time as the beginning of the end of the profit system.  Such a big change will not happen all at once.  But, for now, it is refreshing to here such a statement from a U.S. mayor.


Source:  CNN, today