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On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Hunter Biden <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com>
wrote:

> Young able bodied men and women were powerless to feed their families.
> Many Americans felt utterly defeated. Many felt they done everything
> society had asked of them, yet their opportunity to share in the American
> Dream was unattainable. This sentiment was captured by an unemployed Texas
> school teacher who said, “If with all the advantages I’ve got, I can’t make
> a living…I’m just no good I guess”, the sentiment of this school teacher
> was a shared one. The effect was a nostalgia to return to a simpler time
> where small town life sustained a community, and America flourished in it's
> isolation. An America that was isolated from the volatile world of global
> interdependence in which a farmer in middle America may be unemployed, but
> not for a lack of hard work, or the vagaries of the global economy, or the
> actions of a despot half way around the world. Americans were nostalgic for
> some sense of control over their daily existence, and few felt that
> focusing on the rest of the worlds problems would bring them any peace on
> the home front.
>
>
> RHB
> 202.333.1880
>
> On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:10 PM, NAOMI BIDEN <nbiden@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> Young able bodied men and women were powerless to feed their families.
> Many Americans felt utterly defeated. Many felt they done everything
> society had asked of them, yet their opportunity to share in the American
> Dream was unattainable. This sentiment was captured by an unemployed Texas
> school teacher who said, “If with all the advantages I’ve got, I can’t make
> a living…I’m just no good I guess”, the sentiment of this school teacher
> was a shared one. The effect was a nostalgia to return to a simpler time
> where small town life sustained a community, and America flourished in it's
> isolation. An America that was isolated from the volatile world of global
> interdependence in which a farmer in middle America may be unemployed, but
> not for a lack of hard work, or the vagaries of the global economy, or the
> actions of a despot half way around the world. Americans were nostalgic for
> some sense of control over their daily existence, and few felt that
> focusing on the rest of the worlds problems would bring them any peace on
> the home front.
>