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Sir; I am not sure whose words I am commenting on; but here goes: I wish I had paradigm shift glasses I could hand out on the street corner, because they would save America a lot of Pain. One lesson I took from a book I never read, a psychology book I flipped open to a page, and after reading this one statement, forever closing the book, was this: ALL CHANGE IS AN ATTEMPT AT PROBLEM SOLVING. If you don't have a problem why change? Now; the whole nation has a problem. Beat up old bums like myself are being beat out of our pension checks and fixed incomes by out of control inflation. The economy, and even the whole of society is mismanaged. Those who believe God will save us are in control of the Government, and we must presume they believe Government is only there to guard God's prerogatives. There is real pain out there in America Land. When people spread all across the country can't afford to go home to check on Ma, and Pa; there is pain. When houses beside us, up the street, down the block suddenly go empty as the sherrif evicts residents, and you don't have to wonder what became of so and so, because they're living on the street next to the shelter which for the sake of human dignity begs to those only slightly more well off to feed their brothers -then there is pain. The economy is on life support. When hasn't it been? They say that communism would work well if it were not for the humans, but capitalism would not work at all without the constant infusion of public money to keep it alive. And where is the wealth in tight, dirty, hard working hands? Where is the family farm? Where is the oil fields we could just hand over for nothing to the rich to make them richer? We have run out of medicine we can give ailing capitalism to keep it from its agony. We have heard the message: If it is good for capital it is good for America. Lower wages are good for capital, and good for America. No public health care is good for capital, and good for America. Token taxes for the rich are good for capital, and good for America. Listen, Mr. Shields, If something is good for America it will fund the government in doing good, and it will end up in the pockets of the people, and give them opportunity, and give them hope, and give them the sense that the future holds more than inevitable doom. And if the well is dry then no amount of priming the pump is going to give you a drink. Yes; we need a paradigm shift. We need to see that if the government, or the economy, or the religious denomination were good, as a form, then it would be good for the relationships within. All of our forms have been feeding off the relationships of citizen with citizen for a long time, handing out injustice like it was candy, and making empty promises. No one changes without a problem. We have a problem. It is time to consider change. And we can't change who is our neighbor, and we cannot change what is his character; but he is not the problem. If our forms, which is how we structure our relationships are broken, worn out, and dying; then there is no point in killing our neighbor to give the form an hour more of life. Consider a new paradigm. Thanks. Sweeney