Kwame Dawes. Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of more than a dozen collections of verse, including the critically-acclaimed "Wisteria: Poems from the Swamp Country." Dawes is also the author of numerous plays, essays and books. Dawes is currently a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the editor-in-chief of Prairie Schooner. A former Distinguished Poet in Residence at the University of South Carolina, he is the executive director and founder of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the director of the University of South Carolina Arts Institute as well and the programming director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, which takes place in Jamaica in May of each year. www.kwamedawes.com
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ed, first of all, i totally agree with you that there s too much concern in washington about political credit. there s too much pandering. there s too much not addressing the core issues. but the difficulty is, we have the heritage foundation has what s called aç dependence index. in the last year alone, the quality or quantity of dependence on the federal government has gone up by 13%. of course it has. the ons have been outsourced. damn right it s gone up. it s not just out sourcing. the money on the table for community banks and the republicans are against that. but that s small potate toes compared to the $1.8 trillion that is being held close by companies because they re fearful of what will government is doing to them already. this country. and is about to do again. that s a federal reserve figure. this country was not built on fear. right. the settlers that came across america did it for the gusto,
message home. now, the folks that are unemployed, their jobs have been outsourced to other countries. it would seem to me that, i don t want to overstate it, i ll let you speak for yourself. i think it s a moral issue. it s about economic patriotism to this country at this point. and it is a moral issue. what do you think? look, you re touching on a huge issue that we don t talk about enough. and i think you were quoting the late senator kennedy talking about greed. if we do not deal with the issue of outrageous greed in this country, the fact that you have millionaires and billionaires who seem to have an insatiable desire, it s like an diction, it s like a drug problem, they need more and more and if they can make five bucks more by shutting down a plant in the united states and moving it to china or to vietnam or moving it to bangladesh, that is certainly what they will do. we are losing, ed, $100 billion