The Ghost of Tom Joad

I've been hearing a lot of talk about the apocalypse, the breakdown of society, collapsing banks, rising prices, unemployment, dwindling resources, mounting debt, dismay, despair, and anxiety. Mostly it's been me talking. Today when McCain repeated that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," I was reminded of Herbert Hoover who said in August 1928 while campaigning for the presidency, "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land."

"And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs." Revelation 14: 19-20

Listen to The Grapes of Wrath channeled by Bruce. (lyrics)